n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I don't really quite fully understand what I have just viewed. This film was stupid and rubbish. I'm a big lover of the 'video nasties' and have done a lot of research into this film. I watched it expecting some good cheap thrills but got nothing. Not even good camera shots or any plot. Nothing. Just an annoying couple going round some Greek island murdering random people.I know that thats the plot and all but damn it wasn't even that notorious in my opinion. Yes i can see why it was banned but not once did it make me cringe or feel disgusted. I even watched the uncut version on the horror channel, but just weren't feeling it. I just didn't understand the motives behind it. PLUS the acting is just god awful. I mean the British accent the actress uses reminds me of Austin Powers. Was hilarious and killed any factor of any fear or fright.RIGHT HERES SOME SPOILERS SO IF YOUR STILL GOING TO WATCH THE FILM DON'T READ ON ************SPOILERS************* OK well the deaths in this film were poor. They were too tame for a film that is known for his shocking content! some guy gets sliced up which you don't see, only the aftermath, guy gets hanged which looks terrible sfx, head gets shot but only see brains splatter against the wall for like a millisecond or so. Best death is some women gets her head taken off with some big pusher thing...even then its not amazing.So much sex in this film its ridiculous! Every second someones being done and most of the time its allowed! Like two rape scenes i think which are terribly acted, it doesn't deliver the shock and disturbed feeling you get from viewing that content.Just basically if you like video nasties and wanna watch something thats really gonna make you disturbed, steer clear of this piece of rubbish. Doesn't deliver and seems very comical.There's like a pelican that knocks about and i swear to god, he is the real killer and main character. Best part of the film.Its a great movie, don't watch it.

Though the concept is dated, 'Ta Paidia Tou Diavolou' (a.k.a. 'Island of Death' or 'Devils in Mykonos') could have been a better film if the story had layers and the execution did not have a B-grade feel. The movie itself seems to primarily rely on violence and shock value rather than story (which is perhaps secondary). Christopher and Celia are initially depicted as a likable romantic couple who are visiting a Greek Island. Director Nico Mastorakis does not waste time in showing that this couple is insane. However, what I felt missing was the answer to the question why? Christopher is a psychopath who engages in acts of bestiality, rape, murder, torture and he likes to photograph them but what's the story behind this sick fascination? Celia is his partner in crime and the secret behind their relationship is revealed in the end but here too the big why question remains unanswered. As a result, most of the violence appears gratuitous. However, Mykonos is portrayed quite beautifully. It makes me want to visit the place on a holiday. The acting ranges from average to bad but Jane Lyle is good in some sequences, especially when her facial expression changes from fear to a cold smile. Slightly campy, this exploitation film has obtained cult status but it could have easily been a better film had more attention been given to the story and execution.

I am an enthusiastic fan of European Exploitation cinema, especially from the 70s, and I therefore cannot really explain while I let "Ta Paidia Tou Diavolou" aka. "Island of Death" (1975) rest on my DVD shelf for ages before finally watching it recently. Having seen it, I must say that I do not agree with the majority of my fellow Eurocult fans, who seem to be regarding this film as an essential little gem of cinematic Euro-nastiness. The film has disturbing sequences and imagery, all right, but I never was disturbed or shocked, nor darkly amused.The young couple Christopher (Robert Behling), a psychotic religious fanatic who thinks he is on god's mission to cleanse the earth of the perverted (even though he is the biggest perv himself), and Celia (Jane Lyle), a demented and almost equally murderous nymphomaniac, are on a murderous rampage on the Greek island Mykonos. Devoted to killing as many perverts as possible, Christopher murders a womanizing French guy, a gay couple, an aging nymphomaniac, a lesbian, and others...There isn't a lot more, really. As said, the murders may be sadistic and disturbing and the murder methods cruel and demented. However, the film is never shocking, as all characters in the film are annoying as hell, and none of them is introduced long enough to give a crap about their fate. The murderous couple is annoying too. Some super-nasty sequences like one in which Christopher has sex with a little goat, are obviously thought of as shocking by many. But they aren't really, in my opinion. The shock-sequences here aren't really shocking, nor do they have any other effect. They just happen, and, personally I couldn't have cared less.The nastiness of the murders, the beautiful Greek setting, the good score and some amusing stuff towards the end are some redeeming qualities. Islands are usually great Horror settings, as they have such an inescapable character. While the setting here is maybe the films greatest aspect, "Ta Paidia Tou Diavolou" is never creepy, scary or even remotely suspenseful. It isn't really boring, but it is never exciting, nor shocking or disturbing, nor darkly humorous. By the way,"Island of Death" shares its English a.k.a. title, but must not to be confused with Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's 1976 masterpiece "¿Quién Puede Matar a Un Niño?", which actually IS one of the greatest Eurohorror films ever made.Overall, "Ta Paidia Tou Diavolou" is worth watching for my fellow Eurohorror fans as it IS one of the nastier films from the mid-70s. The murders are brutal and there is a certain range of redeeming perversions. However, I find it to be immensely overrated among my fellow fans of Euro-Exploitation. To those who want to see a truly disturbing film set on a Greek Island, I recommend Joe D'Amato's "Antropophagus" (1980). A brilliant storyline isn't the most obvious characteristic of that film either, but it is scary as hell, gory and thoroughly shocking and disturbing. "Ta Paida Tou Diavlou" just isn't, at least not in my humble opinion.

Island of Death, Nico Mastorakis' much-banned exploitation horror, sees a pair of sadistic lovers, Christopher and Celia (played by Robert Behling and the lovely Jane Lyle), travel to Mykonos where they proceed to punish anyone they deem to be perverted, a definite case of 'the pot calling the kettle black' since the murderous couple are easily the biggest deviants on the island: their numerous killings aside, Christopher calls his mother whilst having sex with Celia in a phone booth, Celia shags a French painter as Christopher watches from a distance, the couple masturbate over photographs of their victims, and a goat gets a good seeing to from Christopher when Celia turns hims down for nookie!On top of all of this, Mastorakis' delightfully trashy film also tackles such unsavoury subjects as rape (both female and male), drug abuse, incest, and water sports (and I'm not talking about scuba-diving and wake-boarding), offering oodles of nekkid flesh and soft-core humping in the process, making it perfect viewing for anyone who likes their entertainment to constantly challenge the boundaries of taste.Despite none of this dodgy content being overly explicit (and in the case of the goat sex, I've got to say that I'm rather glad!), the mere fact that the film even dared to explore these usually taboo themes qualified it for a place on the official DPP Video Nasties list during the 80s, and it is these high levels of extreme wrongness that still draws fans of such fare to seek out the title. The direction may be uninspired, the story not exactly riveting, and the gore rather tame, but I still recommend Island of Death simply for being so depraved.And if you don't believe me, the end of the film reveals that Christopher and Celia are actually brother and sister, which makes that phone call to their mother all the more indecent!