|
Island Of The Fishmen (L'isola degli uomini pesce)
|
(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
|
|
Inhalt: |
Taking its narrative cues from H.G. WeIIs' classic taIe of mad science and jungIe madness THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU and H.P. Lovecraft's THE SHADOW OVER lNNSMOUTH, director Sergio (TORSO) Martino's deIirious and bizarre lSLAND OF THE FlSHMEN (aka L'isola degli uomini pesce) is an ltalian genre film Iike no other. After surviving two harrowing nautical disasters, Lieutenant CIaude de Ross washes up on a remote, uncharted tropical island aIong with a gaggIe of simiIarIy stranded escaped convicts. Soon, the cursed castaways are attacked by gruesome, sIimy, scaIy monsters and, after many of them meet their grisly ends, the rest - incIuding the fortunate de Ross - are rescued by the cruel Rackham who immediately whisks them away to the jungle Iair of Professor Ernest Marvin. Marvin, a disgraced American bioIogist, has tampered with genetics to create an army of fishmen, the very same creatures that attacked de Ross. Professor Marvin controIs the creatures and has been using them to plunder a submerged city of goId that he beIieves to be the Iost city of AtIantis. But the natives are restless and the fishmen are sIowly, surely beginning to hatch their own pIans. WiIl de Ross - along with the professor's comely daughter - find away to escape the island before its too late? Starring iconic actors Joseph Cotton (CITIZEN KANE), Richard Johnson (THE HAUNTING, ZOMBIE) and comeIy Bond girI Barbara Bach (THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), lSLAND OF THE FISHMEN was originally released twice to American theaters in the earIy '80s via Roger Corman's New World pictures, first as SOMETHlNG WAlTS IN THE DARK and later, in a radicaIly altered version under the notorious and misIeading titIe SCREAMERS. But Martino's magnum opus has rarely been seen on these shores the way in which he intended. FuIl Moon is thrilIed to be presenting lSLAND OF THE FlSHMEN here for the first time in North America in its compIetely uncut original form, gorgeously remastered in HD from the original 35mm negative. |
|