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  Review by Bleeding Skull ★★★½

  The world’s first BLOOD FEAST rip-off! A collaboration between distributor Richard S. Flink (THE WEIRD WORLD OF LSD) and one-time director Gordon H. Heaver, LOVE GODDESSES OF BLOOD ISLAND is a treasure trove of sun-baked, trash-gore kitsch. Recycling the plot of Doris Wishman’s NUDE ON THE MOON, the movie combines ferocious dismemberments with A+ dad jokes to forge a dreamy island refuge off the coast of Black Hole, USA. Though a complete version has yet to be located, the 40-minutes that we do have (courtesy of Something Weird Video) provide enough joy to fill at least three lifetimes. (Joseph A. Ziemba)

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  Review by Justin LaLiberty ★★★½ 1

  admittedly erratic amalgam of soft bikini sleaze and proto-gore that feels like a Herschel Gordon Lewis movie for the beach bunny set, complete with groovy lounge music and a sincere helping of goofy humor -- likely of major interest due to its gore, which doesn't disappoint, but the whole thing feels like a sweaty transmission from another dimension; that other dimension being Florida

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  Review by Liz ★★★★

  Coming off like some strange hybrid of Florida's two greatest contributions to cinema - gore and the nudie film - Love Goddesses of Blood Island (aka Six She's and a He) is almost like the inept precursor to AC Stephen's Orgy of the Dead, except with that film's Ed Wood-penned necrophilic fetishes replaced with cheapo animal gore.

  No complete version of the film is known to exist, but what we get on Something Weird's partial reconstruction is wonderful - and full of nazi disembowelments, tiki parties on Blood Island (a Miami Beach motel pool), catfights on astroturf-covered jungle sets, a girl accidentally stabbing herself in the eye and even a lounge theme song. I assure you that this is what South Florida is really like.

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  Review by Eli Olsberg

  A lost, incomplete film available only as a 40 minute cut from Something Weird Video until now, thanks to the folks at AGFA, as part of their new Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare blu-ray, they’re truly doing the Lord’s work rescuing South Florida exploitation. Beautifully restored from multiple archives (including the Library of Congress), this plays like a cross between a Doris Wishman nudie cutie (with zero nudity lol) and the stuff HG Lewis was doing at this time, though its self-awareness is a little more fun than his cheese imo. Barely clocking in at 60 minutes, this still kind of drags a bit here and there but never long enough that you check out since there’s some primo practical gore dropped along the way (one scene even appears as a full on flashback near the end). Would play great with an audience!

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  Review by smellington ★★★★

  What starts off as a pretty tame bathing beauties early male fantasy wish fulfillment slightly masochist 60s (no nudity) softie short, like something you would've fast forward thru (or scanned thru for you youngsters) on one of the many volumes of Something Weird's Twisted Sex (not me, I watched the numerous tapes of the Twisted Sex series for purely historically Academic reasons and stuff (of course)), then at the 25 minute mark, Six She's and a He goes (holy shit) full HG Lewis territory even before there was even a HG Lewis territory (of course Blood Feast was also 63, but I wouldn't say he had a territory by then, or terroritory as the Crypt Keeper would say). Since I…

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  Review by robert2339 ★

  After watching “Love Goddesses of Love Island” I instantly scratched crashing a plane and washing ashore of an island filled with women and forcing me to work in exchange for having sex with them off my bucket list.

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  Review by Kyle B. ★★★★

  It's a tale as old as time. A WWII pilot has to ditch his plane and washes ashore on an island inhabited by six bikini-clad sexpots with a disgust for men. Forced labor and mandatory lovemaking ensues. But despite that set up, the sleaze doesn't stack up by way of gratuitous TnA. It's the shocking amount of neon red gore--decaying heads on sticks, disembowelment, beheading, and bludgeoning catfights. The whole thing is quaintly cheap (like the catfight mentioned pulling up the shag turf carpet to expose cement studio floor) but a fun time nonetheless.

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  Review by Rod Lott ★★★★ 1

  I know the hubbub lately is all about the lost Orson Welles film, but this is the one I wanna see completed. 

  
  (You can find it from Something Weird as Love Goddesses of Blood Island.)

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  Review by David Sodergren ★★★½ 5

  Love Goddesses of Blood Island is a berserk slice of hypnotic stupidity from Florida, a full colour gore movie released the same year as Blood Feast, but waaaaaaay more entertaining. 

  Rather than Fuad Ramses limping around and mumbling, we have an island of six attractive women in ill-fitting gold bikinis, along with three show-stopping gore set-pieces and an insanely catchy lounge theme song. 

  It’s cheap garbage, and shot almost entirely around a motel pool, but I had a great time, and it’s all over in 62 minutes.

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  Review by Rod Lott

  Herschell Gordon Lewis’ wet dreams.

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  Review by Muddguts

  A film that's crazier than a shithouse rat. Starts off boring as fuck and progressively gets more eyebrow raising as it goes. You cannot believe it's outlandishness by the time it's over.

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  Review by Simon Barrett

  AGFA recently released a full uncut 62-minute print scan of Love Goddesses of Blood Island (aka Six She's and a He), apparently long thought lost, to blu-ray. It is a pulverizing experience, at least 70% scenes of clothed women languidly dancing or bathing in an unappealing milky tub, with its male protagonist's narration providing confirmation of what we are seeing. This dancing is incongruously interrupted by a couple of scenes of conceptually extreme gore, with the goddess women intensely pulling what look like real animal entrails out of papier-mâché human bodies, which is simultaneously both gross and delightfully ersatz. One of these gore scenes is repeated later in the film for a few minutes when our hero pauses to "remember"…