Predator Island

This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The highlight of the movie is a comparison between the smell of natural gas and a dirty vagina.

The acting is pathetic. I know acting is hard work and stuff, but that's why it should be left to real actors. Watching these people act is like watching Michael J. Fox perform brain surgery. It's shaky at best.

One of the other comments would have you believe that the movie is saved by the acting talents of Dan Gordon as Chris. Only Dan himself or maybe his mother could believe that was good acting.

The special effects in this movie were terrible. The worst special effects were for the gas explosion in the lighthouse. It looked like someone was shining an orange light up from the bottom of a model constructed from a refrigerator box. Sure there was a little bit of computer animation layered over top, but it didn't help. I suspect that the special effects on this movie were created and rendered using a single Amiga computer from the late 80s.

The kind of B-movies from the 1950's that were schlocky yet so much fun are to what Predator Island pays homage. Filmed in Connecticut, Predator Island is set on an island called with a lighthouse Hell's Beacon which is inhabited by only the couple who tends the lighthouse. In typical 1950's sci-fi fashion after a half dozen young adults crash their boat into the island's rocky shore hideous creatures from outer space invade the island after a meteor hits nearby. The creatures start both inhabiting the bodies of their victims as well as devouring them. Lots of cursing and lame comebacks are the primary form of dialogue in this movie. It is so hokey that you just have to laugh at times. If you are looking for a movie that is stupid, but in a fun way, then this one fits the bill.

Interesting note: I appear in the film as a dead body in the far background of the final scene. During filming they needed about 50 extras, yet around 300 people showed up for the opportunity. They eventually used nearly 200 of them.

Six people head out on a weekend boat trip. When a meteor crash creates a storm they end up stranded on a remote island and the only other people in the island is a lighthouse keeper and his wife and dangerous alien creatures created by the meteor. The group have to fight for their lives against the evil creatures.

OK this is a science fiction/horror so the above story is fine.

The actors have only done this or one or two other movie so i wasn't expecting great acting and at most time its average but no surprise there.

The effects are as basic as it gets.

Men in rubber suits (Aliens) are OK for what it is.

A lot of it was filmed in the dark so you couldn't see much of what was happening, why filming anything if no one can see it?

There is a random scene where 2 girls kiss each other.

There isn't the usual lot of female skin on display, in these movies they usually add some topless women to keep people interested. We only had a small bikini shot.

There isn't much gore.

The editing was a bit random.

The film quality was OK.

The sound was average.

The most annoying thing about this movie is the people who immediately spout out that this is the worst movie ever. I must have seen over 100 message boards with that comment lol. People tend to exaggerate especially if they have paid out money to watch it and storm to the message boards in a rage about spending their $1.50 on the DVD they didn't like. But thats what you get from impulse buying, we have so many ways of checking out a movie nowadays before actually buying it and with a movie like this all you have to do is check out the cast listing and see its not going to be a blockbuster especially if its reasonably new movie and it's in the bargain basket.

Overall yes this is bad movie if you want to compare it to something like Predator which is a good one to compare with as they both have predator in the title :p and Predator has exactly 100 time the budget of this movie. Taking that into account and the people's experience in making movies working on this, it wasn't too bad and definitely NOT the worst movie ever. So my advice is to think about what you are watching before you make yourself look stupid by posting such bold statements especially when you don't explain why you think it is the worst ever. It just makes it a pointless post.

Anyway its best to check this movie out when it's on TV or grab it at a pound shop, or dime store or whatever those places are called because at best this is average, unless you was involved in it then it was brilliant lol. I gave at a below average of 3/10 and definitely not a 1/10.

10 = Excellent 5 = Average 1 = Awful

I carefully checked if there's another movie named as this one, and there isn't ! But I really don't think we all saw the same movie ! There's no way ! How can you vote more than "1" for this movie ?! The idea of this movie let's say it's acceptable. Oh, and the acting of Dan Gordon (Chris) is quite good. But those are the only two things acceptable in this project. The others are... awful ? It's a very delicate word to describe the acting of the other actors, the directing, the (so said) "special" effects, even the way that the crew was filming ! I don't even like the way that the camera operators were moving to record the scenes ! This may be the most miserable film I've ever seen. I really don't remember a movie lower than this one... Maybe there is, but... I don't think so... Ehh, what's done, it's done... That's the movie and there's too late for anyone to change anything. I've voted "1", but my realistic vote starts with a "-" (minus) in front....

From the opening shot of the meteor falling towards Earth, you know you're in for something special.

This is an ultra-low budget shot on video movie about a group of teens stranded on a lighthouse island with some monsters. The story is unremarkable and nothing you haven't seen a thousand times before. The acting isn't great but isn't completely horrible, however the special effects - of which there are a good deal - are laughable at best. In fact, if you can read this sentence, chances are better than 50% that you could do a more credible job creating the video explosion and compositing effects in this movie than the filmmakers.

The movie's saving grace - if you're in the mood for a grade Z turkey of a film - is that there's always something happening and it never gets boring. And if you like making fun of bad movies with your friends, you might just find this worth a dollar rental.

And I must say I appreciated the opening joke, "that is the dumbest name for an island I've ever heard." Probably the best moment in the movie.