Island of Terror
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“How could they stop the devouring death...that lived by sucking on living human bones!”
When a small island community becomes overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters that liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures, the community struggles to fight back.
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Cast
16 people
Peter Cushing
Dr. Brian Stanley
Known for
Star Wars
Dracula
Edward Judd
Dr. David West
Known for
Jack the Ripper
First Men in the Moon
Carole Gray
Toni Merrill
Known for
The Curse of the Fly
Eddie Byrne
Dr. Reginald Landers
Known for
Star Wars
The Mummy
Sam Kydd
Constable John Harris
Known for
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Quatermass Xperiment
Niall MacGinnis
Mr. Roger Campbell
Known for
Jason and the Argonauts
Night of the Demon
James Caffrey
Peter Argyle
Known for
The Bedford Incident
Liam Gaffney
Ian Bellows
Also in
Street of Shadows
Curtain Up
Keith Bell
Halsey
Known for
Hands of the Ripper
The MacKintosh Man
Margaret Lacey
Old Woman
Known for
Diamonds Are Forever
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Peter Forbes-Robertson
Dr. Lawrence Phillips
Also in
Womaneater
The House That Vanished
Shay Gorman
Morton
Also in
Boys from the Blackstuff
Father Ted
Terence Fisher Director · Edward Mann Screenplay Al Ramsen Screenplay
United States release February 1, 1967 · Produced in United Kingdom · Languages English, Italian
Production
Planet Film Productions
Production
Protelco
Production
Universal Pictures
Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Italian
Release dates
United Kingdom · June 20, 1966
Theatrical
United States · February 1, 1967
Theatrical
France
April 1, 1972 · Theatrical
June 20, 2017 · Physical · DVD
February 11, 2019 · TV · TCM Cinéma
April 21, 2021 · Physical · Blu-Ray
Germany
February 10, 1967 · Theatrical
Sweden
May 16, 1967 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
October 27, 2014 · Physical · DVD Blu-ray
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