Out of Control

12/9/2021

_**Youths stuck on an island in the Puget Sound region**_ Eight high school seniors in Seattle leave the Prom and take a seaplane to a private island in order to celebrate, but they end up at a deserted isle where they may or may not bond, not to mention face serious challenges. Will they survive? Released in 1984-1985, "Out of Control" is an obscure youth adventure that starts off like the future “The Edge” (1997), but has more in common with “April Fool’s Day” (1986) since both flicks involve a group of youths on an island in (or near) Puget Sound. While there’s no slasher angle to this one, there’s still a serious threat to the students, which I’m not gonna give away. A well-done spin-the-bottle sequence is reminiscent of the opening playing-in-the-mud sequence in “Village of