Blood of the Vampire Reviews

This is a wonderful cast of very funny veteran British comedians; the trouble is that the picture is a straight horror movie and they are all wasted. Maddern is a one-eyed hunchback mistakenly sentenced to death. He'd been attempting to save a person with a blood transfusion, which the authorities saw as murder. Just before that happened, Maddern had revivified Wolfit, a doctor who'd been executed in 1880 for conduct unbecoming a vampire. Maddern is tossed into a jail for the criminally insane. There's lots of pain and torture and grisly scenes with some angry canines. The film was written by Jimmy Sangster, an excellent writer in this genre, but he must have run afoul of director Cass and the two producers because this one misses. Any film with Wolfit, Bresslaw, and LeMesurier should be hysterical. This one isn't.