Query: 1980's sci-fi films set on Islands
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Zombi 3
Bad Taste
The Nest (1988 film)
Death Warmed Up
Batteries Not Included
The Final Countdown (film)
The Quiet Earth (film)
Cocoon (film)
Breeders (film)
The Return of Godzilla
The Brother from Another Planet
Evidence from documents: Zombi 3: 1980's sci-fi films: a 1988 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei and starring Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, and Ottaviano Dell'acqua. The film is an in-name-only sequel to Fulci's ''Zombi 2''. The film is about a group of scientists at a top-secret research facility who are working on a biological weapon called Death One, which mutates and kills the living creatures and reanimates the dead.
set on Islands: the atmospheric infection may not be confined to the island
Bad Taste: 1980's sci-fi films: '''''Bad Taste''''' is a 1987 New Zealand science-fiction comedy horror film
set on Islands: The plotline sees aliens invade the fictional New Zealand village of Kaihoro to harvest humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise, where they face off against a four-man paramilitary force.
The Nest (1988 film): '''''The Nest''''' is an 1988 American science-fiction horror film directed by Terence H. Winkless in his directorial debut. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Eli Cantor (published under the pseudonym Gregory A. Douglas), the film's screenplay was written by Robert King. The film was produced by Julie Corman and stars Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, and Terri Treas.


''The Nest'' takes place in a small New England town that is overrun by genetically engineered killer cockroaches. The local sheriff (Luz) joins forces with his former girlfriend (Langlois) and a pest control agent (Stephen Davies) to defeat the insects. The film was released in the United States on May 13, 1988, by Concorde Pictures, and received mixed reviews from critics.
Richard Tarbell, the sheriff of a small island town called North Port, wakes up one morning to find several cockroaches in his house.
Death Warmed Up: After spending seven years in a mental institution for the murders, Michael, his girlfriend Sandy (Margaret Umbers) and his two friends Jeannie (Norelle Scott) and Lucas (William Upjohn) use Michael's car, a black 1963 Ford Fairlane 500, to set out on a trip to a remote island on which Dr. Howell's clinic is located.
Batteries Not Included: '''''Batteries Not Included''''' (stylized as '''''*batteries not included''''') is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins about small extraterrestrial living spaceships that save an apartment block under threat from property development. The story was originally intended to be featured in the television series ''Amazing Stories'', but executive producer Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to adapt it into a film. It was the feature film screenwriting debut of Brad Bird.
Frank and Faye Riley, an elderly couple who manage an apartment building and café in the East Village, come under threat by a nearby property development. The development manager, Lacey, sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. When the tenants resist, Carlos and his thugs punch through artist Mason Baylor's door, intimidate pregnant single mother Marisa Esteval, and break retired boxer Harry Noble's jar of tiles. After Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos vandalizes the café.
The Quiet Earth (film): '''''The Quiet Earth''''' is a 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison. Other sources of inspiration have been suggested: the 1954 novel ''I Am Legend'', ''Dawn of the Dead'', and especially the 1959 film ''The World, the Flesh and the Devil'', of which it has been called an unofficial remake.
July 5 begins as a normal winter morning near Hamilton, New Zealand. At 6:12 a.m., the sun darkens for a moment, and a red light surrounded by darkness is briefly seen.
Cocoon (film): The film was shot in and around St. Petersburg, Florida
Breeders (film): 1980's sci-fi films: s a 1986 horror-science fiction film
set on Islands: When five Manhattan women,
The Return of Godzilla: is a 1984 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Koji Hashimoto, with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. The film features the fictional monster character Godzilla
The Brother from Another Planet: '''''The Brother from Another Planet''''' is a 1984 American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles. The low-budget film stars Joe Morton as an extraterrestrial trapped on Earth.
A mute space alien crash-lands his ship on Ellis Island. Other than his three-toed feet which he keeps covered, he resembles a black human man. He manages to blend in with the people he encounters and engages in one-sided conversations with various denizens of New York City. He secures housing through a new acquaintance at a Harlem bar. Able to heal wounds and fix machines by holding his hand over them, he repairs an arcade cabinet there, leading to him gaining a job as a technician. Two men in black, keen on the mute alien's whereabouts, begin to track him and interrogate the people he has encountered. They seek to return him to the planet from which he escaped.