Island of Lost Souls (Blu-ray)
TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 25, 2011
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen & Bela Lugosi | |
Performer: | Kathleen Burke, Leila Hyams, Stanley Fields, Arthur Hohl & Bob Kortman | |
Directed by | Erle C. Kenton | |
Screenplay by | Waldemar Young & Philip Wylie | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Struss |
Entertainment Reviews:
Not a great success at the time, probably because its horror is more intellectual than graphic, this adaptation of HG Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau is nevertheless a remarkably powerful film.
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Time Out
The foreboding set piece complements the horrific story wonderfully, while Charles Laughton is genuinely sinister.
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Exquisite Terror
[T]his remains by far the best Moreau film, capturing vividly the sense of the book's ominous denouement...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
All in all, Island of Lost Souls works on every level; it rattles your nerves while you're watching it, and it haunts your dreams after it's over.
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Combustible Celluloid
While the action is not designed to appeal to other than the credulous, there are undoubtedly some horror sequences which are unrivaled.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
Although the attempt to horrify is not accomplished with any marked degree of subtlety, there is no denying that some of the scenes are ingenously fashioned and are, therefore, interesting.
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New York Times
Erle C. Kenton's 1932 production is an upscale creature feature with top-notch masks...
Film Comment
Product Description:
Widely banned when it was released, this horror classic features a young Charles Laughton and a wild-haired Bela Lugosi in the film based on the H.G. Wells novel THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. After being shipwrecked, a young man winds up on a mysterious island populated by a mad scientist intent on transforming animals into men, and serving as their God, with the injunction: "What is the law' No spill blood! Are we not men'" A genuinely unsettling classic.
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- Sales Rank: 45,239
- UPC: 715515088015
- Shipping Weight: 0.23/lbs (approx)
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