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: DVD
Misc/Special Features: NTSC, Full Screen
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 Actor
Amalia Fuentes was born Amalia Muhlach in Bicol. She was educated in Catholic school. She was dubbed as the "Elizabeth Taylor of the Philippines" by the movie industry during the late 1950s. Fuentes, said to have a German lineage. Her father died during the war and as the eldest, she became the family bread winner.
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.
