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Deserted Island Horror Films

by Harry-Hood • Created 13 years ago • Modified 12 years ago
Horror films set in the tropics. Some good, many bad... Only criterium: set on a remote island, beach, or desert.

My favorites are near the top, except #1. It's there for the picture.

Any missing, please let me know. Thanks.
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  • Uninhabited (2010)

    1. Uninhabited

    20101h 33mTV-14
    4.3 (3.1K)
    A young couple go to a remote and deserted coral island for a camping holiday, only to find that the island is inhabited by a ghost seeking retribution for a past outrage.
    DirectorBill BennettStarsGeraldine HakewillHenry JamesBob Baines
    Not bad for a low budget island film. Very, very low budget. Beautiful island.
  • Hour of the Wolf (1968)

    2. Hour of the Wolf

    19681h 28mNot Rated
    7.5 (24K)
    While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
    DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannGertrud Fridh
  • Kathleen Burke in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

    3. Island of Lost Souls

    19321h 10mApproved
    7.3 (12K)
    A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
    DirectorErle C. KentonStarsCharles LaughtonBela LugosiRichard Arlen
  • Isle of the Dead (1945)

    4. Isle of the Dead

    19451h 11mNot Rated
    6.5 (5.6K)
    A Greek general takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. A plague soon breaks out and he is forced to stay when quarantine is declared.
    DirectorMark RobsonStarsBoris KarloffEllen DrewMarc Cramer
  • Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, and Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973)

    5. The Wicker Man

    19731h 28mR87Metascore
    7.5 (101K)
    A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
    DirectorRobin HardyStarsEdward WoodwardChristopher LeeDiane Cilento
  • Briony Behets and John Hargreaves in Long Weekend (1978)

    6. Long Weekend

    19781h 37mNot Rated61Metascore
    6.5 (6.6K)
    When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
    DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesBriony BehetsMike McEwen
  • Leonardo DiCaprio in Shutter Island (2010)

    7. Shutter Island

    20102h 18mR63Metascore
    8.2 (1.6M)
    Two US marshals are sent to a mental institution on an inhospitable island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark Ruffalo
  • Zombie (1979)

    8. Zombie

    19791h 31mR54Metascore
    6.8 (32K)
    Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
    DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard Johnson
  • Leslie Banks, Joel McCrea, and Fay Wray in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

    9. The Most Dangerous Game

    19321h 3mApproved
    7.1 (15K)
    A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.
    DirectorsIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie Banks
  • Battle Royale (2000)

    10. Battle Royale

    20001h 54mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.5 (202K)
    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsTatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTarô Yamamoto
  • Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)

    11. Five Dolls for an August Moon

    19701h 22mNot Rated
    5.7 (3.7K)
    An industrialist invites his colleagues to his private island so they can exploit a resin formula invented by one of the guests, but a killer within the group disrupts the proceedings.
    DirectorMario BavaStarsWilliam BergerIra von FürstenbergEdwige Fenech
    aka "5 Dolls For An August Moon"
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

    12. The Island of Dr. Moreau

    19771h 39mPG
    5.9 (7.7K)
    A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
    DirectorDon TaylorStarsBurt LancasterMichael YorkNigel Davenport
  • Andy Serkis and Naomi Watts in King Kong (2005)

    13. King Kong

    20053h 7mPG-1381Metascore
    7.2 (461K)
    A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
    DirectorPeter JacksonStarsNaomi WattsJack BlackAdrien Brody
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

    14. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

    19972h 9mPG-1359Metascore
    6.6 (464K)
    A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsJeff GoldblumJulianne MoorePete Postlethwaite
    The most "horror"-centered in the trilogy. Good, fun monsters-on-an-island classic. With a great opening.
  • Natasha Richardson and Kiran Shah in Gothic (1986)

    15. Gothic

    19861h 27mR
    5.7 (9.6K)
    The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsGabriel ByrneJulian SandsNatasha Richardson
  • Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black (2012)

    16. The Woman in Black

    20121h 35mPG-1362Metascore
    6.4 (197K)
    A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.
    DirectorJames WatkinsStarsDaniel RadcliffeJanet McTeerCiarán Hinds
    OK, it's only a temporary island. Still, this film captures the terror of isolation from people and the mainland. And a darn good ghost story.
  • Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer (2010)

    17. The Ghost Writer

    20102h 8mPG-1377Metascore
    7.2 (175K)
    A ghostwriter uncovers a dark secret while working on the memoirs of England's former Prime Minister.
    DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsEwan McGregorPierce BrosnanOlivia Williams
  • Dagon (2001)

    18. Dagon

    20011h 38mR
    6.2 (22K)
    A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenFrancisco RabalRaquel Meroño
  • Incubus (1966)

    19. Incubus

    19661h 14mUnrated
    6.1 (2.3K)
    On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
    DirectorLeslie StevensStarsWilliam ShatnerAllyson AmesEloise Hardt
  • The Flesh Eaters (1964)

    20. The Flesh Eaters

    19641h 27mUnrated
    5.7 (1.5K)
    A group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh-eating organisms.
    DirectorJack CurtisStarsMartin KosleckByron SandersBarbara Wilkin
  • We're Going to Eat You (1980)

    21. We're Going to Eat You

    19801h 30mUnrated
    6.4 (1.1K)
    A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.
    DirectorHark TsuiStarsNorman ChuEddy KoMelvin Wong
  • Sung Ji-ru, In-mun Kim, Park Hae-il, Park Sol-mi, and Ju-bong Choi in Paradise Murdered (2007)

    22. Paradise Murdered

    20071h 52mNot Rated
    5.6 (455)
    Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, an island of 17 inhabitants exists. The so-called Paradise Island holds up to its name with its breath-taking mountains and sea coupled with good-natured people. No worries or stress holds for anyone who comes to visit this beautiful oasis. But this peace doesn't last long as every single one of the inhabitants disappear one day without a single trace. Chaos initially breaks out when a blood-drenched corpse is found and everyone becomes a suspect. The furious sea allows them no boat ride to the mainland and their only existing radio communication device has been smashed. Trapped together on the island, everyone is suspicious of each other and even the unseen could be a possible suspect. As hideous secrets get revealed day by day, an island of paradise slowly turns into an island of death.
    DirectorKim Han-minStarsPark Hae-ilPark Sol-miSung Ji-ru
  • I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

    23. I Walked with a Zombie

    19431h 9mApproved
    7.0 (15K)
    A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsFrances DeeTom ConwayJames Ellison
  • After Death (1989)

    24. After Death

    19891h 24mUnrated
    4.3 (3K)
    A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose.
    DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsJeff StrykerCandice DalyMassimo Vanni
  • Bloodlust! (1961)

    25. Bloodlust!

    19611h 8mApproved
    3.6 (2.7K)
    A crazed hunter kidnaps people and turns them loose on his private estate, where he hunts them for sport.
    DirectorRalph BrookeStarsWilton GraffJune KenneyWalter Brooke

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