Synopsis
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.
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Cast
- Michael PeñaMr. Roarke
- Maggie QGwen Olsen
- Lucy HaleMelanie Cole
- Michael RookerDamon
- Austin StowellPatrick Sullivan
- Jimmy O. YangBrax Weaver
- Portia DoubledaySloane Maddison
- Charlotte McKinneyChastity
- Ryan HansenJ. D. Weaver
- Mike VogelLieutenant Sullivan
Recommendations
- 42
The A.V. Club
Thriller framework aside, Fantasy Island probably works best as a comedy. At least when it’s not trying to be one. - 42
Original-Cin
Suffice to say, this is all getting explained when scary things could actually be happening. My “FUN-tasy” throughout was that the credits would roll. - 40
IGN
Blumhouse’s theatrical adaptation of the TV classic Fantasy Island never quite works as a horror film, a comedy, or a melodrama despite its attempts at being all three. It works marginally better as a mystery but by that point, you’re not as invested in the story’s outcome or its generic protagonists to muster much of a reaction. - 30
TheWrap
If this new movie — referred to in some circles as Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island — were a pilot for a TV reboot, it would come off as overwrought and underwritten but still possibly on the right track for a revived anthology series. As a movie, those flaws are magnified to the size of the silver screen, and its contrivances and coincidences come off as even less convincing. - 30
The New York Times
This is all interesting from a pro-am cinema semiotics perspective, but none of it is in the least bit scary. This, really, is what happens when you take all the wrong lessons out of film school. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
If this were the feature-length pilot episode for some cheap reboot on a streaming service — which is what it feels like — a generous viewer might half-heartedly agree to tune in next week and see if things get more interesting. But on the big screen? A sequel would be less welcome than a new episode of, say, Charlie's Angels. Or Starsky & Hutch. - 30
Variety
The finished film plays at times like an out-of-control pitch meeting, lurching from one ostensibly clever idea to the next without having taken the trouble to connect the dots, or even to remain consistent with the two simple rules it sets out for itself. - 25
IndieWire
By the time this Fantasy Island arrives at its gallingly stupid final twist, you’ll be dying to go home.
