Savage Island

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Summary: Oh, Boy! Rednecks Again, Delieverance From Evil
Review: Here we go again! This time the rednecks are squatters who are living on someone's private island. They feel since they were there first they own the land. This part of the story really isn't important. One day the normal family runs over the redneck baby and all heck breaks loose. Sime real good tension and chills are abound, but this film clearly tries to be "The Hills Have Eyes" which it is clearly not. Still, it is better than Hills 2 (what couldn't be?) and is menacing, graphic, and well paced to keep the viewer interested. Its kinda like a hybrid of Hills with the new Chainsaw saga. Not nearly as good, but effective as a low budget shocker.

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Summary: DV rip off of The Hills Have Eyes
Review: Jeff Lando's Savage Island was a huge disappointment when i saw it recently in the bargain bin at Blockbusters. This film was shot on DV for around $35,000 and looked as if it was going to be an exciting The Hills Have Eyes / Deliverance style exploitation flick. The film begins well but after ten minutes or so, the image quality becomes terrible and with no real reason other than the camera man got his settings wrong. This was a real shame as if the film had been lensed in a straightforward manner; Savage Island would have been a successful straight to video thriller. However the visual failings make the film look like a grainy home-movie when it shouldn't be. Apparently the film has won some awards. I doubt they were for best cinematography. This was unwatchable.

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Summary: A CLASSIC
Review: Savage Island's raw savagery will scare the hell out of you! Trust me.

Also, the below review clearly comes from someone who lacks proper knowledge of film. The filmmakers chose the lighting and camerawork in order to reflect the dark, murky, and egdy mood of the film.

In fact, the film has won SEVERAL horror film festival awards.

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Summary: I Am In Awe Over This Movie's Stupidity!
Review: Very rarely will I turn a movie off once I have purchased it. So when I brought home "Savage Island" I fated myself to an evening of the latest and greatest direct to video had to offer. And when I say video, I mean video. This thing had to have been shot on a Radio Shack quality camcorder! During the daylight scenes, it has all of the quality of your last home movie, during the night scenes though....well it was like watching a movie shot through a camera with sand stuck to the lens. The grainy, color diffused shots help the movie a bit, but not enough, because I was still able to see some of what was happening, and none of it was good. Basically, the filmakers tried to blend "Deliverance" with "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and fail BIG! You have the wacky "city-slickers" who accidentally run over one of the bumpkins hidin' in the hills, well the hillbillies don't take kindly to that so they go after the city-slickers and thier baby. The same story has worked countless times before, "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Pumpkinhead" spring to mind, but with no budget, no production values, poor acting, and lousy script, "Savage Island" takes even this basic story and screws it up. The not-so special effects are laughable, and if you don't see the "twist" ending coming...well you should never be allowed to watch horror films again. Please do not even think of buying this thing, you may encourage these guys to make more movies!!!