Also known as Scared Alive and as Whodunit?
It appears the song that sounds like a direct rip off of Peter Gabriel featured in this movie is Black Hole by Gary Philips. If I'm going to mention the soundtrack, I must also mention Face to Face by Factor Four, At least 3-4 "versions" of this song are present in the movie, with the lyrics being changed to reflect how someone just died! It might sounds kinda dumb, but hey, all these slashers need is one gimmick and suddenly they become memorable and different.
Island of Blood is a grainy early 80s slasher thing with some interesting deaths and no real blood, no nudity, nothing offensive in it whatsoever. Which works in the vein of "fun factor" which this movie traffics in more than like "horror factor". Its completely fine when movies do this, as long as they commit to their choice.
The biggest problem with some of these movies in general is that it seems like they don't commit, or even worse, they're not aware of how dumb they come off as. It should be evident by the acting, by the scarceness of the effects, that these aren't going to be truly scary, so if you know that, lean into the cheese factor since that's essentially free. That's what they did here.
This is a fun romp, mild and quick moving, nothing challenging here, it goes down easy. Gives it a straight 3.5 stars.
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