From body horror to undying beasts, Tales of Blood Island will take you on a trip to a lot of stranger things in paradise!”īased in the Philippines, Hemisphere Pictures produced the notorious Blood Island flicks for the U.S. I hope horror fans and Tiki fans will be too. Artist Stephen Sistilli’s work screamed ‘Action!’… and I was hooked. “When David Sehring, formerly of AMC and the Monsters HD cable networks, approached me to become involved with the planned reboot of the Filipino Blood Island creature features, I suggested we get a comic book produced as a prelude. “I’ve always been intrigued by weird tales of zombies, monsters, mutants and mad doctors,” says the Philippines-born Yuzna. Both these colorful tie-ins will serve as a precursor to a cinematic Blood Island remake, based on a script by writers David Sehring and former FANGORIA scribe Mark Cerulli, to be produced by Yuzna and Drive-In Sanity Films.
#Blood island movie#
A Kickstarter campaign has just launched to bring the comics and mugs to gruesome life, both of which draw inspiration from the old Filipino Blood Island exploitation movie series.į has some exclusive cover art from the comics below, as well as the scoop from Yuzna and company. The undying, green-blooded zombie, the Beast of Blood, is the first Tiki Monster mug in the line as sculpted by Tiki-fantasy artist Tom “Thor” Thordarson, who has held numerous executive titles with Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios, Tiki Farm and other theme park and design companies.Well, this sounds like a bloody good time.īrian Yuzna, the legendary producer behind Re-Animator, From Beyond and Dagon, is collaborating on a serialized comic book and accompanying “Tiki-style” monster mug line called Brian Yuzna Presents Tales of Blood Island.
#Blood island series#
To coincide with the release of the comic books, there will also be more “blood in your eye” with a series of “mix-and-match” Tiki-style mugs based on the characters & creatures featured in the original movies and new comics. Told in the style of classic cliffhanger serials and tropical tales from Men’s Adventure magazines and pulps, the new comic book features tiki terrors and non-stop monster mayhem, mixing and mashing up myths and folklore from around the world.
#Blood island full#
The first issue of Brian Yuzna Presents Tales Of Blood Island will be 36 full color pages, with three future issues planned for the initial run of the series.
īoth Sistilli and Weeks worked on another Tiki-themed comic, Koni Waves for Arcana Comics from 2005 through 2010. drive-in market from 1959 through 1970, the comic book incorporates key characters from the original films and more jungle thrills, strange science fiction & fantasy, and over-the-top monsters and gore that were the key ingredients of the Blood Island pictures as well as “Mondo Movies” and exploitation films from that period.īrian Yuzna Presents Tales Of Blood Island, the comic book, is a movie series in the making, with storyboard styling that screams “action” from artist Stephen Sistilli and coloring & lettering from Dexter Weeks. Inspired by the successful “Blood Island” zombie and creature feature franchise made in the Philippines by Hemisphere Pictures for the U.S.
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