I try to find something to say about most films, but with Fear Island, I have to warn you that this 'review' will be pretty short.It's hard to imagine a more 'average' film than this. I do like a daft 'slasher' flick as much as the next gore-hound, but this brought absolute zero to the genre.I know all slasher movies have had the bar raised in 1997 by Scream, but at least some try to be original.Fear Island is about a group of friends who go to stay on an island and mysteriously start getting picked off one by one. Hopefully, this won't spoil too much when I say that the film opens with one traumatised girl being found on said island by the authorities. The film then consists of her account of what happened to her friends to a police detective and criminal psychologist. I found that this kind of tells you most of what you need to know about the film. You never have to guess who will survive as you already know that from the start.Normally, you may at least get a few amusing/interesting/disgusting kills. Not here. There's hardly any gore and what little there is comes few and far between. I know that no one expects an Oscar-worthy performance in a teen slasher film, but, seriously, the killer might as well be hunting trees since the actors are so wooden (even 'Jinx' from Warehouse 13 can't elevate it at all). Then there's the most clichéd detective ever to be put on film who's in charge of the (meagre) investigation. He spends most of his time barking stilted dialogue at an unfeasibly attractive, intelligent and calm psychologist.Some film you can watch if you're bored. However, this is not even one of them. If you like slasher films and are in the mood to sit through one. My advice would be to put one of your own DVDs on. This one isn't worth the time.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Now I have seen many reviews that have trashed this movie and if I had looked at the reviews before i watched the movie, I would have refrained from doing so. But I watched it and I liked it. This movie is different from other horror movies because it is in the perspective of after the killings. The main character tells us what happened as she is questioned by the police. This, already, was very cool to me and peaked my interest. Some people say the acting was terrible. Now this is my opinion but i have never had that problem with other movies and I thought the acting was fine. Haylie Duff was great with what she was given and when she had to act upset, I think she pulled it off. Lucy Hale is one of my favorite actress and she was good so as for the acting, I think it is up to the viewer but I liked it. Now let's get to the ending, I will not spoil anything because that would irritate me had I read the reviews. The ending some may say is predictable and stupid but I did not see it coming nor did i think it was stupid and I think it made the movie so much better. I would like to say avoid what the reviews say, but that would mean that you should not listen to me which is not what I mean at all. I think you should watch it yourself because it is a very good movie and not to judge it so quickly.

**SPOILERS*** Brain twisting slasher flick that runs out of gas halfway through its story when you start to realize that the only survivor of a massacre on Fear Island is on the verge of being committed.The survivor Jenna, Hayfie Duff,was found wondering aimlessly around the deserted island with a bloody knife on her. Having no memory of what happened and even whom she is Jenna is interrogated by both local detective Amory, Martin Cummins, and police psychiatrist Dr. Jamie Chalice, Anne Marie DeLuise. Suspcted in the brutal murder of six collage students on the island as well as their pet dog Perrier Jenna's memory slowly starts to come back in a series of episodes or flashbacks where we as well as Det. Amory and Dr. Chalice start to make some sense of this tragedy. The only problem is that they have to take Jenna's word on what happened to the students since no one else is alive collaborate it!As the movie goes on or plods along that suddenly almost out of the blue a new element or character is added to it in the young girl Regina, Brenna O'Brien. It's Regina who turns out to be the key to what happened in the movie but as we soon find out she's been killed off before the film even started! It was Regina's death that set into motion the series of brutal murders on the island. But who committed them only Jenna in her subconscious mind knows. And as her memory starts to return she'll be able to identify who the killer is that's if the killer doesn't get to her first!***SPOILERS**** The big surprise is saved for the very end when Jenna's parents who were on a trip to Cambodia came to the hospital to visit their very disturbed and heavily medicated daughter. It's then that the whole truth came out to what Jenna knew about the string of killings as well as who she really is. But by then most of us watching had figured that all out making the big and unexpected "surprise ending" anti-climatic.

A small group of teens on an island is murdered, one by one.Professionally made and attractively photographed, this murder mystery / slasher horror is routine, utterly predictable, and totally devoid of thrills. Its one claim to mild originality is the way it is told in flashback by the amnesiac last survivor. Unfortunately, by its very nature, this robs the "last man standing" element of any suspense, leaving us to discover only the order and manner of deaths, the reason why, and the expected final twist.This is not "the worst film I have ever seen" - far from it - but it has nothing out of the ordinary to recommend it.