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 * Shaun Anderson at The Celluloid Highway ([http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com/2011/03/island-of-terror-1966.html link]) - "But somehow ''Island of Terror'' still manages to possess a certain charm, almost as if the ultra low budget is seen by the filmmakers as a challenge to their ingenuity... like Doctor Who a greater reliance is placed on the writing.... Despite its myriad weaknesses Island of Terror is cheap and cheerful fun. It proves a dictum that I have held too for many years; if it has Peter Cushing in it, its worth watching."
 * Scott Ashlin at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/islandoftheburningdoomed.htm link]) - " Coming from me, this is going to sound awfully strange, but Island of the Burning Doomed’s greatest strength is the fact that it mainly keeps the aliens offscreen. ... As it stands, the movie is not the tiniest bit frightening..."
 * Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image (6/10 Stars) ([http://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1129 link]) - "One of the reasons ''Island of Terror'' is surprisingly suspenseful is that the odds are stacked against our heroes...  The climax, ... brings the film to an appropriately exciting end, and the whole production is as brisk and efficient as its protagonists."
-* Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."
+* Mitch Lovell at The Video Vacuum (2.5 Stars) ([https://thevideovacuum.livejournal.com/1635501.html link]) - "...it’s just weird enough to be memorable, although it’s not quite good enough to make for a solid recommendation."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Island of Terror'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/island-of-terror-1966.htm link])  - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/night-of-the-big-heat-night-of-the-burning-damned-1967.htm link]) - "All of these films are nondescript. ...  Terence Fisher, ... failed to translate the vividity and floridness of his Gothic period work into a contemporary locale. He simply fails to conjure the necessary paranoid atmosphere that alien invasion films require..."
 * Andrew Smith at Popcorn Pictures ([http://www.popcornpictures.co.uk/night-of-the-big-heat-1967/ link]) - "''Night of the Big Heat'' doesn’t rank with the best work of Fisher, Lee or Cushing but it’s still a great dose of British sci-fi/horror from the 60s."
 * Andy Webb at The Movie Scene (3/5 Stars) ([http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/island-of-terror-1966/island-of-terror-1966.html link]) - "...''Island of Terror'' ends up a familiar movie which uses the small community under threat from a dangerous organism storyline. About the only thing different about the movie and a surprise is that despite having the feel of a Hammer Studios movie it isn't.
-* Christianne Benedict at Krell Laboratories ([http://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2011/10/island-holiday.html link])
+* Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."
-* Mitch Lovell at The Video Vacuum (2.5 Stars) ([https://thevideovacuum.livejournal.com/1635501.html link])
+* Chris Wood at British Horror Films (''Night of the Big Heat'') ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/bigheat.shtml link]) - "Most of the film is more a kind of domestic drama than sci-fi invasion extravaganza..."
 ==Synopsis==

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 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."
 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films (''Night of the Big Heat'') ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/bigheat.shtml link]) - "Most of the film is more a kind of domestic drama than sci-fi invasion extravaganza..."
-* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/islandofterror.htm link]) ([http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/island-of-terror-1966.htm link]) - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
+* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Island of Terror'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/island-of-terror-1966.htm link])  - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/night-of-the-big-heat-night-of-the-burning-damned-1967.htm link]) - "All of these films are nondescript. ...  Terence Fisher, ... failed to translate the vividity and floridness of his Gothic period work into a contemporary locale. He simply fails to conjure the necessary paranoid atmosphere that alien invasion films require..."
 * Andrew Smith at Popcorn Pictures ([http://www.popcornpictures.co.uk/night-of-the-big-heat-1967/ link]) - "''Night of the Big Heat'' doesn’t rank with the best work of Fisher, Lee or Cushing but it’s still a great dose of British sci-fi/horror from the 60s."

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-* Shaun Anderson at The Celluloid Highway ([http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/night-of-big-heat-1967.html link]) - " One of the more interesting and a personal favourite of mine is ''Night of the Big Heat''. Its daft and its silly, but in the best tradition of British genre filmmaking it possesses a strange charm..."
+* Shaun Anderson at The Celluloid Highway ([http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/night-of-big-heat-1967.html link]) - "One of the more interesting and a personal favourite of mine is ''Night of the Big Heat''. It's daft and its silly, but in the best tradition of British genre filmmaking it possesses a strange charm..."
 * Scott Ashlin at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/islandoftheburningdoomed.htm link]) - " Coming from me, this is going to sound awfully strange, but Island of the Burning Doomed’s greatest strength is the fact that it mainly keeps the aliens offscreen. ... As it stands, the movie is not the tiniest bit frightening..."
 * Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image (6/10 Stars) ([http://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1129 link]) - "One of the reasons ''Island of Terror'' is surprisingly suspenseful is that the odds are stacked against our heroes...  The climax, ... brings the film to an appropriately exciting end, and the whole production is as brisk and efficient as its protagonists."
 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."
 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films (''Night of the Big Heat'') ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/bigheat.shtml link]) - "Most of the film is more a kind of domestic drama than sci-fi invasion extravaganza..."
-* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/islandofterror.htm link]) - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
+* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/islandofterror.htm link]) ([http://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/island-of-terror-1966.htm link]) - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/night-of-the-big-heat-night-of-the-burning-damned-1967.htm link]) - "All of these films are nondescript. ...  Terence Fisher, ... failed to translate the vividity and floridness of his Gothic period work into a contemporary locale. He simply fails to conjure the necessary paranoid atmosphere that alien invasion films require..."
 * Andrew Smith at Popcorn Pictures ([http://www.popcornpictures.co.uk/night-of-the-big-heat-1967/ link]) - "''Night of the Big Heat'' doesn’t rank with the best work of Fisher, Lee or Cushing but it’s still a great dose of British sci-fi/horror from the 60s."
 * Andy Webb at The Movie Scene (3/5 Stars) ([http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/island-of-terror-1966/island-of-terror-1966.html link]) - "...''Island of Terror'' ends up a familiar movie which uses the small community under threat from a dangerous organism storyline. About the only thing different about the movie and a surprise is that despite having the feel of a Hammer Studios movie it isn't.
 ==Synopsis==

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 Review Links:
 * Shaun Anderson at The Celluloid Highway ([http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/night-of-big-heat-1967.html link]) - " One of the more interesting and a personal favourite of mine is ''Night of the Big Heat''. Its daft and its silly, but in the best tradition of British genre filmmaking it possesses a strange charm..."
-* Scott Ashlin at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/islandoftheburningdoomed.htm link]) - " Coming from me, this is going to sound awfully strange, but Island of the Burning Doomed’s greatest strength is the fact that it mainly keeps the aliens offscreen. ... As it stands, the movie is not the tiniest bit frightening..."
+* Scott Ashlin at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2.5/5 Stars) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsh-m/islandoftheburningdoomed.htm link]) - " Coming from me, this is going to sound awfully strange, but Island of the Burning Doomed’s greatest strength is the fact that it mainly keeps the aliens offscreen. ... As it stands, the movie is not the tiniest bit frightening..."
 * Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image (6/10 Stars) ([http://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1129 link]) - "One of the reasons ''Island of Terror'' is surprisingly suspenseful is that the odds are stacked against our heroes...  The climax, ... brings the film to an appropriately exciting end, and the whole production is as brisk and efficient as its protagonists."
 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."

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 Review Links:
 * Graeme Clark at The Spinning Image (6/10 Stars) ([http://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1129 link]) - "One of the reasons ''Island of Terror'' is surprisingly suspenseful is that the odds are stacked against our heroes...  The climax, ... brings the film to an appropriately exciting end, and the whole production is as brisk and efficient as its protagonists."
 * Chris Wood at British Horror Films ([http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/islandofterror.shtml link]) - "''Island Of Terror'' has a fantastic ending ... which is genuinely exciting. Despite their looks, the silicates are extremely menacing..."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/islandofterror.htm link]) - "Unfortunately the menace is too dull to be effective – and Terence Fisher fails to tap into any of the swimming subtexts that manage to make all good science-fiction monsters more than they are."
 * Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (''Night of the Big Heat'') (2/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/night-of-the-big-heat-night-of-the-burning-damned-1967.htm link]) - "All of these films are nondescript. ...  Terence Fisher, ... failed to translate the vividity and floridness of his Gothic period work into a contemporary locale. He simply fails to conjure the necessary paranoid atmosphere that alien invasion films require..."
 * Andy Webb at The Movie Scene (3/5 Stars) ([http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/island-of-terror-1966/island-of-terror-1966.html link]) - "...''Island of Terror'' ends up a familiar movie which uses the small community under threat from a dangerous organism storyline. About the only thing different about the movie and a surprise is that despite having the feel of a Hammer Studios movie it isn't.

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-"How could they stop the devouring death... that lived by liquefying living human bones?!" Grisly deaths bring a scientist to a remote island where researchers have accidentally created a deadly life form.
+"How could they stop the devouring death... that lived by liquefying living human bones?!"  "See: mysterious invaders from outer space create their scorching heat rays that consume the people and an island!"  Grisly deaths bring a scientist to a remote island where researchers have discovered a deadly life form.
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 * Country/Language:  UK, English
 * Genres/Technical:  Horror, Sci-fi
 * Runtime:  1 hr 29 min; 1 hr 34 min
 * Starring:  [[Peter Cushing]], Edward Judd, Carole Gray; [[Christopher Lee]], [[Peter Cushing]], Patrick Allen
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 * Writer:   Edward Andrew Mann and Al Ramsen (original story); Ronald Liles (screenplay), John Lymington (novel)
 * Producer/Production Co:  Planet Film Productions
 * View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHw4VCeGmjQ link]), ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnSq8qwRis link])
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 [[File:Islandofterror 1966film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Silicate monster from ''Island of Terror (1966 film)''...]]
-''Island of Terror'', AKA ''Night of the Silicates'', ''The Creepers'', ''The Night the Creatures Came'', ''The Night the Silicates Came'' (1966); the same producer and director loosely remade this film (with a similar cast but different monsters) as ''Night of the Big Heat'' AKA ''Island of the Burning Damned'' (1967)
+''Island of Terror'', AKA ''Night of the Silicates'', ''The Creepers'', ''The Night the Creatures Came'', ''The Night the Silicates Came'' (1966); the same producer and director loosely remade this film (with a similar cast but different monsters) as ''Night of the Big Heat'' AKA ''Island of the Burning Damned'' and ''Island of the Burning Doomed'' (1967)
 ==Summary==