Dr. Foster (Ashley again-damn, look at those sideburns) comes back to Blood Island when the creature escapes (in a great opening sequence). Can the nefarious Dr. Lorca (now played by Eddie Garcia) be stopped.

While it all seems like a lot of fun, "Beast of Blood" is actually the weakest in the series. Sure, there's the requisite gore and nudity (including the creatures severed head-and when it talks!),and some nice action scenes come in. The thing is, the movie fails to keep one's interest as much this time, as there's a feeling of deja vu. Sure, the creature looks better this time, but you can only put up with it the premise of the series for so long before it starts to get stale.

Also, there isn't as much carnage from the creature this time around (and what happened to those killer trees?),meaning we have to put up with some tedium-such as scene after scene of people going through the jungle. Really, it grows quite tiresome.

"Beast of Blood" is far from horrible, but it's the weakest entry in the series, as it showing that the creators have milked the concept dry-in spite of some nice moments.

This film is a followup to "Mad Doctor of Blood Island" and once again stars John Ashley. The film begins with Ashley returning to Blood Island and he soon learns that despite the evil Doctor and his monster being killed in the last film, they miraculously have returned. It's full of a lot of the usual stuff--with lots of violence and blood (the violence appears fake by today's standards but was pretty gory stuff for 1971),some boobs, operating on pig (or something) for no particular reason except to show gross stuff, a monster that did look pretty good initially--though later it was a disembodied head which looked VERY silly--especially when it talked much like in "They Saved Hitler's Brain". Soon a gorgeous young woman reporter (Celeste Yarnall) is kidnapped and Ashley and his friends go in search of her. However, it takes a VERY long time to catch up to her and the evil Doctor. It's actually a bit boring during this portion--except when they tossed in some boobs for no reason. And, in the end, the Doctor is killed by his monster--who by now is a head totally separated from its body. How it was able to control the body to kill the Doc is beyond me.

Overall, while this is NOT a good movie and is poorly paced, it's a bit better than some of the other Eddie Romero films shot in the Philippines--though this isn't saying much! A silly film in most every way.

By the way, Eddie Garcia who played the evil Doc has over 500 credits to his name and is a god, of sorts, in Filipino films.

All good things must come to an end. This is the final of the Blood Island films - which also included The Mad Doctor of Blood Island, Terror Is a Man and Brides of Blood - and also the last movie that Eddie Romero would make for Hemisphere Pictures.

As Dr. Bill Foster (John Ashley) Sheila Willard, her father and Carlos Lopez escape from Blood Island, this movie's Beast gets on board and goes buck wild, killing everyone he can and blowing up the ship. He survives and heads back to the jungle while Dr. Foster spends months recovering. Everyone he knew or loved is now dead.

Of course, he's going back to Blood Island.

Dr. Lorca (Eddie Garcia),who apparently died at the end of the last movie, is still alive but horribly scarred. He controls the beast, which can live without its head. It can even talk and control its own body from afar.

This is less of a narrative movie for me and more a collection of magical images, as bodies squirt blood and beasts have swampy faces and make strange noises while their heads rot inside beakers and lab equipment.

To promote this one - which played a double bill with Curse of the Vampires, the producers printed counterfeit 10 bills printed that folded in half, with the other side revealing a poster for the film. Those fake sawbucks were scattered all around the neighborhoods where this movie played.