SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

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Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Lucabrasisleeps It doesn't have the classy look of the British horror movies of the period. But it is still a somewhat entertaining movie from the Golden age of British horror.The movie builds the atmosphere slowly and the monsters are never really shown. In the end though, the actual form may be a little disappointing to people. Remember we are living in the post-Alien age, so this kind of low budget stuff may not be pleasing to the eye. But still the buildup is worth it. It is also nice to see the sweaty sexy ladies and ahem...sexy men as well. They are drenched throughout. This might just end up as a guilty pleasure because of all these aspects. There are constant sexual elements throughout as well. But not much in terms of explicit nudity as expected.Frankly I thought the characters were sexist. The dialogue in the love triangle section was ridiculous and corny and it really hampers what could have been a fairly good sci fi thriller. I did not enjoy the annoying dialogue. This is like a time capsule and I just couldn't relate to it all. The ending is strange as well which reminded me of some recent American movies with abrupt endings.Anyway I enjoyed it.6/10

Alex da Silva Something strange is occurring on the island of Faro in the British Isles. Whilst temperatures on the mainland are cold, the temperature on this island is mysteriously increasing to an unbearably hot level.Pub owner and novelist Patrick Allen (Jeff Callum) holds court to the cast that includes his pub landlady wife Sarah Lawson (Frankie), new secretary Jane Merrow (Angela), doctor Peter Cushing (Vernon Stone), scientist Christopher Lee (Hanson), villagers William Lucas (Ken), Kenneth Cope (Tinker) and Thomas Heathcote (Bob) and a few others.There is a body count that piles up as people become incinerated after hearing a high pitched sound. The script-writers wisely kill off a comedy tramp figure early on in the film but it's then a lottery as to who is next.The film's interest comes from the love triangle between Allen, Lawson and Merrow and contains, apart from hilariously frank dialogue (see summary), quite a gripping dramatic moment between Lawson and Merrow. Another moment that sticks out in the film is when Allen confronts Lee about his anti-social behaviour. Once again, we get some 'no-holds-barred' dialogue that progresses the plot and swings the audience to Christopher Lee's favour (previous to this point, he seems like a dick). We now want to see Allen and Lee working together.It's a shame but the film's finale plays out like a below-par 'B' movie with no suspense and an ending that just happens. It could have been so much better. If you are frightened by pace-less fried-egg jellyfish, then you won't be disappointed. It's a better drama than it is a horror.

capkronos It's winter, and on the British mainland the temperatures are an accurate reflection of the season. However, right off the English coast on the small island of Fara, the temperatures are steadily on the rise, reaching triple digits by nightfall with no decrease in sight. Because of the stifling heat, glass explodes, cars overheat, TV and radio signals are drowned out by fuzz and people start behaving a little on the animalistic side. Even more peculiarly, fields of sheep are found fried, strange lights are seen in the sky, certain energy sources are being sucked dry, trails of a black coal-like substance seem to be everywhere and people are mysteriously turning up dead, with only charred corpses left to tell their fates. Understandably concerned writer Jeffrey Callum (Patrick Allen) and his wife Frankie (Sarah Lawson), who run a local inn/tavern called "The Swan," and others in the town try to get to the bottom of things before its too late. They also try to figure out what mysterious, antisocial boarder Godfrey Hanson (Christopher Lee), who has converted his room into a lab and seems to enter and exit at the strangest times with a camera and various equipment, is up to. Also stopping by the inn (where much of the film takes place) is town doctor Vernon Stone (Peter Cushing) and Jeffrey's sexy new "secretary" Angela Roberts (Jane Merrow), amongst others.Based on a novel of the same name by John Newton Chance (written under the alias John Lymington) and released in the U.S. under the title ISLAND OF THE BURNING DOOMED, this is a passable sci-fi/horror programmer from the short-lived Planet Film Productions, who also made the genre pictures DEVILS OF DARKNESS (1965) and ISLAND OF TERROR (1966) before calling it quits in the late 60s. This one's fairly well-made, entertaining and has decent production values and acting, with Lee in a major part, Cushing in a minor one and the rest of the actors and actresses doing good jobs with their roles. It's talky and slow-moving for the first hour, but strangely enough it was this first hour of mystery, character drama (including an adultery subplot) and rising tension amongst the citizens of the town that I felt was the stronger portion of the film, as opposed to the later action-oriented scenes. When finally visualized, the beings causing the heat wave, hysteria and deaths resemble giant hairy eggs. But hey, it was 1967, so that's pretty much to be expected anyway, right? Oh well. At least now I know where M. Night Shyamalan got his ending for SIGNS from.

sol ***SPOILERS*** As the air heats up on the little off shore British island of Fara things start to really heat up between novelist Jeff Callum, Patrick Allen, and his former lover Anela Roberts, Jane Merrow, who shows up unexpectedly as his new and sexy secretary.The brutal heat wave together with the hot and heavy relationship between Callum and Angela brings the temperature on the island to over 110 degrees driving everyone there almost insane as well as causing beer bottles at the Swan Pub, that Callum owns, to pop. At the Swan Pub and hotel there's this creepy and secretive guy staying there Godfrey Hanson, Christopher Lee, who knows just whats causing, besides Cullum & Angela, all this unusual temperature inversion and it has to do with an alien invasion form outer space.Hanson has discovered that an advance scouting patrol of aliens are casing out the planet earth to take it over. These aliens are turning the island of Fara into a hot house in order to create the atmosphere that they need to survive and at the same time frying alive the people who live there. Callum who besides trying to get the information of this strange alien invasion of earth to the mainland is also trying to calm down his wife Frankie, Sara Lawson, from getting all rilled up at him for having a affair with Angela. She's a slut and I fell only for her body but it's you that I'm really in love with Callum tells a distraught Frankie.The unseen aliens cause havoc by sucking out all the energy of car batteries and power units, like TV sets boilers and radiators, as they slowly raise the heat driving persons like Tinker Mason,Kenneth Cope, to go insane. Getting all heated up both in the head and in his pants Tinker attempts to rape Angela only to end end up, when the island residents came to her rescue, in his garage and roasted alive by the aliens who were there sucking out the energy of one of Tinkers gas cylinders. Dr. Stone, Peter Cushing, one of the Swan Pubs best customers, probably because for him the drinks were on the house, attempts to get to the islands radar station only to get ambushed by the aliens and burned to a crisp. It turns out that even if Dr. Stone made it to the radar station it would have all been in vain since the aliens got there earlier doing in the radar operator Barry Halliday by turning him into a mound of ash.It's at the very end of the movie that the unseen aliens make themselves visible, looking like illuminated turtle shells, and it's then that all hell breaks loose on Fara but the joke, or hell, is on the aliens not the people who live there. You see the aliens didn't take into consideration the fact that the'll have to deal with not only the human race but something far more dangerous to them then anything that the earthlings can ever come up with: Mother Nature. It's Mother Nature who unexpectedly comes to the rescue by cooling off the island and the aliens, thus killing them, in a way that they never expected; with a midwinter monsoon.