![]() ![]() Packets of the stuff were actually distributed to theaters for brave audience members to try. ![]() A William Castle-like introduction from the original release urges audience members to partake in the “Oath of Green Blood,” showing groovy teenagers smiling at each other and drinking together from vials of green liquid while an oath to be recited by the audience scrolls up the screen. Of course, it all just feels like a harmless drive-in romp. The sex and gore elements are even more explicit than in Brides, as exemplified in the cold open, which involves a fully nude island native running through the jungle pursued by the green-blooded monster later, partially nude characters are graphically dismembered by the fiend. In “Mad Doctor of Blood Island,” a creature with green blood stalks his prey. Foster, Sheila, and her father in investigating the killings – the crime scenes are stained with green blood – while romancing the mysterious Marla (Alicia Alonzo), who holds a secret of her own. The creature’s son, Carlos (Ronaldo Valdez), joins Dr. ![]() With this technique he once hoped to treat a man with leukemia, but instead turned him into a rampaging green monster. Lorca (Ronald Remy), and his experiments with chlorophyll injections. This latter plot is something of a red herring, as the real melodrama unfolding on the island involves a mad scientist, Dr. Bill Foster, who comes to Blood Island with his assistant Sheila Willard (Angelique Pettyjohn) to investigate strange happenings and also to find her father (Tony Edmunds), whom she hasn’t seen since she was a child. John Ashley, the would-be teen heartthrob from many American beach movies, is once again the lead, now establishing himself as a key partner in sleazy exploitation Ashley would linger in the Philippines as an actor and producer with films like The Big Doll House (1971), Beast of the Yellow Night (1971) and The Twilight People (1972), and eventually produce TV shows like The A-Team, Something is Out There, and Walker, Texas Ranger. Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) is, like Brides, co-directed by Filipino directors Gerry de Leon (the artsy one) and Eddie Romero (the shameless one). Poster & Still Gallery.Having already taken a look at the first two titles in Severin’s limited edition box set The Blood Island Collection – Terror is a Man (1959) and Brides of Blood (1968) – let’s move on to our last pair of Blood Island adventures new on Blu-ray. 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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