Island of Lost Souls
After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Starring
Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke
Genre
Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi
My Rating
9.0 / 10
Format & Location
Format: Blu-ray
Location: Shelf
Date Added
November 15, 2024
Review
This review may contain spoilers.
Ryan Jerz’s review published on Letterboxd:
Oh heck yeah. This started out really weird and kind of unnerving. It ended with a message that absolutely holds up and might be about to explode in the mainstream.
For as short of a movie as this is, it starts a bit slow. The slowness is made more interesting by a couple of pretty funny scenes. The captain throwing Parker over the boat was hilarious, even if unintentionally. Then it gets going, with Ruth making her way to the island to find Parker.
Charles Laughton is really creepy, which tracks. Bella Lugosi was a lot of fun, and looked awesome. The totally overblown “Panther Woman” makes me laugh and picture an old carnival barker drawing people into the movie.
The message that people are just tools to those who wish to play God is about to become a prevailing theme in our country, if not the world. The island’s “natives” rightfully rose up and made hypocrisy (!) the prevailing issue which turned them on the leader. I love it. Let’s do this, but for real life.
Ryan Jerz’s review published on Letterboxd:
Oh heck yeah. This started out really weird and kind of unnerving. It ended with a message that absolutely holds up and might be about to explode in the mainstream.
For as short of a movie as this is, it starts a bit slow. The slowness is made more interesting by a couple of pretty funny scenes. The captain throwing Parker over the boat was hilarious, even if unintentionally. Then it gets going, with Ruth making her way to the island to find Parker.
Charles Laughton is really creepy, which tracks. Bella Lugosi was a lot of fun, and looked awesome. The totally overblown “Panther Woman” makes me laugh and picture an old carnival barker drawing people into the movie.
The message that people are just tools to those who wish to play God is about to become a prevailing theme in our country, if not the world. The island’s “natives” rightfully rose up and made hypocrisy (!) the prevailing issue which turned them on the leader. I love it. Let’s do this, but for real life.