Vacation flight to the island of horror
| Movie | |
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| German title | Vacation flight to the island of horror |
| Original title | Danger Island |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| script | William Bleich |
| production | William Bleich, Ted Swanson |
| music | Peter Manning Robinson |
| camera | Alan Caso |
| cut | Michael Brown |
| occupation | |
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Vacation flight to the island of horror (Original: Danger Island ) is a horror film by Tommy Lee Wallace from 1992, produced for the US television station NBC . The film was originally planned as a pilot for a possible television series , which, however, was not realized due to a lack of audience interest has been.
The film was first shown on September 20, 1992. The German premiere was on January 6, 1994.
action
Out of the blue , paramilitaries ignite a violent coup on a tropical, unspecified vacation island , whereupon the foreigners present flee the island. On behalf of the US embassy representative Karen, pilot Rick Pearson evacuates the American tourists who want to flee from the danger zone. On the return flight, his plane gets caught in a violent storm, it is struck by lightning and forced to ditch . The mission ends fatally for some of the passengers: their rubber dinghy capsizes, while a group of twelve, almost unharmed, is rescued in another lifeboat. After days on the high seas, the emaciated and powerless boat crew reaches a remote island in the South Pacific, which at first glance appears heavenly and offers them security. During the Cold War , however, the area was a military test site for genetic engineering experiments with biological weapons , which got fatally out of control and changed the local jungle people and their environment.
After the twelve unsuspecting survivors secure their basic supplies of fruit and drinking water, their situation gradually relaxes and one recovers from the hardships previously suffered. Their idyll did not last long, however, when some of them found a skull and a buried army jeep at dusk. A few moments later, Rick and Frank are attacked by a poisonous octopus-like monster and infected with " hot water poison ", a mysterious disease that promotes cell growth and stimulates the cells to multiply excessively . Emergency medical treatment is given to the two wounded by Diana, a biologist at the state AIDS research center.
The next morning all the fruits collected are mysteriously spoiled and inedible; Frank, who "mutated" into an amphibian-like creature the night before, has disappeared without a trace, while Rick is plagued from now on by severe pain with obvious physical decline and bizarre hallucinations that lead him to believe that he has already been to the island. Rick turns to Karen for help, who is now in charge of the group. She pays no heed to what he said. In the certainty of finding rescue, the group decides to follow a path that leads from the discovered jeep inland to the orphaned large-scale research facility " MK Naomi ". Once there, Karen discovers the half-decayed corpse of a scientist in the still intact building. Further research shows that reckless attempts at biological warfare took place here until 1976, which, in addition to the flora and fauna, also contaminated the indigenous peoples with unimagined consequences before a huge explosion led to the abrupt cessation of the tests.
Shortly after the arrival of the group of eleven people - Frank is still missing - Rick separates himself at a different time in order to follow his visions to recover a mysterious elixir of a nearby native village. Rick's outward appearance changes worryingly. He is now more like a humanoid-looking creature than a human.
With the arrival of Rick and his search party, the research center is attacked by Frank, who is endowed with superhuman powers and has since become a horrific monster. The disfigured Rick succeeds in fixing the willless Frank and giving him an injection of the mysterious serum. Frank gets his human body back, but dies for inexplicable reasons. At the end of the film, the infected Rick gives himself the remaining dose of the serum, whereupon the alienation of his body stops and a process begins that leads to a complete regeneration of his form. The American tourists then take up the struggle for survival together, cooperating with the natives who are not hostile to them.
Reviews
The program magazine TV Spielfilm wrote in the online edition that the film was a “ banal island drama on TV low-power. "
Web links
- Holiday flight to the island of horror at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0104049/trivia (English), accessed March 2, 2008
- ↑ cf. http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0104049/releaseinfo
- ↑ Vacation flight to the island of horror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. http://www.tvspielfilm.de/filmlexikon?type=filmdetail&film_id=34903 - accessed on March 2, 2008