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Terror Is a Man
Terror Is a Man (also known as Blood Creature, Creature from Blood Island, Island of Terror and Gore Creature) is a 1959 black-and-white Filipino/American horror film directed by Gerardo de Leon. The film's art director was Vicente Bonus, with special effects by Hilario Santos and makeup by Remedios Amazon.
The film is the first in the Blood Island series produced by Eddie Romero and Kane W. Lynn, which also included Brides of Blood (1966), The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) and Beast of Blood (1970). All four films are set on Blood Island, named for its vivid red-hued sunsets.
The film's plot concerns a shipwreck survivor washed ashore on a small island where a scientist is experimenting on a panther to make it human.
William Fitzgerald, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, washes ashore on Blood Island. He is found by Dr. Charles Girard, a scientist who has created a laboratory on the isolated island with his disenchanted wife Frances and his assistant Walter Perrera. The island's natives fear Dr. Girard, as he has been experimenting on a panther, surgically changing it with a series of painful operations into a half-man, half-panther beast that occasionally escapes from its cage and kills unwary villagers. The creature is swathed in bandages, but his cat-like eyes and ears are still evident. It is attracted to Frances, as she is the only person on the island who shows it pity.
As time passes on the island, Fitzgerald and Frances fall in love, and she asks him to take her away. The creature frees itself once again, but Walter sets it ablaze and recaptures it. The beast later escapes again and embarks on a rampage, killing Walter and a young servant girl named Selene and abducting Frances, carrying her into the jungle. With William and Charles in hot pursuit, the creature is cornered on the edge of a cliff, where it hurls the mad doctor to his death. Before the creature can attack the others, it is shot several times by William. Fleeing toward the beach, the wounded creature is helped by Selene's little brother Tiago, and the unconscious beast drifts to sea in a small rowboat.
Terror Is a Man is partially based on H.G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, although Wells is uncredited in the film.
Terror Is a Man was theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 1959 on a double feature with another Eddie Romero film, The Scavengers. The film was rereleased under several alternate titles over the years, including Creature from Blood Island, Gore Creature, The Gory Creatures and Island of Terror. It was rereleased to theaters in 1969 by distributor Sam Sherman as Blood Creature. A warning-bell gimmick sounding like a telephone ringer warned the audience of impending gore during a surgical sequence.
The film was initially released on DVD on June 8, 1999 by Image Entertainment. It was next released as a double feature with Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory by Madacy on March 20, 2001 as part of the Killer Creature Double Feature DVD series. Madacy rereleased the film as a part of its five-disc Killer Creature collection on October 5, 2004. Fox Lorber later released the film on September 9, 2003. It released by Alpha Video on September 25, 2012 and lastly in a Blu-ray box set of all of Romero's Blood Island films by Severin on November 13, 2018.
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Terror Is a Man
Terror Is a Man (also known as Blood Creature, Creature from Blood Island, Island of Terror and Gore Creature) is a 1959 black-and-white Filipino/American horror film directed by Gerardo de Leon. The film's art director was Vicente Bonus, with special effects by Hilario Santos and makeup by Remedios Amazon.
The film is the first in the Blood Island series produced by Eddie Romero and Kane W. Lynn, which also included Brides of Blood (1966), The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969) and Beast of Blood (1970). All four films are set on Blood Island, named for its vivid red-hued sunsets.
The film's plot concerns a shipwreck survivor washed ashore on a small island where a scientist is experimenting on a panther to make it human.
William Fitzgerald, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, washes ashore on Blood Island. He is found by Dr. Charles Girard, a scientist who has created a laboratory on the isolated island with his disenchanted wife Frances and his assistant Walter Perrera. The island's natives fear Dr. Girard, as he has been experimenting on a panther, surgically changing it with a series of painful operations into a half-man, half-panther beast that occasionally escapes from its cage and kills unwary villagers. The creature is swathed in bandages, but his cat-like eyes and ears are still evident. It is attracted to Frances, as she is the only person on the island who shows it pity.
As time passes on the island, Fitzgerald and Frances fall in love, and she asks him to take her away. The creature frees itself once again, but Walter sets it ablaze and recaptures it. The beast later escapes again and embarks on a rampage, killing Walter and a young servant girl named Selene and abducting Frances, carrying her into the jungle. With William and Charles in hot pursuit, the creature is cornered on the edge of a cliff, where it hurls the mad doctor to his death. Before the creature can attack the others, it is shot several times by William. Fleeing toward the beach, the wounded creature is helped by Selene's little brother Tiago, and the unconscious beast drifts to sea in a small rowboat.
Terror Is a Man is partially based on H.G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, although Wells is uncredited in the film.
Terror Is a Man was theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 1959 on a double feature with another Eddie Romero film, The Scavengers. The film was rereleased under several alternate titles over the years, including Creature from Blood Island, Gore Creature, The Gory Creatures and Island of Terror. It was rereleased to theaters in 1969 by distributor Sam Sherman as Blood Creature. A warning-bell gimmick sounding like a telephone ringer warned the audience of impending gore during a surgical sequence.
The film was initially released on DVD on June 8, 1999 by Image Entertainment. It was next released as a double feature with Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory by Madacy on March 20, 2001 as part of the Killer Creature Double Feature DVD series. Madacy rereleased the film as a part of its five-disc Killer Creature collection on October 5, 2004. Fox Lorber later released the film on September 9, 2003. It released by Alpha Video on September 25, 2012 and lastly in a Blu-ray box set of all of Romero's Blood Island films by Severin on November 13, 2018.