Auron goes to her room and attempts to rape her, but is stopped by Carl, who has fallen in love with her. Auron visits Callistratus again and recognises Madeleine from their meeting. John discovers that Kurt's grave is empty. Madeleine refuses to believe that John is dead and takes a job as Callistratus' housekeeper so she can investigate. Kurt is presumably killed by the vicious Dobermans, which keep the prisoners in line. John and Kurt then actually try to escape but fail. Callistratus tells John that the commission has denied his appeal and informs the Commission that John and another inmate, Kurt, died in an escape attempt. Auron revisits Callistratus and tells him that the Prison Commission has ordered John's release. John grows increasingly uncomfortable with his work because the blood is from unwilling inmates, many of whom die. Auron, who is on Callistratus's payroll, had intercepted the letter to Meinster and forged a reply.
Meinster insists that the court never contacted him. The judge says he already had, but Meinster replied that he doesn't know John.Īt the request of Madeleine and her uncle, Meinster travels to Transylvania, where they meet with Auron, a member of the Prison Commission. When John meets Callistratus, he learns that he is to help with Calistratus' blood-typing research so that transfusions can be safely done, especially for those with an unnamed "rare and serious blood condition." Īt his trial, John maintained that the patient's death was unavoidable and asked the judge to write to Prof. But instead, he gets sent to a Prison for the Criminal Insane, run by Dr. As John's fiancée Madeleine watches, John is sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony. John Pierre is convicted of "malpractice leading to manslaughter" after an emergency blood transfusion, which has never been done successfully, fails, killing his patient. Carl summons a drunken doctor to perform a heart transplant on the body then murders the doctor. Immediately afterward, Carl, severely physically disabled, emerges from hiding and kills the gravedigger. An executioner drives a stake through its heart. 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.Ī man's body wrapped in a shroud is shoved into a Transylvania grave in 1874. release was in October 1958 as a double feature with Universal's Monster on the Campus. Many horror fans thought the feature was a Hammer Films production when it came out, due to its similar look and Sangster's writer's credit. Baker and Monty Berman for Tempean Films, from a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. Blood of the Vampire is a 1958 British colour horror film directed by Henry Cass and starring Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, and Vincent Ball.
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