

Island of Terror
How could they stop the devouring death...that lived by sucking on living human bones!
When a small island community becomes overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters that liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures, the community struggles to fight back.
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- Language
- English
- island
- monster
- experiment
- fog
- bone
- creature
- tentacle
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical1 Feb 1967
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical20 Jun 1966
- PhysicalPGDVD Blu-ray27 Oct 2014
FranceFR
- Theatrical1 Apr 1972
- PhysicalDVD20 Jun 2017
- TVTCM Cinéma11 Feb 2019
- PhysicalBlu-Ray21 Apr 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1610 Feb 1967
SwedenSE
- Theatrical16 May 1967
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Island of Terror was released on 20 June 1966.
Audience reviews
3- J6/10
John Chard
4/25/2016
Day of the Silicates! The island of the title is under threat from silicate creatures who were born out of experiments to cure cancer. The creatures feed off of bones, animal or human, so this tiny island community is in grave danger. It's as bonkers as it sounds, a sci-fi horror of such ridiculous notions, it can't fail to entertain genre loving fans. Terence Fisher directs and Peter Cushing stars, in what was…
- W5/10
Wuchak
4/6/2020
_**Peter Cushing is stuck on an Island of Dull**_ Cancer experiments on a remote island off the coast of Ireland have unleashed something that is turning people into lifeless, boneless masses of flesh. “Island of Terror” (1966) was made by the same short-lived company that released the similar “Island of the Burning Damned” a year later (also known as “Night of the Big Heat”), both featuring Peter Cushing and…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
3/26/2023
It has something of "Day of the Triffids" (1963) to it this, as Peter Cushing ("Dr. Stanley") is drafted onto a remote island to investigate some mysterious deaths. Bodies have been de-ossified and this presents quite a puzzle to himself and to his fellow scientists "David" (Edward Judd) and "Landers" (Eddie Byrne) until they stumble upon some rather dangerous woodlice-looking creatures with long spiny necks wanderin…
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