Island of Lost Souls
Erle C. Kenton, 1932
A shipwrecked man winds up on the island of Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton), who is experimenting with surgically turning animals into people.
This is quite the mess. It's too short to convincingly develop any of the relationships, the hero doesn't really have anything to do with how the plot turns out, and Bela Lugosi is criminally underused. The only thing it really has going for it is Laughton's performance, which is second only to Ernest Thesiger's Dr. Pretorious for effeminate camp value.
2/10
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