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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381252620
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 150 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1957
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Horror legend Boris Karloff headlines two rare features! In Island Monster, one of the rarest of all his films, the King of Horror inhabits a beautiful island paradise filled with nefarious activities, shot on the picturesque Ischia, sister island of Capri. Then savor the uncut, sleaze-filled version of Chamber of Fear, one of Karloff's last films, in which living rock ignites a chain of terror and death!
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I won't waste your time by attempting to convey the vague plots of these two crummy foreign films except to say that "Island Monster" is a smuggling film and has nothing to do with monsters while "Chamber of Fear" is witless sci-fi exhibition about a living rock recovered from the bowels of the earth.
"Island Monster" (Italian, 1954) is in black-and-white, full-screen, and is the "better" (2 stars) of this egregious pairing. "Chamber of Fear" (Mexican, 1968) is color, letterbox, and ... Read More
Rating:  -
"Island Monster" is probably not what you're expecting from a Boris Karloff movie of that title. Unfortunately.
It was made in Italy for next to nothing, and it shows. The bulk of this looks like a nautical safety film, as about half of the movie is spent on varying boats of diminutive size. It's almost enough to make you seasick. Karloff is "The Benefactor," a wealthy, respected man about town and drug boss; more importantly, he is incapable of not looking like Frankenstein's monster ... Read More
Rating:  -
Island Monster is a cheap film Karloff made in Italy, likely just for the free vacation. A narcotics officer has been assigned to get friendly with a female who works at a night club on a touristy island because she might have ties to a drug smuggling operation. Maybe it was the fact that he publically announced to his wife and daughter as they were sending him off on a boat loaded with people that they should only refer to him by his false identity while he is working undercover, or maybe it's because ... Read More
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