Island of Lost Souls 1932
Directed by Erle C. Kenton
- Science Fiction, Horror
- 71 min
- NR
Rotten Tomatoes88%
TERROR! Stalked the Brush-Choked Island...Where Men Who Were Animals Sought the Girl Who Was All-Human!
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
- Body horror
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Bleak, classical in form, grave and intimate.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Charles LaughtonDr. Moreau
- Richard ArlenEdward Parker
- Leila HyamsRuth Thomas
- Bela LugosiThe Sayer of the Law
- Kathleen BurkeLota the Panther Woman
- Arthur HohlMontgomery
- Stanley FieldsCapt. Davies
- Paul HurstCapt. Donahue
- Hans SteinkeOuran
- Tetsu KomaiM`ling
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- Erle C. KentonDirector
- Philip WylieScreenplay
- Waldemar YoungScreenplay
- H. G. WellsNovel
- Karl StrussDirector of Photography
- Erle C. KentonProducer
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