Richard Stanley was hired to direct “The Island of Doctor Moreau” but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn’t want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.
You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it’s full of weird details like that. It’s called “Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Doctor Moreau”
He also directed The Color out of Space with Nicholas Cage recently.
Having enjoyed that truly good but weird movie, this story suddenly makes more sense
People may think he’s crazy, but part of psychedelics is hypersensitivity. I doubt he could actually see in the dark and smell landmines, but his brain probably recognized very small details and fabricated hallucinations based on what little he did pick up on.
I sort of believe the seeing-in-the-dark thing. I was at an LSD party with my friends one night and we took a black frisbee out onto an unlit field (no moon) and threw it around without once dropping it. We just knew where everybody else was and where the disc was at all times. I dunno, maybe we could smell the frisbee.
Was anybody smoking? We always take a drag when we want the disc in the dark, bright cherry gets the toss
No smoking - we’d never put weird chemicals into our bodies!
What a strangely ignorant way to reply to somebody trying to share your joy. Never smoked weed but you take acid? LSD isn’t a “weird chemical” to you? Seriously? Reevaluate
