What a lot of tosh!
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping and Doctor Del Shaw is sent to take some routine measurements and samples from the island. Ian Bannen plays the Doctor. The regular characters from the ‘Doomwatch’ BBC TV series appear, but it sidelines them in favour of this new character.
In a cliché (spoofed by “American Werewolf in London†among others) the locals don’t like strangers (in a very similar vein to those in ‘The Wicker Man’ from the following year). These films couldn’t have done much for Scottish tourism in the early ‘70’s! Both would make you think twice about going to the Scottish Isles alone, and you had better take a tent for accommodation.
Suspicious, Del stays on and discovers that people who eat fish caught in those waters “go ugly†and eventually become murderous mutants, but his task at uncovering proof is made difficult by the islanders who believe it is due to inbreeding, and by obstruction from officials, corporate and Navy types.
Very far fetched and hard to believe – human growth hormone rearranged to make plants and animals grow to giant size – completely unexplained Gamma radiation - Judy Geeson (the school mistress) hasn't noticed one of her pupils has vanished - the fisherman from the mainland only sells his fish to the islanders – a cure for the Acromegaly by treating the Pituitary Gland when the hormone that has affected them came from their diet.
He eventually convinces the locals to allow medical types to come and take them away to the mainland for several years, clean-up teams come to the island, and a community’s whole way of life is destroyed (but none of that is covered in the film).
Now if they really want to make a great environmental movie, which would still have pace and action sequences on a fast boat, as well as a more believable science-based plot, then they shouldfilm Neal Stephenson’s “Zodiacâ€.
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping and Doctor Del Shaw is sent to take some routine measurements and samples from the island. Ian Bannen plays the Doctor. The regular characters from the ‘Doomwatch’ BBC TV series appear, but it sidelines them in favour of this new character.
In a cliché (spoofed by “American Werewolf in London†among others) the locals don’t like strangers (in a very similar vein to those in ‘The Wicker Man’ from the following year). These films couldn’t have done much for Scottish tourism in the early ‘70’s! Both would make you think twice about going to the Scottish Isles alone, and you had better take a tent for accommodation.
Suspicious, Del stays on and discovers that people who eat fish caught in those waters “go ugly†and eventually become murderous mutants, but his task at uncovering proof is made difficult by the islanders who believe it is due to inbreeding, and by obstruction from officials, corporate and Navy types.
Very far fetched and hard to believe – human growth hormone rearranged to make plants and animals grow to giant size – completely unexplained Gamma radiation - Judy Geeson (the school mistress) hasn't noticed one of her pupils has vanished - the fisherman from the mainland only sells his fish to the islanders – a cure for the Acromegaly by treating the Pituitary Gland when the hormone that has affected them came from their diet.
He eventually convinces the locals to allow medical types to come and take them away to the mainland for several years, clean-up teams come to the island, and a community’s whole way of life is destroyed (but none of that is covered in the film).
Now if they really want to make a great environmental movie, which would still have pace and action sequences on a fast boat, as well as a more believable science-based plot, then they shouldfilm Neal Stephenson’s “Zodiacâ€.
