![]() ![]() De León is essentially crafting his own Universal Monsters installment, while simultaneously minting a formula that they'd end up following ten years on. Shot in stark black and white, and resembling a Reuben riff on Erle Kenton's Island of Lost Souls ('32), there's a disarming level of shadowy menace on display in Romero and de León's debut exploitation collaboration (working off a script by Paul Harber, who previously penned The Kidnappers for Romero). De León remained Romero's partner for the first two subsequent entries following Terror ( Brides of Blood and Mad Doctor of Blood Island), while the tiny Filipino genre godfather brought the series home on his own with possibly one of the strangest creature features the world has ever seen. Thus, the Blood Island Trilogy ('68 - '70) was born, gifting schlock fans a set of films that are rubbery, titillating (what with all those scenes of nude women racing through the forest) and increasingly gory. In a true moment of "nobody knows nothing" cinema economics, Terror Is A Man became an American hit, making both Romero and Hemisphere hungry for more Filipino-crafted lo-fi exploitation. Just like the movie's initial release, Sherman matched it with another one of Romero's works – the war mini-epic The Walls of Hell ('64) – in an attempt to make a quick buck off a dusty old horror curio that nobody else wanted to put out. Sherman and Hemisphere Pictures (who mostly made their name on weirdo Al Adamson movies), which partnered with Independent International to distribute Terror Is A Man in the States in 1969 (under the title Blood Creature). Terror was released on a double-bill with another Romero-produced project (his Hong Kong shot mystery, The Scavengers ) and unfortunately didn't do particularly well at the domestic box office, mostly receding into obscurity throughout the next decade.Įnter Samuel M. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, that found a deadly panther man prowling the perimeter of a spooky land mass in the Pacific. The result was one of their country's first genre pictures: Terror Is A Man ('59), a cheapie spin on H.G. De León had read one of Romero's early short stories and wanted to make a movie together, despite the author insisting they didn’t even speak the same language (but that’s what translators are for). All rights reserved.Eddie Romero had been working in the Filipino film industry for a decent stretch of time – mostly as a writer, penning comedies and comic book flicks – when he received a call from doctor-turned-actor Gerardo "Gerry" de León. Strain GA1 was capable of reducing highly toxic Cr(VI) to less toxic/soluble Cr(III), demonstrating its potential utility in bioremediation of toxic metal species.Īcidophile Cr(VI) reduction Extreme environment Fe(III) reduction Microbial diversity Sulfolobus.Ĭopyright © 2016 Institut Pasteur. Strain GA1 possessed only minor Fe(II) oxidation ability, but readily reduced Fe(III) during heterotrophic growth under micro-aerobic conditions. Unlike many other known Sulfolobus spp., strain GA1 was shown to lack sulfur oxidation ability. GA1 (with 99.7% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity with Sulfolobus shibatae). Nevertheless, successive culture enrichment with Fe(III) under micro-aerobic conditions led to isolation of an unknown archaeal organism, Sulfolobus sp. This was followed by random sequencing analysis, confirming the presence of wide bacterial diversity at the site (123 clones derived from 18 bacterial and 1 archaeal genera), including those closely related to known autotrophic and heterotrophic acidophiles (Acidithiobacillus sp., Sulfobacillus sp., Alicyclobacillus sp.). Initially, PCR (using bacteria- and archaea-specific primers) of environmental DNA samples detected the presence of bacteria, but not archaea. ![]() This study aimed to investigate the microbial population composition in this extremely acidic environment and to isolate/characterize acidophilic microorganism with metal-reducing ability. Chinoike Jigoku ("Blood Pond Hell") is located in the hot spring town of Beppu on the southern island of Kyushu in Japan, and is the site of a red-colored acidic geothermal pond. ![]()
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