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Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire1958

Nothing Like It This Side of Hell!

Directed by Henry Cass

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IMDb 5.5TMDB 5.8
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Year
1958
Runtime
87 min

The premise

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.

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In the shadowy corridors of a prison for the criminally insane, the resurrected Dr. Callistratus — brought back from execution through grim surgical means — holds terrifying sway over the helpless inmates in his care. Obsessed with a rare blood condition that threatens his unnatural second life, this cold and calculating figure uses the captive population as unwilling subjects in his relentless experiments. A young couple find themselves ensnared in his web, with no easy path to escape his ruthless grip. Part Gothic horror, part mad-science nightmare, this late-1950s British chiller blurs the line between the supernatural and the scientifically sinister.

Content: Scenes Set In A Prison Asylum With Disturbing Depictions Of Captivity, Medical Experimentation On Unwilling Subjects, Period-Typical Horror Violence

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