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Eddie Romero and John Ashley are at it again!! Yup, another goofball Filipino horror flick, this time moving us from Blood Island to an undetermined town in Southeast Asia.
Romero's script is a total mess with a zillion confusing plotholes. I won't even try to describe it all coz it'll make your head hurt trying to analyze it, and a film like this shouldn't require that kind of thinking. All you really need to know is that Ashley plays a rich businessman who has made a deal with the devil to more or less do evil things and bring out the evil in everyone he meets. He starts to develop a conscience about this though. As an added bonus to his curse, he transforms into a wrinkled gray faced monster at night, and in the Lon Chaney, Jr. tradition, goes about slaughtering and eating folks. For s**ts and giggles I suppose. Turning into a monster is a hindrance for Ashley coz it messes up his hair and sideburns. He meets a blind man who might hold the key to freedom.
That's all the plot you really need. If you enjoy the Romero/Ashley team(and who doesn't?), most likely you'll check this out. Unfortunately it isn't as entertaining as the Blood Island films, and tends to drag. Ashley is supposed to be cold and evil, but John Ashley can probably never come across as evil.
The DVD includes an intro to the film done by B movie extraordinaire, Fred Olen Ray. This is also available in the bonus features which doesn't make much sense since it already played before the movie. Plus there are a few vintage Drive-In advertisements and a nice documentary, "Remembering John Ashley" that runs about half an hour.

John Ashley stars as a wicked man who is "saved" from death by the devil, only to find himself enslaved to the evil one and his plans to corrupt mankind. Ashley agrees to possess those whom the devil wishes to destroy. Ashley's spirit ends up in the bodies of different men throughout several decades, before winding up inside a man w/ a beautiful wife (Charlotte Wilcox). Ashley gets tired of his deal w/ satan, who responds by turning him into a hideous nocturnal monster! BOTYN has loads of ultra-cheeeezy gore and a rather surprising sex scene tossed in! Heck, there's even a philosophical debate between Ashley and beelzebub! Not bad...