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Francesco Mirabelli
•A Greek general and other people confined on a Balkan island for a period of quarantine during the 1912 conflict find themselves having to confront local superstitions about vampires. Claustrophobic horror directed by "Mark Robson" (The Seventh Victim, 1943). The Vampire of the Island is a film in the Tourneur style, the atmosphere of strange and unsettling exoticism in which strong Ossianic and pre-Romantic suggestions are immersed. The film is wrapped in a fairy-tale darkness in which the characters, more than moving, wander, just like in the previous Tourneur film "I Walked with a Zombie". The cast features an icon of horror cinema "Boris Karloff" (already legendary Frankenstein with James Whale) and in particular he collaborated with master Bava in the film "The Three Faces of Fear". Produced for RKO in those years in critical financial situation and greatly helped by specialist "Val Lewton" who was the producer and creator of the film, able to invest and at the same time realize a product of remarkable artistic quality. Worth watching.
