History Film / FrankensteinIsland

* {{Brainwashed}}: Sheila Frankenstein brainwashes Doc into helping with her experiments to revitalize her husband. Doc's friends realize there is something wrong when Doc has no issues with conducting experiements that result in the deaths of human subjects. Eventually, they take Sheila hostage and force her to turn off the devices holding Doc in her thrall.

* BullyingADragon: For some reason, Curtis decides to pick a fight with a group of the guards, despite knowing they are zombies engineered to be perfect guards and that some of them can fly into an unstoppable fits of violence.
* BrainInAJar: A human brain in a glass dome is essential part of Sheila and Van Helsing's apparatus. It provides the psychic link to Dr. Frankenstein on the other side of the veil, and allows him to provide the psychic energy that keeps Van Helsing alive and powers the army of guard zombies.

* EvilCripple: MadScientist Dr. Van Helsing is confined to a bed in the MadScientistLaboratory following his near-death experience. Much of his wife's Sheila's work is devote to finding a way to make him mobile again.
* EyepatchOfPower: Jocko, one of Sheila Frankensteins two human henchmen, sports an eyepatch. Whatever is under it is so horrific that Curtis recoils away when shown it.

* FriendToBugs: the Amazon priestess has a special affinity for spiders and snakes and allows them to crawl over her body.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: What seems to have happened to Jason. Kept imprisoned by Sheila for more than a decade to serve as a living blood bank for her comatose husband, he keeps rambling about his [[LostLenore dead wife and how beautiful she was]], and suddenly quoting long passages from Creator/EdgarAllanPoe
* HenchmenRace: Sheila Frankenstein has created a race of guard creatures by experimenting on shipwrecked sailors. They are programmed to be the perfects and have no blood, making them unstoppable by anything short of being cut in half by a machine gun. Some of them are prone to fits of unstoppable rage, however.

* TheIgor: Clay has taken on the role of Sheila Frankenstein's dogsbody; presumably to make himself useful so she does not use him for her experiments. He commands the zombie guards, takes the blood from Jason, kidnaps women and procures animals for her experiments, etc.

* KneelPushTrip: When the balloonists first arrive on the island, Curtis starts haranguing Mark about being a sinner. Dino signals to Mark and then kneels behind Curtis. Mark gives Curtis a shove and he falls backwards over Dino on to the sand.

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Upon learning of the balloonists'' presence on the island, MadScientist Sheila Frankenstein dispatches her henchmen to fetch them and bring them to her house. Upon their arrival, she shares a fine bottle of cognac with them (presumably the budget of the film didn't stretch to actual food).

* SpiritAdvisor: Sheila Frankenstein is being advised in continuing the family's blasphemous experiemnts by the spirit of her dead great-grandfather who communicates by using her comatose husband as a medium. However, Dr. Frankenstein's spirit may not be entirely on Sheila's side as he is also appearing to certain memebers of the Amazon tribe and promising them power.

* TalkativeLoon: Jason, who is being kept imprisoned as a [[HumanResources permanent blood donor for Van Helsing]], has gone mad from the isolation, and starts rambling anytime someone talks to him; usually ending up quoting long passages of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe.

* PlayingWithSyringes: Sheila Frankenstein is keeping Jason alive and imprisoned as a source of blood for the transfusions she is using to keep her husband alive. She also conducts several other blood based experiments, susch as transfusing him with a mixture of Amazon and animal blood. All of her bloodwork involves extensive use of syringes. Additionally, at one point she sends [[TheIgor Clay]] to sedate Jason, which he does by injecting what appears to be a horse syringe into Jason's spine.

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Upon learning of the balloonists'' presence on the island, MadScientist Sheila Frankenstein dispatches her henchmen to fetch them and bring them to her house. Upon their arrival, she shares a fine bottle of cognac with them (presumably the budge of the film didn't stretch to actual food).

* RuthlessModernPirates: It is strongly implied that Clay and Jocko were pirates before they were shipwrecked on the only. Certainly neither of them have any compunctions about working for a MadScientist conducting experiments on unwilling human subjects.

* TheIgor: Clay has taken on the role of Sheila Frankenstein's dogsbody; presumably to make himself useful so she does not use him for her experiments. He commands the zombie guards, takes the blood from Jason, kidnaps women and procures women for her experiments, etc.

* ArtificalZombie: Sheila Frankenstein has created a HenchmenRace of artificial zombies by experimenting on the shipwrecked sailors stranded on the island. It is repeatedly stated that they have no blood and are reanimated by psychic energy provided by the spirit of her dead great-grandfather. Supposedly they cannot be stopped by anything short of being cut in half with a machine gun.

* JungleDrums: Played by the Amazons during their celebration. It has a very African beat despite the island I'm question being in the Philippines and nowhere near Africa.