Island of Death is an exploitation film, the kind of film that deserves the term exploitation, and the kind of film that even 41 years old is shocking to see. There's a paper thin plot about a man and woman duo that come to the island of Mikonos in Greece and they start killing people who they find fit their definition of "sexual deviants and perverts". Of course the man and woman themselves are the true deviants, raping and fucking anything that moves including a goat.
There's graphic scenes of watersports, bestiality, lesbianism, some gay kissing, and plenty of good old fashioned full frontal nudity filling in the corners. Also, the murders come along pretty early on and they are average to great in terms of blood and graphic content. Island of Death reminded me a lot of...uh fill this in later cause I don't remember. (I was trying to remember Blood Sucking Freaks) Anyways, they were both older movies that were still quite graphic and indeed shocking.
Island of Death has a slow pacing, at an hour and 45 minutes it's definitely overly long, and very many of these scenes could have been cut. It's not bad, and it is interesting most definitely, however I still think some editing could have been utilized.
What else....the music was interesting. A fun mix of weird 70's pop and then original weird music no doubt made by someone who had basically no other IMDb credits. (*the blog author checks his intuition) Yup I was right, a total of 3 movies composed, this being the first one. Sooooo. In the end what is this? It's a product of it's time, it's interesting, and I would recommend it for sure. It's very sexual, it is arousing, and it is still shockingly violent and bizarre. It's creepy, atmospheric, and well acted. So in that case I'll give it a 4 star rating.
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