![]() ![]() The creature comes out of hiding with an axe in its hands, and begins chopping its way through the vessel’s crew. The monstrous Don Lopez has survived the destruction of its creator’s laboratory, and what’s more, it has snuck aboard the very ship on which Foster now rides. But as Foster is about to learn, his ties to Blood Island aren’t quite severed yet. Bill Foster (a returning Ashley) on the deck of the freighter bringing him and Sheila Willard home from Blood Island, where they were nearly killed by the monster into which an insane scientist had transformed a long-missing man named Don Ramón Lopez. Picking up at the instant that movie left off, it shows Dr. Hell, he even managed to get a halfway decent performance out of John Ashley for once!īeast of Blood also features an opening even more kick-ass than The Mad Doctor of Blood Island’s. In making Beast of Blood, Romero demonstrated that he really did have some understanding of what had gone wrong with its immediate predecessors, and that he was capable of taking action to correct those shortcomings. Beast of Blood, the last of the series and the only one to present itself as a direct sequel to any of the others, may not be the best of the bunch all around, but it is certainly the most exciting, the most aggressive, and the only one that shows any sort of growth from the previous installments. But there’s one point on which Romero most assuredly deserves props: the Blood Island flicks started strong, and they ended strong as well. Beast of Blood / Beast of the Dead / Blood Devils / Horrors of Blood Island / Return to the Horrors of Blood Island (1970) ***Įddie Romero’s Blood Island films are not exactly noted for the amount of respect that they have attracted over the three decades since the last of them made the rounds of the world’s drive-ins and grindhouses back in 1970.
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