1/9/2024 0 Comments The mad doctor of blood islandThere’s a Blood Island box set, by the way, including TERROR IS A MAN, the very first Blood Island jaunt, a Dr Moreauesque affair in moody black-and-white with the great Francis Lederer doing the mad science. But since BOB follows directly on from the events of TMDOBI, it made sense to ground myself in the first movie.īones protruding through flesh - an original, nasty touch. Then I realised that confusing wording had made me watch THE WRONG FILM - Gifford’s still comes from what he calls BLOOD DEVILS, but is available today as BEAST OF BLOOD, the sequel to TMDOBI. In his photo caption, Gifford gave the title THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, so I duly tracked that down, having come to full manhood in the meantime, and watched it with something approaching delight. But Rebecca insisted, and I weakly complied and showed her the forbidden photos, and she pronounced solemnly in each case, “ That’s not scary.” This, the gory neck-wound from THE BLOOD DRINKERS (also a Philippines production involving Eddie Romero) and the axed blonde from Texan reimagining of THE BLACK CAT, were the images I chose to suppress. I recall, as a boy, being told I could show the book to my little friend Rebecca, but that I should protect her from the more horrific images. ![]() This is the picture from Dennis Gifford’s Pictorial History of Horror Movies which first introduced me to this handsome specimen of homo vegetabilis.
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