Blood of Dracula (1957)

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:

Halloween | Carpathian Mountains | Transmutation | School | Male Female Relationship

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
Edna Holland	...	Miss Rivers
Carlyle Mitchell	...	Stanley Mayther
Voltaire Perkins	...	Dr. Lawson
Barbara Wilson	...	Ann
Jimmy Hayes	...	Joe
Lynn Alden	...	Linda

Directed by
Herbert L. Strock

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Aben Kandel		writer (as Ralph Thornton)

Produced by
Herman Cohen	....	producer

Original Music by
Paul Dunlap

Cinematography by
Monroe P. Askins

Film Editing by
Robert Moore

Production Design by
A. Leslie Thomas

Set Decoration by
Tom Oliphant

Makeup Department
Phillip Scheer	....	makeup creator

Production Management
Austen Jewell	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Austen Jewell	....	assistant director

Art Department
James Harris	....	property master

Sound Department
Herman Lewis	....	sound
Kay Rose	....	sound effects editor

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Florence Hayes	....	wardrobe supervisor

Music Department
George Brand	....	music editor
Paul Dunlap	....	conductor

Other crew
Samuel Z. Arkoff	....	presenter
Mary Gibsone	....	script supervisor
James H. Nicholson	....	presenter
Barbara Lee Strite	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• American International Pictures (AIP)
• Carmel Productions

Distributors

• American International Pictures (AIP) (1957) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (USA) (video)
• DeA Planeta Home Entertainment (2006) (Spain) (DVD)
• Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (????) (USA) (DVD)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (USA) (video)

Other Companies

• Ryder Sound Services  sound system

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:

USA:Unrated CORRECT: REPLACE WITH: (video) | USA:Approved (Certificate #18770) | Spain:18 | USA:TV-G | USA:Unrated

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Drive-in Movie Memories (2001)

Soundtrack:

Puppy Love

Ignore the Christopher Lee image--this is NOT a Dracula film and he is NOT in this film!

Despite the title and the image IMDb is currently posting along with this movie, this is really not a Dracula film and Christopher Lee is not in it. Instead, it's a very, very low-budget and dopey movie about a girls school where a rather bizarre relationship develops between a crazy teacher and an impressionable student. It turns out that this teacher has some bizarre masters thesis involving,...well, I really have no idea what it was about and her turning this female student into a part-time vampire made absolutely no sense. The teacher said something about doing this will "save mankind" and other crap like that, but how could turning a girl into something that looks like the love child of Lily Munster and Nosferatu help mankind--especially when it starts sucking the blood out of people??!! Oddly, although the film was made in the more conservative 1950s, there is a very strong and noticeable undercurrent of Lesbianism. There is a strong sexual chemistry between the female teacher and her female student. This makes the film a real curio, but unfortunately the plot, acting and direction are all very amateurish and it is not a film I would recommend to anyone but bad movie fans. Strictly grade-Z all the way and a not particularly good variation on I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF.