5. Island Of Death (1976)
Nico Mastorakis directed this infamous video nasty which contains such violence and depraved sex acts, the word 'seedy' barely does justice in describing the film. Christopher and Celia are the twisted brother and sister duo, actively engaged in an incestuous relationship on a Greek island where they terrorise the locals. Although he is a sleazy goat raping git, Christopher feels some sort of duty to kill people who are 'immoral' in his eyes. This includes forcing a painter to swallow his own paint, killing gay men, torching a heroin abusing lesbian and dispatching of a cop who is on to him by an airplane stunt. Celia sits back wide eyed while all this goes on. Driven into the countryside by the need to escape, Celia and Christopher hole up in a peasant's den where Celia falls inexplicably for the peasant (well I guess I would choose the peasant over murderous Christopher too) and makes ecstatic love to him while Christopher lies in a pit of quicklime, smouldering, unable to escape as the rain falls down. And that is pretty much it for Island of Death. The acting in Island of Death is pitiful and the dialogue atrocious. This adds to the film's inherent seediness. It is as if director Mastorakis thought to himself "How many perversions can I fit into this movie?". The goat raping scene is entirely gratuitous but laughably fake. As the movie goes on, the bad taste accumulates and accumulates until the viewer is stunned by the litany of depraved acts depicted on their screen. There is nothing remotely thoughtful in the film and it exists purely as a vehicle to shock. The pleasant Greek island setting cannot disguise the fact that this is one heck of a seedy movie. A total eyesore from beginning to end.