Island of the Burning meh.
It's winter in Britain, but on the island of Fara it’s in the 90’s. And the temperature is rising.Things start happening on the island. TV’s explode, phones stop working a farmer’s sheep are burned to death by a high intensity heat, and that noise. It’s a whining noise. The closer you are to it the more piercing it is. Then people start dying. Burned.
Godfrey Hanson (Christopher Lee) is a scientist that has come over from the mainland. He sets up cameras, takes soil samples and explores around the island. The regulars try to ignore his peculiar ways. But now that something is happening they need to know. His theory, there are aliens on the island. Aliens whose high temperature burns anyone near them. And they are using the island as a test base to see if they can survive on Earth.
"Island of the Burning Damned" AKA "Island of the Burning Doomed" AKA "Night of the Big Heat" was released in 1967 and was directed by Terence Fisher. This is a British film. It was called “The night of the Big Heat” in the American release. It brings together Christopher Lee (Godfrey Hanson) and Peter Cushing (Dr. Vernon Stone).
There is also a love triangle between Jane Merrow as (Angela Roberts), Patrick Allen as (Jeff Callum), and Sarah Lawson as (Frankie Callum) that I could have done without. It was a sub plot that didn’t really go anywhere and I didn’t see the point of it. It just made the pace slower.
You don’t see the aliens till almost the end. They look like pulsating blobs lit from the inside. But since it is dark you don’t see them very well. The movie was OK but I need a little more monster. Heck I need a lot more monster. There was more love triangle than aliens. I couldn’t even call it a monster movie. More of a drama or a gothic romance. Also the pace was a little slow. The only thing that made it a horror movie was Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.