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Released later the same year is the most famous of the three films and the biggest box office hit, Mad Doctor of Blood Island. The monster itself is far from convincing and isn't much of a step up above the infamous From Hell It Came, but that just adds to the charm. Here you get a much higher body count, plentiful body parts, quick flashes of titillating semi-nudity, and lots of colorful coverage of the lush, humid setting. Colorful and fast paced, this grafts in several plot elements from Terror Is a Man (the noir-ish blonde wife, the suspicious scientist, etc.) but puts them in a pulpy, outlandish new context completely different from the classic horror-inspired approach of that prior film. Add to that a rampaging monster in the shadows, maiden sacrifices, and an improbably young scientist named Esteban (Montenegro) all figure in a grotesque mystery from which they will not all escape alive. Things seem odd right from the outset when they see dismembered bodies being given a funeral, but that's nothing compared to what's in store as radioactivity has turned the plant and animal life into a constant predatory menace, with everything from tree branches to butterflies posing a threat. Henderson (Taylor), wife Carla (Hills), and Peace Corps rep Jim (Ashley) - arriving at the so-called Blood Island while researching the effects of atomic bomb detonations in the area.

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Nine years later, the Blood Island series proper began with star John Ashley, a former teen heartthrob (and former husband of Deborah Walley) who would star in the trilogy and produced numerous Filipino productions as well. The beginning is a bit talky, but once things get in gear, this is a lot of fun.

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Generally this is much better than your average drive-in monster fare and deserves the attention it has garnered from dedicated late night TV viewers. Pretty nasty for 1959, but the face-grafting in the same year's Eyes without a Face leaves it in the dust.

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The opening credits warn that a warning bell (actually the sound of a telephone) will sound and alert the audience of a particularly horrifying sequence, which basically consists of a few seconds of Lederer slicing along a patch of skin with a scalpel. The leopard creature (basically a bandaged man with pointy ears) is quite a sight - not one of the screen's greatest monsters, but definitely one of the oddest. It seems the doctor is convinced he can develop human beings through the genetic components of animals - and of course, he's trying it out on a leopard, with disastrous results. Charles Girard (Lederer) and his wife, Frances (Thyssen). Poor William Fitzgerald (Derr) finds himself on the island of Dr. Moreau (or more likely its first film adaptation, Island of Lost Souls). Almost everyone familiar with Terror Is a Man has noted its extreme similarity to H.G. Their horror careers got off to a roaring start with the Hemisphere Pictures production Terror Is a Man, later a hit under the title Blood Creature, and either together or separately they continued the string of creature features with films like The Twilight People and the outrageous 'Blood Island' trilogy for which they are still best remembered. The Philippines isn't exactly known to modern viewers for its booming horror film industry, but for a period through the 1960s and '70s), producer-director Eddie Romero and director Gerardo 'Gerry' de Leon put the country on the exploitation map by shooting exotic low budget gore epics and releasing them under campy titles guaranteed to have parents dragging their kids to church services for penance. Severin Films (Blu-ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), Image Entertainment (DVD) (US R1 NTSC) Starring John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia, Liza Belmonte Starring John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy, Alicia Alonzo, Ronaldo Valdez Starring Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, John Ashley, Eva Darren, Mario Montenegro, Oscar Keesee Starring Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr, Oscar Keesee, Jr., Lilio Duran Directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero

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