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Published on December 6, 2021

Isle of the Dead

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Isle of the Dead
September 1, 1945
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.

Description

"Isle of the Dead" (English: "Isle of the Dead") is a horror film released in 1945. The film takes place on a fictional island, the image of which is inspired by the painting of the same name by Arnold Becklin.

Plot

1912. The Balkan War. The Greek general Ferides arrives on a certain Greek island (in the film his name is not pronounced) to visit his wife's grave, but it turns out to be looted by vandals. The general stops for the night at the house of the antiquarian Albrecht and suddenly learns that an epidemic is raging on the island: the guests in the house are dying one by one from a disease similar to the plague. However, the old woman Kira declares that the cause of the deaths is an attractive girl, Thea, whom the elderly woman considers a barbarian vampire.

One of the guests, Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn, suddenly falls into a trance, she is mistaken for the dead. But this is a temporary condition: at night, Mrs. St. Aubyn wakes up and, without controlling her actions, kills Kira. The general, suspecting Teya of the crime committed, tries to kill her, but falls, struck by illness. Mrs. St. Aubyn falls off a cliff and dies. The surviving characters safely leave the island.