Monster of the Day #3691

Oopsie. We didn’t watch Pharaoh’s Curse and From Hell it Came back to back, but in the middle watch the very fun (and for the time, quite grisly) Island of Terror. That makes sense. All are ’50s and 60s monster movies, but putting a color film in the middle switches things up. I can’t imagine any of us haven’t seen it, but if it’s been awhile check it out again. Far better than the moribund Island of the Burning Damned, it moves well and has very nice supporting roles for Peter Cushing and Curse of the Demon’s Niall MacGinnis. The bone-sucking monster is adorably Dr. Who-ish, and would have fit in well during the Philip Hinchcliffe.

  • Gamera977

    The design of the monster always reminds me of an ancient Electrolux vacuum cleaner my mom used to own. Good thing I never saw the movie as a kid or I'd have been chasing my sister around the house with it while making weird 'electronic' noises.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    There's a very nice blue-ray out there for this film.