The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island
UK theatrical release poster
Directed by	Val Guest
Written by	Jon Manchip White
Produced by	Anthony Hinds
Starring	André Morell Carl Möhner Edward Underdown Walter Fitzgerald Phil Brown Barbara Shelley Michael Goodliffe
Cinematography	Jack Asher
Edited by	Bill Lenny
Music by	Gerard Schurmann
Production company	Hammer Film Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	15 April 1958 (1958-04-15) (UK) 11 June 1958 (1958-06-11) (USA)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$3,500,000 (worldwide rentals)[1]

The Camp on Blood Island is a 1958 British World War II film, directed by Val Guest for Hammer Film Productions and starring André Morell, Carl Möhner, Edward Underdown and Walter Fitzgerald.

The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Japanese-occupied British Malaya and deals with the brutal, sadistic treatment of Allied prisoners of war by their captors. On its release, the film was promoted with the tag line "Jap War Crimes Exposed!", alongside a quote from Lord Russell of Liverpool, "We may forgive, but we must never forget", and an image of a Japanese soldier wielding a samurai sword.

From its powerful opening sequence of a man being forced to dig his own grave before being shot dead, an intertitle follows, stating "this is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth", The Camp on Blood Island is noted for a depiction of human cruelty and brutality which was unusually graphic for a film of its time. It received some contemporary allegations of going beyond the bounds of the acceptable and necessary into gratuitous sensationalism.

A prequel, The Secret of Blood Island, was released in 1964.