Voodoo Island is a 1957 horror film featuring the popular horror icon Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

. The film is set in the South Pacific

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

 and was filmed on Kauai, Hawaii.

History

After being released theatrically by United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

 in 1957, the film was briefly re-titled "Silent Death" for its 1962 theatrical re-release. On September 20, 2005, MGM (which owns United Artists

United Artists

United Artists Corporation is an American film studio. The original studio of that name was founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks....

) released "Voodoo Island" and "The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake is a 1959 USA black-and-white horror film written by Orville H. Hampton and directed by Edward L. Cahn, one of a series of films they made in the late 1950s for producer Robert E...

" together in a double bill, marking the date as the first time the film was ever released on any form of home-viewing.