I saw the movie at the premiere. I had no expectations when I went inside. The plot is very simple. A group of young teenagers going for a boat trip in the middle of nowhere. Local folks warn them to go out to an island, but as always they don't listen... There are lots of tense moments and the camera work is sometimes really good. Especially the running shots with the steady cam. The dialog is a bit dull, but hey, it's a low budget teen slasher! The music is incredible if you enjoy black metal and extreme hard rock but the score is much more intense and brings the right feeling of horror. I've seen hundreds of horror movies but I think Murder Island was one of the best in it's genre in Sweden 2005. Unfortunately the lack of blood and gore keep the movie down to a six instead of a seven. I'm really looking forward First Day Productions next feature.
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low on everything for a slasher
trashgang6 May 2011
It's been promoted as a teenslasher and indeed nothing more than that. But not as a real slasher. It clocks in at 46 minutes so you guess that the killings start immediately but it doesn't. It takes almost half of the movie before things go wrong. before that you will have the typical teenager jokes like, he farted in my face and things like that, nice if you are a teenager but for adults it's a bit of huh? Once the killings get loose they never become gory or messy or that bloody, the red stuff do flow but it's low on that fact. There isn't any nudity in it, okay, one guy do strip naked. The score used will be the most important thing for death metal fans, with the DVD the soundtrack is included on CD. It's full of well known metal bands. For me it looked more than an work they made for school than making a real flick. Nice if you have it in your collection because I guess it will disappear soon in obscurity.
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