[chrispoland]

For noget tid siden betsilte jeg filmen Island of death på VHS, desværre viser det sig at møget ikke virker.

Så jeg ville hører om der var nogle der enten lå inde med en der virkede eller en der vidste hvor man kunne få den?

[chrispoland]

Jeg har vidst smit denne tråd i en forkert katagori.
Jeg håber det går.

[Jack J]

Der er to film med titlen ISLAND OF DEATH, den ene af Nick Mastorakis og den anden af Narciso Ibanez Serrador. Hvilken en mener du?

Anyway, jeg har dem begge på video, men de kan altså begge fås på dvd til rimelige penge:

http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/islan ... -4385.html

http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/kill- ... 12098.html


Jack

[chrispoland]

[quote="Jack J"]Der er to film med titlen ISLAND OF DEATH, den ene af Nick Mastorakis og den anden af Narciso Ibanez Serrador. Hvilken en mener du?

Det er Nico's.


Tak for det. Er siden der okay? Kan man bestille derfra uden bekymringer?

Eller sælger du evt. dit eksemplar?

[Jack J]

Jeg har aldrig selv købt noget fra Xploited, men på Dvdmaniacs-forummet (amerikansk), hvor jeg også har min gang, hører man kun rosende ord om butikken. Og nej, sorry, min vhs har et godt hjem, hvor den er


Jack

[chrispoland]

Ja, okay.
Så må den da også være okay.
Det er forståeligt nok

Men nu du har den. Er den fed eller hvad?
Jeg så jo ikke rigtig andet end flimmer hah..

[Jack J]

Det er længe siden, jeg sidst har set den, men den er rigtig god, synes jeg, men der er nok nogle, der ikke vil kunne li' den, eftersom den ikke har nogen helte eller "gode" personer. Lidt ligesom Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

Jeg skrev en (aaalt for lang) anmeldelse af den for 4 år siden til Banned in Britain og den ka' jeg jo lige smide ind her:




ISLAND OF DEATH
aka Island Of Perversion
Dir: Nick Mastorakis

Sometimes you read about a film that you know for certain you wanna watch - and it still takes you forever to get to see it! To me one such movie is Island of Death: I first read about it in Bloody Darlings #5 from March '93. A friend of mine kept telling me how fucked up he thought this flick is and that I simply had to watch it and now that I finally have watched it I must admit this is one sick muther… to say the least!
A couple has arrived in Mikonos [a small island close to Greece that apparently is a haven to gay homosexuals (to coin a Cartman phrase), a contradiction in terms if ever there was one I'd say; rural Greece is not the place you wanna go to live if you're 'different' in one way or another]. When the film begins, the couple is walking past a phone booth and the guy gets the idea that he wants to phone his mum... and fuck his girlfriend… in the booth… at the same time!
However, listening in on the line is also a cop who informs his superiors the whereabouts of the couple and that he's off to Greece immediately. You see, our two holidaymakers are in reality serial killers on vacation! The first victim is a French painter that they met in a restaurant and who the girl fucks the day after while her boyfriend secretly takes photos of them. Then they beat him up and while he's unconscious they nail his hands to the stone floor and pour paint down his throat. Later they have fun with a couple of gay men that they kill cos they deem them 'perverted'!! The killing spree continues when they snuff of a horny 40-year old woman, a dike, and then some other people including a cop who is hanged and thrown out from a plane! The most... ehh.... unusual scene is at the beginning when the guy has 'morning wood' but the girl's too tired so he goes out into the backyard of their hotel, finds a goat and fucks it!!! Yeah, truly demented to say the least - well, at least in horror movies - I'm sure there are other movies where you can get to see stuff like that if that's yr gig! (but if it is do me a favour will ya and don't tell me about it, eh!). Obviously he kills the goat afterwards and chucks it down a well with drinking water. And the film continues in this vein. I must admit that as a viewer you keep watching because it's just so bloody weird and demented - so far out it's hard to fathom what's going on on the screen. The film is interesting because it's so warped and fucked up sick - not because it's a cool film or enchanting in any way - because it's not! Don't watch this if you wanna watch a cool splatter flick or something with an exciting story line because in that respect Island Of Death doesn't deliver at all! But if 'sick' and 'perverted' does it for ya then I urge you to get hold of this flick immediately. Personally I must confess that I quite enjoyed Island Of Death but other people, also fans of extreme gore flicks, might not like it, for instance Steve C. wrote in In The Flesh #9: '...it looks like a cross between "Animal Farm" and a Greek tourist board video and is about as interesting too'!!!
Although there are quite a few nasty scenes most of them aren't really gory as such but they 'work' nevertheless. One of the most fucked up scenes has a semi-retarded goat herd in a cage get horny when he watches the sleeping serial-killer girl, he grabs her, pushes her dress up and starts to rape her from behind, she yells out for her boyfriend but instead of helping her he starts to take photos of the act! This annoys the goat herd so much he punches the lights out of the boyfriend, rolls him over, pulls his pants down and starts to butt-fuck the guy instead!! ...and now the girl just watches them with a smile on her face!!! Surely one of the most demented flicks I've seen, fucken ay!!
Island Of Death has been out on video in a few markets, I know it was out in Australia but apparently none of them had a terribly good picture quality and they are extremely difficult to get hold of now. Fortunately the director, Nick Mastorakis, has now put it out on dvd in a version that has been cleaned up and where the colours make it look like a brand new film (it's from 1980). The dvd also contains an interview with the director where he explains the whole story behind the film and it's an interesting story too: Mastorakis bluntly admits that the only reason he made the movie was to make big bucks! He didn't even like the movie, he doesn't like it now and he doesn't understand what so ever why anybody would like to watch it!!! When he made it he got the idea from having watched The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and he didn't like that film either but he learnt that throughout the years the people behind TCM had earned 'millions' of dollars and so he wanted to do the same by making an even more outrageous and perverted film!
If you... I mean... WHEN you watch Island Of Death then look out for the Greek crime writer turned private dick: that's Mastorakis himself. He played the role simply because be couldn't afford to pay the actor that he wanted for the part (the amount of money he lacked was all of 80 dollars!! Talk about low budget!!!). The other actors that were used were also more or less amateurs. According to Mastorakis the guy who played the lead part couldn't find out his sexuality and later killed himself by putting a tube from a propane gas container down his throat!!!
By the way, this 'Island Of Death' shouldn't be confused with Narciso Ibanez Serrador's Spanish film (from 1975) of the same title (aka Island Of The Damned / Quién Puedo Matar A Un Nino? / Who Can Kill A Child? / Would You Kill A Child? / Death Is Child's Play) and which, incidentally, also takes place on an island in southern Europe. As Lars von Hegnet also pointed out in Bloody Darlings #5 whereas Mastorakis' Island Of Death is about a couple who comes to an island and goes on a killing spree then Serrador's Island Of Death is about a couple who comes to an island but where the inhabitants are a bunch of killing maniacs!!
Although the latter film isn't as demented as the first it's still very, very good and well worth tracking down (if ya read Danish then check out my review of it in Stay Sick! #3!).
Anyway, 'nuff said about all this. If you like Henry: Portrait... or other serial killer type flicks (and lets face it who doesn't, eh!!) then go get hold Of Island of Death immediately. I think it's very good but be aware... it's an acquired taste!!!

[Nicolai]

Tak for det. Er siden der okay? Kan man bestille derfra uden bekymringer?

Hej chrispoland - check denne tråd der netop omhandler Xploited Cinema:
http://www.forum.uncut.dk/viewtopic.php?t=2129

[Vang]

Island of Death er også minianmeldt i min artikel om de famøse videonasties: http://www.uncut.dk/UNCUT/artikler/videonasty_part1.html#islandofdeath

[chrispoland]

Tak for alle jeres svar. Det er sku rart med noget hjælp engang imellem!

Tak for det!

[Mads]

(aaalt for lang) anmeldelse af den

Jeg kan ikke forstå at man kan skrive en anmeldelse af den film uden at nævne det fantastiske soundtrack.

Her er iøvrigt en locandina til Mastorakis' mesterværk: