#Beverly powers blood island movie#
#Beverly powers blood island series#

The villagers watch as Esteban, back in human form, stumbles out of the hut and dies. They corner the creature in a grass hut and set it afire. Jim convinces the villagers to fight the monster instead of appeasing it. They return to the village, pursued by the monster. Jim and Alma find some carnivorous trees devouring what is left of Carla's body. Goro chases them with a machete and kills Paul.

After an encounter with some monstrous trees and carnivorous plants, Carla is violently dismembered by the monster. That night, Carla sees Esteban stagger out of the house, and she follows him into the jungle, unaware that he is the beast of the island, a transformation he undergoes after each migraine. While he only suffers with migraines, it caused his wife to suffer fatal seizures. Esteban tells them that he and his wife were exposed to radiation during the atomic bomb tests. The duo flee through the monstrous vegetation and return to Esteban's house.

The villagers are furious that Jim intervened, and chase Jim and Alma into the jungle. While the villagers await the arrival of the beast, Jim escapes and rescues Alma by firing a flare gun at the creature before it can dismember her. When she tries to get into bed with him, his servant Goro appears and forces her to leave the room. She sneaks down the hall to Esteban's bedroom, where she finds him writhing on his bed. At Esteban's house, Carla desires sex, but can't get her husband interested. Jim attempts to intervene, but Arcadio and the tribesmen tie him up. The villagers select two more sacrifices by lottery this time, Alma is chosen. Paul realizes the animals on the island have the ability to change from their normal state into monstrous forms. She tells him that if they do not continue to sacrifice girls to the creature, it will go berserk and destroy them all. The next morning, Alma tells Jim that the beast only wants women the mutilations are its means of sexual satisfaction. Outside, a deformed humanoid beast emerges from the jungle and dismembers the two naked women. Inside a hut with Arcadio and Alma, the Americans hear a strange sound emanating from the jungle, but they are warned not to leave the hut. In the village, two women are shackled to an altar and stripped of their clothes. A butterfly transforms into a fanged monster and bites Paul on the hand. On their way back to the village, a banana tree grabs Carla with its branches, but Jim and Paul rescue her. The group is startled to discover that the youthful-looking Esteban is actually 50 years old. Esteban suffers from migraines, and reveals that the natives were all moved to the island after the atomic bomb tests while they seem unaffected by the fallout, the flora and fauna of the island seem to have been altered. Jim declines, but Carla insists that she and Paul stay. The Americans are invited by Goro to visit the home of his master, Esteban Powers, a handsome young man who invites them to stay with him. The villagers choose two of the village maidens to participate in a ritual. Alma acts as Jim's interpreter for the natives, but remains secretive about what has everyone on edge. The Americans are greeted by Arcadio, the tribe's elder, and his granddaughter Alma. The two bodies headed for burial have been completely dismembered. The trio comes upon a funeral procession being conducted by the local natives. The captain tells his passengers that the island is cursed and is known as 'Blood Island'. Paul Henderson, a scientist investigating radiation from atomic bomb tests his beautiful but sexually frustrated wife, Carla and Jim Farrell, a young Peace Corps representative. Three Americans arrive on a tropical island: Dr. Brides of Blood was later released to television syndication in some areas as Island of Living Horror. Lynn known as the 'Blood Island' series, which also included Terror Is a Man, The Mad Doctor of Blood Island and Beast of Blood.

#Beverly powers blood island series#

Brides of Blood was the second in a series of four horror films produced by Romero and Kane W.

#Beverly powers blood island movie#

It was the first movie that Ashley made in the Philippines, beginning a long association between Ashley and that country. Brides of the Beast, Danger on Tiki Island and Grave Desires) is a 1968 Filipino horror film, co-directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon, and starring John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Beverly Hills, Eva Darren and Mario Montenegro.