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The
steamy jungles of
the Phillipines
were the location
for a series of
wildly successful
horror and sexploitation
films by director
Eddie Romero in
the late 60's and
early 70's.
Romero's Blood Island
series always followed
a proven formula.
An American played
by heartthrob John
Ashley comes to
Blood Island to
investigate reports
of mysterious happenings.
He encounters sexually
perverse island
natives, an ugly
(often comically
grotesque) mutant,
and a busty American
love interest.
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In Brides of Blood,
Ashley comes ashore
with an elderly
scientist and his
nympho wife (played
by starlet Beverly
Hills). He soon
encounters a mutant
beast who demands
female sacrifices.
His search for the
origins of the creature
leads through man-eating
plant infested jungles
to a mad doctor's
lab, which includes
midget servants
scurrying about.
Eddie Romero went
on to direct the
'girls in prison'
B-movie "Black
Mama, White Mama,"
written by Jonathan
Demme, starring
Pam Grier and Sid
Haig.
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