Monster Island

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Monster Island

2024

1h 23m

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Horror

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Based on Malay Folklore and drawing inspiration from Creature From the Black Lagoon, this creature feature is set in World War II. A Japanese ship transporting prisoners of war to occupied territories for slave labor. After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they're being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan. Both the soldier and POW realize that they must work together to survive the unknown, despite their differences.

Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Jul 25

2/4

Despite some solid low-budget make-up work and decent central performances, “Monster Island” doesn’t have enough meat on its bones, somehow feeling narratively inert even at just 83 minutes.

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Jazzmin Crawley

Dread Central

Oct 11

4/5

Orang Ikan has a heavy dose of kicking and punching, which is on brand for director Mike Wiluan. Fans of hand-to-hand combat, war movies, and creature features are in for a pleasant surprise.

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Emily Maesar

MovieJawn

Aug 19

While there’s not a particularly deep message in Monster Island, it’s a solid entry in the “befriending the enemy” trope that often comes along with more intimate war stories that are set outside the bounds of the battlefield.

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John Serba

Decider

Aug 1

Monster Island is good. Well, at least good enough for the niche it inhabits.

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Drew Dietsch

Giant Freakin Robot

Jul 30

3/5

Monster Island might get accused of being bare bones by other critics, but I prefer to see it as a “meat and potatoes”

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Erik Childress

Movie Madness Podcast

Jul 26

1.5/4

A cross between Hell in the Pacific and Creature from the Black Lagoon should not be this boring.

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Andrianna C.

@marriedtotheplot Dec 12

Dude, this is a solid monster movie. That’s it, plain and simple. It’s advertised as a movie with a murderous monster and BOOM, it’s a murderous monster movie. This quick hour and twenty-two minute movie gets right to the chase. Two captives in WWII get shipwreck in the pacific. One is Japanese and the other is English. Chained together and fighting at first, they discover they have to work together to survive, then BAM! monster shows up. It’s go the kills you hope for. The monster reminds me of The Creature From the Black Lagoon. Not a bad little flick.

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Dog B

Nov 24

Should have been a Predator movie.

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John H.

@BearAndose Oct 24

Great movie! At first for no reason at all I thought it was an origin story for John C Riley's Character from Skull Island. The movie was perfect for what I was looking for on a late Thursday night! Lots of action, lots of fun, good story..

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Darren D

@DarrenJD Oct 8

"Monster Island", a straightforward World War II creature feature & a tale of survival when enemies must take on a greater foe, a jacked up Creature from the Black Lagoon. Fun monster design & head ripping practical effects made it a good time.

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Spawny M

Aug 28

10 words or less movie review: The park outside my bedroom window is scarier.

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Casey D

Aug 19

For a low budget, the special effects and location were great. Acting was mediocre and the story line was fairly linear. However, in the end you realize what monster island was about and it is worth the view.

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Mike Wiluan

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Dean Fujioka

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Callum Woodhouse

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Alan Maxson

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Mike Wiluan

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Eric Khoo

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Synopsis

Based on Malay Folklore and drawing inspiration from Creature From the Black Lagoon, this creature feature is set in World War II. A Japanese ship transporting prisoners of war to occupied territories for slave labor. After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they're being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan. Both the soldier and POW realize that they must work together to survive the unknown, despite their differences.

Director: Mike Wiluan
Producer: Eric Khoo, Freddie Yeo, Tan Fong Cheng, Fumie Suzuki Lancaster
Screenwriter: Mike Wiluan
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Gorylah Pictures
Genre: Action, Horror
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 25, 2025
Runtime: 1h 23m

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