Isle Of The Dead
Due to an outbreak of a mysterious plague the general is quarantined with a small group of people on an island cemetery.
Isle of the dead. Isle of the dead is a 1945 horror film directed by mark robson and made for rko radio pictures by producer val lewton. Nikolas pherides boris karloff takes leave from the 1912 balkan war to visit a small island in greece where his wife is buried. It was the 10th collaboration between val lewton and rko studios. Val lewton uses a lot of symbolic statuary in his movies.
Isle of the dead german. On a greek island during the 1912 war several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. It was also the second of three movies he did that featured boris karloff. He achieved this by combining a limited number of ideas into an impressive atmospheric composition.
Die toteninsel is the best known painting of swiss symbolist artist arnold böcklin 1827 1901. Prints were very popular in central europe in the early 20th century vladimir nabokov observed in his 1936 novel despair that they could be found in every berlin home. A military squad is sent to a deserted island in the pacific ocean in order to secure top secret records involving a zombie epidemic that wiped out the large scientific team experimenting with various test chemicals and toxins which leads to the team battling not only zombies but the lone surviving scientist who has plans for the future of the human race. Isle of the dead arnold böcklin.
If that isn t enough worry one of the people a superstitious old peasant woman suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka. While there a plague breaks out and along with. Royal stockholm philharmonic orchestra sir andrew davis conductor painting. The motifs island.
The isle of the dead became one of böcklin s most popular pictorial works. The film s script was inspired by the painting isle of the dead by arnold böcklin which appears behind the title credits though the film was originally titled camilla during production.