Friday, April 17, 2009

Mad Doctor of Blood Island

This is a 1969 movie about an island where green-blooded monsters attack visitors to the island – also part 2 of the Blood Island series. This might also be the first evidence of the zoom-in/zoom-out Wayne’s World camera effect in film. There’s a multi-level story line. A pathologist is visiting the island to do samples of green blood. A woman is there to see her father for the first time, but he’s the town (or island) drunk. And there’s a man trying to convince his mother to leave her rich scientist boyfriend and come back home with him (meanwhile the man’s father is the rich scientist boyfriend’s lackey and still married technically to the scientist’s girlfriend). Told you it was complex. There’s occasional nudity which still doesn’t help this film. The scientists experiments have turned men into green monsters which the villagers take as some sort of god/”evil one”. There’s a reason the guy’s mom is staying (I won’t ruin the plot for you…ha ha ha). But it’s not a great film, like a lot of 60s films.

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