Tigon Films
The Blood Beast Terror – 1968

A Tigon Production
88 Mins
Storyline
A scientist, working with genetics, creates a creature that is capable of transforming back and forth between a giant Death Head moth and a beautiful woman. The creature masquerades as his daughter when she is in her human incarnation and feeds on the blood of her victims when she is in the moth form.



Hammer Connections – 12
Role | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Tigon Credits | Hammer Credits | |
CREW - 5 | ||||||||
Directed by | Vernon Sewell | 64 | 4 Jul 1903 | 21 Jun 2001 | 97 | 2 | 6 | |
Hairdresser | Henry Montsash | 62 | 17 Sep 1905 | 29 Sep 1974 | 69 | 2 | 16 | |
Set Dresser | Freda Pearson | 1 | 1 | |||||
Special Effects | Roger Dicken | 29 | 1 Jan 1939 | 84 | 1 | 2 | ||
Writing Credits | Peter Bryan | 48 | 28 Sep 1919 | 1 Sep 1972 | 52 | 1 | 22 | |
CAST - 7 | ||||||||
2nd Porter | Roy Evans | 37 | 10 Jan 1930 | 93 | 1 | 3 | ||
Clare Mallinger | Wanda Ventham | 32 | 5 Aug 1935 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Granger | Kevin Stoney | 46 | 25 Jul 1921 | 20 Jan 2008 | 86 | 1 | 2 | |
Inspector Quennell | Peter Cushing | 54 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 2 | 24 | |
Landlord | Russell Napier | 57 | 28 Nov 1910 | 19 Aug 1964 | 53 | 1 | 5 | |
Sergeant Allan | Glynn Edwards | 36 | 2 Feb 1931 | 23 May 2018 | 87 | 1 | 1 | |
Warrender | John Paul | 46 | 20 Apr 1921 | 1 Feb 1995 | 73 | 2 | 3 |
Footnotes
One of the many films that Peter Cushing made about this time to help pay for the health treatments of his beloved wife, Helene. She would later die of emphysema in 1971. He considered this the worst of his many films.
Robert Flemyng reportedly hated working on the film. He replaced Basil Rathbone who died before filming began.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection