I'll admit that the atmosphere/setting of this film was very chilling, and the premise of the movie is cool, but overall, I found it somewhat dull. Boris Karloff is great though, but I thought some of the supporting cast was weak. The movie does pick up in the ending 15 minutes, but the middle felt too slow and dare I say too "dramatic". Sometimes I felt like I was watching a melo-drama instead of a horror flick. Overall, I have to give it a 5/10.
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I don't feel it is dull but I agree it is more drama then a horror film. As the deaths happen off screen there is no real sense of danger. Even the conflicts are muted as if the actors were under the same - "don't touch, or be too close together as there is a plague...".
The orders and the enforcement of those orders were kind of toned down. Besides words not many tried to interact until near the end.
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My first viewing in nearly 30 years - i liked it back then but now i agree with OP -in fact i would go as far as to say that at times Isle of the Dead is astonishingly bad
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I just bought it on a DVD along with BEDLAM and enjoyed them both very much.
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yeah I love the atmosphere but agree that it was kind of dull and slow.When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
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