Beast of Blood

Part 3 of the Blood Island series. The pathologist returns to Blood Island to make sure the “situation” was remedied form the last time he was there. The villagers are not happy to see him, but they tolerate him. He goes back to the scientist’s castle to see what the guy left, but his lady companion gets captured by what everyone assumes is the green-blooded monsters. But it’s actually some of the villagers that abducted her and took her back to the scientist’s secret lair. So most of this movie is about the pathologist trying to get the woman he met two days ago back from the evil scientist. The scientist has been experimenting with green blood (as usual) and has a disembodied head next to the associated body. The head eventually controls his own body from across the room and the body portion tries to kill the scientist. I’m not sure it’s over (in fact I’m pretty sure it’s not over since there’s a fourth movie in the set). Again, not a fantastic movie and the plot is more than a little lame.

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.

Brides of Blood

Old movie about a scientist husband and wife team and a scientist friend who sail to an island (Blood Island). The smoker-voiced, giant-haired, bored-voiced wife whores about on the ship and gets catty with the native women who make eyes at her husband. They arrive on the island just in time to see a funeral procession. The body the natives are carrying on their shoulders is all bloody. One pallbearer stumbles and a leg and a head roll out of the papyrus-wrapped bundle. They get invited up to the resident mad scientist's castle. The scientist apparently is breeding muscle-midgets. Seriously these little guys are B-U-F-F. They also make hilarious crying sounds when whipped. The scientists are looking for signs of radiation mutation, and yup, they find some. There's a hilarious moth flying around making a hilarious noise, and you can see the strings holding it up. Did I mention it was hilarious? A mutated human-ish monster attacks two girl sacrifices who have had their tops ripped off. Probably very scandalous for back in 1968. Turns out the monster is screwing them to bits, literally. The ending of this movie fizzles considerably. I wouldn't recommend it, but it started out way better than it finished. Bummer.