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| Blood of The Vampire (1958) | |
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| Baby Firefly | May 30 2014, 08:58 PM Post #1 |
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The Devil Himself
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![]() Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British horror film directed by Henry Cass from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. Transylvania in the 19th century. A young doctor John Pierre and his fiancee Madeleine Duval are terrorized by Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his mute and hunchback assistant Carl, the 'anemic' mad scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life. |
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| Gorefest180 | Sep 16 2014, 07:51 AM Post #2 |
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Hero
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This doesn't really interest me. |
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| Gorefest180 | Sep 16 2014, 07:51 AM Post #3 |
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This doesn't really interest me. |
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| Kitty | Sep 23 2014, 08:38 AM Post #4 |
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Killer's Nemesis
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I wonder how many different versions of Dracula there are? |
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| GL84 | Aug 26 2015, 03:35 PM Post #5 |
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Killer's Therapist
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This was a heavily flawed and really damaging effort. The most detrimental and wholly useless factor to this one is the fact that we're barely exposed to anything that can be considered pertinent to a vampire story. Beyond a fine and atmospheric opening of a staking ceremony being carried out, this one has virtually nothing to do with a vampire as this is more of a mad doctor imprisoning rather than anything supernatural. There's no aversion to crosses, Holy Water or sunlight, sleeping in coffins or even bearing their fangs at all, as all the participants here are human which makes this one tough to get into. This makes the beginning, where we're introduced to the prison's inmates and the different experiments being conducted take on a different air of boredom and extreme dragging of the pacing without having a deadly threat emerge from the story. This is also brought along by the rather lacking amount of action where hardly anything happens here, and that's there's only two real action scenes with the opening staking and a rather enjoyable escape attempt thwarted by ravenous guard-dogs. With the period time- span is where a lot of what to like about it comes, as being placed during that part allows for the old-school Gothic atmosphere to come creeping into the film from the central asylum. It's an old-fashioned, imposing type, where the place airs a really great atmosphere and really makes it seem that it's a hopeless, dreary location. The place is dirty and disgusting in it's holding cells while it's at least cleaner in the medical research facilities. This is what is precisely needed of the place, since there's always a need for a place like that to be a fearful location. Still, it's quite a downfall since it's really boring, and coupled with the switch around doesn't leave itself too impressive overall. |
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