Blood Of Dracula (1957)

AKA's:

Blood Is My Heritage / Blood Of The Demon / Sangre Del Vampiro, La

Release date:	1957 USA
Running time:	69' (cover 71') - Source: VHS NTSC b/w 68' (cover 71') - Source: DVD (RC 2/PAL) b/w
Rating:	UK: PG; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Herbert L. Strock (The Crawling Hand 1963; How To Make A Monster 1958;                I Was A Teenage Frankenstein 1957) Producer: American International Pictures / Carmel Productions Score: Paul Dunlap / Jerry Blaine (songs) Writer: Aben Kandel (as Ralph Thornton) Director of photography: Monroe P. Askins
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Sandra Harrison / Nancy Perkins Louise Lewis / Miss Branding Gail Ganley / Myra Jerry Blaine / Tab Heather Ames / Nola Malcolm Atterbury / Lieutenant Dunlap Mary Adams / Mrs. Thorndyke Thomas Browne Henry / Mr. Perkins Don Devlin / Eddie Jean Dean / Mrs. Perkins Richard Devon / Detective Sergeant Stewart Paul Maxwell / Mike, the Young Doctor Shirley Delancey / Terry Michael Hall / Glenn Craig Duncan Edna Holland / Miss Rivers Carlyle Mitchell / Stanley Mather Voltaire Perkins / Dr. Lawson Barbara Wilson / Ann Jimmy Hayes / Joe Lynn Alden / Linda
Summary:	Girls will be girls. Take, for example, the girls of Sherwood School. They're holding a treasure-hunt game. On Halloween night. In a cemetery. The vampire legend gets a transfusion of crazy, mixed-up adolescent angst in "Blood Of Dracula". Six weeks after her mother dies, Nancy Perkin's father (Thomas Browne Henry) remarries. The stepmother then sends Nancy (Sandra Harrison) off to Sherwood School for Girls, where the innocent girl falls under the spell of evil chemistry teacher Miss Branding (Louise Lewis). Putting Nancy under hypnosis, Miss Branding converts the poor damsel to vampirism causing her to commit murders and then forget about all about them. The villainess receives her comeuppance when Nancy refuses to snap out of her spell, transforming into a slavering vampiric beast.
Note:	- With "Blood Of Dracula", producer Herman Cohen rounded out the teenage monster trilogy ("I Was A Teenage Werewolf", "I Was A Teenage Frankenstein" - all three movies were filmed within the same year, 1957). It's a surprise though that Cohen named it the relatively anonymous "Blood of Dracula" - despite the fact that there is no Dracula in the film - rather than as one might expect to logically follow, "I Was A Teenage Vampire" or "I Was A Teenage Dracula". - The minimal vampire make-up could be mistaken for a she-wolf, the creature is a hairy monster that emerges out of anger, and there is little in the way of the trappings associated with the vampire film. For instance, you never see Sandra Harrison engaged in blood drinking, and she is turned into a vampire through hypnosis.
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