Wow! Such a good movie.

Just perfect...

Captivating movie !

Admirable film.

A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies."Brides of Blood" (1968), also starring John Ashley, had been popular in the US. American distributors approached Ashley to see if he would be interested in appearing in a follow-up movie. Ashley agreed, which led to him acting in and/or producing a series of exploitation films in the Philippines. The film, which cost $125,000, was followed by a sequel, "Beast of Blood", in 1971.This is just the perfect kind of cheese for a low budget movie. Yes, the picture looks bad and could really benefit from a new transfer (everything is sort of blue-green tinted). But in a way, it's this imperfection that adds to its charm. A great picture might make it more obvious just how silly all the effects are.

In the arresting opening, a naked girl is killed by a slimy monster. We cut forward to a ship visiting a remote island whose passengers include a man looking for his mother and a girl, Sheila, searching for her father. A young doctor, the hero Bill, is also on board. Once on the island, they meet a doctor who is looking for his lost patient. However soon one night Sheila is disturbed by a deformed man outside. One afternoon she is attacked by the creature in the woods, a native impales it on a pole but it turns and kills him. A corpse is discovered with "chlorophyll poisoning", and meanwhile a young native girl and her lover are brutally murdered, their organs strewn over the grassy ground...Eddie Romero's tacky but cheerful Philippines-filmed horror feature is a typical feature about a monster on the loose which makes good use of the jungle locations but ultimately fails as a film due to atrocious camera-work and a tiny budget which isn't exactly put to good use. Some flashes of inspiration occur but these are few and far between the long moments of boredom which fill out the film. Most of the time people walk around a lot (this is called padding, and it happens very often in this film). I would say that there are probably 9 minutes of boredom to every minute of action in this film, which isn't very good when you think about it, and only the ending offers any real excitement. The tacky nature of the film is certainly attractive, and brings images of a time where horror was a lot more fun and cheap and entertaining in nature than it is in these days, where the latest horror films are blockbusters and the independent features seem to be trying to outdo each other in terms of grossness and gore.The acting in the film is all below standard, with former teenage star John Ashley (HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER) as the bland hero doctor who doesn't actually do much, and Angela Pettyjohn displaying no acting talents whatsoever (and, sure enough, she later went into the porn business, which is obviously where her real interest lay). With a cast of dull characters, you may wonder what this film does have to offer to the horror fan.On the plus side there is some (brief) gore, with a decapitation with lots of blood and some internal organs being ripped out. There is also an unconvincing monster on the loose which is absolutely hilarious, it runs around and just sort of thumps people to death. As a marketing ploy audience members were given vials of green blood which was supposed to be used as an aphrodisiac, and I'm sure this was very popular with the teenage drive-in crowd. However some moments of the film are embarrassingly amateur and don't work at all, like the camera zooming in and out whenever the monster is around. Instead of being wacky and psychedelic, it's just distracting and stupid. The title is one of the more fetching aspects of this '60s slice of exploitation, which, while not necessarily totally bad, is just too clichéd, slapdash and silly to be a good film. It's worth a look if you're into this sort of thing though, just because it's different.

Three people come to Blood Island for their own reasons. The beautiful Young girl is there to find her father. The handsome islander is there to reunite with his mother. The doctor is there to investigate a supposed out break of a new disease. What they find when they get there is a monster on the loose that likes to disembowel and dismember (graphically) his victims.Sequel to Brides of Blood (and third of the Blood Island films, the first being Terror is a Man which only shares the same location) this is more of the same only up a notch. Its mad doctor on the loose using science to create a monster that runs around killing people. Hooray for crackpot medical degrees.What can I say about a movie that begins with the audience being given "the pledge of the green blood" other than see this movie? If you like old school horror films, or drive-in style movies, this film is for you. This movie is a blast. It moves along at a good clip, has a great monster, some very graphic killings (you will see blood, limbs and intestines) and some topless women. Its the sort of movie they don't make any more.My only complaint is that some knucklehead thought it would be a good idea to zoom in and out every time the monster attacks. Its the equivalent to whiplash and really distracts from the early attack scenes. Thankfully the effect isn't done as wildly in the later scenes and you actually can put away your neck brace and enjoy the film.A drive-in movie classic.7.5 out of 10 (8 for IMDb purposes.

This amazingly atmospheric ,surreal and sleazy drive-in masterpiece is a must-see for all fans of monsters, exotica, John Ashley, mad scientists, and cheesecake. I bought it based on its notorious reputation (and some seductive stills) and was not disappointed. It has some HG Lewis type gore, lots of gratuitous nudity, beautiful scenery, earnest bad acting, a seriously scary monster, and more. This is B Movie making at its finest, sheer exploitation with no apologies and no holds barred. Even the eerie exotica music score is cool. Eddie Romero's Filipino horror films of this era will appeal to all fans of 60s/70s Mexican and Spanish horror cinema. They are even as unique, bizarre, and compelling as the Japanese yakuza flicks from Seijun Suzuki of the same era, and much more colorful, entertaining and original than contemporary horror cinema. I also highly recommend "Brides of Blood" (the monster is kinda like a demonic tiki, a relative of the tree monster Tabanga in "From Hell it Came")and "The Blood Drinkers"m featuring a vampire that is as suave as a James Bond villain and incredible photography. I've heard some genre fans hate these movies for being so awful. I was pleasantly stunned at how wrong these naysayers were. What a great discovery.