Blood of the Vampire
Nothing Like It This Side of Hell!
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled 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.
- 5.7
- 1958
- Released
- 1h 27m
Donald Wolfit
Doctor Callistratus
Vincent Ball
Dr. John Pierre
Barbara Shelley
Madeleine Duval
Victor Maddern
Carl
William Devlin
Kurt Urach
Andrew Faulds
Chief Guard Wetzler
John Le Mesurier
Chief JusticeBryan Coleman
Monsieur Auron
Cameron Hall
Drunken DoctorGeorge Murcell
First GuardJulian Strange
Second GuardBruce Wightman
Third GuardBarbara Burke
Housekeeper
Bernard Bresslaw
Tall Sneak Thief
Hal Osmond
Small Sneak Thief
Milton Reid
Executioner
Patricia Phoenix
WomanJack Carter
Man in Court (uncredited)Released
en
- #prison
- #vampire
- #mad scientist
- #laboratory
- #disease
- #scientist
- #blood transfusion
- #heart transplant
Reviews
**_“Vampires? We don’t need no stinkin’ vampires”_** In 1880 Carlstadt, Düsseldorf, a doctor (Vincent Ball) is sentenced to life-in-prison for malpractice in performing an emergency blood transfusion, which had never been done successfully. Instead of being sent to the prescribed penal island, he’s curiously transferred to a prison for the criminally insane where the director (Donald Wolfit) wa