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Apr 24, 2020 · The Camp on Blood Island was a considerable hit for Hammer in 1958, though it took a few years to get round to delivering a (semi) sequel – with this last gasp of Hammer’s gruesome war movie cycle (later, they considered casting Peter Cushing as a SS bastard in one of their famous unmade projects).
The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald. The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners ...
Having found The Camp On Blood Island to be an overlooked little gem (albeit one with very rough edges), I decided to seek out its sequel, The Secret of Blood Island, which most emphatically isn't.
Hammer eventually (in 1965) produced a sequel, “The Secret of Blood Island”, which is now equally rarely seen.
Having found The Camp On Blood Island to be an overlooked little gem (albeit one with very rough edges), I decided to seek out its sequel, The Secret of Blood Island, which most emphatically isn't.
The Camp on Blood Island and its loose sequel The Secret of Blood Island are a Hammer Film Productions war film series set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp .
On this Malayan island in 1945, World War II is drawing to a close elsewhere, but here it is dragging on under the direction of the sadistic Japanese guards in the prisoner of war camp there. Today, as has happened all too often, the inmates watch from behind the fence as one of their number digs a grave and then, with crushing inevitability ...
