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Brides of Blood
Brides of Blood Island / Terror on Blood Island
Philippines 1966
produced by Eddie Romero for Premiere Sound Films, Hemisphere Entertainment
directed by Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero
starring John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, Mario Montenegro, Eva Darren
Blood Island
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When land developer John Ashley, Scientist Kent Taylor & his blond wife Beverly Hills arrive
on Blood Island, they find instead of the expected island paradise with
bright & friendly natives a very creep & depressing place
inhabitated by frightened & superstitious folks. Soon, they are also
witnesses of tentacled trees attacking people & virgin sacrifices to
an evil monster, & the island's local scientist Mario Montenegro,
residing in a villy high above the natives' village, doesn't seem all
that innocent either. And when the natives decide to sacrifice Eva
Darren, the girl John Ashley has fallen for, he decides to fight back,
& can actually free Darren from the clutches of the monster ... but
at the price that now not only the monster but also the natives are
after them. When Ahsley brings Darren to Mario Montenegro's residence
though, little does he know that the very same man does turn ,
unbeknowest to himself, into the monster at night due to atomic
radiation. Ashley & Darren now have to escape him, & after a
wild chase through a forest of tentacled trees, Ashley convinces the
natives to take their fate into their own hands, so they throw burning
torches at the monster (burning torches almost always help against
monsters - just a reminder, if you're ever in need), finally killing it
in a burning shack, where it turns back to its human form.
Yet another one of these filippino trash-gems. Dumb story, bad
effects, a silly monster & mediocre actors aside, the movie manages
to uphold a creepy atmosphere throughout not too often found in movies
of its kind. This might be credited largely to co-director deLeon, whose
horror & sci-fi-efforst all tend to be permeated with a genuine feel
for the genre & a high degree of imagination (see also Blood
of the Vampires).
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