The blood beast

Movie
German title	The blood beast
Original title	The Blood Beast Terror
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1968
length	82 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Vernon Sewell
script	Eve Wilson , Peter Bryan
production	Arnold L. Miller
music	Paul Ferris
camera	Stanley A. Long
cut	Howard Lanning
occupation
Peter Cushing : Inspector Quennell Robert Flemyng : Dr. Carl Mallinger Wanda Ventham : Clare Mallinger Vanessa Howard : Meg Quennell Glynn Edwards : Sergeant Allan William Wilde : Frederick Britewell Kevin Stoney : Granger David Griffin : William Warrender John Paul : Mr. Warrender Leslie Anderson : Joe Trigger Simon Cain : Clem Withers Norman Pitt : Police Doctor Roy Hudd , Russell Napier

Blood Beast (original title: The Blood Beast Terror ) is a British horror film from 1968 by Vernon Sewell . Eve Wilson and Peter Bryan wrote the script . The leading roles are starring Peter Cushing , Robert Flemyng , Wanda Ventham and Vanessa Howard . The film first hit cinemas in January 1968 in Great Britain. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 14, 1969.

action

The title character is a skull moth, enlarged to a gigantic size, a creature of Professor Mallinger. Occasionally she transforms into the professor's daughter Clare and greets the guests, mostly young entomologists. However, when it comes to pupae , larvae and caterpillars , she blushes slightly. Mysterious murders of entomologists worry the public and the police. Strange animal sheds are found at the crime scenes. The victims are bloodless and have the same killing characteristics. The tracks lead Inspector Quennel, who is entrusted with the case, again and again to the house of the biology professor, who reacts strangely to relevant questions and moves his residence to a small fishing village after another murder.

In Mallinger's house, the police only find the butler's body and an abundance of skeletal bones in a cellar that smells of decay. The inspector then follows the refugee incognito . Despite her father's prohibition, Clare quenches her thirst for blood in a young gardener. Mallinger kills the male moth as a punishment, which he actually wanted to make her play, whereupon he himself becomes Clare's victim. When the bloodthirsty also tries to grab a young butterfly catcher, Inspector Quennel disturbs her and lures her to death by fire.

Reviews

The Evangelische Film-Beobachter sums up his criticism as follows: “A conceptually interesting horror and crime film, but which lacks the pace and tension.” The lexicon of international films calls the work one of book, direction and performance fro inferior horror film.

Web links

• Blood Beast in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 145/1969, pp. 143–144.
2. ↑ The blood beast. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 17, 2018 .