Blood of the Vampire

Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball and Victor Maddern. 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.