Review #226: Island of Lost Souls (1933)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #80: Island of Lost Souls (1933) Rescued by a cargo ship after a shipwreck, Edward Parker is kicked overboard by the captain and stranded on a remote island where a disgraced scientist named Dr. Moreau has been conducting bizarre experiments, turning animals into men. While friendly and accommodating at first, Moreau begins to see that Parker's presence can benefit his research, and Parker soon finds himself fighting to escape the island before he becomes an experiment unto himself. I've never seen any of the other Island of Dr. Moreau movies before this (and to be honest, I didn't realize this was an adaptation of that story until ten minutes into the film) but I knew the basic premise. I thought this was pretty good- better than most of the classic films I've seen this month- and the characters were all fully-realized and acted relatively realistically. (I think it was s...