Island of the fishmen (1979)

[lester1/2jr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7EPMHgSjms

Well this is better than "Ark of the SUn God" "SS Hell Camp" and a few other Italian movies of the era I can think of so that's something.  If you cut out the excrutiating first half hour you would have a decent little campy horror movie.  I liked it about as much as "Malpurtius" however you spell it and it doesn't have the "genius" baggage that thing had and isn't all pretentious.  It's certainly one of the better movies for talking over I've seen in sometime, another genre the Italians excel at, probably second only to their horror stuff.  and as always, they have a very attractive, albeit not nude, woman featured prominently and that is Barabra Bach.  It's an "Island of Dr Moroue" variation. 3.5 stars

If you got this in a 50 pack and someone pointed it out on the floor you'd be like "that one was okay"

[retrorussell]

This was also known as "Screamers", which was the title I saw in the ads and years later on the vhs cover.  The tagline was, "They're men turned inside out.. and even worse, they're still alive!".  I can't believe I still haven't seen it.  Sounds like cheese paradise.

[TheDope]

This was also known as "Screamers", which was the title I saw in the ads and years later on the vhs cover.  The tagline was, "They're men turned inside out.. and even worse, they're still alive!".  I can't believe I still haven't seen it.  Sounds like cheese paradise.

Caveat emptor:  No one gets turned inside out - man or otherwise.  Who knows; if they had followed through on their own advertising, maybe this one would have broke even!



....not that I don't want to see it anyway.   

- TGWD

[The Burgomaster]

I bought this DVD a few weeks ago and watched it on Halloween.  What a dumb movie.  See my "Joseph Cotten" comments in the off-topic discussion forum.  I saw the SCREAMERS version on VHS about 20 - 25 years ago and it's slightly different . . . they added a few scenes for the U.S. release.  The DVD is the original Italian version without the U.S. inserts.