Tanya's Island

Tanya's Island (1980)

Where her wildest fantasies turned to terror.

Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.

Date of release
1980-12-05
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Director
Alfred Sole

Casting

Interesting facts

Tanya's Island is a 1980 Canadian-American fantasy film directed by Alfred Sole. It stars Denise "Vanity" Matthews as a young woman caught up in a love triangle with her aggressive boyfriend and a wild ape-man on an imaginary tropical island. The ape suit was created by Rick Baker and Rob Bottin, with special effects contributions from Steve Johnson.

Production

Mick Garris and Alfred Sole had written the screenplay together, but their work on the final film went uncredited as producer Pierre Brousseau who came up with the initial idea changed the script notably making Blue more threatening and less sympathetic than in the initial draft.

As Baker wanted to create something new and exotic, he opted for a mixture of baboon and orangutan which he nicknamed a "Boom-Orang." As Baker had to leave due to commitments on The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Baker's designs were entrusted to Rob Bottin.

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