Beast of the Yellow Night

First off, the summary is inaccurate. Satan doesn't save the man's life, the man becomes a spirit of evil that inhabits people and awake the latent evil in those around him.

Second, having seen this movie and all of the episodes of SCTV with Mary Charlotte Wilcox, it is obvious these are two different actresses. Shape of the face, eyes, their voices, everything is different. Also, no one else but Mary Charlotte Wilcox could be Idela Voudrey and that includes this Mary Wilcox.

I like this movie for some reason. It tends to get a little slow but it actually has a nice sort of message at the end when Langdon finally meets his fate, something he longed to experience for decades as a spirit of evil.

John Ashley stars and he seems like he is doing a kind of Elvis impersonation at least with the hair when he isn't the beast. Satan transforms him into a murderous creature put of punishment because of his desire to be an individual again. A temptation that strikes him when the devil allows him to inhabit this man with his own face. The change causes him to lose focus on ruining the people around him to trying to spare them that pain. It could have been more than just a monster movie but it tries....

This is one of John Ashley's better Pilipino exploitation films.

Surprisingly, the director and the writer are the same Eddie Romero (1924-2013), who initially used the screen name "Enrique Moreno."

Filmed in Premiere Studios, Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines.

We are what we eat. It is a beastly movie with a soft porn touch. John Ashley makes a deal with the devil (Vic Diaz) to serve and munch.

On the production side, there is too dark of a filter. Stilted dialog not wooden. This is not worth suffering through other than an example of Ashley's repertoire. The Devil is in the details.

I remember seeing this title on the marquee at my home drive-in as a child. Watched it and finds it an interesting film, but curious as to why it's not in the Mad Doc series...or is it? The acting isn't bad at all, especially compared to original Mad Doc. I noted that the first scene of the monster's arms look like they were re-used from the Mad Doc flix. The Filipino back-drop of this film, as well as the Mad Doc films, provides something a little different and interesting that stands alone from movies that we're accustomed to viewing. The mono sound with the atmosphere, particularly in the opening scenes, gives the filmgoer the creeps. I do wish I could've talked my parents into taking me to see it way back then!

After recently finding a copy of this on DVD, I brought it home and was amazed to find this was everything I was looking for and a whole lot more. Filmed in the Philippines and directed by Eddie Romero, I was horrified/enlightened by its blasphemous blend of cannibalism, comedy, and deals with the devil gone bad. John Ashley is excellent as one of the most frightening, gruesome, and demented-looking monsters I've ever seen. Entertaining as can be. For me, the only thing scarier than this movie is the fact that I almost never got to see it! Great flick!

Beast of the Yellow Night features a hideous man-monster that tears its victims to shreds, but the real horror is a semi-naked Vic Diaz. The rotund Filipino actor appears at the beginning of the film as Satan wearing nothing but a loincloth (my eyes!), promising dying army deserter Joseph Langdon (John Ashley) immortality if he agrees to become a servant of evil. Unperturbed by Vic's lack of clothing, Joseph agrees and is 'reborn' in several bodies over the years, his mission to awaken the evil in the people that he meets. Langdon's latest guise is that of facially disfigured accident victim Philip Rogers, who, having been pronounced dead, amazes everyone by coming back to life with a brand new face (his doctor is so shocked that he promptly has a heart attack).

Phil's sexy blonde wife Julia (Mary Charlotte Wilcox) takes her hubby home but notices that he now behaves rather strangely. But it's not just his personality that has changed: from time to time, Phil/Langdon physically transforms into a horrible bloodthirsty creature with rubber claws and great big jaws.

The first of producer Roger Corman's movies to be shot in the Philippines during the '70s, this clunker from director Eddie Romero is frequently confusing (what Satan has to gain from turning his servant into a killer beast is never explained) and pretty dull for the most part, even when Ashley is in monster mode. There are a couple of brief gory moments (a disembowelment and some slashed faces), and Wilcox sheds her clothes (or her body double does--it's hard to tell), but for the most part the film is painfully slow, especially when the creature is given refuge by an old, blind bandit (an idea lifted from Frankenstein?). The ending sees the monster and the blind man trapped by the army in a burning field of grass, Phil/Langdon finally shot and killed even though he was bullet-proof only moments earlier.