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January 1973 (USA)
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Animal desires... Human lust. Test Tube terrors... Half beast... all monster.
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A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations. full summary | add synopsis
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A real stinker of a low-budget genre flick.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Ashley | ... | Matt Farrell | |
| Pat Woodell | ... | Neva Gordon | |
| Jan Merlin | ... | Steinman | |
| Charles Macaulay | ... | Dr. Gordon | |
| Pam Grier | ... | Ayesa, the Panther Woman | |
| Ken Metcalfe | ... | Kuzma, the Antelope Man | |
| Tony Gosalvez | ... | Darmo, the Bat Man | |
| Kim Ramos | ... | Primo, the Ape Man | |
| Mona Morena | ... | Lupa, the Wolf Woman | |
| Eddie Garcia | ... | Juan Pereira | |
| Angelo Ventura | |||
| Johnny Long | |||
| Andres Centenera | |||
| Letty Mirasol | |||
| Cenón González |
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84 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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In September 1972, Dimension Pictures was widely exhibiting this film on a double bill with The Doberman Gang (1972).
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Edited into Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007) (V)
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Cruddy enough to at least deliver some good laughs, this unofficial "Island of Lost Souls" adaptation involves a skin-diving Matt Farrell (drive-in movie veteran John Ashley, pretty bland here), who picks the wrong ocean. For along come thugs who represent mad scientist Dr. Gordon (Charles Macaulay). Dr. Gordon, in his remote island paradise, has been trying to create a superior human being but has ended up with a menagerie of half-human / half- beast characters instead. Dr. Gordon's sexy daughter Neva (Pat Woodell) takes a shine to Matt and launches an escape along with the creatures.
"The Twilight People" isn't exactly well made, but most people reading this would surely already know that. It's never very exciting or suspenseful, yet as low-budget genre junk goes, it is mildly diverting. It's got pretty lousy "gore", crude yet interesting makeup effects on the creature performers (including an effectively animal-like Pam Grier), hilarious fun and funky library music, a lush tropical setting that at least looks good on film (like a number of other late 60's and early 70's features, this was filmed in the Philippines), and props that look like leftovers from the 50's. The creature characters themselves are kind of a hoot: there's a "bat boy", a "panther woman" (Grier), an "antelope man" (Ken Metcalfe, who did a number of these Filipino flicks), an "ape man", and a "wolf woman".
Macaulay, Ashley, and Woodell are definitely upstaged by Jan Merlin as smiling henchman Steinman. This is a genuinely amusing character; he's more than willing to let Matt "escape" for the pleasure of hunting him down, and one can easily sense that he's interested in Matt in more than one way.
Lovers of tacky B pictures might want to check this one out, if just for curiosity's sake.
Trivia alert: Grier and Woodell had previously appeared together in the Philippines-shot women-in-prison film "The Big Doll House".
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