The Sprocket Society presents: a yacht blithely strays into cut-throat terror in this legendary pre-Code thriller, shown with spooky shorts — all on 16mm film!
A secret island owned by a rich, calculating psychopath with unholy kinks. An innocent man and woman thrown together by pure chance, stranded by “accident,” far beyond the help of any caring soul. Frayed wits and a woodsman’s knife pitted against the rich man’s cunning, his arsenal, and his pack of ravening hounds. Ah, the manhunt is on! The bloodlust…so sweet. So perfectly crafted. So inconsequential.
Joel McRae, Fay Wray, and a gloriously villainous Leslie Banks star in a tightly wound thriller that’s as short and hard-hitting as a crossbow bolt.
A low budget studio throw-away, 94 years later it’s been copied countless times yet never bested. Co-helmed by the director of King Kong and shot on the same jungle sets, the tension and fog-choked visuals linger long after the credits roll.
All aboard: your berth awaits!