Ta pedhia tou dhiavolou (1975)

Country of Origin: Greece
Year of Production: 1975
Running Times: 99 mins (Germany) 110 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Omega Pictures
Producer: Nick Mastorakis (real name: Nico Mastorakis)

SCRIPT
Script: Nick Mastorakis (real name: Nico Mastorakis)

DIRECTION
Director: Nico Mastorakis

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Nikos Gardelis, Nico Mastorakis (uncredited)

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Bill Syropoulos

MUSIC
Music: Nikos Lavranos
Songs: Nico Mastorakis

CAST
Bob Belling (real name: Robert Behling) (Christopher)
Jane Ryall (Celia)
Jessica Dublin
Gerard Gonalons
Janice McConnel
Ray Zuk
Mario tartras
Efi Banny
Clay Huff
Mike Murtagh
Jeremy Rousseau
Elizabeth Spader
Nikos Tsachiridis (shepherd)
John Blackman
Nico Mastorakis (novelist - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Christopher and Celia seem to be a perfectly normal couple when they arrive on a small Greek island for what seems t be a holiday. In fact they're incestuous siblings who soon start murdering everyone they come in contact with, believing them to be deviants.

CAPSULE REVIEW

One of the very few "video nasties" that actually proves to be genuinely shocking and disturbing. Sick, twisted and perverse, it's not terribly well acted (and that's being charitable) and Mastorakis barely holds it all together, but the scenes of sex, brutality and bestiality are confrontational enough even for the most jaded of viewers. Is it any good? Not really, but as a one-off viewing for the strong-stomached it's recommended. Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributors: TransAm; Omega Entertainment
DVD Distributors: Image Entertainment (OMED4740DVD)

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Winstone Film Distributors
Video Distributors: AVI Video Ltd
DVD Distributors: Vipco (VSC010)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: R

UK
Rating: banned; 18 (with 4 minutes 9 seconds of cuts)

West Germany
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

2003
February
18: USA - DVD release (Image Entertainment (OMED4740DVD))

POSTER TAGS

The lucky ones simply got their brains blown out.

The lucky ones got their brains blown out!!

The movie that the censors don't want you to see

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

A Craving for Lust - US title
Cruel Destination
Devils in Mykonos - US title
Devil's Island - Die Insel des Schreckens - West German video title
Island of Death - UK title
Island of Perversion - Australian title
Psychic Killer 2 - UK video title (for a release that never happened)
Der Teuflischen der Insel - West German title
Die Teuflischen von Mykonos - Austrian title

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Pigmeat no.1 pp.37-38
review

BOOKS

The Seduction of the Gullible by John Martin pp.111-113
credits, synopsis, review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

artists, bestiality, decapitations, drowning, gang rape, goats, hippies, homophobia, homosexuality, incest, islands, photography, rape, sex, shepherds, swords, toilets, torture, video nasties, voyeurism, writers, zoophilia

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009