American-style gorefests like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were glaringly absent from 1980s Hong Kong cinema, which is why The Island (1985) was such a brutal outlier.
Directed by Leong Po-chih (Hong Kong 1941), the film sees a teacher (played by John Sham Kin-fun) take a group of students on a field trip to a deserted island – in reality, Tung Ping Chau – where they are hunted by three crazed brothers.
With the film now getting a new Blu-ray release from Eureka Entertainment, we spoke to film historian Frank Djeng, who provided the commentary, about this unique slasher.
