_**Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and a “slut” are burning up off the coast of Britain**_ A sultry woman (Jane Merrow) travels to Fara, an Island in Northern UK, to work as the secretary of an author (Patrick Allen). The latter’s naïve wife (Sarah Lawson) runs the Inn where everyone stays, including a polite man (Peter Cushing) and a standoffish scientist (Christopher Lee). It’s the middle of the winter yet temperatures are rising to well over 100 degrees and people are turning up dead. What’s going on? “Island of the Burning Damned,” aka “Night of the Big Heat” (1967) was made by the sa...