7/5/2023 0 Comments Hell on blood island![]() Paul Henderson (Kent Taylor, another B-movie veteran) and his wife Carla (Beverly Powers, credited as “Beverly Hills”) to investigate evidence of atomic radiation at the tropical paradise nicknamed “Blood Island” by the fearful natives. Shot for a meager $75,000, Brides found Ashley playing Peace Corps member Jim Farrell, who escorts Dr. through distributors like Dimension Pictures and Roger Corman’s then newly-formed New World Pictures. He enjoyed the experience of working in the Philippines so much that he stayed on long after the Blood Island series concluded and produced several exploitation movies in the country that saw release in the U.S. At the time he received the offer to star in Brides, Ashley’s marriage to Deborah Walley had ended and he needed immediate escape. It also one of the Blood Island quartet’s most enduring staples – actor John Ashley. Introducing color and upping the ante in terms of sex and violence made Brides a vastly more entertaining movie. Few of these did well at the box office, compelling the producers to make a return trip to Blood Island in 1968 for Brides of Blood.Īfter the sleep-inducing Terror, there was nowhere for the series to go but up. ![]() with Terror Is A Man) and The Raiders of Leyte Gulf, the latter a staple of exploitation trailer compilation DVDs. Out of the partnership between Lynn and Romero came several other movies including The Scavengers (which played on a double bill in the U.S. Back in the States, Lynn met up with producer Irwin Pizor, and together with Romero they founded Hemisphere Pictures to ensure American distribution for their Filipino projects. ![]() Once the war ended, he decided to settle down there, and it was then that he met Romero and the two men became friends and formed Lynn-Romero Productions. During World War II, Lynn was a pilot in the U.S. Terror was co-directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero, with only de Leon getting screen credit, and produced by Kane W. The laughable make-up on the misbegotten mutant does not help either. That bell sounds like a telephone ringing and when I first heard it, I half-expected Girard to shout, “Will someone answer that damn thing already?” By the time Panther Dude finally breaks free from bondage and goes on a very mild rampage in the movie’s last twenty minutes, you may or may not care one bit. For that scene, the producers added a warning bell to cue the audience for mondo disturbing stuff about to happen. Nothing much happens for the first hour of Terror outside of Francis falling in love with the sailor and a surgery scene with less blood than a papercut. Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) and his wife/assistant Francis (Greta Thyssen) have transformed a panther into a sort of Man Panther (Flory Carlos), or Panther Man if you will. But the movie itself is an overly talkative affair about a shipwrecked sailor (Richard Derr) whose lifeboat lands on an island in the middle of who-the-hell-knows where scientist Dr. Wells’ classic science fiction novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, sowed the seeds for the monstrous mayhem to come. I am referring, of course, about the infamous “Blood Island” series – a quartet of insane low-budget horror flicks that delivered to audiences around the world a non-stop parade of slime, sex, and slaughter.ġ959’s Terror Is A Man, a lo-fi riff on H.G. Six decades ago, a group of Filipino filmmakers and a few English-speaking actors in need of an easy payday birth one of the wildest and bloodiest franchises in the history of exploitation cinema. Poser Proof Die Hard Edition on Translucent Red Vinyl w/ Bonus Cassette - Limited to 500 copies. Heavy was HELL for a half decade and it was a long, long way down. Available as a 2LP box set with an ephemera-stuffed gatefold and 144-page hardbound book, or a sheer savage CD Wallet, with a 12-panel double-sided poster for those denizens of the compact disc. Featuring 21 tracks by 21 of the Sunset Strip's most razor-sharp heathens. rock as it actually was: a California cataclysm of drunk and horny headbangers, dressed in sharp, shiny, leather androgyny and fire, kicking crowds in the teeth to clear the way to that one big shot. Heavy metal? Glam? Hard rock? Make your own fuckin' call, you poser. ![]() South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (USD $). ![]()
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