{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) \u2013 Episode 163 \u2013 Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era","description":"\u201cI meet my old familiar enemy, Death. I\u2019ve fought him before. I\u2019ve won, often. Now he wins. Let him come for me.\u201d Yes, Death is a resident of this particular island. Join this episode\u2019s Grue-Crew \u2013 Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr \u2013 as they journey to an island cemetery off the coast of Greece in Val Lewton\u2019s Isle of the Dead (1945). Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 163 \u2013 Isle of the Dead (1945) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https:\/\/youtube.com\/gruesomemagazine ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https:\/\/classicscifichannel.com\/; https:\/\/classichorrorchannel.com\/; https:\/\/wickedhorrortv.com\/ On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn\u2019t enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.   Directed by: Mark Robson Writing Credits: Ardel Wray; Val Lewton (uncredited), Josef Mischel (uncredited) Produced by: Val Lewton (producer); Jack J. Gross (executive producer)  Music by: Leigh Harline Cinematography by: Jack MacKenzie (director of photography) Selected Cast: Boris Karloff as Gen. Nikolas Pherides Ellen Drew as Thea Marc Cramer as Oliver Davis Katherine Emery as Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn Helene Thimig as Madame Kyra Alan Napier as St. Aubyn Jason Robards Sr. as Albrecht (as Jason Robards) Ernst Deutsch as Dr. Drossos (as Ernst Dorian) Skelton Knaggs as Andrew Robbins (uncredited) Sherry Hall as Col. Kobestes (uncredited) Erick Hanson as Officer (uncredited) Rose Hobart as Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot) (uncredited) The Grue-Crew join producer Val Lewton, director Mark Robson, and legend Boris Karloff for a quietly creepy and haunting masterpiece from RKO Radio Pictures, Isle of the Dead (1945). This is the second of three films Lewton and Karloff would make together (along with Bedlam and The Body Snatcher) and the fourth of five films Lewton would make with Robson. The tagline promises, \u201cWill Keep You Screaming!\u201d \u2013 and, this time, it just might. Check out what Chad, Daphne, and Jeff take away from this undeniable classic. Here are the other Decades of Horror Classic Era episodes on Lewton-produced movies: CAT PEOPLE (1942) \u2013 Episode 37 \u2013 Decades of Horror: The Classic Era THE BODY SNATCHER (1945) \u2013 Episode 66 \u2013 Decades of Horror: The Classic Era THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) \u2013 Episode 97 \u2013 Decades of Horror: The Classic Era At the time of this writing, Isle of the Dead can be found streaming from multiple PPV sites and is currently available on disc as a Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection. Gruesome Magazine\u2019s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Daphne, is The Head (1959), a German film whose original title is Die Nackte und der Satan. Head transplants, a hunchbacked nun, and a sexy dancer. You definitely won\u2019t want to miss this one! Please let them know how they\u2019re doing! They want to hear from you \u2013 the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com To each of you from each of them, \u201cThank you so much for watching and listening!\u201d ","author_name":"Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/docrotten.libsyn.com","html":"