The first movie John Ashley made in the Philippines. It's a dopey, not un-entertaining horror adventure film with Ashley playing a peace corps worker who visits an island with doctor Kent Smith and his oversexed wife Beverly Powers.
It's a grab bag of tropes: a mysterious beast is killing women on the island; said beast turns out to be created by radioactive explosions; a native girl has the hots for Ashley; native sacrifices a la Bird of Paradise; killer beasts hot for women a la King Kong; Powers' lust for sex leads her to be punished by being torn apart by a monster; Ashley saves the day.
It's not bad - not as violent as I'd been led to believe but maybe I saw a censored version. It's not particularly attractive - I know shooting in the Philippines was economical, but it's a shame they couldn't have filmed it in a nicer spot.
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