He is three times the hero a cheeseball movie deserves. He fights the monsters, punches the bad guys in the face, avoids danger and snakes, runs out of the cave before it explodes, and gets the girl (s). Lorca and win the girl at the same time? Can he maybe fit TWO girls in, if he puts in the extra effort? Kerwin Mathews he ain't, but you will root for John Ashley as Bill Foster. Can he destroy the dangerous experiments of Dr. This terrible creature just straight-up rips people apart with his bare hands! It's up to civil servant Bill Foster (John Ashley) to try to save the local population from this danger. The worst of these experiments has transformed into a horrible, murderous monster barely recognizable as human. Lorca (Ronald Remy in a fine, brooding performance) has been using chlorophyll to turn some of his patients into green-blooded mutations. Deep within the jungles of Blood Island-in the interest of science-twisted Dr. If you are not familiar with this particular Blood Island movie, you must be curious by now and it's a sordid tale. Once the audience is yours, however, you may then proceed to.fill their plate with all the cheap thrills you can wrangle up. Your audience will stick around longer because you aren't just filling their plate with cheap thrills from the get-go. It follows one of the "rules" of those fine Hammer Horror exploitation pictures: Introduce your questionable subject matter with intelligence and well-written dialogue. Don't make a joke out of the material! The script is good-we get a decent story, in addition to the monsters, graphic violence, nudity, sex, ritual dances and atmosphere. The key to doing this sort of wacky, outrageous horror is to do it with a straight face, and these actors know enough to do that. We have some very serviceable performances here, and most of the cast takes the material seriously. If you like trash cinema, this is one of the very best examples. I am exaggerating, of course, but the point is clear: This movie was made on VERY limited resources, but this did not stop director Eddie Romero and crew from cranking out a very watchable sausage. But this film, like many favorites of mine, manages to deliver the goods while costing about twenty dollars to make. Now, there are also a number of expensive Steven Spielberg movies that "deliver the exploitation goods," like, for example, "JAWS" and "JURASSIC PARK". This film does deliver the exploitation goods, plus there's real characters and real story. Wow, they cut out a lot of stuff for TV! But all the cut material is happily on display here. I had some fine memories of seeing this (heavily edited) on TV when I was a kid, so I went and got the DVD.and it's really neat to see this completely uncut. Eddie Romero's "Blood Island Trilogy"! This is the second film in the series.
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