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Isle of the Dead is a 1945 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and made for RKO Radio Pictures by producer Val Lewton. The film's script was inspired by the painting Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled Camilla during production.
May 10, 2021 · 1945. Topics. Val Lewton, Mark Robson, Boris Karloff, drama, horror, mystery, thriller. Language. English. On a lonely Greek island, a disparate group of people are in fear. Plague has come to the island making them virtual prisoners and then there is talk of the vorvolakas, a vampire-like creature that preys on the living.
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Oct 30, 2018 · Producer Val Lewton was inspired by Isle of the Dead, and he evoked it in certain shots in I Walked with a Zombie (1943). That famous painting would continue to provide visual inspiration in the 1945 film that shared its name.
Oct 19, 2021 · Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
Between 1945 and 1946, Boris Karloff appeared in three films for RKO produced by Lewton: Isle of the Dead, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam. In a 1946 interview with Louis Berg of the Los Angeles Times , Karloff credited Lewton with saving him from what Karloff saw as the overextended Frankenstein franchise at Universal Pictures .
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Isle of the Dead (1945) - Turner Classic Movies. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. The inhabitants of a Balkans island under quarantine fear that one of their number is a vampire. Cast & Crew. Read More. Mark Robson. Director. Boris Karloff. General Ferides. Ellen Drew.
Isle of the Dead falls into the second tier of the series of low budget horror films Val Lewton produced for RKO in the 1940's. The horror classics Cat People (1942) and I Walked With a...
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