Actor: Amalia Fuentes, Eddie Fernandez, Eva Montez, Celia Rodriguez, Paquito Salcedo, Felisa Salcedo, Vicky Velasquez, Jess Roma, Mary Walter, Renato Robles
Director: Gerardo de Leon, Gerardo (Gerry) de Leon
Genre: Horror
Year: 1964
Studio: Severin
Length: 87
Released: 4/9/2019
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
Five years after TERROR IS A MAN became the first international horror hit from the Philippines, producer Cirio Santiago (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) and director Gerry de Leon (BRIDES OF BLOOD) delivered Hemisphere's next landmark shocker: Ronald Remy (MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND) - in a performance Critic After Dark calls "perhaps the most compelling incarnation since Christopher Lee" - stars in this orgy of gothic terror and Filipino pulp, complete with rubber bats, hunchback henchmen, theremin, whippings, rampant Catholicism and radical color tinting that remains unnerving more than half a century later. Amalia Fuentes (CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES) co-stars in "one of the more unusual vampire movies you'll ever see" (DVD Drive-In) - also known as BLOOD IS THE COLOR OF NIGHT and VAMPIRE PEOPLE - now scanned from the only complete 35mm print known to exist.
Review
"A vampire film like no other... It stands as a peerless achievement in 60s horror. --Bleeding Skull
"Beautifully gothic and undeniably eerie... An immensely creative piece of cinema that should appeal to fans of Mario Bava and Coffin Joe. --10K Bullets
About the Director
Gerardo de Leon was born on September 12, 1913 in Manila, Philippines as Gerardo de Leon Ilagan. He was a director and actor, known for Noli me tángere (1961), Huwag Mo Akong Limutin (1960) and El filibusterismo (1962). He died on July 25, 1981 in Manila.
