Fantasy Island (film)

Fantasy Island (film)

Fantasy Island is a 2020 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Jeff Wadlow. Jason Blum produced through his Blumhouse Productions banner. It stars Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Hansen, Portia Doubleday, and Michael Rooker. The movie is a horror reimagining and a prequel to ABC’s 1977 television series of the same name.

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Summary Fantasy Island (film)Fantasy Island is a 2020 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Jeff Wadlow. Jason Blum produced through his Blumhouse Productions banner. It stars Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Hansen, Portia Doubleday, and Michael Rooker. The film was theatrically released in the United States on February 14, 2020 by Sony Pictures Releasing to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing USD 48 million worldwide against its USD 7 million production budget. The movie is a horror reimagining and a prequel to ABC’s 1977 television series of the same name. It follows a group of people who, while visiting the eponymous island, discover that their dream fantasies brought to life begin to turn into horrific living nightmares they must try to survive. It is also known as Blum house’s Fantasy Island and is set in a tropical resort where fantasies apparently come true. In the film, the guests are cornered by someone else’s fantasy, which is revealed to be the Real Nick Taylor’s parents.

The guests escape to the dock to be rescued by a plane sent for it to be shot down by Damon’s associates, but are only able to destroy the glowing rock with a grenade that is hidden in a cave. The group is eventually rescued by Damon, who reveals that he is living his own fantasy of being reunited with his deceased wife, and it will be fulfilled as long as the Guests are granted to their fantasies. The next morning, Gwen wakes up to discover that she has a child with Alan and becomes dissatisfied with the way her life has turned out. She reveals that this is her true fantasy, having orches for revenge on the guests’s death, with whom she was supposed to have a date on the night he died. The trio collect some spring water and continue to the resort to ask for help. However, Fantasy Island begins to turn the other fantasies into living nightmares as J. D. and Brax are taken hostage by a drug cartel associated with the mansion’s owner.