Isle of The Dead (Boris Karloff) [1945] @! .avi

Boris Karloff ... Gen. Nikolas Pherides

Ellen Drew ... Thea

Marc Cramer ... Oliver Davis

Katherine Emery ... Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn

Helen Thimig ... Madame Kyra (as Helene Thimig)



Scary, fascinating tale set in 1912 Greece. A bunch of people are quarantined on an island (which contains a graveyard) by the plague. A general (Boris Karloff) is in charge, but people dying from the plague, the isolation and close quarters begin to eat away at him. He starts to believe a young, healthy woman among them is a vorvolaka (a vampire). And there's the woman who has an extreme fear of being buried alive...



Quick paced and very literate horror film. There's lots of dialogue about faith, wars, superstition--all of it interesting. The settings are very dark, eerie with a spooky wind always blowing. There are scary moments throughout but they really shift into high gear during the final 15 minutes.



This movie gave me nightmares when I was little! The cast is adequate (except for Jason Robards Sr.--boy, was he annoying!) but Karloff and Katherine Emery were excellent.



Truly frightening old horror film. A definite must-see.