Synopsis
They came seeking fame and fortune! What they found was a blood bath!
The cast and crew of a low budget movie, filming on an island, are murdered one by one in accordance with the lethal lyrics of a punk rock song.
1982 Directed by William T. Naud
The cast and crew of a low budget movie, filming on an island, are murdered one by one in accordance with the lethal lyrics of a punk rock song.
Whodunit?, Scared Alive, Omicidi a soggetto, Insel des Schreckens, 血腥小岛, 아일랜드 오브 블러드
Solid little early 80’s slasher features an Agatha Christie style setup, decent kills, and a fun gimmick involving music and murders. Nothing spectacular but I have an affinity for these C level early 80’s slasher jams that've drifted into obscurity... plus it’s a fun little charmer where the jerkoff characters die horrible deaths lol... and considering some of the overpriced boring sludge out there thats starting to clog up the bluray reissue pipeline, this was a harmless treat that got the job done.
I caught this on a terrible YouTube vhs rip a few years ago and was left underwhelmed by the poor picture quality darkening every scene, but luckily the new disc looks great and the fun hack n slash vibes at play were just what the doctor ordered.
Decent enough genre swill—nothing more, nothing less.
Another low budget 80s slasher with what seemed like a nice premise. Perhaps a bit slow and drags too much but at least there are some gory deaths. I'd say the last half hour is worth it, especially trying to figure out the killer's motives since the identity is not surprising at all. There's even a plot twist that no one asked for but made sense somehow. It's definitely not the best one I've seen but it's also not that bad.
It's Friday night and ol cousin Vinny Syndrome has stopped by to visit! First up Whodunit aka Island of Blood! An early 80s slasher that flew under the radar for ol belial. And I've said it once and I'll say it again, seeing an 80s slasher for the first time is a divine treat ain't that the truth!
"SEVEN PEOPLE ARE DEAD...AND YOU'RE NEXT!!"
Oh shoot I sure hope not! I've got too many dang beers to finish first! A colourful (weird looking) bunch of actors have traveled to a remote island to audition for an exciting new role! But within seconds one of them is boiled alive! Whaaaa??? And while a song sings "boil me! Boil me!" Hwhaaa? It's…
„Hier geht etwas nicht mit rechten Dingen zu“ (Dialogzeile)
Das stimmt allerdings. Ein Slasher auf Valium, ohne Biss, ohne Spannung.
Eine Figur/ Darstellerin, die mal mit mal ohne Krücken, ohne ersichtlichen Grund, rumläuft.
Plotlöcher, durch die eine Kettensäge durchpasst, ein Freitag-Klon in Sachen kreative Kills, wobei hier allerdings die FX billig getrickst sind und schnitttechnisch viel zu lange draufgehalten wird, eine Filmmusik, die anscheinend nur aus einem Ton besteht.
Ein zerfahrener WHODUNIT (Alternativtitel), bei dem einem schon nach 5 Minuten egal ist, wer der Mörder ist.
Farbe beim Trocknen zusehen ist spannender.
Wieder einer von der „ich muss sie alle sehen“-Slasherliste zu streichen.
Für Filmmasochisten und C-Moviekomplettisten.
I don’t know if anything makes a movie a priority watch quite like Vinegar Syndrome’s monthly announcements. I think this one would’ve sat on my Prime watchlist for eternity otherwise. It’s pretty good and features some creative kills that will look lovely after a nice restoration. That song the slasher uses as the basis for their murders is uh...grating. I can’t even imagine listening to the whole thing in one sitting. A repetitive, ugly ditty that could only be listened to by a total psychopath. Oh...that makes sense actually. Carry on.
“We’re having fish.”
“I like fish.”
*dramatic music plays*
Added to:
• Vinegar Syndrome — D Edward Ranks
• 1982 Horror — D Edward Ranks
Several young novice actors and filmmakers arrive at a small island to make a movie. Unfortunately, they are actually there to be murdered one by one in diabolically creative ways. As the body count rises and the unwitting guests realize that the killer is one of them, paranoia turns them all against one another.
The 1982 mystery slasher, Whodunit? (Island of Blood), directed by Bill Naud and based on the Agatha Christie novel, And Then There Were None, showcases its characters being boiled alive, being chopped up, being stabbed, being burned, and being killed with a nail gun, but it also does its absolute best to kill us the viewers by way of overexposure to a song. The track in…
A slasher film from the '80s that I had never heard of before? Sign me up. I ran across this movie on Amazon Prime, but it has since been removed from that streaming service before watching it. I could still watch it on Tubi though, so that is what I did. The story has to do with a group of people heading to an island to shoot a movie. Before they even get the first scene in, people start to be murdered, which oddly enough match the lyrics of a song being used for the movie.
I was kind of disappointed with this one. It does have some creative kills and it was also hard to figure out who the…
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"They came seeking fame and fortune! What they found was a bloodbath!"
A cheap jack early Eighties slasher Island of Blood has an interesting premise but has little else to offer.
Various stock characters gather on an island (With no phones of course.) to shoot a low-budget movie.
A maniac kills them one by one in various fashions while playing a song on a mini-cassette player. (Got all that?)
If handled right, this could have been one of the better slashers of the time, as it stands though, it's a cheaply made ineptly filmed "ten little Indians" style slasher with a few good kills. (A battery acid bath.)
It lacks energy and tension and the numerous failed attempts at…
“Where’s the nail gun?”
A bunch of young actors are brought to an island for a film shoot where they are picked off one by one in various “gruesome” manners. It’s a murder mystery slasher, where a portable cassette radio plays a song that describes the manner in which the next victim will get it, right before they get it. As the body count grows you’re left wondering who might be doing this and why.
It got me, I was way off.
Unable to tell if the filmmakers were self aware or they really thought this was something.
It’s something alright.
Somewhat of a competent shitty movie. Low budget, middle of the road, lacking suspense and could have used some…
A very strange and somewhat incomprehensible slasher with pretty good kills and a hilarious repeated use of a crappy old tape player... needs an hd restoration for sure
It kind of reminded me of Curtains, except not as good. I liked it though, the swimming pool scene was excellent
A group of actors are taken to a small island house to rehearse an "uplifting" film for an awkward director, all the while under the watchful eye of a tightly-wound sailorman. Soon, a pre-Walkman cassette player starts turning up, howling a song from Factor Four, and guiding the hand of our unseen killer with lines like "Burn me", "Boil me", "Spear me", etc. Bodies will drop. Panic will ensue. Mysteries will be revealed. It will truly be an Island of Blood*
Island of Blood, aka Whodunit?, aka Scared Alive is...pretty unremarkable, honestly. The kills aren't much to write home about, I probably couldn't have told you everybody's names until most of them were dead and the movie makes a rather…
wow for a movie titled Island of Blood you’d think THERE WOULD BE MORE FUCKING BLOOD THEN HUH