![]() ![]() John Ashley & Angelique Pettyjohn are the American stars, Ashley as with most in the film is as wooden as the set, Pettyjohn gives a decent turn (in fact she's the best actor in it), and looks stunning, the pacing is quite jarring, nothing happens for long periods but then suddenly the film sparks into life and actually becomes quite watchable, what isn't so watchable is Romero's constant need for fast in & out zooming of the camera, it's so annoying it will make many people switch it off.Ī Section 3 nasty here in the UK for the, quite bloody, violence and a scene (cut from the UK DVD) of a goat being tied and gutted, which will again be off putting for many. What isn't old is the effects, although not earth shatteringly wonderful there are severed limbs, heads being ripped off and enough blood & guts for everyone, it is quite surprising how violent the film is at times given how "old fashioned" the film is. The immediate feeling of the of the film seems very old fashioned even for 1969, the music sound like an old 40's B-Pic, the story (doctor contaminating man, creating monster) is fresh from a poverty row 1940's PRC/Monogram picture and even the monster looks old. Second of Eddie Romero's blood island trilogy and arguably the best, but this is still a very average monster movie. A young woman goes to an island looking for her missing father, she accompanied by a young man who, whilst there begins to look into the mysterious attacks by "green men" and a sinister doctor who may have something to hide.
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