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The prologue was shot at Clark Air Base in Manila using American teenagers. By doing this, the viewer could safely watch 'the unnatural green-blooded ones without fear of contamination'. At a certain point, the audience was told to 'recite the oath of green blood' as they tore open the little packets and drank the colored liquid inside.

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: 83 Promotion Ī prologue to the film invited theatergoers to partake in a bizarre initiation, and each patron was given a free packet of colored liquid labelled 'green blood'. Lynn along with Miller and Irwin Pizor, : 74 on a budget of either $125,000 or $100,000. Mad Doctor was produced by Romero and Kane W. : 77 Ashley agreed, which led to his moving to the Philippines and co-producing several other films there in partnership with Romero, Beverly Miller and Roger Corman. The film was popular enough in the United States to get American distributors to ask him to appear in a follow-up film. Prior to production on The Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Ashley had starred in Brides of Blood. But as the ship leaves port, a grisly hand appears from underneath a boat tarp, dripping green blood. Foster and Carlos all return to the ship, glad to finally leave Blood Island. A fire breaks out in Lorca's lab, resulting in a huge explosion, killing Dr. Don Ramon kills his wife, and almost kills his son Carlos, but at the last moment a glimmer of humanity returns to the creature and realizing what a monster he has become, he attacks Dr. They learn that Don Ramon is actually the green-blooded beast that has been killing people on the island. Lorca's serum as a treatment for his cancer, but was turned into a monster instead. Lorca has been experimenting on the natives, including the unfortunate Don Ramon, who had sought Dr. Foster fall in love during their stay on the island. Sheila is attacked in the jungle by the chlorophyll monster, but manages to escape when an unfortunate native who comes to her rescue is gruesomely mutilated by the creature.

One night, a native with green sores on his body tries to break into the government house, but runs off into the jungle when he is confronted. Rumors abound about a green-skinned monster with chlorophyll blood that has been killing the local natives. When Foster and Lopez exhume the grave of Don Ramon, it is empty. Lorca will not reveal any details about Don Ramon's death to anyone. Lopez does not want to leave the island, even though her husband, Don Ramon Lopez, died there recently under mysterious circumstances. Sheila discovers that her father is a hopeless alcoholic. The captain of the ship claims that the island is cursed and tells a story of a man they picked up on a raft who bled green blood before he escaped into the sea. At the same time, a ship arrives at the island carrying American pathologist Bill Foster, who is investigating a strange chlorophyll disease among the islanders Sheila Willard, who has come to Blood Island seeking to reunite with her father and Carlos Lopez ( Ronaldo Valdez), who wants to get his mother, Mrs. It was also briefly known in certain states as The Mad Doctor of Crimson Island.Ī woman running naked through the jungle on Blood Island is killed by a green-skinned beast that resembles a man. The film was later syndicated to television as Tomb of the Living Dead. Lorca is creating human/ plant mutants with chlorophyll blood out of the local natives. The plot involves a man traveling to an island where a mad scientist named Dr. This film dared to go a step further than Brides of Blood in the nudity and gore department.

Beverly Miller was associate producer on this film, and later went on to co-produce several other Filipino horror films.

Lynn known as the 'Blood Island' series, which also included Terror Is a Man, Brides of Blood and Beast of Blood.

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It was the third in a series of four Filipino horror films produced by Romero and Kane W. The Mad Doctor of Blood Island is a 1969 Filipino horror film, co-directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon, and starring John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Eddie Garcia and Ronald Remy.