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Set on a Greek island threatened by the plague at the end of the Balkan war of 1912, this moody but slightly muddled RKO horror movie involves the premature burial of the British consul's wife ...
Island of Death: Directed by Nico Mastorakis. With Bob Behling, Jane Lyle, Jessica Dublin, Gerard Gonalons. A couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.
He basically pulled a coup, producing B-films with lurid titles, and trojan horsing in mood pieces that were more psychologically astute than pure horor. The Isle of the Dead continues that trend. Barely a horror and more a film about paranoia, distrust and fear. Any worries at this film lagging are saved by Karloff's enigmatic performance.
The Body Snatcher was one of three films that Boris Karloff made with producer Val Lewton at RKO Radio Pictures from 1945 to 1946, the other two being Isle of the Dead (1945) and Bedlam (1946). In a 1946 interview with Louis Berg of the Los Angeles Times, Karloff discussed his reasons for leaving Universal Pictures and working with Lewton.
Boris Karloff stars in this classic horror film about a group of people who seek refuge from the plague on a Baltic Island only to fear that one of their number is a vampire. 317 IMDb 6.5 1 h 11 min 1945
There's no clear villain or monster in Isle of the Dead; rather, fear and developing paranoia drive the narrative, transforming the people on the island as they cope with their nearness to death ...
