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Following after the example of Val Lewton’s 1940s horror films, this drive-in ready adaptation of H.G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU wrings psychological anguish and terse visual effects from its low-budget expressionism. The film begins with a naïve sailor (William Fitzgerald) washing up onto Girard’s island. Director Gerardo de Leon shows us just enough of the puma-human hybrid to hurry the islands’ natives off the island, leaving only the few people in the doctor’s compound. Many critics have understood the film as an allegory of the United States’ colonial record in the Phillipines, a testament to the ambiguity of the film’s monster. Psychosexual tensions and power differentials electrify the air between the characters, to say nothing of manacled id in the basement. TERROR IS A MAN is generally regarded as the best of the “Blood Island” pictures de Leon directed for American producers, but as critic Mark Holcomb wrote of the Filipino auteur, “Even under the most dire circumstances [de Leon] exercised a characteristic cinematic bravado.”
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