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• W306057012 abstract "Full Text : IIPA Full Text http://iipaft.chadwyck.com/cgi/fulltext?ACTION=BYIDF and the first two of three Blood Island films produced by Hemisphere Pictures: Brides of Blood (1968) and Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968), both co-directed by de Leon and Romero, and Beast of Blood (Four Associates/Hemisphere, 1970), written and directed by Romero. The Blood Island films are strongly indebted to the generic legacy of other jungle-horror films: the colonialist nightmare embodied in the Dr. Moreau narrative; and the beauty-desired-by-the-beast premise of King Kong. Drawing from these two intertextual axes, the Blood Island films figuratively engage anxieties over miscegenation and colonialism, anxieties which are the enduring province of jungle-horror films. The centerpiece of my analysis is a delineation of several recurring motifs of the Blood Island films, themselves longstanding tropes of the genre: in an anonymous jungle island, an interstitial white heroine is menaced by a monstrous, human-but-bestial ''mimic man'' created by a mad scientist. Though not every Blood Island film plot hews exactly to this formula, each involves most of these elements to a greater or lesser degree. My analysis of Romero's B-film work is not confined to narrative analysis. In terms of production decisions, I discuss the role of ''whiteface'' in casting, that is, the casting of mestizo Filipino actors to play the recurring role of the monstrous mad scientist. The last sections of the paper also depart from textual analysis and explore the promotional strategies surrounding the films (ranging from print advertising to in-theater gimmicks and film prologues) and the question of exploitation film audiences (from teenagers at drive-ins to the lowbrow rural audiences of what Romero calls the U.S. ''exploitation belt''). 1. An earlier version of this paper, entitled ''Monstrous Makers, Bestial Brides: Situating Eddie Romero's B-Horror films in an Intricate Web of Histories'' was published in the Philippines in the Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature 1.2 (January 1998): 37-61. My thanks to Jason Sanders and Joel David for their invaluable help in tracking down these films and the scant material on them; and for companionably watching these films with me. 2. This excludes the Gerry de Leon vampire films originally made for the Philippines which were then dubbed and distributed in the U.S. years later. p.23 Adjusting the Frame Any consideration of Filipino director Eddie Romero's exploitation and B-film output, geared primarily for the U.S. audience, must begin by adjusting the frame: several historical ironies pervade his work, and we must begin by acknowledging them. Perhaps the most obvious irony is the fact that Eddie Romero, a director whose mature work establishes him as a nationalist art filmmaker, also produced American movie fare for drive-ins and rural and second-run theaters, films in which the quality of the direction was not the primary concern (in his war films, location shooting and action rather than dialogue were noted favorably by Variety; 3. in his Blood Island horror films, co-directed with Gerry de Leon, the sensational combination of ''blood, beasts, and breasts'' called for only perfunctory direction). Romero, recipient of an Urian award for outstanding achievement in film, is hailed by Filipino film historian Agustin Sotto as ''a filmmaker of substance,'' based mostly on his post-World War II work as writer and director (under the mentorship of acclaimed National Artist and film pioneer Gerry de Leon), first for the major Philippine film studio Sampaguita Pictures (1946-1953), and then as an independent. Romero's work in the American exploitation film industry is far less well-known. Following Romero's initiation into the possibilities of serious filmmaking through a trip to London, 4. Romero's decision to make films on his own as an independent led, by 1957, to his 2 of 18 9/21/05 3:57 PM" @default.
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