Island of the Burning Doomed/
Night of the Big Heat/Demoni DiFuoco (1967)
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Summary: The British Island of Fara is receiving extremely warm weather. Depending on what hour of the day it is, it could be over 1000 degrees…too bad its December! Everyone on the island is on edge and it only keeps getting hotter. Oh and hotter still when a new secretary (Angela) has been hired by writer Jeff Collum. Seems she was once his mistress before he moved to the island and she has come to follow him. Once islanders start to die off under the extreme heat, a lone scientist staying at Collum’s “B&B” discovers the work of aliens. Not sure who will kill of Collum’s wife first, the mistress or the aliens.
Overall: Overall: The film is based on the novel by John Lymington “Night of the Big Heat.” The film works quite well in the relationships between all the characters. We get enough of the assorted islanders plus Angela, Jeff and the wife to really understand and appreciate their inner-workings. The best part of the film is anything involving Angela though. Her outfits, her attitude...tremendous work. She was the best part, bar none. What sucked in the film was anything relating to horror or science-fiction. The “aliens” were weak and silly. They dragged the secret so long about what the truth behind the temperature increases, that I was begging for something so much better. And Peter Cushing was more of an after thought in this film. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing are in this film and it feels more of a love triangle film involving everyone else. I loved Jeff’s argument with his wife where he retorts to her allegations of him cheating: In fact...you could have ended the film along the lines of a similar Twilight Zone episode and it would have been better than this film. The word on the street is, the writers blew the story and constantly tried to re-write only for the actors to ignore the new material. The film works great about Angela and Jeff...anything else is worthy of the fast-forward button.I wanted her. She was a slut and I wanted her. Comparison: The Core meets Deep Impact |
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