DEVIL IS ON THE ISLAND (1986) Francis Leroi horror
3225DVD
Director
Francis Leroi's only Horror Film is Must-See Entertainment
Original
French Title: LE DEMON DANS L'ILE [The Devil is on the Island]
director: Francis Leroi
starring: Anny Duperey · Jean-Claude Brialy · Pierre Santini
· Gabriel Cattand · Catherine Alcover
Anny Duperey plays
Gabrielle Martin, a young female doctor who has taken a job on a remote
island to escape her painful past. Once there, she watches as a rash of
strange accidents begin to injure the townsfolk. Dr Gabrielle soon realizes
that household appliances have become deadly, wounding and - in some cases
- killing people. It seems every day some new disaster has occurred caused
by an oven, boiler pot, razor blade, microwave, electric knife or fuel
can (even a wind-up teddybear pokes out a girl's eye). Her investigations
seem to implicate - somehow - another [mysterious] doctor on the island...
This
was director Leroi's first mainstream motion picture after a decade of
shooting hardcore (XXX). Between 1973-1983 be made 25+ adult films, sometimes
under his real name, but often behind one of his pseudonyms: Jim Clack
or John W Dark. Significantly, this movie established him firmly in the
genre market as it won numerous prestigious awards including Best Picture
at both the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival (1983) and the Fantasporto
(1984). But rather than pursuing his new fame, filmmaker Francis Leroi
returned to erotica - softcore, this time - and signed on as the director
for producer Alain Sirtsky's upcoming Emmanuelle films [Emmanuelle
4 (1985) and Emmanuelle 6 (1993)] and the related Emmanuelle made-for-TV
movies (delivering 7 films in 1987). Mr Leroi died from cancer in March
2002 at age 59.
A
French production with English subtitlese; fullscreen format (4:6),
uncut version (92 min.), DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT,
playable on any American machine. Extras include theatrical trailers.
