Directors:
Gerardo de Leon, Eddie RomeroWriter:
Reuben CandyProducer:
Eddie RomeroCinematographer:
Justo PaulinoProduction Company:
Hemisphere Pictures, Inc.Mad Doctor of Blood Island is also known as Blood Doctor. It was the third in Hemisphere Pictures’ “Blood Island” series of films, shot in Manila, Philippines. See the entry for Brides of Blood (1968) for more information.
Associate producer Beverly Miller’s obituary in the 25 Sep 1985 DV listed his Four Associates, Inc. as the production company, although Hemisphere Pictures, Inc. is credited in various contemporary sources. The film, which received an “M” (for mature audiences) rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), opened the week of 10 May 1969 at the Narrows Road drive-in theater in Wilkes-Barre, PA, on a double bill with the 1967 West German picture, Blood Demon starring Christopher Lee. Regional openings ensued in Cleveland and Dayton, OH, the week of 27 May 1969, and elsewhere around the U.S. In Los Angeles, CA, Mad Doctor of Blood Island was not released until 7 Jan 1970.
A film critic writing in the 10 Sep 1999 [Memphis, TN] Commercial Appeal recalled receiving a vial of “green blood” as a promotional gimmick at the time of the film’s release. Likewise, Independent International Pictures Corp., which handled promotions for some of the film’s drive-in showings, handed out “packets of green gel” to audience members, encouraging them to “recite the ‘Oath of the Green Blood’” as they tore them open.
Mad Doctor of Blood Island and the others in the “Blood Island” series were released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2003. ...
Mad Doctor of Blood Island is also known as Blood Doctor. It was the third in Hemisphere Pictures’ “Blood Island” series of films, shot in Manila, Philippines. See the entry for Brides of Blood (1968) for more information.
Associate producer Beverly Miller’s obituary in the 25 Sep 1985 DV listed his Four Associates, Inc. as the production company, although Hemisphere Pictures, Inc. is credited in various contemporary sources. The film, which received an “M” (for mature audiences) rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), opened the week of 10 May 1969 at the Narrows Road drive-in theater in Wilkes-Barre, PA, on a double bill with the 1967 West German picture, Blood Demon starring Christopher Lee. Regional openings ensued in Cleveland and Dayton, OH, the week of 27 May 1969, and elsewhere around the U.S. In Los Angeles, CA, Mad Doctor of Blood Island was not released until 7 Jan 1970.
A film critic writing in the 10 Sep 1999 [Memphis, TN] Commercial Appeal recalled receiving a vial of “green blood” as a promotional gimmick at the time of the film’s release. Likewise, Independent International Pictures Corp., which handled promotions for some of the film’s drive-in showings, handed out “packets of green gel” to audience members, encouraging them to “recite the ‘Oath of the Green Blood’” as they tore them open.
Mad Doctor of Blood Island and the others in the “Blood Island” series were released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2003.
Bill Foster, a young pathologist, is sent to Blood Island to investigate the discovery of a human corpse with green blood. On the boat from the mainland, he meets Sheila Willard, who is looking for her estranged father, and Carlos Lopez, who has come to take his widowed mother, Doña Anna, back to the mainland. Arriving on the island, the travelers begin to perceive trouble: Sheila's father has become a hopeless alcoholic, while Carlos's mother, Doña Anna, is now the mistress of Dr. Lorca, who holds the island in his control. A number of ghastly murders have been attributed to green, sub-human monsters. Carlos eventually discovers that the tomb of his father, Don Ramon, is empty, and Dr. Lorca admits that he used Don Ramon to experiment with a chlorophyll drug which he believed to contain the secret of youth. Don Ramon, who has been transformed into a green-blooded monster, kills Doña Anna. Dr. Lorca tries to imprison Bill and Carlos, but Don Ramon murders Dr. Lorca and sets the laboratory ablaze. Bill and Carlos, along with Sheila and her father, who has given up drinking, leave the island, believing that Don Ramon has been killed in the ...
Bill Foster, a young pathologist, is sent to Blood Island to investigate the discovery of a human corpse with green blood. On the boat from the mainland, he meets Sheila Willard, who is looking for her estranged father, and Carlos Lopez, who has come to take his widowed mother, Doña Anna, back to the mainland. Arriving on the island, the travelers begin to perceive trouble: Sheila's father has become a hopeless alcoholic, while Carlos's mother, Doña Anna, is now the mistress of Dr. Lorca, who holds the island in his control. A number of ghastly murders have been attributed to green, sub-human monsters. Carlos eventually discovers that the tomb of his father, Don Ramon, is empty, and Dr. Lorca admits that he used Don Ramon to experiment with a chlorophyll drug which he believed to contain the secret of youth. Don Ramon, who has been transformed into a green-blooded monster, kills Doña Anna. Dr. Lorca tries to imprison Bill and Carlos, but Don Ramon murders Dr. Lorca and sets the laboratory ablaze. Bill and Carlos, along with Sheila and her father, who has given up drinking, leave the island, believing that Don Ramon has been killed in the fire.
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