Tea For Terror

13: ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932) The Beast a Man Can Get - 20/04/2019


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On this episode, Andrew Graves and Rich Johnson find themselves cast ashore at the mercy of mad doctors, drunken sailors and a distinctly hairy looking Bela Lugosi. Earl C Kenton’s Island of Lost Souls is a bizarre and unsettling piece of pre-code cinema, which manages to be both of its time and ahead of its time, influencing later works like Apocalypse Now and Zombie Flesh Eaters. Though the film admirably covers issues like vivisection, bestiality, colonialism and race, it was famously hated by HG Wells, author of the original novel but just what will the regular Mondo team make of this odd slice of 1930s horror. Will they worship it like a god or consign it to the House of Pain? The pair will also sink their claws into censorship, body horror, Freaks and A Clockwork Orange and offer their recent film and TV recommendations in regular feature Streaming Blu Murder. THERE WILL BE SPOLIERS
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