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Island Zero

Laila Robins (Actor), Adam Wade McLaughlin (Actor), Josh Gerritsen (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
IMDb4.7/10.0
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Genre Horror
Format NTSC
Contributor Adam Wade McLaughlin, Jacob Gerritsen, Josh Gerritsen, Laila Robins, Tess Gerritsen, Matthew Wilkas, Terri Reeves See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 39 minutes
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Inhabitants of a fishing island off the coast of Maine find themselves mysteriously cut off from the outside world after the ferry suddenly stops coming. All the phones have gone dead and every boat sent to the mainland fails to return. When dead bodies turn up along the water's edge, the hardy band of survivors must find out who, or what, is killing them.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.54 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Josh Gerritsen
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 39 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 6, 2018
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Terri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Tess Gerritsen, Jacob Gerritsen
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Freestyle Digital Media
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07K138YGR
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Tess Gerritsen
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.2 3.2 out of 5 stars 224 ratings

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M. TURNER
4.0 out of 5 stars It's average but not bad at all.
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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I've no idea what budget and other limitations the filmmakers may have had, but they put everything they had onto the screen. It was done well, done pretty smartly, even with a pretty standard sci-fi horror story. The only real criticism, if it can be called that, is that the script could've used another pass and been tightened up some. It's either that or the director could've tightened up the pace on set. Hard to say which, but that said, I dug it. For a standard type of story, it was a pretty creative execution and as I mentioned earlier, done well. TBH, I'd not mind, if the stars could align, see them make this one again with 25% more budget. -- It's not a movie that's gonna be a hit, but it's solid. And if I can snag it on DVD, I will, to add it to my collection. 3 stars + 1 more for creativity and moxie. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7. Recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Way better than expected
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021
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I like Amazon Prime video because it's full of tacky horror movies I can put on and half pay attention to while working. I put this on expecting just that. I ended up fully invested in this, watching it with my full attention.

A great indie horror film. Fairly Lovecraftian, reminds me vaguely of the At the Mountains of Madness. Or perhaps a Steven King novel. It feels a lot like a book, but in movie format, if that makes any sense. The actors are all unknown (which helps with the plot), and the budget is on the lower end, but they do a great job with it. Not gory, and the use of CGI is minimal/nonexistant which is a weak point of many low budget modern creature features. The creature and its backstory is unique, and completely unlike the stereotypical "genetic experiment gone wrong" that exists in just about every other similar movie. There is an unexpected twist toward the end, which was a cool surprise.

All in all I was very pleasantly surprised and I would very highly recommend. Can hold its own against many full budget modern horror in my opinion.
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1.0 out of 5 stars I don't watch things which start by murdering small animals
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2018
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You can take my review with a huge grain of salt since I only watched 3.5 minutes of this garbage.

The film begins with a montage of an extremely annoying old man and his tiny dog Sweetie. 90 seconds in, I thought, "This had better get a whole lot better really fast!" It didn't. Moments later, the old man goes below deck deck and something comes out of the water and murders Sweetie, leaving only his bloody life-jacket floating in the water.

Nope. I'm done. I don't watch movies that begin with murdering small animals. (In fact, I rarely watch movies that involve pet murders in any fashion. There should be warning labels on garbage like this. And, no, we have never watched the JOHN WICK films for this very reason.)

Honestly, even without the dog murder, what I watched was so bad, I'd probably have turned it off soon anyway. I did scan along the timeline counter to see if anything happened later on to make it worth my while. Nope, nothing caught my interest. Strike three.

Next!
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Joe Smart
2.0 out of 5 stars Promising but terrible execution
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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Warning...spoilers:

This low-budget monster movie does one thing right--the monsters are effective even though there apparently wasn't enough money in the budget for good creature effects. The filmmakers get around that by showing glimpses of them through a heat imaging camera which is the only way they can be seen unless seriously wounded or dead since they have such an effective ability to camouflage. When one is dead the audience only sees part of an appendage lying across the floor but we do see that they can rip people apart even when we can't actually see what's doing it. So kudos to the filmmakers for not giving the audience a good look at monster effects that probably would have been disappointing and doing it effectively.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much all that Island Zero does do well. The acting is solid and production values polished but the movie doesn't create any sense of impending dread in the leadup to the inevitable islanders versus monsters showdown in the last third of the movie and even if that turned out to be great (it isn't) the first two-thirds are way too slow.

The people who made Island Zero probably should have watched John Carpenter's original version of The Fog, C.H.U.D., and the first half hour or so of John Frankenheimer's monster movie Prophecy (which had a truly terrible-looking monster when you finally get a good look at it) because there are effective ways to generate suspense and film monster attack sequences without actually showing what's doing the attacking. Island Zero instead makes the mistake of keeping the first five attacks on people in the movie entirely off-screen.

In the opening sequence, a woman on a boat who is fishing is there...then suddenly she isn't and a blood-stain is on the deck in her place. For the second attack (which comes roughly 15 minutes later) the boat of someone who set out for the mainland drifts back to the island after three days. He's not onboard and there's a really large bloodstain on the side of his boat. In an early indication of how bad the writing is going to be several characters including at least two who are very familiar with boats suggest that he fell overboard somehow even though no scenario where that happened would account for the amount of blood on the side of the boat.

The third attack? We see some organs near the pier that are supposed to be the remains of one of the characters although the lack of bones makes no sense since in attack number five (still entirely offscreen) the monsters leave a completely intact skeleton behind on a bed. The sheets are soaked with blood but there are no flesh or organs or tissue--just a skeleton that could have come straight from a high school biology classroom. That image is just so flat-out silly you can't help wondering how the monsters managed to completely eat someone who is lying in bed without disturbing their skeleton even a little but don't expect an answer because the monsters in this movie couldn't actually do it.

As for attack number four--we hear a very brief snippet of that one over short-wave radio.

There's no good justification for keeping every one of these attacks offscreen instead of using them to create suspense sequences. Not wanting to show your monster isn't an excuse for giving the audience nothing but dialogue and occasional bloodstains. There's no suspense for much of the movie for a reason that's incredibly obvious--there aren't any suspense sequences. It's not like the filmmakers are trying and failing--they aren't even trying.

In another choice that makes no sense there's a sequence where two of the characters (who are in a flirty sexual relationship) go off together looking for supplies, one of the characters shows that they weren't who they said they were, murders the other and hangs the fresh corpse outside a window for the monsters to eat.

That may sound like a good sequence but the viewer is out of luck because EVERYTHING I JUST DESCRIBED HAPPENS ENTIRELY OFFSCREEN!!!

I would love to hear the filmmakers justify why that wasn't actually shown in the movie. It's not like any special effects were necessary other than a blood pack and retractable knife and you could pick up both at any Party City in time for Halloween.

Besides the bizarre lack of suspense sequences, the big dramatic showdown where the survivors have the person who wasn't what they claimed to be tied up in a chair, and what's going on is finally revealed is almost unbelievably stupid.

They try to get the villain to talk by threatening to shoot him even though there are very few bullets to use against the monsters. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to threaten him with a kitchen knife when you have only a handful of bullets?

Long story short...these monsters are alpha-predators that the military has known about for years and they want to negotiate with the animals to see if they will agree to be used as weapons. Can you picture the military trying to negotiate with dolphins, killer whales, or gorillas? There's nothing in the movie to indicate that these things are sophisticated enough to strike up a military pact with so that entire explanation is so preposterous it belongs in a Sharknado movie and definitely not in a horror flick that's clearly meant to be taken seriously.

Island Zero is slow, dull, and stupid. Maybe if you're looking for something to stream late at night to help you fall asleep Island Zero is a possible choice because there's definitely nothing going on likely to keep you awake--but under any other circumstances, don't waste your time.
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mckenzie
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2020
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Better than I expected, ending could have been better.
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Jamie Rabone
5.0 out of 5 stars awesome film
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2021
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awesome film well worth purchase
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