Independent International then released Mad Doctor of Blood Island with a sensationalistic promotional campaign that turned it into a hit, whereupon the other Blood Island films were pushed together as sequels, with American director Al Adamson also making the subsequent, non-Filipino Brain of Blood (1971), even though only Beast of Blood, featuring a return performance from John Ashley and the character of Dr Lorca, can be considered related (beyond all sharing the title location of the fictional Blood Island). Gerry De Leon and in particular Eddie Romero promptly turned their attentions to making a string of copies of Terror is a Man with the likes of Brides of Blood (1968), Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Beast of Blood (1971). Sherman succeeded in turning this into a modest drive-in hit. De Leon and Romero went on to make a series of war movies that gained little attention before Terror is a Man was discovered and brought up by Sam Sherman of the US-based Hemisphere Pictures and its releasing arm Independent International. Wells’ novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). Gerardo (or Gerry) De Leon and Eddie Romero had earlier made Terror is a Man (1959), an unacknowledged copy of H.G. Mad Doctor of Blood Island is one of the key films in the Filipino exploitation cinema movement of the 1970s and early 80s.
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