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Euro-horror, swashbuckling, voodoo, and maybe a little bit of "The Island of Dr. But it's mostly an excuse to have the fish-men disembowel trespassers; ya gotta love that! I wouldn't be surprised if the Euro-horror genre gave Quentin Tarantino some of his ideas for "Grindhouse". After all, the European horror directors have no scruples about what they show. This is one that you're sure to like. The things that we see in life I won't give any of it away if you have'nt seen it,cause it's worth taking the time to sit down and unravel in the mystery of things as presented in this film. It did gets slow at times and those were the moments my mind wondered which does easily anyways but moist of it kept me quietly thrilled,where you keep it in your head instead of letting it out,probably the mood I was in at the time.
Special effects and action sequences you could feel made up for the occasional lulls. Of course there'es a duschload of movies out there exactly like this,the film still has it's own style and flavor,which I respect from underground independent horror movies anyways. Woodyanders 8 October Stalwart, morally upright military doctor Lieutenant Claude de Ross solid Claudio Cassinelli and several other shipwreck survivors wash ashore on a remote tropical island that's governed with an iron fist by the ruthless and sadistic Edmund Rackham superbly played to the deliciously slimy hilt by Richard Johnson , who lives on the island with the feisty Amanda Martin a winningly spunky performance by the ravishing Barbara Bach and her unhinged rogue biologist father Professor Ernest Martin a marvelously dotty portrayal by Joseph Cotten.
Moreover, de Ross discovers that Professor Martin has control over a dangerous race of fishman beasts who are being exploited as slave labor by Rackham. While the central premise is obviously inspired by "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the story nonetheless is given a great deal of freshness and intrigue because of Martino's artful melding of such diverse elements as voodoo, the lost underwater city of Atlantis, a rousing mondo destructo climactic volcanic eruption, buried treasure, unscrupulous genetic experiments, and even some exciting rough'tumble fisticuffs between de Ross and Rackham during the thrilling conclusion into an altogether dynamic, imaginative, and often immensely entertaining whole.
The sound acting by the sturdy cast qualifies as another substantial plus: Cassinelli makes for a likable hero, Johnson essays his juicy villain part with supremely lip-smacking aplomb, Bach rates as a quite fetching damsel in distress, plus there are neat supporting contributions by Beryl Cunningham as sinister voodoo priestess Shakira, Franco Iavarone as the superstitious Jose, and Roberto Posse as surly troublemaker Peter.
Giancarlo Fernando's sumptuous widescreen cinematography delivers a wealth of striking visuals while Luciano Michelini's throbbing tribal score hits the funky spot. The amphibious humanoid fishman creatures are pretty gnarly-looking, too. An extremely fun flick. Previously, my respect for the brothers Martino--director Sergio and producer Luciano--had been a result of the quartet of excellent giallo films that the pair had come out with from ' Wardh," "All the Colors of the Dark" and hang on for one of the greatest titles in cinema history! I still have not seen the Martinos' giallo entitled "Torso," which is supposed to be excellent.
But, as most of their fans know, the brothers often ventured outside of the realm of giallo, and with some surprisingly good results, if their effort, "Island of the Fishmen," is any example. What kid--or kid at heart--could ask for more? In the film, a prison ship sinks in what the viewer infers to be the Caribbean, in the year Claude de Ross charismatically played by Claudio Cassinelli and a half dozen or so convicts manage to survive, their lifeboat washing ashore on a mysterious, volcanic island.
The men are quickly done in by various island perils poison water, staked pitfalls and, most especially, some lumbering, bipedal, amphibious creatures! Edmond Rackham, who is exploiting the island creatures in furtherance of his own schemes deliciously well played by Richard Johnson, who had starred in the scariest movie ever made, "The Haunting," back in '63, as well as Lucio Fulci's cult item "Zombie" that same year ; a beautiful young woman who the viewer automatically assumes is his wife, Amanda Barbara Bach, apparently game for some physical stunts here ; a half-mad biologist the great Joseph Cotten, here cashing a paycheck for perhaps three minutes of overacted screen time ; and a whole gaggle of voodoo-practicing natives, who carry out Rackham's every wish.
And before long, treasure hunting, the lost continent of Atlantis, and a volcanic blowup has there EVER been a volcano shown in a film that failed to eventually blow up? Sergio's direction is imaginative and stylish, as his giallo fans might have expected, and the music by Luciano Michelini is by turns lovely and gripping.
Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and you might start to get an idea of the pulpy fun in store. Further good news regarding the film is that its current DVD incarnation, from an outfit apparently called Mya, is a nice one, with a very decent print on display and proper framing of the film's CinemaScope image. Sadly, no subtitles have been provided, but a very adequate job of dubbing does serve to compensate.
Break out the popcorn, sit down with your 8-year-old nephew, and enjoy! GSeditor 25 April This is a very enjoyable lost island adventure movie. The plot is silly as in most movies of this type , the acting and the lines are cheesy in most cases, but it is a v-e-r-y polished-looking effort. The scene of Barbara Bach secretly leaving her manor at dawn or dusk , crossing a shallow lake, and feeding the fish men a potion on the seashore is especially very poetic looking. The undersea footage of the ruins of Atlantis is also very impressive. By the way, I think the "man whose inside turned outside" tag-line in the movie's US publicity refers to the scene of a man in the lab tank who is slowly being mutated towards a fish man.
First of all, a word of advice - don't buy or watch this thinking of it as a horror film. It most definitely is not, despite the best efforts of the American distributors who re-cut the movie, added in an opening sequence complete with graphic gore of men turned inside out, put in cameos from genre standbys Mel Ferrer and Cameron Mitchell and gave the film a horror-sounding title. All that aside, the film reviewed here is Sergio Martino's original Italian movie which plays it straight as an adventure film in the style of those Doug McClure movies of the mid '70s, with slightly rougher edges and a little bit more mild gore than they gave us.
Despite being best-known for his series of above-average gialli in the early '70s, Martino is a perfectly capable director who also gave us a handful of adventure and post-apocalypse type movies in the late '70s and early '80s. The film's first problem is apparent - half of the men are dubbed with some of the most appallingly fake British accents you're ever likely to hear, making this scene pretty laughable. Thankfully they all die pretty quickly. Soon enough the boat is attacked by some unseen rubbery creature which smashes it on the rocks and washes the men up on the shore of an island somewhere in the Atlantic.
After encountering mysterious man-eating monsters, jungle traps, and treacherous lands, our sole survivor, as played by Claudio Cassinelli, then gets to meet the island's various unfriendly inhabitants. These include a tribe of natives; a mad scientist on the brink of death; a voodoo priestess; an evil gold-hungry bachelor; an army of genetically-mutated "fish men"; an erupting volcano; a laboratory of slimy mutations and lots more.
The few things that aren't trying to kill Cassinelli include the underwater city of Atlantis quite impressively shown, and enhanced by some fine underwater photography , and love interest Barbara Bach. The special effects are of the cheap-but-cheerful quotient, especially those rubbery fish men which you just have to love as they throttle minor cast members and threaten others with their gnashing teeth.
Although the plot is somewhat familiar, it's helped along by various adventure staples including a man being put in a cell filling with water; somebody shinning down a rope over a pool of killer monsters; enduring fist-fights; chases and a number of exploding models. But what a finale it is, offering up tons of excitement and near-death experiences for our heroes. Cast-wise, Cassinelli is a somewhat ineffectual hero who doesn't actually do anything heroic for the first hour, but instead just stands around and watch other events playing out.
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Only in the climax does he get to fight baddies and monsters as a hero should in this type of movie, but never with the same cheesy determination as a Doug McClure would. Barbara Bach is the attractive love interest with a partly-developed character, so that's better than most for a start.
Overacting honours go to Richard Johnson who really enjoys himself as the wicked, greedy, ruthless, selfish bad guy plus half a dozen adjectives along those lines , while the ancient Joseph Cotten has fun as the atypical mad scientist on the verge of death.
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Then there's Beryl Cunningham, again in a wasted caricature role of a voodoo priestess who doesn't actually do anything and just seems to be there to free Cassinelli from his imminent watery demise, and a bit part from an unrecognisable Bobby Rhodes DEMONS as one of Johnson's native servants. Although it has its misses - it repeatedly fails to be scary or chilling when it attempts to be - the hits are more memorable and the film is often exciting, and the last thirty minutes are what an action movie should always be - fast-paced and with lots of battles and stuff going on.
Despite its predictability this is perfectly enjoyable stuff and great in an old-fashioned way; in fact it's nice to see they could make old-fashioned films like these when they wanted to in an era and country most recognised for its sadistic violence and bloodshed in its genre films. And they're not turned inside out. What is the box art to this movie all about? Screamers is completely misleading in it's attempt to convey the plot of what lies within said box. Legend has it that Roger Corman acquired the rights to the movie, changed the name, and flared it up a bit with some over the top gore specifically the intro scenes with Cam Mitchell and Mel Ferrer.
Screamers is an Italian take on Dr. Moreau with good actors and bad, knock-off "Gillman" suits. Richard Johnson who looks like he's on the same set, wearing the same clothes, and playing the same part as in Fulci's Zombi , Barbara Bach, Joseph Cotten, and the aforementioned added Mitchell and Ferrer are pretty big names for a project like this of course they've all done their fair share of trash too. Screamers is entertaining enough, but nothing special. Only really noteworthy for the audacity of the misleading marketing. JasparLamarCrabb 16 February It's exactly what the title tells you Shipwrecked doctor Claudio Cassinelli and crew land on the island, they're either picked off by the fishmen or roped into working for treasure hunting lunatic Richard Johnson.
Cassinelli discovers that Johnson, who believes he's found the lost city of Atlantis, has been keeping disgraced scientist Joseph Cotten and his daughter Barbara Bach hostage for 15 years so the fishmen can uncover a treasure trove beneath the sea. Cotten, of course, is a complete madman. Bach and Cassinelli have great chemistry.
This insanity was directed by Sergio Martino and is not, surprisingly, without merit. It's fast paced, reasonably well acted and the fishmen look pretty convincing though it's unlikely anyone could prove that these things DON'T look like actual fishmen. There's an excellent music score by Luciano Michelini. Enjoyable spaghetti creature feature with a solid cast and some cheesy make-up effects. When survivors of a shipwreck stumble upon an unchartered island, they encounter an inhospitable welcome from the self proclaimed king of the dominion Johnson and his amphibian servants. Not intimidated by Johnson's anti-social behaviour or Cunningham's voodoo rituals, the ship's doctor Cassinelli treads on just about everyone's feet to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Bach plays Johnson's unwilling companion, complicit in the mystery, but desperate to escape his coercive brutalisation ostensibly done in the name of philanthropy. Director Martino made a string of Bach-Cassinelli-Johnson flicks in , this being probably the best. Borrowing wholesale from "Island of Dr Moreau", "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and any "Atlantis" picture you care to mention, Martino has conjured a lightweight homage to all three themes. His experienced cast play their parts with conviction, and the cinematography and set design is quite attractive.
Contextually, this picture is a success, although experimental transmutation in rubber suits with English over-dubbing will struggle on the urban market; suffice to say it's best viewed with a healthy appreciation for this type of spaghetti sci-fi. A couple of years after its initial theatrical release, Roger Corman added a few minutes of vaguely relative footage to the pre-title sequence, featuring Cameron Mitchell and Mel Ferrer, and re-titled the picture "Screamers"; the additions are negligible though, so whichever version you happen to see, pack your modesty, as great expectations will go unrequited.
Screamers stevencraigvankooten 14 April No skin, a bit of red stuff. Of course, things go awry. There are some inklings of the various talent that has accumulated; Barbara Bach looks especially good and Martino throws out some stylish moments, but that's not even close to saving this bore. An on screen caption informs us that it is 'the Caribbean Sea, May '. A small lifeboat drifts aimlessly at sea containing six convicts from a shipwrecked prison ship, and the ship's Doctor a Lt. Claude De Ross Claudio Cassinelli.
It's night, a strange current takes the boat towards a strange, unnamed and uncharted island. The boat hits some rocks and is torn apart. One of the prisoners is killed by what appears to be a slimy mutant fish-man creature. The next morning morning Claude wakes up to find himself washed upon a beach. He finds a pool of white bubbling water and one of the prisoners dead beside it. Claude warns another surviving prisoner Jose Franco Iavarone not to drink the water as it will kill him.
Francois wanders off on his own to try and catch an animal for food, he finds and kills a large water bird. But in turn he is killed himself by one of the fish-men. Claude, Jose, Peter and Skip continue to explore the island as they put Francois's death down to an animal attack of some sort. Soon after Skip is killed when he is impaled on a spike at the bottom of a pit. Now only Claude, Jose and Peter are left. They stumble across a cemetery with lots of empty graves and signs of recent black magic rituals. Claude spots a snake on a nearby rock, suddenly a shot is heard and the snakes head explodes.
She tells them to leave the island immediately as it is owned by a Edmund Rackham Richard Johnson and he doesn't like visitors. Claude, Jose and Peter decide to carry on regardless, eventually finding Rackham's large house in which they are invited to stay. That night Peter goes after Amanda and tries to rape her in a swamp, Peter quickly becomes food for the fish-men. And a Voodoo priestess called Shakira Beryl Cunningham , who lives with Rackham, performs a black magic ritual involving slitting the throat of a chicken at the cemetery.
The next day Claude and Jose decide they should leave the island as they feel very uneasy about Rackham and think he is lying to them. Jose rides off on horseback and is lost. Claude is saved from one of the fish-men by Amanda and is again told to leave. Claude wants to confront Rackham again. Rackham reveals that he has a scientist, and Amanda's father, named Professor Ernest Marvin Joseph Cotten who he needs to be kept alive. Rackham says that the longer Ernest stays alive the chances of his own survival will dramatically increase. Rackham tells Claude his plan.
Rackham has found the lost city of Atlantis at a depth of over 2, feet. He is using the fish-men as a means of getting at the lost treasures of Atlantis, and needs Amanda and her father to control them. He claims the fish-men are descendants of the original inhabitants of Atlantis. Rackham offers Claude a share of the treasure if he will help him keep Ernest alive. Later Claude remembers the name Ernest Marvin as a scientist who was condemned for experiments transplanting animal organs into human beings.
Finding Ernest's secret laboratory he discovers Rackham had lied to him and the fish-men aren't descendants, their actually genetically altered people turned into amphibious creatures by Ernest's grotesque experiments! Rackham has finally had enough of Claude and decides to put an end to his meddling by sticking him in a large tank and slowly filling it with water, as the islands volcano starts to erupt and send lava flying everywhere.
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Rackham wants to leave the island with his treasures and Amanda, will Claude escape almost certain death to save Amanda and get off the island before the erupting volcano tears it apart? Directed by Sergio Martino I really liked this film that mixes various genres. The script by Sergio Donati is fast paced, interesting and entertaining. The plot is revealed bit by bit, which kept me interested in watching it all the way through. I must say at this point that I've seen the original version and not the one with added scenes inserted for it's US release by Roger Corman.
Barbara Bach makes for an extremely attractive leading lady, but I hated the way she was introduced by shooting a snakes head off, I thought it was more than a little distasteful. Richard Johnson makes a great villain and Claudio Cassinelli a likable hero.
The fish-men themselves look a little fake when the camera lingers on them too long but their cool looking and I've seen worse. Some of the miniature effects look a little poor too, but overall again I've again seen a lot worse. There's no real gore, violence or nudity in it, but that didn't really bother me actually. The photography by Giancarlo Ferrando and the production design by Massimo Antonello Geleng combine to create a very nice looking film. Period costumes, props and sets like Rackham's house and Ernest's lab with it's old scientific equipment.
The lush green jungle settings also add to the visual splendour on show. I really liked this film and I was entertained throughout it's running time. I'm not sure who I'd recommend it too as it mixes various genres, I guess someone who maybe fancies something a little bit different and generally well made.
If you can find a copy give it a go, I'm glad I did. This movie is based on the novel Island of dr. It's a fairly good one too, it's at least better than the version by John Frankenheimer. Since Balun's book was all about the splatter, I immediately added the film to my mental list of must see gore movies, but have only recently been able to track down a copy of the film via YouTube.