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The Blood Beast Terror (1967)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 88 mins
Length: 7879 ft
Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
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CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Tigon
British Film Productions
Executive Producer: Tony
Tenser
Producer: Arnold Louis Miller
Production Manager: Ricky Howard
SCRIPT
Script: Peter Bryan
DIRECTION
Director: Vernon
Sewell
Assistant Director: George Pollard
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stanley A. Long
Camera Operator: Norman Jones
Focus Puller: Jim Alloway
EDITING
Editor: Howard Lanning
MUSIC
Music: Paul Ferris
SOUND
Sound: Alan Hogben
Boom Operator: Mike Tucker
Dubbing Editor: Dennis Lanning
Sound Mixer: Alan Hogben
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Rosemarie McDonald Peattie
Hair: Henry Montsash
Costume Designer: Marie Feldwick
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Roger Dicken
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Wilfred Woods
Set Decorator: Freda Pearson
Construction Manager: Len Harvey
OTHER CREW
Continuity: Eve Wilson
Production Secretary: Pat O'Donnell
LOCATIONS
Studio: Goldhawk Studios, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
CAST
Peter Cushing (Inspector Quennell)
Robert Flemyng (Dr Mallinger)
Wanda Ventham (Clare Mallinger)
Vanessa Howard (Meg Quennell)
David Griffin (William)
Glynn Edwards (Sergeant Allen)
William Wilde (Britewell)
Kevin Stoney (Granger)
John Paul (Warrender)
Russell Napier (landlord)
Roy Hudd (morgue attendant)
Leslie Anderson (coachman)
Simon Cain (gardener)
Robert Cawdron (Chief Constable)
Kenneth Colley (James)
Beryl Cooke (housekeeper)
Roy Evans (second porter)
Joan Ingram (cook)
David Lyell (second student)
John Scott Martin (Snaflebum)
William Maxwell (first porter)
Mike Mundell (first student)
Norman Pitt (police doctor)
Malcolm Rogers (Dr Elliott)
Drew Russell (PC Smith)
Honor Shepherd (senior housemaid)
Robin Wentworth (Starkadder)
PLOT SUMMARY
A scientist uses a rare
African Deathshead moth to create and female human / moth
hybrid that he passes off as his daughter. But the
creature needs blood to survive and is soon working its
way through the local population.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A ludicrous idea is given ham-fisted treatment from the once interesting
Vernon Sewell with awful results. Cushing
gives his usual sterling performance but the material ultimately defeats
him and the plodding direction ruins every nuance in his - and everyone
elses - performance. Cushing
himself dismissed the film as the worst of his career - he wan't wrong.
(Full Review)
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributors: Tigon
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Pacemaker
Video Distributor: Monterey; Mad Monster Video
DVD Distributors: Image
Entertainment
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X
TIMELINE
1967
August
7: UK - filming begins
1968
February
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
13: UK - trade show at the Anglo Preview Theatre, London
1969
March
10: Sweden theatrical release
May
16: USA theatrical release
1986
July
1: UK - television broadcast (on Thames)
1993
January
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Bravo)
1994
September
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
1995
November
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
1996
August
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)
2002
May
25: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
2004
June
27: UK - television broadcast (on BBC1)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Blood Beast From Hell - shooting title
Deathshead Vampire - shooting title
The Vampire-Beast Craves Blood - US title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Daily Cinema no.9400 (26 July 1967) p.3
(UK)
note
Daily Cinema no.9485 (16 February 1968)
p.6 (UK)
credits, review (by Marjorie Bilbow)
Kine Weekly no.3150 (24 Febraury 1968)
p.8 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.35 no.414 (July
1968) p.101 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
BOOKS
British National Film Catalogue vol.6
(1968) p.136
credits
Creature Features Strikes Back p.48
credits, review (by John Stanley)
Fragments of Fear: an illustrated
history of British horror films by Andy Boot (London (1996):
Creation Books)
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and
Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.48
credits, review
The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie
Guide p.61
credits, review (by Stephen Jones)
The Illustrated Vampire Movie
Guide p.42
credits, review (by Stephen Jones)
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films
p.518
credits KEYWORDS
actors, africa, genetics, gothic, human experiments, hypnotism, moths, police,
scientists, students, vampires
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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