
Frankenstein Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited Orange "Pumpkin" Vinyl Edition) (Originally released on International Independent Pictures Corp. Tito Arevalo, Mad Doctor of Blood Island Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Limited Green "Chlorophyll Blood" Vinyl Edition) (Originally released on International Independent Pictures Corp.
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If you would like to get in the Halloween mood with these two titles out now from Real Gone Music (and next Friday at Amazon), we've got the ordering links and full track listings below.

Frankenstein features a poster signed by the star of the film, Zandor Vorkov. Mad Doctor of Blood Island's poster is signed by Sam Sherman and Dracula vs. The package also includes an LP-sized insert of the cover illustration and comes on pumpkin orange vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies.īoth titles also feature autographed poster inserts if you order now through Real Gone's website. The package does, however, boast a note from Sherman and photos from his archives. This edition retains one of the radio spots from the CD but drops several and also doesn't include the commentary from Sam Sherman. Real Gone's vinyl reissue marks the score's debut on that format after premiering on CD in a limited pressing in 2008. This was also Lava's final film as he passed away the same year.

His work for those was known to be more atonal than his predecessors and that style follows through to his score for Dracula vs. He composed the themes to Gunsmoke and F Troop and worked on many of the late-period Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons in the 1960s. He was Sam Sherman's favorite composer and had a career stretching back to the 1930s. Frankenstein was composed by William Lava. Ironically, he also portrayed Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster for Universal - the only actor to perform all four roles for the studio. is most known for his roles in the classic Universal monster films in the 1940s where he famously played the Wolf-Man and the Mummy. It had sat on the shelf for two years and he actually performed in another film for Adamson later in 1969, but it was released earlier.) Cheney, Jr. The film is probably most notable, though, for who plays Durea's assistant: Lon Cheney, Jr. Carrol Naish (an Oscar nominee for Sahara) and Dracula is played by Zandor Vorkov. Durea, the descendant, is portrayed by J. Frankenstein which he believes will make him immune to sunlight. The flick concerned Dracula hoping to acquire a serum developed by a descendant of the novel's original Dr. The package also includes an LP insert with the cover illustration and comes on green "Chlorophyll Blood" vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies.ġ971's Dracula vs. In addition to presenting the score, the album also features a radio spot and the "Oath of Green Blood Intro" to the film, which advised audiences to drink the green "blood" potion that was distributed as a gimmick before screenings of the movie. (It was released on a limited CD back in 2007.) Real Gone's new reissue includes a note from Sam Sherman and rare publicity stills from his archives. This is the first appearance on vinyl for the score. Arevalo would score over 60 movies before passing away in 2000. Arevalo's score for Mad Doctor includes a full orchestra and is an early example of "horror exotica." The score was so effective that it was used in two later films.

His acting career stretched back to the 1930s and his first working scoring films was for 1946's Ikaw Na!. The score was composed by Tito Arevalo, a Filipino actor and musician. The plot revolves around a mad scientist creating plant/human mutants out of the blood of the local population. It was the third of the four "Blood Island" films produced by Romero and Kane W. Mad Doctor of Blood Island is a 1969 Filipino film co-directed by Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon starring John Ashley, Eddie Garcia, and Ronald Remy. Real Gone has teamed for the release of these two titles with Sam Sherman, former head of publicity for Hemisphere Pictures and founder of Independent International Pictures Corp., the two companies which distributed the films. Halloween is just a little over two weeks away and Real Gone is getting into the spirit with a pair of releases out now directly from the label and next Friday, October 22, from Amazon: first-time vinyl reissues of the soundtracks to 1969's Mad Doctor of Blood Island and 1971's Dracula vs.
