Review – Tanya’s Island

This soft-core study of sexual themes first explored in movies such as King Kong might have been a better picture with a bigger budget, a better script or at least some moderately-talented actors. Sadly, this effort lacks all the elements that might have saved it. The acting is probably the weakest of the three, particularly the talent-free performance mailed in by the female lead, D.D. Winters (a.k.a. Prince protégée Vanity). Setting the inscrutable bracket aside, the central plot is the tale of a woman frolicking on a deserted island with her painter boyfriend, a neurotic loser by the name of Lobo. The pair discovers that they’re sharing their Eden with a burly primate of some sort (created by gorilla-master Rick Baker’s former student, Rob Bottin). As our heroine’s affection strays from Lobo to ape, the former gets more and more savage as the rival for his girlfriend becomes progressively tame. The final result is a parade of rape and savagery as boring as it is offensive. On a good day this might be just bad enough to be sorta funny, but it would have to be a pretty good day. Wish I’d skipped it