| Overview: | It's 1891: Lieutenant Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), a military doctor, and a few newly escaped convicts are shipwrecked on a mysterious tropical island. They soon come across a strange couple: the sadistic Edmund Rackham (Richard Johnson) and the beautiful Amanda Marvin (Barbara Bach). The doctor finds out that Amanda's father, professor Ernest Marvin (Joseph Cotten), is a mad scientist who is experimenting on horrible human-fish mutations. While Professor Marvin is convinced that he's doing his research for humanitarian motives, Rackham has other plans, since he has discovered an incredible secret lying beneath the island.
"Island of the Fishmen", released in USA with several other titles ("Island of Mutations", "Something Waits in the Dark", and "Screamers"), is one of the best efforts of cult director Sergio Martino in the horror-adventure genre. Inspired to the classic story of "The Island of Doctor Moreau", the film features an impressive international cast, with Barbara Bach, Richard Johnson and Joseph Cotton in the leads.
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