Island of the Doomed

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Mar 6, 2015 Slap-together plot that ends on the climax, but that climax is probably worth the watch due to the gory effects and craziness of it all. Typical 60's b-movie characters, slow pacing, and some cheesy moments. While there's plenty of missed potential, the movie is likable enough. See more Oct 6, 2011 Fun Spanish take of Little Shop Of Horrors that lands on my "So Bad It's Good" list. See more Feb 2, 2011 Laughably- inept Spanish-German co-production (You know THAT means quality!) detailing a happy-go-lucky and totally-bonkers European Baron/Botanist (The always-unsubtle and scenery-demolishing Cameron Mitchell-) who delights in sacrificing the unlucky visitors to his private island to his favorite horticultural-horror, the enormous, blood-sucking "Vampire Tree", a slimy, tentacled monstrosity that happily drains precious bodily fluids from its hapless victims on command. An ultra-kitschy cheese-fest that revels in bucket-fulls of risible, poorly-executed gore effects, thinly-etched characters, and somnambulistic non-acting by a cast of atrociously-dubbed Euro-Trash Thespians, all adding up to a simply despicable, yet thoroughly-enjoyable experience in bad taste and unfettered sleaze. The most amusing character is a plump, raspy-voiced old lady who spends the entire picture running around the seedy isle taking pictures, and inexplicably insists on going outside in a raging thunderstorm to snap some photos of lightning! Probably the best thing about the flick are the interesting and creative animated opening credits with some bizarrely-catchy music! You gotta' know any movie with at least five titles has to be something special! An outrageous exercise in mid-60's schlock, an acquired taste, to be sure--one of my many "Guilty Pleasures". See more Read all reviews

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