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A Taste of Blood

A Taste of Blood

1967Movie⏱️ 1h 57mNot Rated
Horror
4.7
IMDB Rating
760 votes

A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.

Director
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Writers
N/A
Stars
Bill Rogers, Elizabeth Lee, William Kerwin
Release Date
August 9, 1967
Language
English
Country
United States
🎯 1
Nominations
💬 27
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Bill Rogers
Bill Rogers
as John Stone
Elizabeth Lee
Elizabeth Lee
as Helene Stone
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William Kerwin
as Dr. Hank Tyson
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Lawrence Tobin
as Det. Crane
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Ted Schell
as Lord Gold
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Otto Schlessinger
as Dr. Howard Helsing
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Eleanor Vaill
as Hester Avery
Gail Janis
Gail Janis
as Vivian
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Herschell Gordon Lewis
as The Limey Seaman
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Judy Waterberry
as Ida - the maid

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Mono
Filming Location
Miami, Florida, USA
Production
Creative Film Enterprises Inc.

🏷️ Keywords

psychotronic filmhypnotized womanvampirebrandyblood

🎯 Categories

Horror

⭐ Featured Review

Nice-looking film, but pretty dull by HGL standards
by InjunNose2016-01-11
5/10

"Part of the problem is its length: "A Taste of Blood" clocks in at a whopping two hours. Lewis tended to wrap up his films in about 80 minutes, and certainly "Taste" would have benefited from a shorter running time. But content-wise, too, this is one of Lewis' weaker efforts. The script was written by someone (namely, Donald Stanford) outside the HGL inner circle, and it shows; these 120 minutes are dour and talky, with none of the gallows humor that characterizes Lewis classics like "Two Thousand Maniacs!" and "The Gruesome Twosome". Finally, in a ..."

💡 Did You Know?

For a Herschell Gordon Lewis film, "A Taste of Blood" was very well-made enough to impress Roger Corman, who offered the director a directing gig at working for his production company in Hollywood, which Lewis politely turned down.

📖 Synopsis

A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendent's of Dracula's executioners.