Storyline
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.
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Cast
Michael Peña, Kim Coates, Mike Vogel, Portia Doubleday, Michael Rooker, Maggie Q, Austin Stowell, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Lucy Hale, Ryan Hansen, Goran D. Kleut, Jimmy O. Yang, Tim Wong, Charlotte McKinney, Steven A. Davis, Evan Evagora, Joshua Diaz, Ian Roberts, Renée Murden, Tane Williams-Accra, Mark Weinhandl, Jeriya Benn, Nick Slater, Edmund Lembke-Hogan
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Reviews
42
Thriller framework aside, Fantasy Island probably works best as a comedy. At least when it’s not trying to be one.
42
Original-Cin
Suffice to say, this is all getting explained when scary things could actually be happening. My “FUN-tasy” throughout was that the credits would roll.
40
IGN
Blumhouse’s theatrical adaptation of the TV classic Fantasy Island never quite works as a horror film, a comedy, or a melodrama despite its attempts at being all three. It works marginally better as a mystery but by that point, you’re not as invested in the story’s outcome or its generic protagonists to muster much of a reaction.
30
If this new movie — referred to in some circles as Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island — were a pilot for a TV reboot, it would come off as overwrought and underwritten but still possibly on the right track for a revived anthology series. As a movie, those flaws are magnified to the size of the silver screen, and its contrivances and coincidences come off as even less convincing.
30
This is all interesting from a pro-am cinema semiotics perspective, but none of it is in the least bit scary. This, really, is what happens when you take all the wrong lessons out of film school.
