Fred Rogers (Bill Rogers) is an American B26 pilot/astronaut (the film seems a little unsure as to which is his precise profession) who finds himself washed up on the shore of a remote tropical island after his plane/spacecraft ditches into the sea. He soon discovers that he not alone: the island is also home to a tribe of savage, toga-wearing babes who make him their slave, forcing him to work all day and satisfy their sexual urges at night. While that might seem like a reasonable arrangement to many men, Fred has soon had enough of being lightly poked with a bamboo stick while pulling a plough and longs for a good night's sleep uninterrupted by bouts of lovemaking. With help from sexy dissident Desiree (Dawn Meredith), he attempts to escape.
Something Weird Video happened upon a 28 minute version of Love Goddesses Of Blood Island (a much better title than Six She's and a He) when they bought the rights to William Grefe's Sting Of Death, and included it as an extra on their 2002 DVD double bill of Sting Of Death/Death Curse Of Tartu. They've since managed to compile a 47 minute version of the film, which is the version I managed to see. And what a wonderfully warped 47 minutes it proved to be
a delightfully daft slice of trashy 60s cheesecake schlock that just so happens to feature some juicy proto-splatter to rival that of gore legend Herschell G. Lewis.
The production values are low, the direction clumsy and the acting atrocious, and even at 47 minutes the film still manages to drag in places (the surreal dance moves of the six island beauties quickly become very tiresome), but it's all so wonderfully bizarre that any self-respecting fan of obscure cult cinema should definitely check it out given the chance. There's lousy lounge music and a dreadful theme song, some moments of total stupidity (the women give Fred a large scythe with which to cut the island vegetation; luckily for them, he's too dumb to think of using the large blade against his captors), and, of course, those surprisingly graphic scenes of violence, which include a flashback featuring the very messy disembowelment and decapitation of an earlier unfortunate male, and the unforgettable sight of one of the women falling face first onto the blade of a large knife! 6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.
