![]() This leaves the stage for Bill and Sheila, and since Sheila’s tits are cantilevered out at a crazy angle it seems inevitable that Bill will notice them at some point. Dr Bill Foster (John Ashley) is there on some medical assignment, while Sheila Willard (Angelique Pettyjohn) is there to repair the relationship with her estranged father (Tony Edmunds), a man who is introduced as a catastrophic alcoholic, then conquers his affliciton within minutes before setting off on a journey into the background until he becomes invisible. They’re much more interested in the toothsome (and white!) couple arriving on the island by boat. Here, the idea is human/plant hybridisation, and though there are two doctors in this story, it’s the one who actually lives on the island who we need to keep an eye on, though the writers and directors fatally treat Dr Lorca (Ronald Remy) as a bit of an afterthought. The original story tells of a mad doctor whose experiments to hybridise humans and animals lead to monstrous results. Mad Doctor of Blood Island is the third of four movies in the Blood Island series and, like the other three, is a loose adaptation of HG Wells’s story The Island of Doctor Moreau. A monster, an assemblage of carpet offcuts, moss and twigs, pounces. A pretty and entirely naked young woman flashes across the screen. But before we get into the action (not much of that) proper, another bit of pre-game titillation, this time more a suggestion of what’s to come. This, the voice tells us, will inoculate everyone against a fate worse than death – being turned into a green-blooded creature, a chlorophyll monster.Ĭue credits, cue movie. Here – against a backdrop of teenage couples wrestling in an approximation of cinemagoers making out – an overly serious voice implores audience members to repeat an oath while drinking the green serum that’s thoughtfully been provided for them (a gimmick straight out of the William Castle playbook). The Filipino grind-em-out production house Hemisphere Pictures as good as tells us this in a short preamble before the film proper gets going. It has its moments but on the whole it’s a waste of time unless you watch it as it was meant to be watched – in the car at a drive-in playing tonsil hockey with whoever.
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