Upon reading about this film I wanted to see it. It was a horror film with gore galore and more importantly it was banned!! So I watch the film and found it boring and not very gory at all. Yes I know this is a low budget film but I meber thought wow that low. The "gore" scenes are shot with such low grade special effects it made me wonder why was this banned. Ok ok I get it there are some weird scenes here like having sex with a goat ( sounds worse then it is. By todays horror standards the scenes was very tame and more silly then anything). Being film in the european style there is nudity galore but overall that is the only thing you can say that is over the top. The film is poorly acted filmed directed with laughable dialoque and piss poor special effects. Yes the film was to make money off of violence but to me its more silly then anything. The script being written in a week shows. To me unless you have 100 minutes of your life to waste this is a must skip. Very overrated low budget crappy film.

An English couple visit a small Greek island and start a veritable frenzy of sex and murder. The point seems to be to punish what they see as perversions, but they turn out to be a hot bed of perversion themselves. Can't say I like this film, any film that contains multiple murders, bestiality, incest, forced sodomy and tons of nudity and also manages to be pretty dull is doing something fundamentally wrong.

"Island of Death" focuses on Christopher and Celia, newlyweds on a honeymoon on the Greek island of Mykonos; well, I suppose you could say honeymoon, if your idea of honeymooning includes bestiality, rape, urolagnia, murder, and other sadistic debaucheries.What can one say about this film, really? I've seen a lot of exploitation films, and this is the cream of the crop if we're talking schlock factor in terms of mere content. As I watched the film, I continually wondered what all involved were thinking when they made it, which is a question for the ages that will likely never be definitively answered. While the capturing of these horrific acts lacks the grit and realism of what you find in a film like "Cannibal Holocaust," the logistics of "Island of Death" are truly abhorrent. One may not get the sense of it because the presentation is not always entirely serious or especially raw, but you know you're in for a ride when the first scene features the protagonists having sex in a phone booth, ending with the man climaxing while on the phone with his mother.There is not much plot here, really—just a stringing together of murder targets at the hands of the central protagonists/villains. At times, I was reminded very much of Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers," minus the social commentary. That said, the film does have some artistic thought put into it, at least in terms of presentation. A stylish use of camera shutters and still photographs as transition pieces really give the film a unique flair, and the cinematography is lush and professional. The Mediterranean sets photograph nicely, and the film's sunny disposition is in stark contrast with virtually everything else about it. Jane Lyle plays the doe-eyed British wife nicely here, while Robert Behling is convincing as her abusive partner. In true exploitation fashion, both bear a considerable amount of flesh here, so if that's your thing, there's that (I can say Behling was one hell of a hunk, and he shows off virtually everything in this flick, as does Lyle).The film has earned a reputation as being one of the most widely-banned films in the world, which is unsurprising. It is severely politically incorrect, perhaps even more so today, and yet is rife with contradictions; for example, the main characters savagely murder a flamboyant gay couple for being perverted, and yet engage in various sexual dalliances, one of which includes penetrating a goat. One truly is at a loss for words.Overall, "Island of Death" is an engaging film if for no other reason than the audience is perpetually baffled (and horrified) as to what the two fresh-faced leads are going to do next. For as nihilistic and utterly grotesque as the content of the film is, it is not nearly as hard-hitting as one would expect it to be. I suppose this may have to do with the hokey '70s soundtrack, or the fact that the debauchery becomes normalized through the characters' consistent making light of it, which is probably the scarier answer. In any case, it's a revolting film; provocative, sometimes darkly funny, and so completely and utterly bizarre that one will likely never completely forget it. 8/10.

Yep, fun for all the family, if your family consisted of trash-hungry, drunk adults with VERY open minds.Island of Death - where do I begin. Never mind crap like the Devil Rejects - THIS is true excess, all played out with a healthy dose of humour.A nice, all American couple arrive on a Greek island and take in the sights, walking around arm in arm and doing what other couples do, namely humping in a telephone box while the guy's mother listens in horror on the other end of the phone. Well, we've all been there, but only around half of us would force ourselves on a goat the next morning.This film is truly a catalogue of brutal acts carried out on innocent bystanders, all set on a picturesque Greek island. The murderous couple carve their way through gay couples, horny pensioners, French beatniks, and a couple of terrible actors pretending to be hippies. Not only that, but you got a bit of twist ending which involves a goat herder farting towards an inert body in disdain.Honestly, if you're looking for offensive trash, this is a much better place to start than crap like Last House on the Left and I Spit On Your Grave. At least here the director seems to have his tongue firmly in his cheek. I'd say in fact that he's having some sort of dig at the hippy culture. Why else would he include those ear-piercing flower ballads? Island of Death is sadly cut by about four minutes in the UK, but to be honest with you it still manages to be totally outrageous. Definitely one to track down!