Isle of the Dead (1945, USA) is a Horror film directed by Mark Robson.
Main Details
- Released on September 1, 1945
- B&W
- Running time: 71 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: RKO Radio Pictures
- Directed by Mark Robson
- Written by Ardel Wray, Val Lewton, Josef Mischel
- Starring: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
Plot Summary
- On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.
Taglines
- SHE ISN'T DEAD yet she's BURIED ALIVE! (original half-sheet poster)
- APPALLING! WEIRD! BAFFLING! (original half-sheet poster)
- What evil force is loose that empties graves of these long dead...buries those still alive...leaves behind it death...AND WORSE! (original half-sheet poster)
- FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE! (original print ad - all caps)
- Will keep you screaming! (original one-sheet poster)
- A grave's dank darkness smothers the screams of a girl still alive!
- Stealthy, nameless terror empties tombs of those long dead!..buries those still alive!...leaves behind it DEATH...and worse!
- One of these six will be BURIED ALIVE! None can hear their screams on this far-off horror island! None can stop the terrors a man-monster holds in store!