Six She's and a He

LOVE GODDESSES OF BLOOD ISLAND can be seen on the DEATH CURSE OF TARTU/STING OF DEATH DVD. According to one of the commentary tracks on the DVD, the LGOBI on the DVD is not the complete film but just a very long sample of the movie, which, needless to say, has to be seen to be believed. It's truly out of this world. The ultra gory moments during a dream sequence would make HG Lewis proud. And the music alone is worth watching this oddity from the 1960s. The scene when the "curvaceous" women start dancing around the pool with the guy singing the Love Goddess song is priceless. Or the scene when the women enter the pool, with a couple of them almost slipping off balance. Arf!

Those who love obscure stuff should check this out. 10 stars for being pure trash.

An (almost ?) complete (i.e. 47:52 long) version of this once long lost flick has been discovered and is finally available from the fine folks at SWV. This review is of that version.

WOW!..I'm almost left speechless. How can I possibly describe this just as bizarre as obscure flick? Think of it as a rather intoxicating cocktail that's part Blood Feast part Orgy of the Dead (unfortunately sans nudity) with ten gallons of blood and a big pile of dime-store gore...mixed together in a coconut shell with a sharpened stick by six sadistic bikini clad blood thirsty nymphomaniacs. Yep, it's that surreal.

It opens with a rocket launch..sort of. What we see is an oscilloscope, open reel tape deck, and the console of an AM radio station while the sound of the control tower is heard. This just may be the lowest budget rocket launch sequence in the history of film (the launch in Nathan Shiff's super-8 home movie "Weasels Rip My Flesh" is more elaborate). Mmmm...delightfully cheezy. The rocket ship crash lands into the sea and the Astronaut (Fred Rogers, yes really.) washes ashore. He lands on what appears to be a pre-destroyed 1963 (or so) Florida beach..before the condos ruined the scenery. There he is met by six scantly clad women..sadistic women who make him their love and labor slave. Lotsa pool frolicking, and hitting Mr. Rogers with a stick ensues.

What will happen when he can no longer satisfy their wants and needs? You could ask the last guy, but his head's on a stick. It got up there via a gruesomely detailed flashback sequence.

Will Fred meet the same fate? See this wonderful early '60s Floridian exploitation classick and find out for yer self.

Oh..and..did I mention that this flick was directed and produced by the then owner of the Tunderbird Drive-In in Ft. Lauderdale (Richard Flink)? The Tunderbird is not only still going, but it's the biggest drive-in on Earth with 13 screens, rides, and even a circus!

8/10 on the Drive-In-Freak-O-Meter....that's good stuff.

Six She's and a He (1963)

** (out of 4)

An astronaut (Bill Rogers) crashes into the ocean where he eventually lands on Blood Island. This mysterious island has six beautiful women on it and they soon turn the man into their sex slave with plans on eventually killing him.

This film is also known as LOVE GODDESSES OF BLOOD ISLAND and was one of the first movies to try and cash-in on the explicit gore brought to the screen by Herschell Gordon Lewis and his film BLOOD FEAST. If you're a fan of the Lewis style of filmmaking then you'll certainly want to check this out even though the quality isn't nearly as good or entertaining as what stuff like COLOR ME BLOOD RED and TWO THOUSAND MANIACS delivered.

This film is out there in a couple different versions with one running twenty-seven minutes (an extra on a Something Weird Video disc) and a forty-seven minute version, which you can buy from Something Weird. I watched the longer version and for the most part it's mildly entertaining as long as you don't take it too serious. The biggest problem is that there are way too many scenes where not much is happening outside of dialogue. Director Richard S. Flink stops well short of any sexuality but of course it's the gore that sold this picture.

So, how is the gore? I'd argue that it's pretty good, although it's obvious to see how the various effects were done. There are a couple decapitations as well as the highlight of the film when one poor sucker is tied up only to be stabbed and then have his guts pulled out of him. This sequence is certainly the goriest of the movie and I'd argue it tops anything seen in a Lewis movie.

I can't believe anyone else even knew what this film was! I was 8 years old and my Mother and Aunt had taken us to the drive-in theater to see the cartoons and some Disney film & after intermission this movie came on. As us kids(5 of us) were all falling asleep around 10:00 or 10:30 was this movie. Our bedtime was 9/10ish, even on weekends & summer time, earlier during school days, because my Mother was a liberal (haha but true ) My older sister & I woke in the back seat to look up about the time the women were dancing & disemboweling some guy 😱 , we all left very fast after that. My Aunt was getting sick & was going to throw up lol. It was a horrible movie. Worse for kids.

My sister & I never forgot this movie. It bared on our minds horribly. I'm sure real cheesey by today's standards. Horror & gore is never for kids. Until 18 anyway. Why this world is so screwed up now. Idiot parents letting their kids see R rated or even some PG-13. The world is worse now than ever & getting a lot more horrible by the day now.

As of this writing, nobody else has commented on this film, and it still lacks 5 votes. This surprised me, as I thought this was some sort of cult classic. Surely someone else has seen this besides me.

The basic plot of this short film (25 minutes) has a serviceman stranded on an island inhabited by women who enslave men. The ingredients here are women dancing in bikinis, cheesy dialogue, bad jazz/lounge music, and some gore.

You can probably tell right now if you will like this or not. I did; it's not a classic but it is funny and entertaining, and more enjoyable than most stuff out there.

8/10

UPDATE

Just wanted to add a few things that I recently learned. First, I was wrong, this is not a short film but actually a feature that is partly missing. I honestly wouldn't have guessed that after watching what existed at the time-I say at the time because apparently another chunk of the film has been found, though it is still incomplete.