Forgotten Horrors Vol. 7: Famished Monsters of Filmland by Michael Price

Author:Michael Price [Price, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-23T08:00:00+00:00

Blood of the Vampire

(Artistes Alliance, Ltd. • Eros Films • Universal–International)

Alfred Shaughnessy’s Cat Girl (1957) had established Barbara Shelley as a genre star. Miss Shelley serves Henry Cass’ Blood of the Vampire(English-made, with U.S. underwriting) in a more conventional role, one of endangered heroism. Jimmy Sangster’s screenplay concerns a campaign by the living–dead Dr. Callistratus (Sir Donald Wolfit) to use the inmates of a prison as livestock. This twist upon The Most Dangerous Game(1932) hardly equips Callistratus with any sporting nature akin to that tale’s antagonist, but the depiction does extend to a similar finale, in which Callistratus falls prey to his pack of hunting dogs.

Vincent Ball is the hapless protagonist, a wrongfully accused physician forced to serve Callistratus, who also commands a deformed assistant (Victor Maddern). Miss Shelley, as Ball’s lover, seeks to free him. In a magnificiently well-photographed build–up to a showdown,

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