Island of Death

Original title: Ta paidiá tou Diavólou

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A couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.A couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.A couple of perverted and maniac killers get loose on a Greek island.

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5.1/10

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Bob Behling

Christopher Lambert
(as Bob Belling)

Jane Lyle

Celia Lambert
(as Jane Ryall)

Jessica Dublin

Patricia Desmond

Gerard Gonalons

Foster

Jannice McConnell

Leslie
(as Janice McConnel)

Nikos Tsachiridis

Shepherd

Jeremy Rousseau

Jean-Claude

Dimitris Spatos
(uncredited)

Takashi Yanhiro

Hiroshi Yuzama

Director
- Nico Mastorakis
Writer
- Nico Mastorakis
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Trivia
Nico Mastorakis was inspired to make this film after seeing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). He noticed how much money that film made, and decided to make a more violent and perverse film in order to make even more money.

Goofs
When they are in the phone box you can see a cameraman in the reflection of the glass door.

Quotes
Christopher: No one wants to be brought up with perversion. Children must be brought up in a proper way. Nature is strong.

Alternate versions
The original UK cinema version (released as "A Craving For Lust") was heavily cut by 13 minutes by the BBFC and the film later ended up on the DPP 74 list of video nasties. The initial 1987 video release (now retitled "Psychic Killer II" despite having no connection with the previous film of that title) had been edited by the distributors before submission to remove the original UK cinema cuts but was rejected by the BBFC. The 2002 DVD release by Vipco was cut by 4 minutes 9 secs to edit the rape scenes, a woman's face being burned with a lit aerosol, a repeated kicking, a urination scene, and shots of a sickle blade in a woman's bare breast. The director's interview extra on the DVD was also cut by 54 secs by the BBFC with the same edits to the sickle, aerosol and kicking scenes. All the cuts were fully waived in 2010 for the 2011 Arrow DVD.

Connections
Featured in The Cinema Snob: Island of Death (2010)

Soundtracks
Do You Love Me Like I Love You?
Written by Nico Mastorakis & Nikos Lavranos
Performed by Milli Karali

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4/10

Undeserving of its notoriety

Director Nico Mastorakis has made a cynical cash-grabber (by his own admission) that is too cynical to impress anybody but a sophomore genre fan.

The most extreme, confronting genre pics, to paraphrase a character in VIDEODROME, "have a philosophy"; that is what makes them dangerous.

ISLAND OF DEATH's philosophy is to throw many "shocking" elements into a cinematic mix and stir slowly. The result is a dish with no taste but an ugly appearance.

Not to be confused with Serrador's brilliant WHO COULD KILL A CHILD? (sometimes called ISLAND OF DEATH), Mastorakis's effort is set on a Greek island which is a stage for various forms of slaughter, a little bestiality and some wholesale perversion.

Everything moves at a snailish pace and the violent set pieces are poorly directed.

Touted as "The movie that the censors didn't want you to see", I'd hazard a guess that the censors never saw it, they simply read the presskit until their knees jerked upwards.