Blood of the Vampire (1958)
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Henry Cass
Cast: Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball
Synopsis:
An executed mad scientist conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of an institution for the criminally insane, in order to sustain his return to life after a heart transplant!
Review:
Not much to do with vampirism, in fact, Wolfit's antics being more reminiscent of Baron Frankenstein, this Baker-Berman production, in marvellously vivid colour, did however come out the same year as Hammer's Dracula, and so no doubt wanted to compete with that film. On which level, it is sexier and gorier than the Hammer films of the time; the plight of the hero, and later Shelley herself, certainly seems much more dangerous, as often in those unpredictably nasty independent efforts. Wolfit excels as a quite revolting villain!
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Henry Cass
Cast: Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball
Synopsis:
An executed mad scientist conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of an institution for the criminally insane, in order to sustain his return to life after a heart transplant!
Review:
Not much to do with vampirism, in fact, Wolfit's antics being more reminiscent of Baron Frankenstein, this Baker-Berman production, in marvellously vivid colour, did however come out the same year as Hammer's Dracula, and so no doubt wanted to compete with that film. On which level, it is sexier and gorier than the Hammer films of the time; the plight of the hero, and later Shelley herself, certainly seems much more dangerous, as often in those unpredictably nasty independent efforts. Wolfit excels as a quite revolting villain!
Country: GB
Technical: col 85m
Director: Henry Cass
Cast: Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball
Synopsis:
An executed mad scientist conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of an institution for the criminally insane, in order to sustain his return to life after a heart transplant!
Review:
Not much to do with vampirism, in fact, Wolfit's antics being more reminiscent of Baron Frankenstein, this Baker-Berman production, in marvellously vivid colour, did however come out the same year as Hammer's Dracula, and so no doubt wanted to compete with that film. On which level, it is sexier and gorier than the Hammer films of the time; the plight of the hero, and later Shelley herself, certainly seems much more dangerous, as often in those unpredictably nasty independent efforts. Wolfit excels as a quite revolting villain!