Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHenry Cass
Written byJimmy Sangster
Produced byRobert S. Baker and Monty Berman
StarringDonald Wolfit
Barbara Shelley
Vincent Ball
Victor Maddern
CinematographyMonty Berman
Edited byDouglas Myers
Music byStanley Black
Production
company
Distributed byEros Films
Universal International Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 26 August 1958 (1958-08-26)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster.[1]

The film's U.S. release was in October 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.

  1. ^ "Blood of the Vampire". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 February 2024.