The cinematographyīy Justo Paulino relies on obscure compositions filmed in deep shadow, and includes some refreshing tricks for instance, whenever the green-blooded monster appears on-screen, the camera starts convulsing with bizarre, strobe-like zooming, a canny fourth-wall conceit which adds greatly to the film’s otherworldly quality.Īlso, the Blood Island films, and Mad Doctor particularly, feature some of the best on-screen gore ever made, far better than that introduced a few years earlier by Herschell Gordon Lewis.
MAD DOCTOR BLOOD ISLAND ONE SHEET FULL
The morbid jungle atmosphere is creepy and seedy and full of unspeakable menace, and with the many fantastically weird creatures and scenes, there is nary a dull moment. Filmed in the Philippines by an expert crew including director Eddie Romero (an underrated filmmaker who is twice the talent of namesake George Romero). Mad Doctor of Blood Island is the second in the trilogy, and possibly the best. Anybody who saw these over-the-top melodramas on the big screen has fond memories of them, and if you’ve never seen them, frankly you haven’t lived. They are an important prototype of the subsequent "extreme cinema" genre. These notorious drive-in shockers are some of the most memorable horror films of the period, and they hold up well today. Kudos to Alpha New Cinema for licensing the Hemisphere “Blood Island” trilogy from Sam Sherman of Independent International Pictures and releasing them in affordable DVD editions. Beware the stepped-up gore quotient, and don't forget to drink some Green Blood Potion (as directed by the pre-credits sequence), so that you may "safely view the unnatural green-blooded ones without fear of contamination." - Tom Weaver Star John Ashley, who starred in the first Blood Island film, Brides of Blood, is supported here by Angelique Pettyjohn and Ronald Remy (as the renegade scientist). Lorca, whose evil chlorophyll experiments have transformed a helpless patient into a hideous, green-skinned mangler. His search leads him to the remote clinic of sinister Dr.
MAD DOCTOR BLOOD ISLAND ONE SHEET SERIES
An American pathologist is called in to investigate a series of grisly killings, with victims' limbs and innards gruesomely strewn about the crime scenes. The second entry in the Blood Island trilogy lives up to its cursed reputation as enraged, green-blooded monsters prowl the haunted jungles.
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