Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Leofwine_draca Once an infamous video nasty here in Britain, ISLAND OF DEATH has now been released simultaneously in a world-wide uncut version and Vipco's UK release, truncated by four minutes. The four minutes remove the worst of the perversion and violence but still leave a film that is at times disgusting, disturbing and unintentionally funny. Likable Greek director Nico Mastorakis delivers a well-shot, bright and colourful movie, with lots of framing shots of Greek islands which makes it look like some kind of travelogue or something. The weather is sunny throughout, the locations idyllic…and the acts played out on screen completely insane.The plot is nothing, an excuse for an imaginative string of murders, carried out in the worst possible taste but on the lowest budget imaginable. Not a lot of room for special effects around here, aside from the impressive bulldozer scene. Instead loads of weird/funny stuff happening. Keep your eyes out for the Foster-dummy attacked to the wing of the plane. Or the much-lauded goat scene which is hilarious rather than disturbing. Or the folk music, which at times gives the movie a WICKER MAN-type atmosphere, and at other times just sounds pretty amusing: "Get the sword! Get the sword! Kill them all!".Mastorakis beefs up the exploitation slant with tons of nudity and weird sexual behaviour, focusing on same-sex relationships and even more extreme acts. Things tie up with a twist ending which is ludicrously engrossing. The acting is terrible. Jane Ryall (a non-actress who only appeared once, in this movie) is appalling, the male lead, Robert Behling (LAND OF THE MINOTAUR) puts in an extremely strange performance and later committed suicide. Keep your eyes peeled for Mastorakis himself cameoing as a novelist. Not really controversial or disturbing any more, this is still worth a look for those who love their exploitation cinema, as from that angle it really is a unique film.

Neil Welch English couple Celia and Chris travel to a picturesque Greek island to spend their holiday killing perverts (of which, fortunately, there are vast numbers on this island - you know the type of perverts I mean - homosexuals, lesbians, rapists, hippies, drug addicts, middle aged women...) It seems to have slipped Celia's and Chris' notice that they themselves are far worse perverts than their victims, what with their vaguely incestuous relationship (they are brother and sister), Chris having sex with goats, urinating on people - oh, and killing people.This sleazy little exploitation movie is very much a product of its "video nasty" era. It is professionally put together, nicely photographed, with attractive and sunny scenery, and an attractive leading lady who frequently sheds her clothes (collar and cuffs don't match, by the way). Unfortunately she, along with everyone else in the film, can't act to save her life, and the meretricious content of the film doesn't have the saving grace of a moral, a decent payoff, or even any sense. It is perhaps worth watching as a kind of twisted travelogue, or even just to experience it but, make no mistake, it is not a very good film. Not even if you savour bad films.

dolce_knights43 Let me explain.Can you remember the shower scene in "Psycho"? Remember that people found that scene to be the most shocking thing in the history of cinema? Let me ask you, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT NOW? Is it still scary to you? to tell you the truth, when I attended the retrospective screening of Psycho, people didn't even react at the shower scene. It has lost its power.People say that this film is mild compared to the "torture porn" movies that come out every week. That's exactly my point! "Psycho" is pretty much for kids today compared to more brutal and perverse psycho/slasher films like "Laid to rest", "Hatchet", "High Tension" etc. In short, IT'S LAME WHEN YOU WATCH IT TODAY! They might find the atrocities in "island of death" to be too soft but they failed to imagine what was the effect back then to the innocent and unsuspecting minds of the normal 1970's era moviegoer. I have thought about the content when I was watching this film. A man having sex with a goat? A guy getting crucified to the ground and then force fed paint? An incestuous couple running around a Greek island killing people after having sex with the victims? god, I was shocked with the content! How much more the people from the 1970's??? Why do we discriminate the film's retroactive power/influence? Why do we favor "Psycho" all the time? Hell, this movie has TWO Psychos!!!!!!!! I believe that this movie should get the credit it deserves. just like "Cannibal Holocaust" or "120 days of Sodom" we have a film that challenged the norms of modern society and showed us the perversion a human being is capable of doing. And from what movie is this coming from? It's coming from an obscure 1970's movie.Highly Recommended.

gavin6942 A murderous couple from England are vacationing on the island of Mykonos in Greece. While an investigator from England tracks them to the island, they go on a killing spree removing the island's inhabitants one by one to cleanse the place of all perversions. But the killers have a few perversions of their own.When you give a film a high rating you need to justify that rating. Most people find this film to be slightly above average, whereas I found it to be a couple notches below perfect. Why? Because while this is not a stand-out film in the general sense, it does touch upon the important horror themes: psychotic killers, excessive nudity and rampant bloodletting. The plot, albeit a thin one, is decent enough to carry this sort of promise for the viewers.Some have said this film is more of a "softcore porn" than a horror film and I would disagree, though I see their point. The lead actress (Jane Lyle) gets naked repeatedly, sleeps with at least three men and walks around topless in other scenes. There are also gay men and lesbians doing what they do in privacy, and a very disturbing scene between a man and a goat.The gore is relatively minor. There's a crucifixion, plenty of gun and sword play, a bulldozer and more... but most of the action happens off-camera leaving it to our imaginations. Although, I did feel this was done well enough that I expected gore again and again, leaving me constantly in suspense. The closest I recall to a direct shot was a scene with a home-made flamethrower.No one is safe: rapists, homosexuals, women who enjoy urine and black men are all targeted. If you're easily offended, you really should look elsewhere because you're going to see and hear things you never wanted to see and hear. But if you love exploitation horror (and I do), this one is right up your alley and you'll be calling your friends the next day saying "You won't believe what I saw!"