Island of Death

Nico Mastorakis
1975

This campy dose of Greek grindhouse trash was banned in the UK, and has used that notoriety as a selling point ever since. Mostly a slapdash collection of halfhearted shock tactics (bestiality, male and female homosexuality) genre cliches (religious obsessions, the fetishized photographing of violence), and lots of nudity this is by no means a "lost classic," but you could certainly do worse with a couple hours. Young aryan couple Christopher and Celia vacation to a sunny Greek island where they commence to brutally stamp out what they perceive as perversion through a series of elaborate murders. Christopher's got the die-hard fervor, but an increasingly distant Celia seems to be less into cleaning up the island than getting a few kicks. The most notably extreme scene comes when Christopher beds an older woman (marked for death due to her promiscuity) and urinates on her during foreplay. Initially the old barfly is shocked, but then she begins to like it.... The picture would be mostly forgettable were it not for an incongruously satisfying and effective ending: a take on sexual relations that Sam Peckinpah would dig.