This film begins during the 17th Century on an island somewhere near the Bermuda Triangle where some Spanish soldiers are fighting for their lives against an incredible number of zombies. The scene then shifts to the present day where a small group of treasure hunters find their ship engulfed by a fog bank and because of a collision with another ship are forced to take refuge on a nearby uncharted island. Sure enough, this just happens to be the same island in the previous scene and the treasure hunters soon find themselves in the same situation as the Spanish soldiers 320 years earlier. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a typically bad low-budget film by Bruno Mattei which suffered from a bad script, bad character development and bad acting. Everything was bad. It also features some of the most incredibly stupid people to have ever walked on the planet as each of them stumble from one bad predicament to another based entirely on their limited decision-making processes. And things then go from bad to worse. That being said, those who may have enjoyed the movie "The Evil Dead" might find some similarities with this film-but even then there isn't really much of a comparison between the two. Personally, other than the presence of two fairly attractive actresses, Yvette Yzon (as "Sharon") and Ydalia Suarez ("Victoria") there really wasn't much of anything here that caught my eye and for that reason I have rated this movie accordingly. Definitely below average.
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