Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

MartinHafer The film begins with a rich guy hiring Boris Karloff to get to the bottom of a zombie-like trance one of his employees is experiencing. Karloff is apparently a world-famous occult debunker and he assures everyone that the man is NOT a zombie and the island this man recently visited it NOT endowed with evil powers. So, Karloff and a motley crew arrive on the island--only to find that the place is even worse than Newark. In fact, it's filled with man-eating plants and voodoo.Oddly, in the midst of all this silly carnage and occult, two characters fall in love and share some passionate moments. I don't know about you, but being stranded on a homicidal island and seeing my associates eaten or killed is NOT an aphrodisiac and this is the definite low-point of this silly and rather pointless film. Technically, this isn't a horrible film like PLAN 9 or THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN. The acting is just tolerable enough that the film manages to eke out a score of 3--though the terribly dull and silly script was just too much to allow the film to achieve a rating higher than 3. Imagine the work it took to put Boris Karloff in a film and STILL make it dull and tedious! Unless you are a die-hard fan of Karloff or like watching bad films, then I'd avoid this one. Sadly, it's bad but just not silly enough to make it fun to watch and make fun of it.

Neil Doyle "Zombies and chomping plants greet an expedition led by a debunker of the occult." That's the description of VOODOO ISLAND given by TCM and it hits the mark. But the only real reason for watching is the presence of BORIS KARLOFF as the debunker. Others in the cast do little to help the project, but include BEVERLY TYLER as a frigid assistant to Karloff and RHODES REASON as the stalwart leader of the group. His romance with Tyler gets off to a bad start but heats up before the final reel.The special effects are unintentionally funny, especially a scene where one of the young ladies is attacked by a carnivorous plant. Les Baxter's score is a major asset though, accenting whatever danger is indicated by the script.But overall, the film is a distinct letdown for anyone expecting a good zombie movie. Most of the action takes place in bright sunlight amid sets that look like leftovers from Fantasy Island.Summing up: Karloff admirers won't mind watching him here, but no one is likely to be impressed by the lame storyline.

jimbenben I watched this as part of the TCM "Screened Out" series. (Congrats to TCM, by the way, for finding this collection. Some of these films like "Victim" and "Staircase" deserve a second-look on their own merits. But some of these films are truly obscure and we'd never get a chance to see them if it weren't for TCM.) Anyway, the scene in "Zombie Island" that I watched over and over was when the group first arrives on the island and something falls out of a palm tree. It looks like some sort of plastic lobster. Someone yells, "Coconut clams! Get away from that tree!" What a hoot! I'm guessing that the plastic lobster-thing was just something they had on hand in the prop room that day.

JoeB131 This movie was kind of sad to watch, because Karloff is a much better actor than this kind of tripe. It is always a sad commentary when the actors care more about the quality of a movie than the writers, directors and producers, who just were happy to tack Karloff's name on this turkey and run with it...Okay, apparently, the writers didn't know anything about Voodoo, other than Voodoo dolls and Zombies. They didn't know enough to know that Voodoo happens in the Caribbean, not in the South Pacific. I think this might have been an excuse for everyone to go to Hawaii...So the characters land on this island and encounter these man-eating plants that resemble... well, I won't tell you what they look like other than to say I am amazed they got past the censors in 1959. Apparently these plants feed by people being so dumb as to walk right into them, not only the explorers, but apparently, natives on this island as well...