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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1968
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Genres
Horror Period drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Deathshead Vampire Working
- The Vampire-beast Craves Blood Alternative
Synopsis
In nineteenth-century England, the students of Professor Mallinger are being clawed to death by an unknown assailant. The deaths are investigated by Inspector Quennell who, calling at the professor's house, finds both the professor and his daughter, Clare, gone and the butler dead. Tracing the professor to a small fishing village, Quennell follows him there accompanied by his own daughter, Meg. Mallinger, meanwhile, in a continuation of his experiments, has created a giant moth as a mate for Clare, who is not his daughter but a creature in the form of a woman who can metamorphose herself into a giant death's-head moth. Mallinger, realising that his experiments have gone too far, kills his new creation, whereby Clare kills him. Quennell reaches Mallinger's laboratory in time to save Meg, who had been abducted there for her blood to feed the moths, and kills Clare by attracting her to the flames of a fire.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Detective Inspector Quennell
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Professor Carl Oscar Mallinger
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Clare Mallinger
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Meg Quennell
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William Warrender
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Sergeant Allan
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Dr Britewell
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Granger
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Mr Warrender
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landlord
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morgue attendant
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Joe, the coachman
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Clem, the gardener
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chief constable
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James
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housekeeper
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2nd porter
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cook
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2nd student
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Snaflebum
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1st porter
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1st student
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police doctor
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Dr Elliott
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Police Constable Smith
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senior housemaid
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Starkadder
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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Assistant Director
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Continuity
Production:
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©/A Tigon-British Film Production
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Executive Producer
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Produced by
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Production Manager
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[Production Accountant]
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Production Secretary
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[Production Secretary]
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[Producer's Secretary]
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Filmed at
Casting:
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[Casting Director]
Writing:
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Screenplay by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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Focus Puller
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Electrician]
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[Camera Grip]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
Design:
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Art Director
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[Assistant Art Director]
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Set Dresser
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[Props]
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[Production Buyer]
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Construction Manager
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[Carpenter]
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[Painter]
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[Stagehand]
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[Plasterer]
Costumes:
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Wardrobe
Make-up:
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Make-up Artist
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Hairdresser
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[Hairdresser]
Music:
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Music Composed & Conducted by
Sound:
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Sound Mixer
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Boom Operator
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[Sound Maintenance]
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Dubbing Editor
Publicity:
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[Unit Publicist]
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Sight & Sound magazine
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