Saw this movie in a double feature as a young girl with my cousin. I've always loved horror movies, especially Hammer flicks. Pretty interesting movie, however, when they divided it looked like chicken noodle soup to me. I wasn't able to eat chicken noodle soup for years... Loved the movie, not the soup :-)

Terence Fisher directed this thriller about a group of scientists on an isolated island who are conducting cancer research experiments involving living tissues that goes horribly wrong, resulting in the creation of a horde of killer tentacle creatures that attack people and liquefy and digest bone matter. Two scientists(played by Peter Cushing and Edward Judd) go to the island to investigate, but instead find themselves in a life and death struggle for survival, as they must find a way to destroy these silicates before they infect the world... Unique type of monsters here, and they are genuinely unsettling, with an effective score, but there is something needlessly crass about this premise(especially the ending) that makes it off-putting.

Sorry to disappoint anyone expecting silly cats. Sillicats are nothing more than the pizza-monsters in the "Star Trek" episode "The Devil In The Dark", plus a long elephant-like trunk glued in the middle, which flaps about somewhat when targeting a luckless islander.Not too much padding, as is usual in low-budget monster fare, but there is a hilariously drawn-out scene which shows nothing more than the two scientists putting on some large condoms (suits) in a lab. Perhaps the director was forced to show the entire sequence of putting on those goofy suits because if he'd cut straight to Cushing dressed as a condom the scene would have garnered some unintentional laughs. This way the audience at least has time to adjust to the fact that the two heroes will be dressing as condoms. Dramatic music accompanies this protracted scene, just in case we notice how irrelevant this scene is. This was a typical "trick" in the meager 50s/60s B-movie weapons arsenal: when you know the scene is lame, put on some mega-dramatic music on top of it.Fancy that, the young scientist putting his girlfriend in charge of controlling the villagers in the town hall (or village hut). And what exactly qualifies her to control the rabble? This is exactly how Mira Markovic and Elena Ceausescu got to where they were: spineless husbands pushing their ugly wives to power. (OK, fine, this actress is neither ugly nor evil, the comparison is slightly flawed, so shoot me.) A bit too silly how even an ax cannot even slightly damage the sillicats. If they're made out of silicon, they're not made out of steel.Watch for Cushing get all jovial and cracking jokes, mere hours after having had his hand amputated by an ax. So very English. So B-movie.IOT is a charming little monster-invasion flick, with little action and a lot of talking which is typical of its type, but very much watchable.

Director Terence Fisher who also created another classic flick, Dracula 1958 has created another gem in Island of Terror.Starring Peter Cushing who was also in Terrence Fisher's classic flick, Dracula 1958.Also starring Edward Judd.Also starring Carole Gray.I enjoyed the special effects.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic sci-fi flicks, Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984, The Chronicles of Riddick 2004, Dune 1984, Equilibrium 2002, The Island 2005, Knowing 2009, Light Blast 1985, Metropolis 1927, Pitch Black 2000, Rollerball 1975, Steel Frontier 1995, Tetsuo 1989, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 1992, Things to Come 1936, THX 1138 1971, Dredd 2012, Annihilation 2018 and Videodrome 1983.