I had fun watching this with you guy, and I don’t regret getting the box set. “Too boring.” “Too cheesy.” “Too cheap.” Those are some of the things I can imagine people saying. Something like this I think “average” folks would turn off in a heartbeat. I don’t know what that says about my tastes. I think my brain has become a bit more elastic with regard to what it tolerates as entertaining. A lot of the dialog is delivered as though they were suffering from somnambulism but the words themselves are so overwrought and ridiculous that they act as camp for me now. Parts that I used to feel were boring I end up finding new things to enjoy (maybe because I wasn’t paying attention before?). This is a movie that I actually come back to at least once a year. I have seen worst Eddie Romero films (I’m looking at you, Beyond Atlantis). I enjoyed the spastic, throbbing c…camera (ohhhhh fooled you!) as the monster appeared, gave the film a sort of strange charm despite making me a little dizzy during these sequences. It’s shot in the Philippines so of course it stars John Ashley (too bad Jack Hill didn’t direct). The plot is barely memorable, something about scientists returning to an island where a young man’s father turned into a creature due to some experiments? Am I right? I remember Ronaldo Valdez having a fairly young attractive mom in the film. It’s silly, slow, bizarre, has some 70’s titties, and some low budget monster make up effects. Mad Doctor of Blood Island is the perfect late night movie. JimboĮven if this one didn’t grab you, I really recommend Terror Is A Man… JamieĮasily the best part of the film is the William Castle-esque opening where patrons at the theater were given some green “blood” before the film began. I’ll admit it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting from this boxset, but it isn’t something that made me interested in the other titles in the series or god forbid, actually buy the boxset. There are a few small gore effects that were nice, but in general this was kind of boring. I think it very quickly got bogged down in boring exposition, occasionally interrupted by another monster attack with the spastic zooming. It’s funny, the more I read through that list the less I remember. It starts off pretty good, between the mismatched intro and the instant nudity during the first monster attack.
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