The beginning is a bit talky, but once things get in gear, this is a lot of fun. Generally this is much better than your average drive-in monster fare and deserves the attention it has garnered from dedicated late night TV viewers. Pretty nasty for 1959, but the face-grafting in the same year's Eyes without a Face leaves it in the dust. The opening credits warn that a warning bell (actually the sound of a telephone) will sound and alert the audience of a particularly horrifying sequence, which basically consists of a few seconds of Lederer slicing along a patch of skin with a scalpel. The leopard creature (basically a bandaged man with pointy ears) is quite a sight - not one of the screen's greatest monsters, but definitely one of the oddest. It seems the doctor is convinced he can develop human beings through the genetic components of animals - and of course, he's trying it out on a leopard, with disastrous results. Charles Girard (Lederer) and his wife, Frances (Thyssen). Poor William Fitzgerald (Derr) finds himself on the island of Dr. Moreau (or more likely its first film adaptation, Island of Lost Souls). Almost everyone familiar with Terror Is a Man has noted its extreme similarity to H.G. Their horror careers got off to a roaring start with the Hemisphere Pictures production Terror Is a Man, later a hit under the title Blood Creature, and either together or separately they continued the string of creature features with films like The Twilight People and the outrageous "Blood Island" trilogy for which they are still best remembered. The Philippines isn't exactly known to modern viewers for its booming horror film industry, but for a period through the 1960s and '70s), producer-director Eddie Romero and director Gerardo "Gerry" de Leon put the country on the exploitation map by shooting exotic low budget gore epics and releasing them under campy titles guaranteed to have parents dragging their kids to church services for penance. Severin Films (Blu-ray & DVD) (US RA/R1 HD/NTSC), Image Entertainment (DVD) (US R1 NTSC) Starring John Ashley, Celeste Yarnall, Eddie Garcia, Liza Belmonte Starring John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy, Alicia Alonzo, Ronaldo Valdez Starring Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, John Ashley, Eva Darren, Mario Montenegro, Oscar Keesee Starring Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr, Oscar Keesee, Jr., Lilio Duran Directed by Gerardo de Leon and Eddie Romero
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