Many directors, in order to make a scary and at the same time interesting movie, send the protagonists of their projects to distant places where all sorts of horrors are happening and from where it will be very difficult for them to get back. For example, on an island, most often uninhabited or inhabited by monsters. In this article we will learn about the most curious horror films about the islands!
"Wicker Man"
In 1973, director Robin Hardy presented the audience his picture "Wicker Man." The main character of the film, policeman Nick Howie, sets off for Summermeil Island (which seems to be located somewhere near Scotland) in order to find the missing girl Rowan Morrison. The investigation is progressing with difficulty largely because the majority of local residents are not eager to help the new law enforcers. Nick Howie meets with her mother Rowan and with the teachers of the school where she studied, and all these people unanimously declare that they are not familiar with this girl. Soon the policeman witnesses a ritual orgy that takes place in the city center. Unable to single-handedly solve the task set for him to find the girl, Howie decides to leave the island, but he does not succeed in doing this, since the plane on which he arrived here does not function.
The picture "Wicker Man" in 1978 received the Saturn Award as the best horror film. The famous writer Stephen King included her in the list of 100 most significant horror films created from 1950 to 1980.
In 2006, a remake of this horror movie about an island with the same name appeared. The picture in which the main character was portrayed by Nicolas Cage, the audience and film critics took a cold. They felt that this tape is much weaker than the 1973 film.
"The most dangerous game"
At the dawn of cinema, the tape "The Most Dangerous Game" was published, which is the place on the list of "The Best Horrors about the Islands." The 1932 film, created by directors I. Pichel and E. B. Shodsak, offers sympathy for the three main characters, shipwreck victims, who have fallen on the island to the Russian extravagant count who entertains himself by hunting people.
The picture "The Most Dangerous Game", despite the fact that a little less than a century has passed since its inception, still attracts great interest from the audience today. Especially those who love horror films about the island.
Killer Shrews
The film "Killer Shrews" was shot in 1959. The creators of the project decided that in their horror film about the island there will be shrews, which under the influence of radiation turn into monsters of frightening proportions, eating everything in its path. Including people. It is known that these mutants in the frame depict dogs dressed in special costumes.
"Predator"
The year 1987 was marked by the appearance of the legendary project "Predator", which with some reservation can be called a horror film about the islands and the jungle. Although the main actions are taking place in a certain remote place in South America, the similarity of this place to the island is undeniable, because there is no way to get out on your own either. In Predator, the main characters are members of an elite military unit, who are faced with the task of saving their colleagues, lost in the South American jungle. Experienced fighters will have to fight with a powerful and ruthless creature, for whom planet Earth is just a hunting ground.
The Predator project, which can nevertheless be classified as the Horror Films about the Jungle and the Islands, was awarded the Saturn Award in the Best Music Award in 1988.
"Who can kill a child?"
This shocking question is asked by the creators of this horror movie. The main victims in this tape are the British, who arrived on the island of Almanzor to enjoy a vacation on the beach. The main villains here are children, weird and taciturn. Strange, because a certain evil force infused them, which makes them do terrible things.
"Curse of Komodo Island"
In 2004, American director Jim Wyansorski made a horror film about the island and the jungle called The Curse of Komodo Island, released under the slogan "They're Hungry." Starving creatures in this tape are mutated monitor lizards who suffered during experiments conducted by the military of an unknown country. The food of these monsters can be robbers who arrived on one of the Hawaiian islands to hide here for a while from the police.
"I walked with zombies"
This 1943 film is not like modern zombie movies. There are no decaying living corpses who crave to eat those whom they once were themselves. This is the story of a young Canadian nurse, Betsy, who ended up on an island in the West Indies to look after the wife of a wealthy farmer, Jessica. A woman who is silent all the time and behaves strangely, according to the nurse, suffers from a nervous breakdown. The viewer may not agree with her, because he knows that the Voodoo cult is flourishing on the island.
In 2001, a remake of this horror film about the island called "Ritual" was released. Here, the main characters are the eminent doctor Alice Johnson and her patient, who rightly considers himself a zombie.