Blu Ray Island Of Lost Souls (B) Eureka

Originally rejected by the BBFC on its initial release for being “against nature”, this first and best screen adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau is a taboo-flaunting, blood-curdling spectacular, and one of Hollywood’s wildest, most notorious, pre-Code pictures.

Shipwrecked and adrift, Edward Parker finds himself a guest on Dr. Moreau’s isolated South Seas island, but quickly discovers the horrifying nature of the doctor’s work and the origin of the strange forms inhabiting the isle: a colony of wild animals reworked into humanoid form via sadistic surgical experiments. Furthermore, Parker quickly begins to fear his own part in the doctor’s plans to take the unholy enterprise to a next level.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Newly restored high-definition digital transfer officially licensed from Universal Pictures
• Newly created SDH subtitles on the feature for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Exclusive video interview with Charles Laughton biographer Simon Callow
• Exclusive video interview with film historian Jonathan Rigby
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A lavish booklet featuring rare production imagery, and a new essay by Kim Newman