Blood of Dracula (1957)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

Herbert L. Strock

Writer:

Aben Kandel (writer)

Release Date:

November 1957 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Romance

Tagline:

She Will GIVE YOU Nightmares...FOR EVER!

Plot:

Under hypnosis, a young woman turns into a vampire.

Plot Keywords:

Hypnosis | Vampire | School | Murder | Carpathian Mountains

Cast

Sandra Harrison	...	Nancy Perkins
Louise Lewis	...	Miss Branding
Gail Ganley	...	Myra
Jerry Blaine	...	Tab
Heather Ames	...	Nola
Malcolm Atterbury	...	Lt. Dunlap
Mary Adams	...	Mrs. Thornedyke
Thomas Browne Henry	...	Mr. Paul Perkins (as Thomas B. Henry)
Don Devlin	...	Eddie
Jean Dean	...	Mrs. Doris Perkins (as Jeanne Dean)
Richard Devon	...	Det. Sgt. Stewart
Paul Maxwell	...	Mike, the young doctor
Shirley Delancey	...	Terry (as Shirley De Lancey)
Michael Hall	...	Glenn
Craig Duncan

Also Known As:

Blood Is My Heritage (UK)
Blood of the Demon (Canada: English title)

Runtime:

68 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Spain:18 | USA:TV-G | USA:Approved (Certificate #18770) | UK:PG | USA:Unrated (video)

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

American International Pictures released this film to many drive-in theaters on a double bill with I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) with the tag line: "Warning! Can You Take It? Fiendish! Frenzied! Frightening! It Will Haunt You For Days Afterwards!"

Movie Connections:

Featured in Nightmare Theatre's Late Night Chill-o-Rama Horror Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V)

Soundtrack:

Puppy Love

Boring and pretty silly

Nancy (Sandra Harrison) is an angry young girl who's sent, against her will, to a private boarding school. There she falls under the eye of the science teacher (Louise Lewis) who needs her anger to show how anger can control the world, not weapons. (No, I don't understand it either) She hypnotizes Nancy and, somehow, can turn her into a vampire who attacks and kills...

As you can see this is pretty silly stuff. The plot makes no sense with plot holes left and right. The acting is OK (Lewis come off best) and, like other AIP pictures, the film comes to a screeching halt when some guy named Tab (Jerry Blaine) sings some dumb song called "Puppy Love". The "dancing" in this one has to be seen to be believed. The only somewhat interesting thing in this is an(implied) lesbian link between Harrison and Lewis.

This gets a 2 only because of the makeup job done on Harrison when she becomes a vampire. Pointed ears and eyes, hysterically long fangs and claws and a white streak running through her hair! Supposedly Harrison begged producer Herman Cohen for this role--he said, after she got it, she acted like Joan Crawford! Also, many years later, this was shown at the NY Museum of Modern Art--Harrison actually called them and asked them to please not show it. That should tell you something. B-movie fans and kids might like this but others beware!