#The mad doctor of blood island series

#The mad doctor of blood island series

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. There’s no point pretending that Mad Doctor of Blood Island is any good.