On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
Direction
Leslie Stevens crafts nightmare logic with German Expressionist shadows.
Acting
Pre-Trek Shatner delivers unhinged intensity in a dead language.
Cinematography
Burning crosses and demonic goat silhouettes in crisp monochrome.
Director
Leslie Stevens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire film is spoken in Esperanto, a constructed international language, making it the only known horror movie in that tongue. The actors learned phonetically and pronunciation varies wildly.
Nearly all original prints were destroyed in a 1965 fire; the film was considered lost until a single subtitled copy surfaced in France in the 1990s.
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