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| Year: 1966 Rating: **** |
Two horror-genre leading men star in the scientific creature-feature ISLAND OF TERROR, which is normal for British b-movies to pair up equally-important male characters, and a gorgeous woman in-between...
Full-lipped bombshell Carole Gray's the affable rich girl girlfriend of Edward Judd, the second bone-doctor sought out by the first of three medical experts in British character-actor (and future STAR WARS general) Eddie Byrne, who, after bluntly glib college professor Peter Cushing has no answers, they all seek Judd (for the solution) and Gray (for daddy's helicopter) to head-off for the titular Irish ISLAND...
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| Eddie Byrne, Peter Cushing and Edward Judd in ISLAND OF TERROR |
Beginning with an intriguing expository investigation (of how human bones can be sucked dry) alongside random tentacle-swiping body-count deaths, any actual TERROR doesn't occur until the last-half in what's really a two-act (as opposed to the usual three-act) 90-minute b-movie...
Directed by Hammer Films icon Terence Fisher under Planet Film Productions, the search for and the attack of the nightmarishly slow-burn monsters (from inside a giant mansion to a besieged town hall to open green fields) makes for a capably satisfying semi-neglected little creature-feature.
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| Terence Fisher's ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Eddie Byrne, Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR with Carole Gray
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| Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Eddie Byrne in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR with Carole Gray
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Niall MacGinnis in ISLAND OF TERROR with James Caffrey
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| Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Eddie Byrne and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR with Carole Gray
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| Edward Judd and Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Eddie Byrne with Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Edward Judd & Peter Cushing
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| Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Edward Judd and Niall MacGinnis in ISLAND OF TERROR with James Caffrey
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Edward Judd
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Edward Judd and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR with Carole Gray
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Peter Cushing
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Edward Judd
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| Sam Caffrey and Niall MacGinnis in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Edward Judd
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| Carole Gray and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray and Peter Cushing in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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| Edward Judd and Niall MacGinnis in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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Carole Gray in ISLAND OF TERROR with Peter Cushing & James Caffrey
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| Carole Gray and Edward Judd in ISLAND OF TERROR |
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