
Natives of a tropical island have to contend with man-eating plants and animals, mutations caused by radioactivity. Virgin sacrifices become the norm. A small group of interlopers become caught up in the mayhem.... (Full plot summary below)
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Natives of a tropical island have to contend with man-eating plants and animals, mutations caused by radioactivity. Virgin sacrifices become the norm. A small group of interlopers become caught up in the mayhem.
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| User Reviewdrain bthis films plot is actually quite good,it has that certain low grade charm,which had me sucked in right away when scientists on a remote pacific island mentioned they were in search of mutated life forms caused by the bomb testing in Bikini..cool/shitty fx, tropical plants which attack bad acting humans, and a goofy looking monster add to the flavor of this late 60's filipino gem. LOTS of fun. it is the second film in the "Blood Island" series,but this film is actually unrelated to the other two..the third was a sequel to the first. |
| User ReviewDan GThis is the first of Gerardo de Leon's and Eddie Romero's Blood Island Trilogy, which arguably includes four or five films, but whatever. Brides of Blood, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, and Beast of Blood are the meat of this series and are fine examples of low-budget film making. The atmosphere and melodrama are rarely surpassed. |
| User ReviewChristopher BAwesome, awesome and awesome. A cool monster, a great cast and man eating trees in the Phillipines. This film has everything I"ve ever wanted. I got the Blood Island Vacation boxset and I can't wait to see the rest. |
| User ReviewTron DThe first of the Blood Island series, BRIDES delivers all the nudity and violence the drive-in audience of 1968 had come to expect. Beverly Powers is stunning and plays a nymphomaniac like she was born to the role. Typical mad scientist with radioactive monster on island fare but strangely compulsive. |
| User ReviewMichael TSaw this at a Cinematic Titanic show, wherein the old school MST3K cast/writers do the MST3K thing to the film live. There were a lot of dwarves in this movie. Had a great time. |
| User Reviewbobby gThis is a confusing movie, which in itself makes no sense since just about anything with â??bridesâ?? and â??bloodâ?? in the title will never be confused for something high concept. So we have a doctor who always looks like heâ??s in pain, his wife, who always looks desperate (oh, just you waitâ?¦), and a Peace Corps member who always look lost, on a remote tropical island where the natives sacrifice virgins practically in town square on a nightly basis to appease the jungle monster marshmallow thing. The richest guy on the island spends time with our visitors, informs them of the frequent radiation testing done on the island in previous years and goes about with his troop of midget servants who are no help when it comes to the â??mysteryâ?? surrounding the island you probably can piece together just by reading this review. Where it gets confusing, though, is how the radiation is very select about what it affects on the island. Only a few trees have branches that grab people (and only when theyâ??re â??awake,â?? I think), a mutant moth, with a very non-mutant looking string holding it up, draws blood from one person (yes, thatâ??s right â?? moths with fangs), and a cockroach does some transformation so horrible that before you can say â??Kafka,â?? the scene is over and the transformation took place completely off screen (thank you lack of budgetâ?¦ and interest, for that matter). Visitors fight villagers (and by â??fight,â?? I mean â??hug and fall on each otherâ??), this somewhat cute girl really puts her heart into this movie (bless her, for sheâ??s really thinking this is a big deal), something approaching semi-lycanthropy is handled with the grace of bulldozer and the whole thing fits into that rare film breed where it is so badâ?¦ itâ??s just bad, and not even amusingly entertaining. There are two redeeming moments here, though: our angry doctor attempts to save the day with a random sword and the whole thing is short enough to avoid long-term brain damage. Oh, and you can also say you got the chance to watch that fine actress, Beverly Hills (yeah, the jokes write themselvesâ?¦), wrestle with a mutant tree for a bit. |