island of death ( film )
step 1. turn on island of death. step 2. watch the first 15 mins of island of death .
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mexivergas te recomienda esta película: island of death (1976) director: nico mastorakis .
island of death: shot in 1. 37 but looks great at 16: 9 widescreen
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island of death, famed uk video nasty is presented by arrow films completely uncut for the first time in the uk .
stoned to death, in karlstad, 1965. (worked for vanger group until her death, as secretary for gottfried )
john hurt and jason priestley in
love and death on long island .
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the title of the film refers to a well - known manus island bird and the name of a notorious isolation compound .
people who come to this sort of film generally know exactly what they' re looking for. island of death ticks almost every box when it comes to exploitation cinema, featuring scenes ...
as a video nasty, island of death will be remembered alongside movies such as cannibal holocaust and nekromantik, but unlike these films, island of death never has a great deal to say. despite some half - baked ideas about religious extremism, most of the sex and violence happens for no other reason than to shock. though fans of exploitation films will undoubtedly want to take the journey, island of death is – for the most part – a rather joyless destination .
island of death was the second film in the prolific career of its writer - producer - director, nico mastorakis, who was inspired to make the picture after the commercial success... [ more ]
the uncut blu - ray edition of island of death – which features seven hours of extra features – is out now, and reviewed here. read an interview with director nico mastorakis here .
twenty years after making “love and death on long island, ” globetrotting to do press interviews and taking the film to the cannes film festival together, priestley reminisced about the late hurt, who died earlier this year at the age of 77 .
banned on video between 1984 and 2011, island of death has gained a reputation as being one of the most shocking and violent films ever made. filled with rape, incest, murder and bestiality, the film is certainly a transgressive one, even though the point of some of these scenes is often questionable. nico mastorakis, the writer and director of the film, has often stated that the only reason he made island of death was for money, and indeed, it’s hard to see it as anything more than an exploitation film. but island of death – with all its gratuitous sex and violence – does pose some interesting questions, particularly those that deal with a religious suspension of the ethical .
the bbc drama series death in paradise is filmed in guadeloupe in the carribean .
death in paradise is currently mid - way through filming series seven in guadeloupe .
an iranian refugee in the manus island detention centre has released a feature film he shot from inside its walls .
the film focuses on the mundane events in the centre, to highlight the boredom of detainees and the seemingly endless days of life on manus island .
island of death was one of those video nasty movies i was always aware of but only in title alone, i had no idea what the movie was about, where it was made, etc. .
a cause célèbre of the video nasty age, the greek exploitation classic island of death returns fully uncut and, for the first time, in high definition. let’s find out what the fuss was about…
the png government has set a deadline of october 31 to close the manus island detention centre .
although greek filmmaker, producer, director, writer and all round b movie mogul nico mastorakis’s crazy cult film “island of death” definitely has a valid claim to the title of the most gloriously insane exploitation movie ever made... [ more... ]
nico mastorakis
island of death
has to be one of the most mean spirited movies ever made. a young couple, christopher and celia, arrive from london to spend some time on mykonos, an island off the coast of greece. soon the series of brutal murders is set in motion .
island of death
is a sleazy exploitation film which contains some of the most disturbing and downright degrading moments in the history of cinema. all the sex scenes end in death. this picture is pretty notorious due to its gore and sexual violence, not to mention the sequence involving the rape of a young goat and its simulated killing. so if you like exploitation cinema give this one a look. my rating: 8 out of 10 .
paradise is going home! filming on a caribbean island for half the year has to be every actor' s dream. not quite, says death in paradise' s ben miller
strong island, available on netflix from 15 september. photograph: yanceville films / netflix
) in beverly hills, ca - - not the guggenheim estate on long island .
for the uninitiated, the wall of death is a cylindrical chamber where motorbike - riding daredevils zoom around, defying gravity .
levittown, n. y (cbsnewyork) — two men were facing murder charges thursday after police said they stabbed a woman to death inside her long island home as part of a revenge plot against her grandson .
welcome to mykonos, the holiday destination of choice for sun, sea and slaughter! from cult director nico mastorakis, island of death is a travelogue of atrocities with scenes so strong that the british government was once compelled to ban it as a video nasty .
the term “cult” is rarely (if ever) invoked in english - speaking film criticism in reference to greek cinema. nico mastorakis’s boundary - pushing exploitation masterwork island of death (1976), is therefore somewhat of an anomaly. heavily censored in all of the territories... [ more... ]
apparently it is for 135, 000 people who applied for bear grylls show the island .
the
execution
of alec trevelyan (sean bean) trevelyan alive nine years later - a faked death bond vs. trevelyan
given the prevalence of zealotry and intolerance in today’s world, island of death still feels remarkably ‘fresh’, if one can look past the garish 1970s fashions and recognise the rich vein of black humour that runs throughout the picture... [ more... ]
steven soderbergh' s atmospheric, film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
death in paradise recommenced filming once it was safe to do so after hurricane irma didn’t directly hit guadeloupe .
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this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by omega entertainment .
at the callum' s home, the death of koi pond fish (a previous gift), and missing dog mr. jangles
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yance ford, director and producer of strong island, a documentary on the murder of his brother william when yance was 19, and america' s subsequent indifference to the killing of a black man. strong island won the special jury award for storytelling at the 2017 sundance film festival. yance ford is seen at the institute of contemporary arts in london, where he took part in a q & a following the screening of strong island. photograph: teri pengilley for the guardian
the powerful and very personal documentary “strong island” is the story of a black family that could not sustain the blow of racial injustice and fell apart .
this is super. the film follows the escapades of a pair of psychopaths on the run on the beautiful island of mykonos. chock full of violence and unexpected scenes and jawdropping dialogue it typifies the grindhouse era. also featuring an absolutely brilliant but mental soundtrack a film that could not possibly be made these days. i loved it and i can' t think of any other film like it .
film censorship in england is a study in changing tastes and morals, and a litmus test of political correctness. sparking a moral panic in the eighties, when horror movies were making killers of our kids, the ‘video nasty’ list soon became the go - to guide for the discerning gore fan. nico mastorakis’ infamous greek exploitation flick island of death has had an especially fraught history with the bbfc (british board of film classification) .
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hurricane maria is currently passing off the coast guadeloupe to the south - east of the island, as a category four hurricane .
 the interiors of the corleone mansion were constructed on two soundstages at filmways. the exterior shots of the mall were filmed in a staten island neighborhood .
the manus island detention centre remains off limits for the media and film crews, and there has only been limited access to australia' s other offshore centre on nauru .
ford registers the slow, devastating impact of the incident on his family. their father died after a stroke within a year of william’s death. his mother, barbara, speaks eloquently and movingly of her loss, and the silence that fell over the grieving household. she died in 2012, during the production of the film. ford believes that 20 years of “stress and self - blame and second - guessing and disappointment and anger” contributed to her death .
death in paradise, tuesday, 9pm, bbc1. for information on visiting guadeloupe visit urltoken and www. lesilesdeguadeloupe. com .
i have a video of this film. it is indeed sole survivor starring shatner and basehart .
the film focuses on the mundane events in the centre, to highlight the boredom of detainees .
fascinating and moving low - budget film with a very well judged performance from john hurt as a novelist and widower out of touch with the' modern world' (such as it was in the 1990s), who finds himself attracted to a hollywood star of terrible films (jason priestly on good form). the film charts gerald de' ath' s initial attraction to borderline obsession as he flies to long island in the hopes of meeting with the object of his affection, with by turns funny, warm and sad results. love and death on long island has an admittedly televisual feel and a small scope but remains an impressive film and has a fascinatingly enigmatic ending .
writer / director nico mastorakis failed to live up to the reputation he carved out with his debut film, and his name was eventually lost in the sea of dreck overflowing from video shelves in the ’80s and beyond. it’s debatable whether island of death did the mykonos tourist board any favors either – not unless they wanted to attract fringe thrillseekers or zorba the sheep shagger. if the island belongs to the “innocent”, as defended by christopher, then we should probably leave them to it .
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easter monday is about to get dangerous: motorbike racer guy martin is going to attempt the world’s largest ‘wall of death’, and he’s doing it live on tv .
before nico mastorakis directed the wind (1986, starring meg foster and wings hauser) and, to a lesser extent, the zero boys he gave us this greek proto - slasher of sorts. while island of death could be more widely considered as exploitation, the elements of a proto - slasher are there, it was made in 1975 and features a wide array of intricate…
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a man or a woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. you are to stone them .
amy was hiding in a campground resort in the ozarks, waiting for nick to be convicted and given the death sentence for her presumed murder .
jason priestley was 26 years old and in the thick of his pop hollywood stardom as part of the “beverly hills, 90210” cast when an unmissable opportunity to stretch his acting muscles came along: “love and death on long island, ” an indie drama about love and obsession in which he’d star opposite academy award - nominated actor john hurt .
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the title refers to both a well - known manus island bird and the name of a notorious isolation compound within the manus centre — a place dreaded by detainees .
nico mastorakis’ island of death may not be one of the most famous video nasties, but it certainly is one of the most twisted films on the list, wallowing in an endless series of inventively repellent acts of degradation. it’s also unique in that it is a greek production, although filmed in english with american and british leads. it is hard to think of other greek films that inspired such global controversy in the wake of this one – at least until the recent films of yorgos lanthimos, such as dogtooth and alps, caused a stir decades later .
island of death begins with a brief fragment of its climax, which shows christopher (robert behling) suffering at the hands of his wife celia (jane lyle). the scene quickly transitions to a rosy beginning, as the couple approach the beautiful island of mykonos by sea. we know they have a peculiar relationship when they decide to screw in a phone booth – while connected to his mother for the occasion. she is rightfully appalled; little does she know that her son tends to express his catholic guilt by sodomising goats and urinating on elderly women .
it could be a film called lost horizon. it was made in 1973 .
a group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town' s former residents .
has had an especially fraught history with the bbfc (british board of film classification). like mastorakis himself has said, the story behind a film is often more interesting than the movie itself .
every week, i look at the tv film listings in the hope of finding this film, trying to remember its name, every week the same nagging disappointment that i can never find it .
christopher and celia, masquerading as a married couple, arrive on the greek island of mykonos to commit a crime spree. christopher, who describes himself as an avenging angel, aims to rid the island of all forms of sexual perversion, indiscriminately killing gay men, lesbians, adulterers and drug addicts. the irony, of course, is that he and celia are the most perverse characters in the film. within the first fifteen minutes, christopher has already raped and killed a goat, and when both characters are molested at the end of the film, they both take pleasure in watching the other suffer .
soul survivor is not the film. i remember seeing sole survivor at the time it was shown on tv in the 70' s and was disappointed that it wasn' t the film i remembered. the film as i remember was in black and white, my parents only had colour tvs, and only at the end of the film the crew realised they were dead. no scenes of helicopters and no scenes of rescue .
shooting the film during a break between seasons of his hit tv show gave priestley a brief escape from “90210” mania .
filming for the bbc drama was called to a halt when there was a red alert before hurricane irma crossed the island two weeks ago .
( 1974). he noticed how much money that film was making and decided to make a film more violent and perverse in order to make even more money .
the team on death in paradise have said to urltoken that they were adhering to the instructions from the authorities in guadeloupe, and suspended filming after the red alert was signalled ahead of hurricane irma .
mastorakis has often gone on record to say that there was no artistic intention behind island of death and that it was a labour of financial lust, to afford him a prosperous filmmaking career. to that end, his feature debut was a roaring success; the controversial screen matter ensured its place on the video nasty list, courting notoriety and cementing its place in the cinematic pantheon .
director mastorakis, who was a major player in greek tv, became inspired to make island of death after noticing the financial success of tobe hooper’s the texas chain saw massacre. given the film’s gritty nastiness and hazy intensity, it’s logical to assume that upping the violence and perversity would rake in more cash, and that’s just what mastorakis did. the proto - slasher was not only one of the earliest attempts to mimic the texas chain saw massacre, but one of the principal titles in greek exploitation cinema, and certainly the most successful .
insanely caustic satire on conservative values masquerading as a sick joke of a horror film, and also a pretty good travelogue .
island of death is a true ungodly video nasty coming to you straight from the best euro - exploitation period. this year 2003, the movie received a complete digital remastering and it finally got released on special edition dvd. the box showed nothing but a red background with the explicit words :
the one movie that the censors didn' t want you to see
and
sorry but we can' t display images of the film on the cover since they' re too gruesome
. a bit exaggerated of course, this movie is far from being the goriest or most shocking film i' ve ever seen. nevertheless it' s mean - spirited, raw, brutal and pretty disturbing from time to time .
island of death
doesn' t take the rules of humanity too strict and it isn' t exactly what they call
politically correct
. the movie seems to start like a lovely romantic comedy when a young couple arrives on a greek island. they look average but in fact they put other famous cinema couples like bonnie & clyde and mickey & mallory to shame. they brutally slaughter every person they come into contact with (mostly right after sexual intercourse which give the killings a nasty effect) and they have a few bizarre fetishes. island of death doesn' t contain much humor unless you see the irony in many things. for example: the guy kills homosexuals because he thinks it' s pervert and against the will of god, while he himself has sex with a young goat! i thought that was pretty ironic, and there are lots of similar
jokes
to discover in
island of death
. even though there are a lot of horrible scenes, the movie itself is pretty light and not at all difficult too watch. excellent stuff for exploitation fans. the leading actress (jane ryall) is a beauty but she never played in movies again .
i took a lot of shots of violence, but we didn' t use any of those shots because this movie draws on a style of cinema that uses silence and poetry and it is completely different from a documentary film .
they were rebellious, death - obsessed, world - hating goths and disdainful school outcasts in a suburban ontario high school (in the town of bailey downs, a
safe and caring community
) .
director nico mastorakis became inspired to make this film after viewing the texas chain saw massacre (1974). he noticed how much money that film was making and decided to make a film more violent and perverse in order to make even more money. see more »
allen myers, the film you are looking for about the airliner crash in the everglades is
ghost of flight 401
.
a holidaying british couple wreak havoc on a small greek island, murder, mutilation, sexual degradation, abject horror. in their tyranny of terror the couple only stop for sex with anyone or thing on the island man, woman or animal. an inspector from london is out to stop them, but will he be able to stop their spree of madness and will they go unpunished ?
in the film' s tense conclusion, the two agents engaged in a fight - to - the - death combat atop his destroyed control center - lair in cuba. bond raced to disarm the transmitter - antenna of a large satellite dish communicating with a second, deadly rogue goldeneye satellite nuclear - weapon .
strong island is not an investigative documentary. ford’s attempts to speak to those involved with the case are rebuffed. questions about official procedure, conduct and extra - judicial influence go unanswered. the film is more an anatomy of an injustice – one that many african american families will recognise .
kong: skull island is just good enough - the sharp allusions, the moments of wit and warmth supplied by reilly' s long - abandoned airman - to make one wish it were better .
* * * * some spoilers * * * * there' s nothing in this movie that you haven' t already seen browsing the net. nothing is shocking about this film. in the film a man sodomizes a goat, there' s a bulldozer decapitation, and a lesbian' s face gets burnt off. all of these scenes of
extreme violence
are so fake, it makes one wonder why anyone would even want to resurface this piece of trash. i simply cannot believe i spent hard earned money on what certainly has to be the worst film ever made. don' t let reviews fool you, this film would be a shame for anyone to own... except maybe prisons who want to torture inmates. for a real exploitation classic, look to bloodsucking freaks or even the more recent doom generation. island of death sinks to the bottom of the movie toilet and needs to be flushed out of existence .
island of death is the video nasty equivalent of the story of bonnie and clyde. this film has an elevated status on the video nasty list as it' s often seen to be one of the more nasty entries. this is certainly true, as the film features all manner of gory and sadistic sequences, and it really isn' t hard to see why it got banned. as far as i' m concerned, island of death is an absolute treat, as the film is a constant stream of highlights and it' s a great deal of fun seeing our central couple skipping from one murder to the next. it' s obvious that the film is not meant to be taken completely seriously, as director nico mastorakis implements a pitch black sense of humour into most sequences; the fact that the central duo are complete and utter hypocrites is perhaps one of the most amusing things about the film. the plot simply follows a young british couple who travel to a small greek island. after a phone call to the man' s mother, it soon becomes apparent that these aren' t normal people; and when they start murdering their way through the island' s perverted inhabitants in the name of god, this notion is confirmed! the film is notorious for a few scenes, the one involving a goat being of the most well - known. however, aside from this; the film features a plethora of gory highlights to delight the exploitation fan, favourites of mine involving a man hanging out of a plane and a rather one - sided swordfight. as you would expect from a video nasty, the acting is rather poor; with the central duo putting in particularly horrid performances. it really doesn' t matter, however, as director nico mastorakis makes up for his actor' s lack of talent by selecting a beautiful lead actress; and the stunningly clean greek locations, which brilliantly offset the gritty scenes of slaughter. films like this are quite common, as aside from bonnie and clyde, we' ve also had badlands, natural born killers, true romance and more; but this is the one that is relentless and really gives the audience the impression that anything can happen. the film boils to down to an excellent climax, which delivers a brutal final twist to the tale as well as serving up comeuppance... well, almost. typically for this film, the comeuppance isn' t dished out in the most immediately obvious way, and overall; for its imagination, brutality and daring - i don' t hesitate to recommend this film !
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one - man greek exploitation factory nico mastorakis was still a newcomer at the height of the golden era of cinematic island of deathsex and violence when he made this oddball shocker, which still confounds most viewers and remains difficult to assess... . [ more... ]
grief - struck after the death of his wife, a young man attempts to keep her with him forever - by gutting her, stuffing her and replacing her eyes with glass eyes, turning her into a doll. but his bouts of insanity are just beginning .
the french local authorities on guadeloupe warned people to ‘stay confined. don’t go out under any circumstances’ after they posted a video showing hurricane maria’s winds of over 209 km / h battering the island paradise .
the film the original question is trying to find is, indeed ,
sole survivor
, a 1971 tv movie that i have on tape and just watched again tonight; it' s the only film of its kind. it' s one of the best of the tv movies, and one of the earliest. please contact me if you' re looking for a copy of it .
if anyone says its the film' sole survivor' again i' ll either shoot myself or kill the wife! its not the film' sole survivor'! ! my family had a colour tv and that film was in black & white. the search goes on: = (
but police said lopez hacked pizzichemi to death because they had a gripe with her 24 - year - old grandson over marijuana deals gone bad. gill allegedly went along for the vicious crime .
christopher and celia are enjoying a vacation on the greek island of mykonos. disgusted by what he perceives to be rampant immorality among the locals, christopher embarks on a crusade to purge the island of its perversions, and celia is only too happy to lend a hand. after numerous acts of humiliation, rape and murder, they are forced to flee from the authorities. an encounter with a barbaric farmer not only changes their circumstances drastically, but also sheds light on the origins of their ruthless sadism .
i sent this very enquiry to
empire
film magazine last year and they confirmed that the film is indeed sole survivior, a tv movie made in the early 1970' s and starring, amongst others, william shatner. unfortunately the film is not available on video... .... if anyone knows of a way to obtain a copy i' d love to have one. it' s a great film .
this sounds a bit similar to a robert powell film of 20 years ago, based on james herbert' s book
the survivor
.
how curious to find i am only one member of a sect who was profoundly touched by seeing this film as a child in the 70s .
... a slight film, but it' s extremely well - acted and darkly funny .
ok all, definitive answer time as i have been obsessed with this film for years. the film is indeed sole survivor a 1970 tv movie. the reason why the difficulty in identifying it is that there are two versions of the film. the original tv american movie had the survivors knowing they were ghosts and haunting the survivor. the film was released in europe to the cinemas in 71, and was re - edited so the crew did not know they were dead, thus changing the entire aspect of the film. love both versions and have a very grainy vhs copy of the bbc in about' 82, hope this helps paul
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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 .
ben miller can be forgiven if his thoughts are elsewhere. while filming in temperatures of over 100°f on the caribbean island of guadeloupe, he' s heard his baby son harrison has been taken to hospital suffering an asthma attack 4, 000 miles away in london .
a young couple with a questionable past arrive on a scenic greek island and unleash a fury of licentiousness and brutality on the residents. they sure know how to spice up a relationship. in its uncut version, the film is the kind of depraved experience that only the seventies could deliver. an oddly captivating mix of tranquility and perversion. one of the
video nasties
that deserves its notoriety. i' m hereby adding nico mastorakis to a list of directors that i need more exposure to .
a spokesperson for red planet picture told urltoken ‘the safety of the cast and crew remains paramount and the death in paradise team are in constant contact with the local authorities. filming has been suspended until we are advised it is safe to continue. ’
richard kwietniowski wrote and directed the tongue - in - cheek drama, adapting the tale from the novel of the same time by gilbert adair. before filming began in picturesque nova scotia (standing in for long island, n. y .), the film’s two stars spent time getting to know each other by exploring halifax .
di poole was seconded by scotland yard to the fictional island of saint - marie, a british colony, in the first series to solve a murder and ordered to stay. eagle - eyed viewers will spot that the vehicles have french number plates. that' s because the real five islands of guadeloupe are a french department. death in paradise is the first major tv show to be shot there, giving it a chance to show off its credentials as a holiday paradise .
like mastorakis himself has said, the story behind a film is often more interesting than the movie itself .
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gone baby gone (2007) abducted young 4 - year old amanda was thought to have died by falling from a cliff and drowning in a quarry, but her death was faked. she was alive and safe, in the household of captain jack doyle
it sounds very like a book by james herbert called survivor (or the survivor) - not sure if they ever made a film of it though .
the name of the film was sole survivor and if you go to you tube and type in sole survivor you can sit back and enjoy the movie .
similarly, island of death is also interesting in the fact that there are no protagonists; christopher and celia are, for all intents and purposes, the heroes of the film. when celia is raped by two tourists, it’s almost impossible to feel sorry for her, even though the scene is painfully long and graphic. there are, therefore, some challenging questions thrown up around our reactions to violence – mainly, is violence okay when it’s happening to someone we don’t like, and if so, how does that make us, the audience, any different from christopher justifying his crimes ?
at first, he thought the incidents were only a series of
elaborate pranks .
however, the ultimate object and purpose of the game became a life / death threatening proposition. the' game' was composed of an unpredictable series of increasingly life - changing events, causing him to paranoically ask :
is it real or not ?
he wondered :
i' m being toyed with by a bunch of depraved children .
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i remember the film and have been trying to find the name of the film for years. i don' t believe it to be sole survivor, the film was clearly a sixties or even fifties movie. the crew of the doomed plane crash landed in the desert, all the crew appeared to have survived the crash, trying to make the best of it and await for their rescue, when it arrives they are discovered dead in and around the wreckage, and then one by one disappear; a bit like the film really. i would to see it again though .
jordan vogt - roberts digs out a trek across uncharted territory in kong: skull island. nearly 2 hours goes by before the calm returns to the island. there is a pretty decent pace pushing the story along, but it hurts the character development to a certain extent. part of it is there are too many characters to work with and follow. another part is there are a plethora of monster scenes that there isn' t enough time spent with all the humans. the action is destructive and massive. there is no shame in showcasing kong on screen and this is a good thing. kong displays his power against the skullcrawlers. of all the human characters, samuel l. jackson and john c. reilly offer up the most interesting performances. kong gets much on love screen, probably even much more than any of the humans. kong: skull island drops the seismic charges and delivers an explosive traverse across the island .
wow! can' t believe i' ve found this thread, i' ve wondered about this film for years. there are definitely two different films being discussed here, mind you, and the original answer to the question posed is not sole survivor. i can remember watching this film and i can also remember what it' s called. there is a very good reason why no one can find it in any database and that' s because it shares the name of a very famous film which will dominate any internet search results. the film is called catch 22, not to be confused by the famous 1970 film of the same name. saw it listed sometime back so settled down to watch. of course it was the 1970 film i was watching. disappointment. hope this helps .
compounding the discomfort is the buttoned - up suit, tie and shiny brogues his eccentric, very english character, detective inspector richard poole in the bbc1 comedy drama death in paradise, insists on wearing despite the climate .
i remember watching this film as well, way back in the 80s. i simply cannot remember the name of the film. however, i remember a scene from the film where a patrol came across the wreckage. all the airmen were standing to attention and then all of a sudden they realised that nobody could see them. they are all sitting around and one of time they disappeared as they were being buried. if i remember rightly, there was one guy left, i don' t think his body was found though. damn good film, wish i could get my hands on it .
sorry i too am unable to find the film or title most are looking for, black and white for sure. saw it as a kid and like the ghosts i too have been waiting ever since, best film ever .
flight of the phoenix has been offered by a number of people during my quest... but, of course hollywood is about to release a new desecration - erm, version of that classic .
i too have been trying to find this film for years - and am still confused! i agree entirely with those that say there were no survivors, and particularly with what ray mitcham says - that is spot on. thing is i think the title was flight of the phoenix, but obviously not the film with jimmy stewart in, maybe a made for tv film with the same name? but also - not an episode of anything, it was a full length flm. so - anyone out there know about the film ray and i are talking about !
lack lives are too easy to take in america because we don’t want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with, ” says yance ford, bluntly. “and that’s what i want strong island to do. ”
at the family dock (witnessed by martin), in an act of self - defense in 1965, harriet clobbered drunken gottfried with a rowboat oar and drowned him, and then fled in a car (hiding under a blanket) with the help of look - alike cousin anita (who later died of breast cancer in england at the age of 37), her closest friend. anita had covered up the fact that she had aided harriet in escaping the island. (mikael realized he was mistaken. both anita and harriet were his baby - sitters .) gottfried' s death was blamed on his drinking and a fall into the lake .
what makes strong island stand out – and what earned it awards at sundance, sheffield and other film festivals – is its combination of universal resonance and personal authorship. in the former instance, it is an emblematic tale of shattered faith in the american dream. we learn how the ford family moved north to escape the ingrained discrimination of the south, where ford’s grandfather died of an asthma attack in a “coloureds only” doctor’s waiting room, yards away from medical help. we learn how long island’s racism was better concealed – how black families were permitted to buy property only in a few tightly zoned areas. his parents became public - sector workers: his father worked on the trains; his mother taught female inmates at new york’s rikers island prison. william was also a teacher, and was training to become a corrections officer when he was shot. these were people who believed that american society would provide for them if they played by the rules .
behrouz boochani, a kurdish journalist who continues to write articles from detention, shot the film entirely on a mobile phone .
in a weird way, i kind of admire this film in how mean - spirited and borderline misanthropic it is. this film was made purely to shock and make money and it definitely succeeds in that, although some things that were once deemed shocking have since lost the impact they once had .
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i agree with the men not knowing that they are dead and remember the film as. so g in b & w; for most of it and only being in colour at the end when the rescuers arrive and i think john wayne' s son was in it. i so have been trying to find out the name of this film for years
in the film' s conclusion, vengeful myra had been shot to death by lilly, and then myra' s face - blasted and disfigured corpse was made to look like lilly' s. roy was called upon, as next - of - kin, to identify his mother at the phoenix morgue - he concealed that he noticed lilly' s right hand did not have its tell - tale cigar burn mark .
island of death is not really a good movie, by any standard, but it is a curious one. imagine if natural born killers had been made 20 years too early, as a greek eurotrash porn film. that' s what you get here - the quaint story of a young, sociopathic british couple cutting a deadly swath through the population of a lovely little greek island. i' ll spare you a detailed breakdown of the plot; it' s not really important except to set up increasingly perverse or violent sex scenes followed by disturbingly brutal murders, often lovingly photographed for posterity by our charming young couple. it could have been brilliant, in its own sick and nasty way, but instead... instead, i found myself impatiently checking the run time and chapter index to see how much longer the parade was going to last. sluggish pacing and listless, bland acting turn even vilest perversities into pablum, and connecting scenes into an eternity of dull plodding. ah, well. you can' t win' em all .
i remember with clarity, a boy 9 or 8 roasting some bird eggs on a hot rock and eating for survival after a plane crash and gets to be a survivor in the film. but can' t remember film name. can anybody ?
ben affleck' s directorial debut film was an adaptation of dennis lehane' s novel gone, baby, gone. in the film' s opening voice - over narration during the credits, private investigator patrick kenzie (casey affleck) spoke about how his job was to find missing people because of his connections in the tough neighborhood where he grew up (in the working class area of dorchester near boston) :
one of the major breaks in the case of harriet' s disappearance was a set of intriguing multiple photographs taken during a children' s day parade in 1966 in the town of hedestat, shot in rapid sequence and viewed as a film. the most important of the photos was the one seen from harriet' s point - of - view - she was fearful of the startling sight of her teen brother martin vanger (in a tell - tale blue striped sweater) stalking her from across the street during the parade - after which she fled and disappeared .
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the film' s theme tied together puberty with blood, sexual desire and metamorphic body changes (including possession and infection) .
after the film was finished, i found out my beard had gone grey from too much stress ,
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now. christopher means ‘bearing christ’ in greek, and ‘celia’ means ‘heaven’ in latin. i tell you this because, without doing absolutely any research on this film (except to see if mykonos is a real island, and to see what the religion would be there), what this film genuinely comes off to like me is somebody rebelling darkly against their religious background, and doing so in the extreme way that often is the hallmark of somebody from a christian or catholic past. and seeing as how i find those sorts of films to be incredibly tedious (“ooooh look, jesus won’t like me for doing that! anarchy! ”), fingerpainting - in - shitty piles of faux - rebellious nonsense, watching this film was boring as hell to me .
“mother, i see the wonders of the day / millions of people left like clay / millions of whispers saying “i’m dying” / mother see the wonders of the day. ” some rubbish folksinger prick on the soundtrack here.
island of death ( greek : τα παιδιά του διαβόλου , ta pediá tou diavólou , literally " children of the devil " , also known as devils in mykonos and a craving for lust ) is a 1976 greek exploitation film directed by nico mastorakis . it tells the story of a man and a woman , posing as newlyweds , who visit the greek island of mykonos and start a rampage of murder , killing anyone they believe to be sinful or perverted . the film was initially banned as a video nasty , and is one of the most widely banned films in the world . it remained banned for several years in the united kingdom until a heavily censored ( missing over four minutes ) version was released by vipco . it was eventually released uncut by arrow films in 2011 . 
island of death (greek: τα παιδιά του διαβόλου, ta pediá tou diavólou, literally " children of the devil ", also known as devils in mykonos and a craving for lust) is a 1976 greek exploitation film directed by nico mastorakis. it tells the story of a man and a woman, posing as newlyweds, who visit the greek island of mykonos and start a rampage of murder, killing anyone they believe to be sinful or perverted. the film was initially banned as a video nasty, and is one of the most widely banned films in the world. it remained banned for several years in the united kingdom until a heavily censored (missing over four minutes) version was released by vipco. it was eventually released uncut by arrow films in 2011.
island of death (greek: τα παιδιά του διαβόλου, ta pediá tou diavólou, literally " children of the devil ", also known as devils in mykonos and a craving for lust) is a 1976 greek exploitation film directed by nico mastorakis. it tells the story of a man and a woman, posing as newlyweds, who visit the greek island of mykonos and start a rampage of murder, killing anyone they believe to be sinful or perverted. the film was initially banned as a video nasty, and is one of the most widely banned films in the world. it remained banned for several years in the united kingdom until a heavily censored (missing over four minutes) version was released by vipco. it was eventually released uncut by arrow films in 2011.