![]() The strangest part? The slain islander’s blood was green. One time, his ship picked up an islander whose boat had been wrecked, but when they got the man onboard, he went so berserk that the captain had to shoot him dead to protect his crewmen. Murphy) mentions to Carlos that Blood Island is supposed to be cursed, and that from what he’s seen, he believes it. As the ship nears its destination, the captain (Edward D. The woman is Sheila Willard (Angelique Pettyjohn, of Biohazard and Takin’ It Off), another person with family on the island, who conveniently enough is also Dr. Bill Foster (John Ashley, from Beyond Atlantis and Beast of the Yellow Night), who has come to study the health of the natives. One of the men is an island expatriate named Carlos Lopez (Ronaldo Valdez), who is on his way home in the hope of talking his mother (Tita Muñoz, of Stardoom and The Kill) into joining him on the Philippine mainland to build a new life for herself. Meanwhile, on the far side of the opening credits from this preliminary slaughter, a freighter plies the Pacific, ferrying two men and a woman to the mysterious Blood Island. The creature catches up to its prey beside a stony-bedded brook, and rips her to pieces with its shaggy, matted talons. After a deliriously silly prologue tying into the William Castle-like gimmick that accompanied the initial release (which, understandably, is missing from the later television and reissue prints), we cut to a comely, nude island girl fleeing through the jungle from a fanged, humanoid monster whose flesh looks to be slowly dissolving into rivulets of green blood. This is one movie that knows how to make a strong first impression. Moreau in The Mad Doctor of Blood Island. Most fundamentally, Terror Is a Man could legitimately be described as a very loose remake of Island of Lost Souls, whereas there is only the faintest whiff of Dr. The nature of the two monsters is completely different, as are the personalities of the two scientists, their relationships to the natives of Blood Island, and the means by which the two outsider heroes find their way into the story in the first place. That’s as far as the similarities extend, however. There are indeed parallels between The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Terror Is a Man, in that both concern a monster-making scientist whose creation breaks loose from the lab and prowls the jungles of an isolated island doing terrible things to the natives, and The Mad Doctor of Blood Island even features one short scene that was lifted more or less directly from the earlier film. The third of Eddie Romero’s Blood Island movies is frequently described as a remake of the first one. The Mad Doctor of Blood Island/Blood Doctor/Tomb of the Living Dead (1969) -***
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