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‘The blood lust of a frenzied vampire’
The Blood Beast Terror is a 1968 British horror movie a couple of sequence of grotesque killings wherein the victims are all younger males.

Directed by Vernon Sewell (Burke & Hare; Curse of the Crimson Altar; Home of Thriller; The Man In The Again Seat; Ghost Ship) from a screenplay written by Peter Bryan (The Plague of the Zombies, The Brides of Dracula).

The Tigon manufacturing stars Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng (The Horrible Physician Hichcock), Wanda Ventham, Vanessa Howard, David Griffin and Glynn Edwards (The Playbirds).

Plot [contains spoilers]:
In nineteenth century Britain, a sequence of grisly murders is going down within the countryside close to London. The victims are handsome younger males, between the ages of twenty and thirty and all have had their throats torn open and blood drained. The witness of the most recent homicide, coachman Joe Set off, is pushed insane when he catches a glimpse of the mysterious killer.

Investigating the deaths are Detective Inspector Quennell of Scotland Yard and his assistant, Sergeant Allan. As a result of Joe retains ranting a couple of horrible winged creature with enormous eyes, Quennell hatches a concept that maybe an eagle is on the free. On the scene of the most recent killing, a number of massive scales are found.

The 2 newest victims had been college students of the famend entomology professor Dr Carl Mallinger, who lives close by along with his stunning daughter Clare and their scar-faced butler, Granger. When Quennell brings the scales to Mallinger for identification, Mallinger behaves suspiciously and tries to take all of them. Quennell describes his concept a couple of killer eagle, however Mallinger dismisses it outright. Quennell is unaware that the entomologist has a pet eagle, which the sadistic Granger torments.

Explorer and naturalist Frederick Britewell returns from Africa with some moth chrysalids for Dr Mallinger and the good-looking younger adventurer quickly falls sufferer to Clare, who’s the true assassin; Clare is a “were-moth” and transforms at evening to drink the blood of younger males. Britewell turns into her newest sufferer after watching her in an newbie horror play carried out by a few of her father’s college students (the play is a comparatively devoted rendition of the Grand Guignol play “L’Horrible Expertise” by Alfred Binet and André de Lorde) however lives lengthy sufficient to exclaim ‘deaths head’ to Quennell earlier than he dies. Each Mallinger and Clare declare to not have identified Britewell when questioned by Quennell.

Quennell’s superior suggests he take a vacation and delegate the case to Sgt Allan, however the Detective Inspector refuses. He reveals his intention to ship his daughter Meg to stick with some relations in Sussex till the investigation is over. As they depart for the railway station, Allan informs Quennell that Dr Mallinger did the truth is know Frederick Britewell, prompting Quennell to carry out a right away search of Mallinger’s residence. He finds that the scientist and his daughter have left for Higher Higham. He additionally discovers a cellar crammed with human bones and Granger’s corpse.

Quennell informs his superior he will probably be taking depart in spite of everything: he and Meg go to Higher Higham incognito as a vacationing banker named Thompson and his daughter. There they meet a younger insect collector who exhibits him the proudest exhibit in his assortment, a Deathshead moth and Quennell discovers that Mallinger can also be incognito as a Dr Miles staying at a close-by property. Mallinger is trying to create a male were-moth to be a mate for his more and more bloodthirsty daughter.

Clare kidnaps a toddler to supply blood for the male were-moth, which is rising in a cocoon. After this, Mallinger decides to finish the experiment, burning the cocoon, which prompts Clare to imagine moth kind and kill him.

Quennell arrives at Mallinger’s home with a police officer and finds Clare in moth kind attacking one other sufferer. After Clare flies as much as escape the scene, Quennell lights a fireplace within the backyard, prompting her to fly again down into it, the place she is consumed by the flames.

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Solid and characters:
Peter Cushing … Inspector Quennell
Robert Flemyng … Physician Mallinger
Wanda Ventham … Clare Mallinger
Vanessa Howard … Meg
David Griffin … William
Glynn Edwards … Sergeant Allan
William Wilde … Britewell
Kevin Stoney … Granger
John Paul … Warrender
Russell Napier … Landlord
Roy Hudd … Morgue Attendant
Leslie Anderson … Coachman
Simon Cain … Clem the Gardener
Robert Cawdron … Chief Constable
Kenneth Colley … James
Beryl Cooke … Housekeeper
Roy Evans … Second Porter
Joan Ingram … Prepare dinner
David Lyell … Second Scholar
John Scott Martin … Snaflebum
William Maxwell …  First Porter
Michael Mundell … First Scholar
Norman Pitt … Police Physician
Malcolm Rogers … Physician Elliott
Drew Russell … PC Smith
Honor Shepherd … Senior Housemaid
Robin Wentworth … Starkadder
Arnold L. Miller … Policeman
Paul Vernon … Medical Scholar

Filming places:
Goldhawk Studios, Shepherd’s Bush, London, England
Grim’s Dyke Home, Previous Redding, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, England (Clare Home-exterior)

Filming dates:
seventh August 1967 to sixteenth September 1967.

Technical specs:
1 hour 28 minutes
Audio: Mono
Side ratio: 1.66: 1

Launch:
Launched within the UK in January 1968 on a double-bill with French/Italian manufacturing Fortress of the Dwelling Useless.

Within the USA, the film was retitled as The Vampire-Beast Craves Blood by Pacemaker Photos and launched on a double-bill with Italian import Slaughter of the Vampires (with the latter retitled Curse of the Blood-Ghouls).

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