Very good movie

I have seen this movie many times in the past, and while it tries to look ghoulish, in some ways, the creatures look rather comical, but still it is A VERY EXCELLENT MOVIE. Charles Laughton, AS ALWAYS and BELA LUGOSI, AS ALWAYS, are the movie, and through it all , it can be quite enjoyable.

My problem is that I am trying to buy it, and Amazon is not coming through. Not good for a customer and buyer.

Worth better

At least 'release date to be announced' has gone!

Having tried to get this from the United States, England and Switzerland, every time waiting weeks to be ultimately told they couldn't supply after all, I bought a second-hand copy, paying much more than I ever have done for a new DVD.

The films are unrestored, but in a reasonable state for their age; a car dealer would probably say they were in good original condition.

The website of the manufacturer is www.visionary.co.uk, from which you will see that it is long deleted and also that this was way off the beaten track for them, so a reissue is not to be expected.

Neither is a great film, in my opinion, but both are entertaining and the Island of Lost Souls is important. Both deserve to be released in restored form by one of the good DVD companies. How about it, Milestone or Image Entertainment?

The usual fun in campy value and poor production

In this screen adaptation of "The Island of Dr. Moreau," Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) is a cast-away from a ship who, after he gets in a fight with the captain of the boat who saves him, is thrown onto a vessel headed for a mysterious island which, of course, the local sea-faring folk know and fear... Dr. Moreau's island, of course. There he finds a laboratory named "The House of Pain" (ugh...), weird creatures, and a sexy vamp played by Kathleen Burke.

Done almost completely without a score, consisting of poor dialog and action shot on overexposed film, and cut without even a moment's thought towards continuity or making sense, the low score I give this film reflects it's quality... the stars it does get are given, afterall, for its camp value.

And what great camp value it is, seeing Arlen run around saying things that make no sense at all, coming to conclusions when he shouldn't and not "getting it" when he should. Burke is sufficiently sexy enough to provide great eye-candy while waiting for the man-creature things to finally get angry and do something scary. Charles Laughton provides probably the most fun part of the movie with his humourously nonsensical portrayal of Moreau.

It's yet another of the millions of examples out there of something you can sit around with some buddies and laugh at... assuming, of course, they have the patience for such a thing. If it hasn't been MST3Ked, it should have been.

--PolarisDiB