Queen of Lost Island (1994) User Reviews (3)

As bad as it gets

[BandSAboutMovies · 1/10 · 25 January 2021]

I've watched many a bad movie for this site, but this has to be the new basement when it comes to films, a Shot On Video piece of flaccid garbage that wants so very badly to be pornography but stops short, providing all of the downsides of 1990's VCA crap you had to rent from the back of the video store with none of the upside, like actual pornography or the lunacy of the Dark Brothers or Rinse Dream.

I really wanted it to fit into this week's theme of matriarchal societies, as it seemed like from the description that Strain's character was She. But no. No, not at all.

This all became more crustal clear when I saw who made it: Donald G. Jackson, the director of more than three Roller Blade themed movies who has one lone success, Hell Comes to Frogtown.

A whole bunch of women has been invited to an island that takes over their minds - or so they say - while Julie Strain waits for them, naked and swinging around a sword. Do you know how boring a movie has to be to not be good while featuring Julie Strain topless? This movie will give you the answer.

Literally, during this movie, I yelled out loud, "Robert Z'Dar, don't you have something better to do?"

Also known as The Devil's Pet and Elixir - the name it finally came out in 2004 on home video under - this movie also has Tina-Desiree Berg (Legend of the Roller Blade Seven), Lori Jo Hendrix (Bikini Summer) and Jeff Hutchinson (who shows up in many of Jackson's films, like Lingerie Kickboxer and Roller Blade).

Fans of bad movies - this is quite literally as bad as it gets.

Wild and crazy

[wolfhell88 · 5/10 · 13 May 2021]

On an island photographer Robert Z'dar takes sexy pics from model Julie Strain. Later Julie finds a bottle with an elixir, drinks it and rolls around in pain. From that moment on she starts running around naked throughout the whole island with a sword in her hand, she poses on a rock with that sword and is having a shower in a lake. The camera can't get enough of showing her perfect and beautiful body. Intercut with a beautiful dark-haired girl dressed in wild clothings stumping on the ground, wild drum sound in the background. Later another photgrapher, Kenny (Nicholas Celozzi) travels to the same island with 3 models, the most beautiful of them is gorgeous Lori Jo Hendrix as Bobbie. Then they meet Damian (Jeff Hutchinson, here looking like a mixture between actor David Keith and Popstar Phil Collins), who they thought was missing. He forces the girls to drink from the elixir and soon the girls turn into sexmaniacs and call him a "Love God" (God, wish I had that elixir in my teenage years). Lori's character Bobbie makes love to Kenny but is too smart to drink from that elixir.

Again we see Julie Strain running around the island, another girl runs around, too and the beautiful dark-haired girl in her wild clothings stumps on the ground. Photographer Kenny gets interviewed in his home by a journalist. He then mixes her a drink (with the elixir!) and she gets all wild and hot for him. "This doesn't make any sense" is one of his last lines and he is so right because then the film suddenly ends after 74 minutes.

A wild and crazy movie from cult movie director Donald G. Jackson but Julie Strain and Lori Jo Hendrix really make it worth to watch!

Don Jackson's best bad movie, transcendent, don't miss it

[HEFILM · 10/10 · 12 February 2006]

Don Jackson would never write scripts for his films and many were being made at the same time and he was also fired from several of them. His IMDb listing is by no means a complete list of all the films he was involved with. This film started out being a "my dinner with Andre" rip off but ended up being a Cool World rip off instead or as well. Lots of little animated, using the term very loosely, characters that appear to mutter obscene things to distract us or say things so far out of left field that they are actually in the right field of the adjacent ball park. Also in this is Julie Strain appearing to be sodomizing actor Niel Delama--a scene she later recalled once as being great. Well, no doubting her this time.

Also on hand to fascinate is former taxi star Jeff Conway slumming his way back into rehab clinic. This movie would drive God to use drugs. At least Bela Lugosi didn't live to know he was in Plan 9 from Outer Space.

But words can't really describe the strange awful power this film has. It's just a nonsensical explosion of off the wall ideas and dialog--probably much of it only half remembered or half improvised as the cameras rolled mercilessly on. Like an Andy Kaufman routine where the audience is insulted and bored into being amused and entertained it is this non-stop barrage or oddity that keeps this going.

It's hypnotic and defies what anyone would call a movie. Lots of Don's later movies did this but most are just unwatchable this one is transcendent. The level of imagination run wild here to try to make something out of a bunch of nothings. There nothing else quite like this movie, you'll probably have to watch it in bits and pieces over several days or your brain will explode. To understand Don Jackson this is the place to start. Fun fact towards the end of his life Jackson claimed to have formed his own religion, "the church of light" in an effort to be able to raise money as a church and have it be non taxable. He'd refer to conversations he had with people as being sermons. Did Jackson actually believe this himself or did he come to think of himself as a Christ like figure? Watching this film you won't find the answers but you'll realize that inside Jackson's head anything is possible.