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Blood of the Vampire (1958)

Blood of the Vampire poster
Directed by
Henry Cass
Genre
horror film, vampire film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
16
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In Transylvania, a scientist conducts blood experiments on prisoners from a criminal insane asylum to keep himself alive.

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What happens

Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball and Victor Maddern. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. The film's U.K. release through Universal International was on August 26, 1958. Its U.S. release was on October 22, 1958 as a double feature with Universal's Monster on the Campus (1958). The film's storyline, set in Transylvania, is about a scientist who uses the inmates of a prison for the criminally insane as sources for his gruesome blood-typing and transfusion experiments that are keeping him alive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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