She then goes about avenging herself on the five men. Suffering frequently from the sickness, a handicapped club owner played by Lo Lieh trains her to defend herself. She contracts a rare venereal disease called 'Vietnam Rose', an incurable infection brought back from the Vietnam War. They trap her and take turns raping her on the roof of an apartment complex. She plays a factory worker who attracts the attention of five fiendish thugs. The lovely Chen Ping quickly became Hong Kong's queen of exploitation cinema with this intriguing rape revenge actioner. Of the numerous grotesque movies on his resume, THE BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLS is one of his most famous.
It wasn't always blood and guts for the grim director as he also directed comedies (THE RAT CATCHER) and fantasy films (THE GOURD FAIRY). Shaw Brothers were notorious for excessive bloodletting and this suited Kuei's style perfectly. Regardless, Kuei turned out some of the most grim and incredibly violent movies to ever come out of Hong Kong. Kuei was said to be a tyrant on set pushing his actors to extremes. Kuei's movie contains numerous scenes of torture and degradation, lesbianism, rape and misogyny a plenty.
He later became one of Hong Kong's most prolific actors. Having been hired at the same time as Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh co-starred in a handful of swordplay adventures before getting a few solo features of his own. Throw in a group of revolutionaries, a pretty exciting car chase and one of many grand and gruesome roles for Lo Lieh. Lo Lieh and the girls attempt to escape the BAMBOO HOUSE OF DOLLSīy the midway point, the film becomes an action picture as a group of the women captives mount an escape with an undercover Chinese agent in a search for hidden gold via a secret treasure map. Angelique Pettyjohn was in the violent STAR TREK episode, 'The Gamesters of Triskelion' and later had a career in porn. Lorca is replaced by Eddie Garcia for the next installment.
He reprises the role of Bill Foster for BEAST OF BLOOD, which begins mere minutes after the ending of MAD DOCTOR. These include BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT (1971) and THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE (1973). John Ashley was a former television and movie star who featured in a slew of AIP beach party movies before making his fateful filipino sojourn in Eddie Romero flicks. The only annoyance in MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND is the rapid fire zoom ins and zoom outs whenever the monster shows up to mutilate a native or two. These movies are representative of a typical passion pit attraction that the hardtops didn't always embrace.
All the blood island movies are well regarded amongst those who were lucky enough to catch them at the drive in and partake in some green blooded, chlorophyll monster mayhem replete with sex and gore.
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