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Demon Is on the Island(1983)
Status: Released
Date: 1983-03-30
52%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 42m
Crazy appliances
Overview:
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Les Films 7
Movie: Demon Is on the Island
Top 10 Billed Cast
Anny Duperey
Dr Gabrielle Martin
Jean-Claude Brialy
Dr Paul Henry Marshall
Pierre Santini
Richard
Gabriel Cattand
Henry Garland
Janine Magnan
Claire Garland
Caroline Silhol
Hélène Cayrade
Catherine Alcover
Louise
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1983-03-30
Average
5.2
Rating:
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Crazy appliances
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