Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Uriah43 After only one member of a survey team (in a zombie-like trance) returns from an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean, the wealthy industrialist named "Howard Carlton" (Owen Cunningham) hires an investigator by the name of "Phillip Knight" (Boris Karloff) to go to the island and check it out. Phillip is accompanied by his pretty assistant "Sarah Adams" (Beverly Tyler), the owner of the boat "Martin Schuyler" (Elisha Cook Jr.), the boat captain "Matthew Gunn" (Rhodes Reason), Howard's assistant "Barney Finch" (Murvyn Vye), a woman named "Claire Winter" (Jean Engstrom) and the lone survivor named "Mitchell" (Glenn Dixon). However, before they depart they encounter strange phenomenon and things get even more bizarre when they arrive. Anyway, rather than divulge any of the mysteries of this film and possibly ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it I will just say that I was mildly surprised with it. While the special effects leave much to be desired the story itself was pretty interesting overall. Quite frankly, considering the era in which it was made and the fact that it was a low-budget film I thought it was rather entertaining. That said, I rate it as slightly above average.

Neil Doyle "Zombies and chomping plants greet an expedition led by a debunker of the occult." That's the description of VOODOO ISLAND given by TCM and it hits the mark. But the only real reason for watching is the presence of BORIS KARLOFF as the debunker. Others in the cast do little to help the project, but include BEVERLY TYLER as a frigid assistant to Karloff and RHODES REASON as the stalwart leader of the group. His romance with Tyler gets off to a bad start but heats up before the final reel.The special effects are unintentionally funny, especially a scene where one of the young ladies is attacked by a carnivorous plant. Les Baxter's score is a major asset though, accenting whatever danger is indicated by the script.But overall, the film is a distinct letdown for anyone expecting a good zombie movie. Most of the action takes place in bright sunlight amid sets that look like leftovers from Fantasy Island.Summing up: Karloff admirers won't mind watching him here, but no one is likely to be impressed by the lame storyline.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS***Not really getting off the ground and scaring the audience "Voodoo Island" just goes from one scene to another until it finally ends, without really explaining all the weird things in it.With three out of four men of a survey team lost on this uncharted island in the Pacific another team is sent to find out what exactly happened to them. The only survivor of the group Mitchell,Glen Dixon, is more dead then alive with a wild look in his eyes, that he never closes, that has everyone on the set calling him "Winky".Lead by TV personality Phillip Knight, Boris Karloff, the group lands on a nearby island to rent a boat and equipment to check out the mysterious atoll. Martin Schuyler, Elisha Cook, who owns the island is a bit taken that anyone will want anything to do with it. The group of people looking for the missing surveyors work for this big hotel magnate Howard Carlton, Owen Cunningham, who's interested in building a five star hotel there.So far so good as far as "Voodoo Island" goes but when Knight and his team including boat captain Gunn, Rhodes Reason, get on shore the movie just seems to go nowhere. Mitchell who was brought along suddenly came to life and made a brake for it. Dropping dead, this time for real, Mitchell is found by the pier with a voodoo doll that was made to look like him. Right there and then the rescue team should have realized what their in for especially when there was also found a Mawanga Bag, some kind of Voodoo artifact, indicating that their all targeted for death if they ever reach the island.Even though we have a number of flesh eating plants and some sinister Polynesian-looking natives who's chief, Fredrich Von Ledebur, looks strangely European there's nothing in the movie that really scares you. Even when the plants go into action attacking and killing Cliar (Jean Engstrom), one of the rescue team member, the scene is about as funny or believable as the scene with Bela Lugosi and the rubber octopus in "Bride of the Monster"! We do have a strange love triangle, which is about the most interesting thing in the film, between the macho boat captain Gunn and photographer Sarah Adams, Beverly Tyler, and the soon to be departed Clair. Clair an out of the closet lesbian really gets to hit it on with Sarah and at the same time sticks it to Gunn, being the macho man that he thinks he is, who also wants to get into her pants. I have a feeling that the movie makers had Clair killed off so early in the film to avoid anyone watching from figuring out, this in the innocent USA of 1957, what exactly Clair was not only up to but who, a lesbian, she really was. Getting Clair out of the picture also made it possible for Gunn to finally get romantic with the, what seemed to me, stuck-up on men Sarah Adams. Sarah actually was getting real hot and heavy with Clair and was anything but defensive to Macho Man Gunns advances until Clair was finally dispatched from the scene.The movie plods along with the team finally reaching, after being captured by the locals, this native village and getting the lowdown from the natives chief and witch doctor Friedich Von Ledebur to what's going on. Von Ledebur has been running the place for the last fifty years and wants no one from the outside world to interfere with his operation. Being sick and tired of the excesses and corruption of the civilized world Von Ledebur just wants to live in peace, with his natives, which is why he has anyone, like Mitchell and the missing survivors, who enter his kingdom either turned into zombies or eaten by his plants.There's still the greedy and materialistic Schuyler and Finch (Marvyn Vye), who's hotel magnate Cunninghmans advance man, to be taken care of with Fnch getting by far the worst of it. Schuyler is at least put to his eternal rest by jumping into the river and being eaten by the flesh-devouring plants. Finch's fate is far more saver; he's turned into, by chief Von Ledebur, a card-carrying member of the walking dead!

nellybly-3 I've seen worse programmers. Boris Karloff brings class to anything he works in. It's fun just to watch him. His ill-health hadn't yet slowed him down and he was a real presence. Elisha Cook also gives an excellent performance.I think I know how the lesbian undertones between the two women got by (though the tones weren't that "under"). If it had been a big budget picture, the censors would have been on it like white on rice. As a low-budget picture it came in under the radar.Several of the actors do rise above the material. Actually it reminds me of some of the TV shows being churned out about the same time. They, too, didn't have much of a budget. What adds to the TV feeling are some of the actors, such as Rhodes Reason and Mervyn Vye, who were mainstays of '50s television.