Demon Island
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Demon Island, also called Piñata: Survival Island, is a 2002
horror film
that stars Nicholas Brendon
and Jaime Pressley.
Present day, a group of sorority girls and fraternity boys, consisting of Kyle (Nicholas Brendon
), Tina (Jaime Pressly
), Doug (Eugene Byrd
), Jake (Nate Richert
), Lisa (Lara Wickes), Carmen (Julia Mendoza), Larry (Aeryk Egan), Julie (Daphne Duplaix), Bob (Robert Tena) and Connie (Tressa DiFiglia), sail to a remote island for an annual Cinco de Mayo treasure hunt. There, every fraternity boy is handcuffed to a random sorority girl. Each couple is instructed to collect as many pairs of strewn underwear on the island as possible. The couple that collects the most underwear and presents them to Monica (Casey Fallo) and Paul (Garrett Wang
), the judges, will receive $20,000. The groups consist of Jake and Julie, Doug and Carmen, Bob and Lisa, Larry and Connie, and Kyle and Tina. As the hunt starts, the pairs eagerly retrieve underwear, apart from Kyle and Tina who have just come out of a divorce. Bob and Lisa find a clay piñata, which they think has tequila or wine, but instead it was made by a tribe and they accidentally bring it to life, where it precedes to beat Bob to death with a branch, while Lisa runs away.
Kyle and Tina deicide to put aside their pasts and join in the game. Meanwhile, Lisa attempts to warn Larry and Connie of the piñata, but nethier of them believe her and continue on their search. As they do so, they pick up a shovel, and get a bunch of underwear from a secret stash.The pinata picks up the shovel, and crushes Connie's head, before turning on Larry. Lisa goes to the camp, and tells Paul and Monica about what she saw. The judges go to look for Bob. While they do so, Jake and Julie see the pinata, and Jake goes to open it. right before he smashes it, the pinata grabs him and(if you get disgusted easily, stop reading,) rips out his testicles. while it beets Julie to death. Paul is later killed. A new group of Kyle, Tina, Doug, Carmen, and Lisa now leave when they see Bob ripped in half on a tree. Doug is hanged by the pinata. As Carmen and Lisa go back, Lisa takes a bathroom break right before Carmen Gets her head chopped off. Monica finds Kyle and Tina. Lisa makes it to the camp and thinks Larry and Connie are in there just before she is killed by the pinata. Kyle, Tina, and Monica kill the pinata by blowing it up by a Molotov Cocktail
2002 in film
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horror film
Film
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that stars Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon , is an actor best known for his character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .-Early life:...
and Jaime Pressley.
Plot
Many years ago, a small, isolated tribe were cursed by spirites for their sins. One of the tribesmen crafts a piñata, to which the tribe put their evil into and set afloat in the ocean. The curse was lifted from the tribe, however if the piñata was to be disturbed, an evil would be unleashed.Present day, a group of sorority girls and fraternity boys, consisting of Kyle (Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon
Nicholas Brendon , is an actor best known for his character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .-Early life:...
), Tina (Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning one, as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...
), Doug (Eugene Byrd
Eugene Byrd
Eugene Byrd is an American actor.-Career:He has been in movies including Dead Man, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival...
), Jake (Nate Richert
Nate Richert
Nathaniel Eric "Nate" Richert is an American musician and former actor.-Early life:Richert was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Wayne and Laura Richert. He has a younger sister named Crystal, born in 1982...
), Lisa (Lara Wickes), Carmen (Julia Mendoza), Larry (Aeryk Egan), Julie (Daphne Duplaix), Bob (Robert Tena) and Connie (Tressa DiFiglia), sail to a remote island for an annual Cinco de Mayo treasure hunt. There, every fraternity boy is handcuffed to a random sorority girl. Each couple is instructed to collect as many pairs of strewn underwear on the island as possible. The couple that collects the most underwear and presents them to Monica (Casey Fallo) and Paul (Garrett Wang
Garrett Wang
Garrett Richard Wang is an American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim.-Early life:...
), the judges, will receive $20,000. The groups consist of Jake and Julie, Doug and Carmen, Bob and Lisa, Larry and Connie, and Kyle and Tina. As the hunt starts, the pairs eagerly retrieve underwear, apart from Kyle and Tina who have just come out of a divorce. Bob and Lisa find a clay piñata, which they think has tequila or wine, but instead it was made by a tribe and they accidentally bring it to life, where it precedes to beat Bob to death with a branch, while Lisa runs away.
Cast
- Nicholas BrendonNicholas BrendonNicholas Brendon , is an actor best known for his character Xander Harris in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer .-Early life:...
as Kyle - Jaime PresslyJaime PresslyJaime Elizabeth Pressly is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Joy Turner on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl, for which she was nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning one, as well as a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award...
as Tina - Eugene ByrdEugene ByrdEugene Byrd is an American actor.-Career:He has been in movies including Dead Man, Sleepers, 8 Mile, Lift and Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, and has the leading role in Confess, for which he won the Break-Out Performance Award at the 2006 Method Fest Independent Film Festival...
as Doug - Casey Fallo as Monica
- Lara Wickes as Lisa
- Garrett WangGarrett WangGarrett Richard Wang is an American actor. Wang is best known for his role in Star Trek: Voyager as Ensign Harry Kim.-Early life:...
as Paul - Julia Mendoza as Carmen
- Daphne Duplaix as Julie
- Nate RichertNate RichertNathaniel Eric "Nate" Richert is an American musician and former actor.-Early life:Richert was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Wayne and Laura Richert. He has a younger sister named Crystal, born in 1982...
as Jake - Aeryk Egan as Larry
- Tressa DiFiglia as Connie
- Robert Tena as Bob
- Ed Gale as Piñata
Details
- Originally, Demon Island contained no computer effects; the piñata monster was played by an actor in a rubber suit. After the final cut, computer effects were added to make the monster more frightening.
- This was Nicholas Brendon's second time to play a character who runs from and/or battles demons. His first time was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which he starred on from 1997 to 2003.