Fantasy Island – Spoiler alert

February 14, 2020
Horror / thriller
PG-13
UNITED STATES
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Recommended by: Kimber Spores

There is a place called Fantasy Island where everything and everything is possible. Five lucky guests can have everything they want. It looks like a dream come true. In reality, it’s a nightmare.

Mr. Roarke (Michael Peña) is the island’s operator, but he is not responsible for fantasies that come to life. According to him, this work belongs to the island itself. He and his staff, including his assistant Julia (Parisa Fitz-Henley), take care of the guests before being sent to each of their adventures. There are two rules: only one fantasy per person, and the fantasy must be completed at its natural conclusion.

It starts with the JD Weaver brothers (Ryan Hansen) and his young brother, Brax (Jimmy O. Yang). Brax was not technically one of the guests, but JD was authorized to bring it. The fantasy of JD is to have everything: wealth, women, is constantly celebrating. Brax can take advantage of it. Then comes Gwen Olsen (Maggie Q). His fantasy is to go back in time and say “yes” to Allen Chambers (Robbie Jones) when he offers her and has a girl. She gets what she wants, including Lila (Jeriya Benn), her five -year -old child.

The other fantasies are not so optimistic. Patrick Sullivan (Austin Sowell) had always wanted to enlist, but promised his mother that he would not. He wants to be a hero, like his father. Finally, there is Melanie Cole (Lucy Hale), who wants to take revenge on her high school tyrant, Sloan Maddison (Portia Doubleday).

Things go as planned, of course, but they are starting to be wrong. JD and Brax realize that having everything, someone else will want it, so they are attacked by a group of men in masks and brandishing firearms. Patrick discovers that he is thrown in the middle of the mission of his father’s army; The one where his father (Mike Vogel) dies. Melanie thinks that the girl she tortures is only a hologram, but quickly discovers that Sloan had in fact been kidnapped and brought to the island. And Gwen sees that, although her perfect life is exactly what she wants is not what she deserves. She has a dark past, the one who cost a man her life to a man.

The only one who really knows what’s going on is a man who lived in the woods. Damon (Michael Rooker) was a private investigator who was invited on the island to verify whether the statements were true: that everyone’s fantasies become real, but are bad. He discovers how the island really works and tries to save the guests, in particular by attacking a villain from a cliff to save Melanie and Sloan. The problem is that the bad guys do not die and that the guests who die come back as monsters.

The guests end up meeting during their fantasies, and they realize that they do not live their fantasies at all; Just a person. They discover that they are all connected to each other. Six years earlier, Gwen accidentally sparked a fire in his apartment. His neighbor upstairs, Nick Taylor (Evan Evagora) was trapped in his own apartment. His roommates, JD and Brax, did not check to see if he was in his room because he was supposed to be out with a girl: Melanie. Patrick was the cop on the scene who refused to enter the building until the firefighters arise. The fantasy was just a great plan of revenge.

But who? Who would bring all these people to the island to kill them? I know that the blog is called spoiler alert, but you will have to watch the film to find out.

If you hesitate to horror movies, but want to try them, I recommend it as a good starting point. Yes, there is a little blood, and yes, it’s full of suspense, but there is also a good amount of humor thrown in to prevent it from being too scary. And, there is (for me, disappointing) a fairly happy ending. Including an appearance of a tattoo, the character of the Fantasy Island television show.

For me, this film is not frightening, and I want it to have a more heartbreaking end, but it is nevertheless entertaining.

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