Review – Isle of the Dead

At first blush this appears to be a movie based on a Boecklin painting. What it turns out to be is a slow-moving story about a small group of people trapped on an island that doubles as a cemetery. Are they dying one by one from the plague, or are they being picked off by a vorvolaka, some kind of a Greek vampire? Val Lewton was famous for producing psychological horror movies, but here he pushes the murky drama a bit too far. The result is something that alternates between vaguely intriguing and painfully dull. The aim seems to be something along the lines of the original Cat People, but sadly this one falls well short of the mark. See if desperate