Island of Terror (1966)

A competently directed British sci-fi / horror gem with a stirring and eerie musical score, colorful and crisp cinematography and an entertaining combination of suspense, humor and horror.

Directed by Terence Fisher
Written by Edward Mann Al Ramsen
Based on an original story by Mann and Ramsen
Produced by Tom Blakely
Cinematography: Reg Wyer
Edited by Thelma Connell
Music by Malcolm Lockyer
Barry Gray (electronic effects)
Production company: Planet Film Productions
Distributed by Planet Film Distributors, Universal Studios (US)
Running time: 89 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: £70,000


Cast

Peter Cushing as Dr Brian Stanley
Edward Judd as Dr David West
Carole Gray as Toni Merrill
Eddie Byrne as Dr Reginald Landers
Sam Kydd as Constable John Harris
Niall MacGinnis as Roger Campbell
James Caffrey as Peter Argyle
Liam Gaffney as Ian Bellows
Roger Heathcote as Dunley
Keith Bell as Halsey
Margaret Lacey as Old Woman
Shay Gorman as Morton
Peter Forbes-Robertson as Dr Lawrence Phillips
Richard Bidlake as Carson
Joyce Hemson as Mrs. Bellows

An isolated remote island community is threatened by an attack from something unimaginable!

Will this small community be able to fight back against the encroaching deadly horror?

Trailer

Read on for more.....

Night of the Big Heat (1968)

ISLAND OF THE BURNING DAMNED

ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED

A low budget but eerie, tense, gripping and effective sci-fi / horror film that let its characters tell the story

Directed by Terence Fisher
Written by Jane Baker, Pip Baker, Ronald Liles
Based on “Night of the Big Heat” 1959 novel by John Lymington
Produced by Tom Blakeley, Ronald Liles
Cinematography: Reginald H. Wyer

Edited by Rod Nelson-Keys
Music by Malcolm Lockyer
Production company: Planet Film Productions
Distributed by Planet Film Distributors
Running time: 94 minutes

Cast

Christopher Lee as Professor Godfrey Hanson
Patrick Allen as Jeff Callum
Peter Cushing as Dr. Vernon Stone
Sarah Lawson as Frankie Callum
Jane Merrow as Angela Roberts
William Lucas as Ken Stanley
Percy Herbert as Gerald Foster
Kenneth Cope as Tinker Mason
Thomas Heathcote as Bob Hayward
Anna Turner as Stella Hayward
Jack Bligh as Ben Siddle
Sydney Bromley as Old Tramp

Trailer

In the middle of winter the island of Fara off the English coast is experiencing an oppressive, stifling and inexplicable heat wave, as if this little isolated heavily cloud-shrouded speck of terrestrial real estate was being deliberately subjected to the burning focused beam of a celestial magnifying glass.

Jeff and Frankie Callum run an inn called, The Swan. Jeff is a professional novelist who has supposedly hired a secretary, Angela Roberts who is in fact a younger woman with whom he had an affair. Angela has come to the island with the intention of re-kindling the affair, perhaps ending Jeff’s marriage with his wife and having him all to herself.

Also from the mainland is a strange and mysterious scientist, Godfrey Hanson who has rented a room at The Swan. This intense-looking, stern-faced individual with an abrupt, pompous and rude manner spends his time setting up motion-sensitive cameras and taking soil samples. For what purpose? Who knows?

As the temperature rises along with the mounting tension pervading the little island community, let’s see how the mystery unfolds…..

Read on for more.....