
The Curse of Frankenstein(1957)
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.


“How could they stop the devouring death...that lived by sucking on living human bones!”
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.

Peter Cushing
Dr. Brian Stanley

Edward Judd
Dr. David West

Carole Gray
Toni Merrill

Eddie Byrne
Dr. Reginald Landers

Sam Kydd
Constable John Harris

Niall MacGinnis
Mr. Roger Campbell
James Caffrey
Peter Argyle

Liam Gaffney
Ian Bellows
Keith Bell
Halsey

Margaret Lacey
Old Woman
Island of Terror is a horror, science fiction film released in 1966 exploring themes of island, monster, experiment, fog, bone, creature. Directed by Terence Fisher, it stars Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray. A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
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