Isle of the Damned

In Antonello Giallo's follow up to the notorious Pleasures of the Damned, private investigator Jack Steele is hired by a mysterious treasure hunter to help find the lost treasure of Marco Polo. Along for the trip is Jack's adopted son, Billy. Their search brings them to an island off the coast of Argentina... and into the clutches of a primitive cannibal tribe, the Yamma Yamma. Alexis Kinkaid, a mysterious recluse who has made his home on the island amongst the cannibals, may hold the key to unlocking the island's secret... if they don't end up in the belly of a savage first! Isle of the Damned, shot on location in Argentina in 1980, brought Giallo under fire yet again... this time by the Argentinean government, who issued a warrant for Giallo's arrest under suspicions of abuse of the native peoples. Giallo fled the country before he could go to trial. The film has been long out of print, but is presented here in a digitally remastered form.

"Isle Of The Dammed is a must see! One of the best comedies I've seen in years!! Shocking, grotesque, vile and I loved every minute of it. This movie will blow your fuckin' mind away & your brain will need a vacation after you view it." - Cult Movies Magazine

"Isle of the Damned kills anything the major studios pawn off on us as comedy... easily the best film of it's type since Bad Taste!" - DVD Holocaust

"5 out of 5 on the gore meter!" - Film Apocalypse

"Be prepared to laugh and gag!" - This is Some Scene

"Features gore, bodily dismemberment, and “savage cruelty” that easily beats the best of the Italian cannibal films" - Soiled Sinema

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2.0 Stereo - English Audio Track
75 minutes of extras!

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Isle of the Damned on IMDB

Interviews

Mark Colegrove Interview with the Examiner (May '09)
Mark Colegrove interview with Dead Harvey (February '09)
Mark Colegrove & Mark Leake interview with Horror Movie Fans (December '08)
Mark Colegrove interview with Horror-101.com (October '08)
Paul Joyce interview with Horror-101.com (October '08)
Antonello Giallo Bio from Knife Fighting Jesus
1983 interview with Antonello Giallo
Isle of the Damned interview by Mike Haberfelner on (Re)searchMyTrash.com (July 08)

"Chock full of nasty stuff." - Fangoria

"Isle of the Damned is incredibly silly, insanely violent, and loads of fun!" - Shock Cinema

"[Isle of the Damned] truly wears it's love of Italian cannibal films firmly on it's bloody sleeve" - Shock Till You Drop

"If I had seen Isle of the Damned in 2008 it would have surely made my “best of” list. I can’t tell you enough how this is one of the best genre spoofs I have ever seen! You would be a fool to not track this down!" - Fatally Yours

"I loved it from beginning to end... one of the greatest spoofs of genre cinema that I have ever seen." - Bloodtype Online

"There are some lines in this movie that I’m going to be quoting (much to my wife’s dismay) for many years to come." - Gutmunchers

"This cannibal movie spoof takes every sick and raunchy turn down the road of depravity" - Horror News
"An art form all it's own... you have to see it to believe it!" - The Horror Enthusiast

"Isle of the Damned is repugnantly violent, absurdly hilarious, and sexually depraved all at once. Beyond that it's borderline brilliant." FOUR STARS - Critical Film

"...add bad dubbing, obvious wigs, a little too much sodomy, crazy characters, and extreme gore, you have a little something for the whole family... You have to see this one." - Scars Magazine

"One hell of a lot of fun!" - Rogue Cinema

"I recommend this film to any B-Movie, exploitation or cult film fan. I can guarantee you have never seen anything like it." - Strictly Splatter

"This film delivers the warped and twisted goods and leaves you feeling guilty for having so much fun." - Trash Film Guru

"There’s necrophilia, a man eating diarrhea, ritual gangrape on a tied up man, knifes up the rectum, sex with a rabbit… yeah, this flick does indeed rule." - Varied Celluloid

"Isle Of The Damned captures the nasty spirit of the Italian cannibal film and forces it to its knees." - Doomed Moviethon

(Translated) "...even more excessive gore that many of the originals." - Cine Fantastico

(Translated) "Isle of the Damned is Ultra Gory! Joe D'Amato would love it!" - Bad Movies.de

"Delightfully entertaining... A true gourmet treat for fans of those old silly 80's cannibal flicks." - VOID Blog

"In a sea of true low budget - indie horror films, Isle is a clear standout, made by a group of talented folks." - Paracinema

"It's hysterical and true to the art and I will definitely keep chomping into Isle of the Damned as often as possible." - The Gore Girl Variety Hour

"This is a great homage to the Italian cannibal film. Director Giallo gets it just right when realizing the atrocious dubbing, even worse acting, and scenes of violence." - GASP Etc.

"The film goes all the way, loading any moment it logically can with transgressive amounts of sadistic violence and surprisingly well-executed gore." - Film Fanaddict!

"Dire Wit Films takes parody films to a whole new level with its release of “Isle of the Damned”... “Isle” takes you by the collar, and doesn’t let go throughout the movie with its endless slew of gore, awful dubbing, and 1970’s stereotypes." - Thumbs Down Films

"This movie has everything one could expect from the Italians... And it's a fucking blast!!!" - On The Fringe

(Translated) "Composer Paul Joyce has managed to perfectly recreate the style of music used at the time... a must for fans of the genre." - Horreur-Web

"Isle of The Damned is an absolute homerun of all things horror parody cinema." - Blog of a Dead Dreamer

"Isle of the Damned is a side-splittingly perfect comedy, by genre geeks for genre geeks." - Ultra Violent

"I was blown away by this film... Isle of the Damned makes Cannibal Holocaust look like Mary Poppins by comparison." - Horror Yearbook

"Director Mark Colegrove has delivered a film that is both the apex and epitome of all that defined Mondo Italian cinema brutality." - Killing Boxx

"This film had me doubled over with laughter." - Horror Stew

"If you are at all a fan of cannibal films (or badly dubbed and cheaply made Italian gore and exploitation cinema in general), you will probably find this film hilarious." - (re)Search My Trash

"It's something you have to see to believe... a great piece of independent filmmaking that's remarkably original and entertaining." - Dead Harvey

"...A must see movie... A both hilarious and depraved shrine to Italian cannibal horror and exploitation." - Horror-Extreme

"9 out of 10 Skulls!" - DVD Resurrections

"I can't explain why this film made me laugh, perhaps its the propeller hat worn by the young boy who nearly gets raped by his fat father, or the black dubbed voice of the white actor with a blonde wig and black moustache." - Gorezone

"One of the goriest horror films of this year." - HorrorMovieFans.com

"I really hope this film gains the cult classic status that it so desperately deserves." - B Movies and Beyond

"This may just be my favorite film of the year." 5 out of 5 Stars - Dave's Horror Reviews

"One of the funniest, sleaziest, bloodiest and dumbest movies I’ve seen in a while. I can’t give it any higher recommendation!" - Redneck Lounge

"There are very few moments in the film that won't make you want to scrub yourself vigorously with a toilet brush." 3 1/2 OUT OF 4 BEERS! - Arrow In The Head

"“Isle” takes you by the collar, and doesn’t let go throughout the movie with its endless slew of gore, awful dubbing, and 1970’s stereotypes." - Thumbs Down Films

"Daft anarchic fun!" - Eat Horror

(Translated) "Isle of the Damned is a perfectly structured film, where nothing is left to chance and everything is in place." - De Profundis

"Isle of the Damned is a funny flick, going 10.0 on the parody Richter scale." - The Jaded Viewer

"You get lots of gore, lots of laughs, lots of moments where you are just scratching your head. And you get a couple pairs of tits. Can't argue with that." - Fearzone

"Fans of scuzzy exploitation films will probably find plenty to chuckle about here." - Fast Forward Weekly

"Isle features gore that would make Ruggero Deodato proud and a perfectly retro score by composer Paul Joyce." - Horror-101

(Translated) "Isle of the Damned is a very funny affair." 5 OUT OF 6 STARS! - MannBeistFilm.de

"It's fun performed with a high level of energy and no short supply of imagination." - Sex, Gore, Mutants

"A celebration of schlock that manages to exude a perverted charm all its own... fans of 70’s/80’s cannibal exploitation flicks won’t want to miss this." - Behind the Couch

"Loaded with gory entrail-pulling and groan-inducing jokes, Isle of the Damned is definitely unlike any other movie you've ever seen." - Mondo Digital's Sick Picks

"I can't remember the last time I had this much fun watching a horror film!" - Hayes Hudson's House of Horror

Bad Reviews
"Colegrove lets the film make some very dark turns without them being a bit funny. The film marches on as if it was another gag, but to me rape, child molestation, and rampant homophobia are not funny" - Lightning Bugs Lair

"Fucking stupid." - Film Bizarro

"A failure on every level... by twenty minutes in, we get to a scene where a pregnant woman is killed, while guys dressed as “cannibals” feast on her fetus, and then roll the woman’s corpse over and rape it. That’s enough for me, I’m outta here."
ZERO STARS - Film Threat

"There are so many things about Isle Of The Dead that is just wrong... Sometimes when arms, hand, or legs, were being removed, it could look rather fake looking." - Mermaid Heather

Isle on World of Weird Monster Show (Host Segments)

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Previous Screenings

10/17/08 - Creative Alliance - Baltimore, MD
10/25/08 - 941 Theatre - Philadelphia, PA
11/14/08 - Crypticon - Minneapolis, MN
12/9/08 - Washington Psychotronic Film Socitety - Washington, DC
1/7/09 - The Original Dungeon - New Orleans, LA
1/17/09 - Monkeytown - Brooklyn, NY
1/27/09 - La Casa de la 9 - Tijuana, BC, Mexico
1/30/09 - 6th Annual Psychotronic Film Festival - Savannah, GA
2/17/09 - The Ottobar - Baltimore, MD
2/21/09 - Connooga - Chattanooga, TN
3/2/09 - Domy Books - Houston, TX
3/13/09 - Plaza Theatre - Calgary, AB
3/14/09 - The Sidebar - Baltimore, MD
3/20/09 - Heorot Pub and Drafthouse - Muncie, IN
3/20/09 - Boston Underground Film Festival - Boston, MA
3/26/09 - Boston Underground Film Festival - Boston, MA
4/4/09 - Cinema Wasteland - Strongsville, OH
4/18/09 - Splatterday Night Fever - Saarbrücken, Germany
5/1/09 - Weekend of Fear - Erlangen, Germany
5/1/09 - World of Weird Monster Show - Chicago, IL
5/10/09 - The Metro Gallery - Baltimore, MD
7/9/09 - Thrillville - San Jose, CA
8/22/09 - Yellow Fever Independent Film Festival - Belfast, Northern Ireland
9/25/09 - Horrorfind - Hunt Valley, MD
10/3/09 - Dark Carnival Film Fest - Bloomington, IN
10/26/09 - Fright Nights Film Festival - Carinthia, Austria
11/7/09 - Downtown Independent - Los Angeles, CA
3/7/10 - The X Fest - Cape Town, South Africa
3/11/10 - The Keepout Lounge - Austin, TX
4/9/10 - Screamin' Athens Horror Film Festival - Athens, Greece
Interview at the Maryland Film Fest

Horror Enthusiast Review