Product Description

It's 1891: Lieutenant Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), a military doctor, and a few newly escaped convicts are shipwrecked on a mysterious tropical island. They soon come across a strange couple: the sadistic Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson) and the beautiful Amanda Marvin (Barbara Bach). The doctor finds out that Amanda's father, professor Ernest Marvin (Joseph Cotten), is a mad scientist who is experimenting on horrible human-fish mutations. While Professor Marvin is convinced that he's doing his research for humanitarian motives, Rackham has other plans, since he has discovered an incredible secret lying beneath the island.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44423 in DVD
• Brand: RYKODISC
• Released on: 2009-07-28
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Restored, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Dubbed in: Italian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 99 minutes

Features

• ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (DVD MOVIE)

Customer Reviews

WARNING !
This is NOT the 'horror' version. This is the PG 'children's fantasy adventure' version.

MYA really should make this clear on the cover and NOT list it's alternate titles (with added gore; Screamers, Island of the Mutations, Something Waits in the Dark).

This has none of the gore inserts and is ninety-nine minutes of pure tedium, unless you want to see a film that's like 'Warlords of Atlantis' but with lower production values and all the action sucked out of it. And no Doug McLure.

Not a good transfer.
I loved this film back when it was called SCREAMERS. And I knew they were going to release the non gory fantasy version, which was okay with me as long as we were finally getting a good qualaty picture version. Wrong!! The one I got looked worse than my old VHS copy. The darks were too dark. the colors all faded looking, and some time during the night scenes, you cuold see these wierd bluish blobs appearing in the blackness. They must have found the oldest, crustiest copy of this for their transfer, because it really did not look very good. Maybe screamers will one day get a DVD release and they'll at least have a decent old tape to transfer it with. They can borrow mine!

BASICALLY ITALY'S VERSION OF DR. MOREAU
THIS IS A PRETTY CHEESY MOVIE. DURING THE LATE 70'S AND EARLY 80'S ITALY BASICALLY TRIED TO CASH IN ON THE SUCCESS OF U.S. MOVIES WITH THEIR "REVISIONS". ZOMBI2 WAS TO CASH IN ON DAWN OF THE DEAD. BOTH OUTSTANDING FILMS. IN THIS CASE IT WAS TO CASH IN ON THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. UNFORTUNATELY THIS FILM IS NOT NEARLY AS GOOD. I GAVE IT 4 STARS BECAUSE ITS STILL A FUN MOVIE TO WATCH IF YOU ARE A FAN OF ITALIAN CINEMA. THE GUY WHO DIRECTED THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY INTELLIGENT AND GOOD DIRECTOR. HE DID MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD THE SAME YEAR I BELIEVE. THIS MOVIE WAS ALSO KNOWN AS "SCREAMERS" HERE IN THE STATES. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST DVD RELEASE IN THE STATES I BELIEVE, AND THIS ONE IS 9 MINUTES LONGER THAN THE PAL VERSION. (WONDER WHATS THE 9 MIN ABOUT) WELL SEE HERE SHORTLY. BY THE WAY SPEAKING OF ZOMBI2, RICHARD JOHNSON IS IN THIS FILM TOO. I THINK THATS WHY I GAVE IT THE 4TH STAR... I AM RATING THE "L'isola degli uomini pesce" VERSION, SO THIS ONE MIGHT BE BETTER, AS FAR AS QUALITY AND THE EXTRA 9 MINUTES ARE CONCERNED.