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Christopher (Robert Behling) and Celia (Jane Ryall), a young couple
(actually brother and sister, as it turns out in the end), arrive on
the Greek island of Mykonos, off-season - so they are among the very few
tourists here - and rent a house. It soon becomes evident that something is
not quite right with them, at the latest when Christopher fucks a sheep
when Celia is in no mood to satisfy him, then kills it. Later he talks
Celia, who he passes off as his wife, into having sex with a French
painter while he takes photos of it, only to subsequently kill the
painter. A homosexual couple is next on their list, one stabbed to death
by a sword, the other's brain blown out, all the while taking photos of
their deeds. As it turns out now, Christopher has this idea to clean the
island of perversion, giving it back to the innocent people - he,
like all good madmen, is of course unable to see his own misdeeds
in this context. The couple was followed by a British cop (Gerard
Gonalons) though, who
wants to get them for doing pretty much the same killings in London, and
he catches up with them in Mykonos, but they manage to hang him
instead, using a flying aeroplane as gallows (!). For some reason though
Celia grows tired of all the killings, and when Christopher
decapitates a horny old rich woman (Jessica Dublin) - you know the type
- with a
bulldozer, she turns away in horror. But when she's raped by two hippies
and only just saved by Christopher, she agrees, however reluctantly,
to lure a lesbian (Jannice McConnell) into their deathtrap. But their misdeeds
eventually catch up with the couple, and finding themselves on the run, things
take a nasty turn ... Allegedly, this movie was made when director
Nico Mastorakis saw what money the then recent Texas Chainsaw
Massacre made, and he simply tried to outdo that movie in terms
of cruelty. And while Island of Death never really reaches the quality of
Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, it is indeed one cruel and mean movie that genre fans
will enjoy. Sure, the plot here is little more than a ploy to show one murder-scene
after another, each more gruesome and outrageous than the last one, with
a few sex scenes thrown in for good measure, and the characters and their
motivations are rather on the paper-thin side, but the film's blunt approach to
its story is charming in a retro way, it has its exhilarating moments (with
hanging by airplane and decapitation by bulldozer being my favourites), and on a
purely technical level, it's really well done, too. Horror and grindhouse
lovers will find plenty to like about this one!
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