Sure, you'll have no trouble figuring out where it's all going but this is good stuff. Francis Lederer, from The Return Of Dracula, is a kick as the film's mad doctor and gorgeous Greta Thyssen, of Journey To The Seventh Planet, quite striking as his bride. He's pretty macho, tough and noble and out to do the right thing. Richard Derr, an actor who kept busy with a lot of TV work but who also had decent roles in When Worlds Collide and Firefox, makes for a good leading man. The score works quite well, and the movie is pretty quick in its pacing once we get past the slower first reel of the film. The cinematography in the film is definitely better than you might expect. There's some nice, shadowy atmosphere that helps us look past the fact that the picture was obviously made fast and cheap. The effects used to create the panther man are memorably goofy, he kind of looks like 'The Fiend' in Science Crazed, but somehow it manages to work. Moreau but that doesn't dampen the entertainment value that this picture offers. Yeah, this one 'borrows' just a little bit from H.G. What was it that Girard was up to that led to the locals taking off? Well, like another Doctor who lived on a remote island, his work involved trying to create beings that are half animal, half man - he's even started his work, resulting in a 'panther man' (a guy with bandages, whiskers and pointy cat ears) that roams the area causing trouble… ![]() Now he and Greta, along with his assistant, their servant Selene (Lilia Duran) and her son basically have the place to themselves. ![]() Girard is unusually hospital to the island's newest inhabitant, explaining to him that those who once called this island home left only because of their irrational fear of the scientific work he was conducting. While at first the island appears to have been abandoned, he soon learns that it is in fact inhabited by doctor named Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) and his lovely wife Frances (Greta Thyssen). ![]() The first film in the set, co-directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero and released in 1959, Terror Is A man tells the story of one William Fitzgerald (Richard Derr), an unfortunately soul who winds up shipwrecked on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Severin Films offers up a quartet of Filipino horror trash film classics on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere! The Blood Island Collection - Movie Review: Poster & Still Gallery.Cast: Richard Derr, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Celeste Yarnall The Mad Director of Blood Island: Archival Interview with Co-Director Eddie Romero. Tombs of the Living Dead: Interview with Pete Tombs, Co-Author of "Immoral Tales." A Taste of Blood: Interview with Critic Mark Holcomb. Audio Commentary with Hemisphere Marketing Consultant Samuel M. Severin Films Presents MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND - The Most Extreme BLOOD ISLAND Of Them All - Now Uncut In 4k For The First Time Ever! In perhaps the most infamous film in the BLOOD ISLAND trilogy, co-directors Eddie Romero and Gerry de Leon upped the already over-the-top nudity, violence, horny monster havoc and unmatched WTF?-ness of the first movie to deliver what Dangerous Minds hails as, "One of the greatest/nastiest/goriest films of the 1960s." AIP-leading-man-turned-producer John Ashley (HOW TO STUFF A WILD BIKINI, THE A-TEAM) and '60s-starlet-turned-'80s-porn-queen Angelique Pettyjohn (STAR TREK, TITILLATION) star in this "horrifying nightmare of a thousand frightening dreams" - also known as GRAVE DESIRES and TOMB OF THE LIVING DEAD - now scanned in 4k from a recently discovered camera negative and presented totally uncut for the first time ever, including the legendary "Oath of Green Blood" prologue! FEATURES: Audio Commentary with Horror Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S.
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