The Blood Beast Terror (Original title)Deathshead Vampire (Working title)The Vampire-beast Craves Blood (Alternative title)
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 19 May 1968 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Vernon Sewell
Synopsis: In nineteenth-century England, the students of Professor Mallinger are being clawed to death by an unknown assailant. The deaths are investigated by Inspector Quennell who, calling at the professor's house, finds both the professor and his daughter, Clare, gone and the butler dead. Tracing the professor to a small fishing village, Quennell follows him there accompanied by his own daughter, Meg. Mallinger, meanwhile, in a continuation of his experiments, has created a giant moth as a mate for Clare, who is not his daughter but a creature in the form of a woman who can metamorphose herself into a giant death's-head moth. Mallinger, realising that his experiments have gone too far, kills his new creation, whereby Clare kills him. Quennell reaches Mallinger's laboratory in time to save Meg, who had been abducted there for her blood to feed the moths, and kills Clare by attracting her to the flames of a fire.
Genres: Period drama, Horror
Releases
Date: 1967Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7879 FeetDialogue (original): English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7235 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-1519182
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7257 FeetStock date: 1982BFI identifier: C-1519181
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm InterpositiveBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 7878 FeetStock date: 1967BFI identifier: C-592314
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7235 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-1519182
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7257 FeetStock date: 1982BFI identifier: C-1519181
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundStock date: 1967BFI identifier: C-964746
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundStock date: 1968BFI identifier: C-964747
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 19 May 1968 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Vernon Sewell
Synopsis: In nineteenth-century England, the students of Professor Mallinger are being clawed to death by an unknown assailant. The deaths are investigated by Inspector Quennell who, calling at the professor's house, finds both the professor and his daughter, Clare, gone and the butler dead. Tracing the professor to a small fishing village, Quennell follows him there accompanied by his own daughter, Meg. Mallinger, meanwhile, in a continuation of his experiments, has created a giant moth as a mate for Clare, who is not his daughter but a creature in the form of a woman who can metamorphose herself into a giant death's-head moth. Mallinger, realising that his experiments have gone too far, kills his new creation, whereby Clare kills him. Quennell reaches Mallinger's laboratory in time to save Meg, who had been abducted there for her blood to feed the moths, and kills Clare by attracting her to the flames of a fire.
Genres: Period drama, Horror
Releases
Date: 1967Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 88 mins Length: 7879 FeetDialogue (original): English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(5)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7235 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-1519182
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7257 FeetStock date: 1982BFI identifier: C-1519181
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm InterpositiveBase: CTASound: MuteLength: 7878 FeetStock date: 1967BFI identifier: C-592314
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7235 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-1519182
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 7257 FeetStock date: 1982BFI identifier: C-1519181
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundStock date: 1967BFI identifier: C-964746
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundStock date: 1968BFI identifier: C-964747
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film