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one of my absolute favorites!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Please forgive me but what follows are my memories encountering this movie 30ish years ago as a teenager of about 13 who had never seen an R-rated movie. I suspect only those of you who lived in the middle of North America cut off from the coasts will really appreciate this story. I lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada just above the barren expanses between us and North Dakota so that map goes. One of our main contacts with the outside world was a US border TV station with the call letters KCND. KCND knew Canadian advertising was central to its bottom line. It served admirably as a cross border institution serving both southern Manitoba and Northern North Dakota with offices in both countries before switching call letters to CKND. I don't know if K/C-C/K-ND survives today either as a US or Canadian outlet. Anyway this station had a movie on Saturday night at 10:30 PM which I think was called Chiller Theatre or something like that. As I remember, the movies were the usual stuff for the time, mostly 1950's fare which I still enjoy to this day. Then one night Beast of Blood appeared. From the opening I knew this movie was completely different. The camera effects, a hideous and to this day still frightening, dripping, oozing chlorophyll monster, a guy falling into a pit of wooden stakes pumping-- no gushing-- blood from his wounds... and John Ashley and Celeste Yarnell naked. I had never seen anything like it. The other two "Blood" movies followed on CKND one of which featured the mamorable, I mean memorable, Angelique Pettyjohn from Star Trek naked with John Ashley. Beast of Blood stayed with me for 30ish years. Then I saw the DVD and confirmed that in in the 70s my prairie TV station showed it completely uncut! I miss the renegade drive-in days. This, even though I saw my drive-in movies on TV.

Dr. Foster (Ashley again-damn, look at those sideburns) comes back to Blood Island when the creature escapes (in a great opening sequence). Can the nefarious Dr. Lorca (now played by Eddie Garcia) be stopped.While it all seems like a lot of fun, "Beast of Blood" is actually the weakest in the series. Sure, there's the requisite gore and nudity (including the creatures severed head-and when it talks!), and some nice action scenes come in. The thing is, the movie fails to keep one's interest as much this time, as there's a feeling of deja vu. Sure, the creature looks better this time, but you can only put up with it the premise of the series for so long before it starts to get stale.Also, there isn't as much carnage from the creature this time around (and what happened to those killer trees?), meaning we have to put up with some tedium-such as scene after scene of people going through the jungle. Really, it grows quite tiresome."Beast of Blood" is far from horrible, but it's the weakest entry in the series, as it showing that the creators have milked the concept dry-in spite of some nice moments.

We start where the previous film, Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968) finished with Dr. Bill Foster (John Ashley again) and Sheila Willard although she is never seen, escaping Blood Island on a boat. However, escaping with them is the mutant green chlorophyll contaminated monster. It starts to kill the crew, they shoot at it. In return the monster throws a barrel of petrol at them, the barrel bursts and petrol spills everywhere. One of the crew attacks the monster with a naked flame, it gets knocked out of his hand and the entire ship blows up and sinks. Only Foster and the monster survive. The monster is washed up on a beach. Foster is rescued and sent back to the mainland for treatment. Foster decides to return to Blood Island, and hires a small cargo ship to take him. When he arrives on the ship he finds a newspaper reporter Myra Russell (Celeste Yarnall) waiting for him. She thinks there might be a story and travels with Foster to investigate. Once at Blood Island Foster, Russell and the ship's Captain (Beverly Miller) find the tribes Chief Ramu (Alfonso Carvajal, another returning cast member from the previous film) is apprehensive and unfriendly. Foster starts by heading to Dr. Lorca's (this time played by Eddie Garcia) old house that was supposedly destroyed by fire. There he runs into an old enemy, Razak (the returning Bruno Punzalan) Dr. Lorca's henchman who had previously tried to kill him. With the discovery of Razak, Foster manages to convince Ramu to help him. They go in search of Razak and leave Myra behind in the village. However, Razak and his men kidnap her and take her to Dr. Lorca's elaborate hideout in the Valley of the Red Mist who is still alive and still conducting experiments on the unlucky locals, and keeps the green monsters decapitated head and body alive with the help of medical devices, for reasons which aren't really explained that well. It's up to Foster to finally put an end to Lorca's horrifying experiments and save the girl! Written and directed by Eddie Romero I thought it was a pretty decent film, but not as good as Mad Doctor of Blood Island. This one plays more like a jungle adventure for the most part, with Ashley trying to save Yarnall's dopey reporter. The green monster has even better make up than the first, even though those eyes are still a problem, you can the actors eyelids, again. The problem is that it's barely in the film, after the cool opening sequence the monster doesn't attack anyone else in the whole film, the monsters headless body just lies there and it's head just sits on a table doing nothing in particular, a complete waste. The monster attacks were the best feature of the previous film and this feels like a bit of a disappointment. Dr. Lorca and his experiments are also almost completely ignored, he doesn't even turn up until about half way through the film. There is also a serious lack of blood and gore, which doesn't help it. The end sequence in which the locals fight Dr. Lorca's gang isn't very exciting and a little dull, a bit more imagination would have helped. Acting, again is OK, as are the effects, music, sets and editing, but non of it's brilliant. The Philippine jungle locations are again nice and colourful. It's a reasonable exploitation film, but overall I was a bit disappointed. There are better out there, but this ain't too bad.

"Beast of Blood" is the third of the Blood Island-Eddie Romero series, all of which starred terrible actor John Ashley. Although, with these films, it is better just to ignore the acting and enjoy the exploitation elements.There's some gore, a cheap but neat-looking monster and a little bit of skin too. (Celeste Yarnall ain't much of an actress, but she is photogenic.) The plot is nonexistent, something about the Monster of Blood Island's head being saved for experiments. It is extremely silly, but it's also imaginative. The monster's head and body are severed, but the monster manages to control his body to escape and kill anyway. Did Stuart Gordon see this before making "Re-Animator"?My biggest complaint here is that the film shoots its wad at the beginning. The first scene of the film is kind of confusing: John Ashley is on a ship leaving Blood Island when the monster, a stowaway, breaks loose and starts killing the crew. Ashley and the monster duke it out until both end up shipwrecked back on Blood Island. After that, the film really drags until the above experiments on the monster occur. As with the other Blood Island films, there are a lot of filler scenes that supposedly develop the characters but are actually there to eat up the film's running time.Still, there is some fun to be had in "Beast of Blood," but I wouldn't recommend it to serious horror film fans. This is for bad movie fans only, and even then they might be disappointed.It's still better than Final Destination 2, though.