Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead

1945 · 71 min · EN · 6.0 (101 votes)
Dir. Mark Robson · Starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helene Thimig, Alan Napier · Music Leigh Harline

A grave's dank darkness smothers the screams of a girl still alive!

Horror

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

VIBE

A suffocating sense of dread permeates this chilling tale. Trapped on a remote island with a deadly plague and rampant superstition, the characters' fear of the unseen becomes as dangerous as any contagion.

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