Fantasy Island: 6 Moments That Were Truly Scary (& 4 That Were Just Cheesy)

Fantasy Island contains some truly scary moments, but also a few that are rather cheesy, as it explores human desire. Here are the best and worst.

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There’s never enough good horror films for the fans of this genre. Even though the audience gets dozens of new horror films each year, only a small number of them work with an interesting plot, a story idea, which has the potential to be truly frightening. Fantasy Island doesn’t disappoint in this area.

After all, it revolves around the fulfillment of human desires and deepest wishes, which may sound innocent at first, but can actually be quite dangerous, especially if you don’t really know what you’re asking for. Fantasy Island contains some truly scary moments, but also a few that are rather cheesy. Warning – there will be spoilers ahead.

10 Scary: Melanie Tortures Sloane

The visitors of the Fantasy Island have an option to choose any wish they want, and the island’s keeper, Mr. Roarke, will then fulfill the wish they have. But they’re only allowed one wish per person, so it’s important to choose wisely.

Some of the visitors in the film just want to have one, but Melanie Cole, played by Lucy Hale, wants to get revenge on her childhood bully, Sloane Maddison, who bullied her in school. Melanie finds Sloane chained in a dark room and has the option to torture her by just pressing a few buttons… without realizing that it’s all real.

9 Scary: Melanie Realizes It’s Real

At first, Melanie is having fun torturing the image of her childhood enemy, as she believes that it’s all a fake, a game, perhaps an actress or a hologram, not a real person. But once she sends a video to Sloane’s husband proving that Sloane had cheated on him, Melanie realizes it’s all real and that she is actually torturing the real Sloane.

She decides to help the trapped young woman but she has to deal with a nightmarish vision from her past first – a surgeon who treated Melanie in the past when she was suffering from mental problems. Melanie hurts him and she and Sloane run away in terror.

8 Scary: The Surgeon Comes Back

One of the terrors of the Fantasy Island, which the characters gradually become aware of, is the fact that even if you kill or maim a part of your fantasy, a person who endangers you, he or she can still come back and haunt you. Even once Melanie and Sloane escape the torture chamber, they’re still not safe.

They run through the island’s rich forests, and yet, the surgeon once again comes back and attacks them, attempting to kill Sloane, finish the job he planned to do before Melanie had stopped him. Fighting someone once is frightening enough but fighting someone who doesn’t seem to be able to die is a whole new level of terror.

7 Cheesy: Sloane Confronts Melanie

Once Melanie and Sloane get out in the open and escape the torture chamber, it might seem like the worst is behind them. That’s not true, though, since the Fantasy Island still has several unpleasant surprises up its metaphorical sleeves. In the end, the biggest danger isn’t the crazy surgeon determined to kill Sloane, though.

It’s Melanie who lies to Sloane and pretends that she’s just another victim of the island, that she was kidnapped, instead of coming to the island as a guest. Even once Sloane finds out the truth and confronts Melanie about it, instead of giving in into her righteous anger, she just more or less lets it pass, and the scene falls somewhat flat.

6 Scary: J.D. And Brax Face The Cartel

While Melanie is hell-bent on getting her revenge for all the excruciating years she spent as a victim of her bullies, most notably Sloane, other guests of the Fantasy Island have much more relaxing plans. Among the visitors are two brothers, J.D. and Brax, who just want to have fun, drink, party, dance with beautiful women and men, simply enjoy their life for a while. As they say, they want to have it all.

Unfortunately for J.D. and Brax, the island and Mr. Roarke soon teach them that you can’t have it all, not without paying a price anyway. When they’re relaxing in a luxury villa, they’re ambushed by a drug cartel, and it turns out that J.D. and Brax actually broke into a house of a dangerous man.

5 Cheesy: The Drug Cartel Comes Back To Life

A joke once repeated hardly works the same the second time it did when you said it for the first time. That same goes for any threat, the more you show it and repeat it, the more you diminish its effect and overall scariness. This is also true for Fantasy Island and its inhabitants, some of whom are more human than the others.

When are J.D. and Brax ambushed by the drug cartel, they eventually manage to find their way out of the dangerous situation, albeit not without assistance. Yet even when they kill the drug cartel, its members still come back to life, which isn’t as scary as it could be since the audience already saw it happen before with the surgeon who chased after Melanie and Sloane.

4 Scary: J.D. Dies

Fantasy Island features multiple poignant relationships between its various characters, but one of the strongest ones and best portrayed is the brotherly bond between J.D. and Brax. These two arrive on the island together and are basically inseparable.

It’s revealed fairly soon that they live together, and have been doing so ever since their parents kicked Brax out when he came out as gay. The two brothers genuinely care about each other, that’s why it’s so heartwrenching to watch J.D. die. He gets shot and even though the other characters try to help him, it’s to no avail. His death is even worse because it comes unexpectedly.

3 Cheesy: Melanie Confesses Her True Goal

In all genres of films, but especially horror movies is important to come up with an imaginative plot twist, something which will surprise the viewers and cause them to remember the film, but also not something overly cheesy and improbable.

Unfortunately, in this case, the twist isn’t handled in the best possible way. Throughout the film, it becomes more and more clear, that Melanie isn’t quite normal, so to speak, but when she finally reveals her true plan and the fact that she orchestrated everything that had happened and got all the other heroes to the island to revenge the death of a guy she loved (even though she went on a single date with him!), it just feels too forced.

2 Scary: Gwen Tries To Save Nick

Gwen, another visitor of the Fantasy Island, who was portrayed by Maggie Q, is one of the most intriguing characters of the films. Unlike J.D. and Brax, who came to the island to have fun, Gwen came to see what would have happened if she hadn’t rejected a marriage proposal from a man she loved.

She accepts the proposal this time around and sees a life she could have had with him – an idyllic marriage and a beautiful daughter, two things she had dreamed of. Yet, she gives it up for a chance to save her neighbor Nick from a fire. But even though Gwen does her best to save Nick’s life and throws herself into a fiery inferno for him, she still fails.

1 Cheesy: Nick Takes Melanie Away

All bad guys deserve to be punished in the end. It doesn’t always work out in real life, but it usually happens in the movies, even though some villains do prevail and defeat the heroes. In Fantasy Island, after Melanie cleverly tricks all the other visitors to come into the caves where the real source of the island’s powers to fulfill their wishes lies, she confesses why she wants them to die.

But instead of helping Melanie, Mr. Roarke finally turns against her and decides to do a good thing. Nick then appears, grabs Melanie and takes her away with him, in a scene which is random it’s almost funny.

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