No, its not a good idea to visit Blood Island. Home to primitive tribe folk straight out of central casting, stock-footage sunsets and supersized insects as well as trees with moving limbs, this is the kind of place where topless starlets are sacrificed to a monster when the moon is full. And what a monster it is. Alternately resembling the Michelin Man on a seriously bad day, a creature from the black lagoon who has really let himself go and a rubber-suited ancestor of Slimer from Ghostbusters, this silly, shuffling stalker possesses all the menace of From Hell It Cames walking tree monster, who at least had some bite to go with his bark. Come to think of it, no matter how outrageous things get, nobody seems particularly surprised. Trees that move and attack people are, overall, hard to find in nature, but a character dismisses it as some kind of banana tree before moving on, nothin to see here. Similarly, when an oversized butterfly attacks the group, the experience just leads a doctor to deduce that some organisms on this island are undergoing drastic mutation.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
