#unarguably a pretty bad film but not without its own unlikely charm‚ as John Ashley's beautifully sculpted hair and sharp suits help him
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island (Tomb of the Living Dead, 1969)
"You are quite mad."
"Then you should be very careful, doctor. Both of you. Mad people can be quite unpredictable."
#mad doctor of blood island#tomb of the living dead#horror imagery#filipino cinema#video nasty#1969#eddie romero#gerardo de leon#reuben canoy#john ashley#angelique pettyjohn#ronald remy#alicia alonzo#ronaldo valdez#tita muñoz#tony edmunds#alfonso carvajal#bruno punzalan#edward murphy#tito arevalo#unarguably a pretty bad film but not without its own unlikely charm‚ as John Ashley's beautifully sculpted hair and sharp suits help him#investigate a bad case of Monstrous Green Man running riot on a beautiful island in the Philippines. performances are wooden‚ fx are as#ropey as expected‚ and the script is mostly dreadful (excepting a few isolated scenes which transcend into a kind of wonderful weirdness‚#particularly any scenes between Alicia Alonzo and Ronald Remy‚ where they dispassionately discuss the nature of love‚ madness and death#or trade threats in utter calmness). for a late 60s film the levels of gore‚ sex and nudity are surprisingly high tho tempered by the#director's irritating habit of rapidly zooming in and out during any moment of grue. oh and a very real tw that this contains some needless#and horrible animal cruelty (presumably what got this on the DPP list) altho it's brief and easily excised so maybe there exist cuts of the#film without those scenes. altho this is admittedly a little dull beneath the grotesquerie and a fairly badly made bit of cheapo indie#schlock so probably not really worth chasing down that imaginary cruelty free cut (unless you're a freak trying to watch every video nasty)#(i am that freak)
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