Brides of BLOOD (1968)

Interesting facts

The Brides of Blood Island is a 1966 Filipino horror film directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon from a screenplay by Cesar J. Amigo, and starring John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, Eva Darren and Mario Montenegro. It was the first movie that Ashley made in the Philippines, beginning a long association between Ashley and that country. The Brides of Blood Island was the second in a series of four horror films produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn known as the "Blood Island" series, which also included Terror Is a Man, The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Beast of Blood. Brides of Blood was later released to television syndication in some areas as Island of Living Horror.

Production

The Brides of Blood Island was produced by Romero, Lynn, and Irwin Pizor. It was shot in Premier Productions Studio in Manila and on location. with a budget of $75,000. Intended for an American audience, the plot and dialogue made no references to the Philippines.

The shoot was originally to run four weeks, but because the money kept running out, it ended up taking 11 weeks to complete. Ashley did not mind, however, since he got along well with Romero and the crew. If he was not paid, he would just stop working until his check came through. Ashley said he was keen to accept the offer to make the movie because his marriage to Deborah Walley had just broken up and he wanted to get out of the United States.

The film was known during filming as Orgy of Blood.

Continuity between day and night is ignored throughout the last third of the film with shots cutting from dark skies to bright blue skies and back again.

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