Tanya's Island

Tanya's Island
Film poster
Directed by	Alfred Sole
Written by
Produced by	Pierre Brousseau
Starring	Vanity Richard Sargent
Cinematography	Mark Irwin
Edited by	Andrew Henderson Michael MacLaverty
Music by
Production companies	Canadian Film Development Corporation Fred Baker Films
Distributed by	Fred Baker Films
Release date	December 5, 1980 (1980-12-05)
Countries	United States Canada
Language	English

Tanya's Island is a 1980 Canadian-American fantasy film directed by Alfred Sole.^[1] It stars Denise "Vanity" Matthews (credited as “D.D. Winters”) 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.

Plot[]

Tanya (Vanity) is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo (Richard Sargent), a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, and her dream comes true. The only other person on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape (played by and voiced by ) who emerged from one of Lobo's paintings. Tanya befriends the beast and nicknames him "Blue." Soon she begins to feels a strange attraction to the creature, which makes Lobo increasingly jealous in the real world. He becomes determined to capture the man-ape and put it in a cage.

Cast[]

• Vanity as Tanya (credited as D.D. Winters)
• Richard Sargent as Lobo
• Mariette Lévesque as Kelly
• Don McLeod as Blue (credited as Don McCloud)
• Donny Burns as Blue's Voice

References[]

External links[]

• Tanya's Island at IMDb
• Tanya's Island at the Internet Broadway Database
• Tanya's Island at BFI

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