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Demon Is on the Island
“Crazy appliances”
5.3 / 10• 1983• 1h 42m•NR• French
Horror
Storyline
An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the coast of France: the islanders are being murderously attacked by ovens and refrigerators acquired in the same department store. Enter the young Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey), who arrives here to escape her own personal tragedy and instead lands in the middle of the kitchen mania. She tracks down the cause of the rapidly spreading epidemic to another doctor on the island — quite as insane as any of the kitchen appliances (if the comparison could be made) — and finds that the villainous doctor and the appliances have a most unusual link. Graphic scenes of mutilation by an oven, as one example, leave nothing much to the imagination in this film, but the interpretations of actors Anny Duperey and Jean-Claude Brialy as the good and evil doctors are excellent.
Cast & Crew
Anny Duperey
Dr Gabrielle Martin
Lead
Jean-Claude Brialy
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
Pierre Santini
Richard
Gabriel Cattand
Henry Garland
Janine Magnan
Claire Garland
Caroline Silhol
Hélène Cayrade
C
Cerise
Marie Talbot
Catherine Alcover
Louise
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Francis Leroi's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Demon Is on the Island is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
