Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byHenry Cass
Written byJimmy Sangster
Produced byRobert S. Baker and Monty Berman
StarringDonald Wolfit
Barbara Shelley
Vincent Ball
Victor Maddern
CinematographyMonty Berman
Edited byDouglas Myers
Music byStanley Black
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal International
Release date
  • 26 August 1958 (1958-08-26) (United Kingdom)
Running time
84 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Victor Maddern, Bernard Bresslaw and Vincent Ball. The film was produced by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster.

The film's U.K. release through Universal International was on August 26, 1958. Its U.S. release was on October 22, 1958 as a double feature with Universal's Monster on the Campus (1958).

The film's storyline, set in Transylvania, is about a scientist who uses the inmates of a prison for the criminally insane as sources for his gruesome blood-typing and transfusion experiments that are keeping him alive.