Fear Island

2009 "A beautiful secluded Island.... Five good friends... And a killer out for revenge."
5.1| 1h35m| en
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Five students on spring break meet at a secluded island cabin for a weekend getaway. Stranded on the island they become the prey of a mysterious killer who seems bent on revenge for something the friends have done.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
MattyGibbs Six friends ( plus a stowaway) go on a weekend getaway to a deserted island and find themselves at the mercy of a killer. The question is who is the killer? The premise is hardly original but then how many films are these days. The film is shown in flashback which to be honest I found a little irritating at the start but in the end I felt it worked. The characters/victims are the normal cannon fodder you would expect to find in a movie like this and at times it all feels a little predictable and I felt I'd seen some scenes before even though I hadn't. There is a lack of gore in the film although there are a number of good tense scenes and some wince inducing moments. For all it's obvious flaws there are enough nice touches to keep up your interest level and it has a nice twist ending. Although it's certainly no ground breaker it's an easy film to watch which makes it ideal for a Saturday night with a few beers. Overall I enjoyed this film and it's worth watching on the basis that you don't expect too much.
SnoopyStyle Jenna (Haylie Duff) is found alive and with amnesia. Detective Armory (Martin Cummins) and Dr. Chalice (Anne Marie DeLuise) investigate the six dead and Jenna slowly recalls the events. Jenna and four friends (Aaron Ashmore, Kyle Schmid, Jessica Harmon, Jacob Blair) sail to an isolated island house. The island caretaker Keith finds 15 year old Megan (Lucy Hale) stowaway on their boat.This is not scary, and that's the first thing I look for in a horror. The basic story of young hot people in an isolated location is nothing special. It could be a reasonable TV B-movie, but the no thrills kills won't get many horror fans excited. The problem is the wrapped-in-a-flashback-retelling construction. It takes away all the tension. And whether she's telling the truth or not, Haylie Duff just takes away all the excitement. I didn't care about Jenna or her story.
Michael O'Keefe Sometimes you watch something in desperation. Sometimes on a friend's recommendation, figuring its worth a watch. It is! FEAR ISLAND is a movie that proves there are endless ways to meet your demise. A handful of friends, and a stowaway, head to a family cabin on a secluded island for a getaway of partying. Brothers Tyler(Kyle Schmid)and Kyle(Jacob Blair) had no idea their hospitality would be marred by the discovery of a dead body. Then when they try to go for help, their boat has disappeared from the dock. Now the story falls in line with so many other slasher flicks; everyone on the island are in startled fear of a mysterious killer. One by one the friends meet their deaths in various and imaginative manner. A lone survivor(Haylie Duff)tries to retell the gory chain of events to Detective Armory(Martin Cummins) and a therapist, Dr. Chalice(Ann Marie DeLuise). Personally my interest was in the stowaway, Megan(Lucy Hale). Now you have to figure out who the killer was and why. Wait for it, there is a twist of course. Filmed totally in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on a modest budget. Others in the cast: Jessica Harmon, Jim Thorburn and Brenda O'Brien.
jonathanruano "Fear Island" is a teen horror film about a psychotic murderer killing teens on an island. It is a cross between "I still know what you did last summer" and "The Usual Suspects" - and that is its problem. "Fear Island," apart from having a terrible title (can you think of a less original title than "Fear Island"?,)is too formula-driven and obviously a rip off of other films. When I watched "Fear Island," it struck me that no one who was involved in the making of this movie wanted to do anything intelligent or novel with the plot or the characters. I read the other two reviews and they credit the film for its twist at the end(though their applause is very tepid), but even that twist was ripped off from another movie, called "The Usual Suspects." Indeed, if you watch the ending of "Fear Island" and the ending of "The Usual Suspects," you are essentially watching the same film.There are also problems with the logic in the storyline. By the time "Fear Island" was released, most teens would have owned their second or third cellphone, which raises the question of why none of the characters in this film had cell phones to call the police when they realized that there was a killer on the island. Perhaps they missed out on the technological revolution, not to mention pop culture. The other logical problem is with the interrogators - a male police officer and a female psychologist. The former is convinced that Jenna (Haylie Duff) is the killer, while the latter is more skeptical. But by the end of the film, they both arrive at the opposite conclusion. Why? Don't they listen to each other? Didn't it occur to them to have a meeting of minds? Do police solve crimes by operating in their own little bubbles? In the minds of the people who made this film, apparently so. Also there is only one killer on the entire island and he has no lethal weapon (like a gun or explosives), which raises the logical question of why he is so successful in wiping out the teens, three of whom do bench presses in their spare time. Are the teens so stupid that they cannot find an intelligent way to murder or imprison one killer? The final problem is with the characters. There is not one sympathetic character in this entire movie. As Jenna (Haylie Duff) pointed out early in the film, her friends went to the island to have sex, get drunk or both. Now people who live only for the purpose of drinking and having sex are unlikely to generate much sympathy (in fact I was more interested in the possibility of sex scenes) -- which is why we really do not care when they get killed and that is the main reason why this film does not succeed at being scary. Furthermore, the fact that these characters are stupid means that they are not interesting to watch either. So what you essentially have are a bunch of boring, brainless teens who are not worth caring about who are systematically killed over the course of the film in rather unoriginal ways by a somewhat more intelligent mass murderer. So thumbs down for me.

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