Island of Lost Souls (Criterion Collection)
TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!
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DVD 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, Bob Kortman & Arthur Hohl | |
| Directed by | Erle C. Kenton | |
| Screenplay by | Waldemar Young & Philip Wylie | |
| Director of Photography: | Karl Struss |
Entertainment Reviews:
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...A 19th-century fairy-tale engraving come to nightmarish life... -- Rating:B
Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- The horror is implied rather than shown, but all the more potent for it.
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
There's something legitimately sick and cold about it, a chill sweat of jungle malaria.
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eFilmCritic.com
Erle C. Kenton's 1932 production is an upscale creature feature with top-notch masks...
Film Comment
Laughton, as he managed to do in Devil and the Deep and The Sign of the Cross, gives the role of the villain a peculiarly horrifying quality by humanizing it far beyond the demands of the script.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
The lead character is sadly generic as hell, but thankfully everything that goes on around him is interesting and well shot. Highly recommended.
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hoganreviews.co.uk
H.G. Wells' overstepping biologist Moreau pokes and prods at a very modernist anxiety: in the wake of Darwinism, has science opened the conventionally closed borders between the bestial, the human and the divine?
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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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- UPC: 715515088114
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