Isle of the Dead / Bedlam

Boris Karloff stars in a pair of eerie Val Lewton films. First, a plague quarantine strands some visitors on an isolated Greek island. Does a female vampire dwell among them, and can the travellers escape the "Isle of the Dead"? With Ellen Drew, Alan Napier. Next, the final Lewton thriller for RKO features Karloff as the sadistic keeper of the infamous 18th-century English asylum known as "Bedlam." When a young woman threatens to expose his abuses, Karloff has her committed to his less-than-tender mercies. Anna Lee, Richard Fraser co-star. 151 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; audio commentary.