Stars: Kent Taylor, John Ashley, Beverley Hills

Director: Eddie Romero

Summary: Scientists investigating mutated lifeforms, discover a tribe sacrificing virgins to a creature known as 'The Evil One'.

This second film in the BLOOD ISLAND series of slasher films, directed by cult favorites Eddie Romero and Gerardo De Leon, brings viewers back to that horrific island. The island chiefs are rounding up luscious young virgins to sacrifice to their diety, nicknamed "The Evil One." This horrid idol is a former human turned into a disgusting creature through radiation. When scientists visit the island looking for mutant life, they must save the virgins and rid the world of their tormentors.

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In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Bloodinto the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers!

Adequately billed as "a brutal orgy of ghastly terror!", Brides of Bloodconcerns a landowner affected by bomb test fall-out who changes periodically into a lecherous fanged totem pole creature and "satisfies" himself by ripping apart naked native maidens staked out on an altar. With the aptly-named Beverly Hills and one of the silliest monsters ever seen. --Kim Newman

Aspect Ratio:	4:3
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1968
Release Date:	July 14, 2003
Runtime:	95 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 9740
Keywords:	Blood, General, Brides, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult