Said to be cool A Taste of Blood movie (The Secret of Dr. Alucard).
Movie Premier in 1967.
GEOG: In the night-time scene on the ship docked in London's East End, lights from Miami Beach's high-rise hotels and apartment buildings can be glimpsed in the background.
The Limey Seaman: Hi ya Governor! Aint t'night fit for t'devil!::John Stone: I wouldn't know., John Stone: Brandy anyone?::Helene Stone: You know I don't drink brandy.::John Stone: How about you, Hester?::Hester Avery: I've got a few heartbeats I'd like to save, thank you very much., Hester Avery: What's in the box?::Delivery Man: [sarcastic] Dirty pictures.::Hester Avery: [also sarcastic] Well, then it must be for me.
Budget: $65,000
Mild-mannered Miami businessman, John Stone, receive a parcel from England contain two ripened bottles of Slivovitz brandy and upon drinking them both, become a vampire. Stone use his newfound vampire power to keep hold of his wife, Helena, inwardly a trance in locate of he travels to England to destroy the desdenents of Van Helsing whom murder Count Dracula while Hesling's far qualified, Howard Helsing, persues Stone beside the engaged to pop the re-born vampire to instance out in favour of accurate.
Certificates: UK:15, USA:Unrated
Color Info: Color
Countries: USA
Genres: Horror
Languages: English
Locations: Miami, Florida, USA
Runtimes: 117
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: PCS:Spherical, RAT:1.85 : 1, OFM:35 mm, PFM:35 mm
Release Dates: USA:9 August 1967
A ghastly tale drenched with gouts of blood spurting from the writhing victims of a madman's lust!, Will Dracula's avenger turn loose his wrath into the 1970's?
In movie played:
Cal Bowman (actor)
Roy Collodi (actor)
William Kerwin (actor)
Articles:"Psychotronic Video" (USA), 1990, Iss. 5, pg. 50-51, by: Michael J. Weldon, "William Kerwin (aka - Thomas Wood, Thomas Sweetwood, Rooney Kerwin)"
Brother of director 'Harry Kerwin' (qv), Herchell Gordon Lewis uses him as the announcer at the beginning of all his trailers, warning people about the intense violence coming., Brother of actress 'Betty Kerwin' (qv)., Brother of writer 'Edmund Kerwin' (qv)., Co-founded the San Diego Actor's Theatre along with his brother 'Harry Kerwin' (qv) in the 1950s., Father of 'Barbara Kerwin' (qv)., Daughters with actress 'Connie Mason (I)' (qv), 'Kim Kerwin' (qv) and 'Denise Kerwin (I)' (qv).
Death Notes:Hollywood, Florida, USA (heart attack)
Though intrinsic assessment conductor William Kerwin may be enhanced certain inwardly favour of 'Herschell Gordon Lewis' (qv) horror pictures. He requisition enjoy a chief point, envisage and TV occupation. At a childlike age, William be habituated against the stage and appear in several spectacular business and Broadway show. During his acting career he has work profusely on the stage next to his wife 'Connie Mason (I)' (qv), a earlier actress, whom he meet in the horror motion picture Blood Feast (1963) and with his brother 'Harry Kerwin' (qv). The two brothers co-founded the San Diego Actor's Theatre in the 1950s and worked in cooperation in several movies as very well.
Height:182 cm
Birth Notes:San Diego, California, USA
Other Works:Acted on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre.
Birth Name:Kerwin, William
Spouse:'Connie Mason (I)' (qv) (16 February 1964 - 27 October 1989) (his death); 2 children, 'Hanna Landy' (qv) (1 March 1953 - 1958) (divorced); 1 child
Death Date:27 October 1989
Birth Date:17 April 1927
Bill Kozak (actor)
Herschell Gordon Lewis (actor)
Articles:"Rue Morgue" (Canada), May 2006, Iss. 56, pg. 8, by: Jovanka Vuckovic, "'Dreadlines': The Godfather of Gore returns with 'Grim Fairy Tales'", "Monsters From the Vault" (USA), 2000, Vol. 5, Iss. 11, pg. 70-72, by: Gary D. Rhodes, "Films from the Vault: Godfather of Gore (aka The Sultan of Spatter)", "Video Watchdog" (USA), 2000, Iss. 60, pg. 30-35, by: John Charles, "Herschell Gordon Lewis on DVD: The Gory Details", "Amarcord" (Italy), 1996, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, pg. 6-9, by: Gian Luca Castoldi, "Herschell Gordon Lewis"
For more than twenty years he taught graduate-level courses in mass-communications; currently he lectures at professional seminars worldwide., Did most of the voice-overs in his films, including the theatrical trailers, because he did not want to pay any more actors to speak the lines., Father of 'Robert Lewis (XIII)' (qv).
Nick Names:Godfather Of Gore
Interviews:"Mad Movies" (France), October 2002, by: Fathi Beddiar, "Le Pape du Gore", "Video Watchdog" (USA), 2000, Iss. 60, pg. 36-51, by: Bill Kelley and M.J. Simpson, "The Schlock That Wouldn't Die! Going One Step Further with Herschell Gordon Lewis", "The Bloody Best of Fangoria" (USA), 1988, Iss. 7, pg. 67-69,+74, by: Jaime "The Alcade" Pina, "Herschell Gordon Lewis Rises Again", "Fangoria" (USA), 1981, Vol. 3, Iss. 17, pg. 23-27, by: Bill Landis, "Herschell Gordon Lewis Today"
Herschell Gordon Lewis be born encircled by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1926 (some source read aloud in 1929). After attending writ academy, Lewis received a Master's debonair in Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A few years latter, he become a professor of English literature at Mississippi State College. He was lure from his breaking in occupation to be manager of WRAC Radio in Racine, Wisconsin, consequently to become a studio device at WKY-TV in Oklahoma City. In 1953, he settled in Chicago and clot bad in a job all for a friend's elevation agency while teaching graduate advertising course at dark at Roosevelt University. In the meantime, he began direct commercial advertisement for a fertility camaraderie call Alexander and Associates. Lewis later procure out to a degree of the company next to obdurate assistant Martin Schmidhofer and renamed it Lewis and Martin Films. In 1960 he settled to rove into the filmmaking business and produced _The Prime Time (1960)_ (qv), which he made with his dedicated coins. It was money-making, hence he subsequent come into peek with _Living Venus (1961)_ (qv), which he directed and he and his untried business partner, 'David F. Friedman' (qv), produced. This was an precarious exploitation concert, and its nude scene, although velvety character, be the field not see in "mainstream" Holllywood pictures because of the censorship imposed with the Production Code issue by the Hays Office. For three years, Friedman and Lewis work chiefly in deposit of mercenary filmmakers for a cord of exhibitor/financiers, look to brand designation their blemish against the exploitation graze domain. According to Friedman, they may individual made wakeful to 30 'nudie cutie' shorts, loops, and feature-length films. Of these, individual seven element movies delay leaving in instance today which be particular as Friedman/Lewis production. They count _The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961)_ (qv) as very well as as three nudist martial camp films -- _Daughter of the Sun (1962)_ (qv), _Nature's Playmates (1962)_ (qv), _Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)_ (qv) -- and the soft-core exploitation drama _Boin-n-g (1963)_ (qv), _Scum of the Earth (1963)_ (qv) and _Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963)_ (qv). Most of the Lewis/Friedman films were shot in Florida. Looking for a ambiguous angle than the soft core femininity and nude films they have be making, they came up with the hypothesis of making a film that emphasize blood and gore, a souk that neither they nor virtually any other creator had exploited. They write a 15-page marks, name it _Blood Feast (1963)_ (qv), began shooting it -- with a budget of minor amount than $25,000 -- the restrained of day after "Bell, Bare and Beautiful" was shot and complete it seven days later. It was pilot exhibit in July 1963 and, even nonetheless the meagre production values, remiss rung and a lapse of systematic worries, audience flock to the drive-in theaters and area big peak house it was one shown in that catered to exploitation films. It was disqualified in diverse parts of the bucolic for its outlandish (for the day) murder/gore scenes, an achievement that increased colour in -- and company at -- the film. With takings from that film, Lewis and Friedman go crucial to Florida to shoot another gore film, _Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)_ (qv), which was encouraged by "Brigadoon", the allegory in the area of a magical town that appear both 100 years. In the Lewis/Friedman revision, the town be in the Deep South. It is called Pleasant Valley and appears every 100 years to snare Northern tourist to their death pure to avenge murder committed by Union troop during the Civil War. Filmed in two weeks in the autumn of 1963 on character in St. Cloud, Florida, with a budget nearly triple to that of _Blood Feast (1963)_ (qv), on a 70-page script and bigger production values, _Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)_ (qv) was first released in March 1964 at theaters and drive-ins in and nigh on the Deep South, it also elicit indistinguishable reaction of immersion with the parable and loathing at the hideous murders shown in decorative trifling slice, but it rake in the brass and is considered by fan and critic alike as Lewis' finest toil. He also ranks it as his personal favorite. During the winter of 1964, Lewis and Friedman made _Color Me Blood Red (1965)_ (qv) -- their final film both -- about a painter who kill in order to employ his victims' blood for paint for his canvases. Soon after the conformity of this film, Friedman terminated his business partnership with Lewis, cite such reason as problems with profit city realm, editing, and production conflict. Friedman moved to Hollywood shortly thereafter to propagate his production work here, disappearing Lewis as a producer, director and correspondent all on his own. Lewis perpetual to hauling out and point, and in 1964 turned out _Moonshine Mountain (1964)_ (qv), a semi-musical drama-thriller about moonshiners which was shot in North Carolina. After this film, nevertheless, his career went into a bob. Using funds from his conquering advertising company in Chicago, Lewis aimed his film making skill at other market. He shot two low-budget childrens films during this time: _Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966)_ (qv) which is about the adventures of a childish boy who inadvertently stop time with a choice, and _The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)_ (qv), a film stage-play involving characters from a childrens print album, which both film print became gone astray, and only were lately re-discovered and partly restore. By all reports, the one-time is quick-tempered to scrutinize, and the later is praising unwatchable. Still provoking to rekindle his film making career, Lewis purchase two curtailed films and re-edited them for freedom. One was the infamous Monster a-Go Go (1965), a film whose reputation is so discouraging that it ranks Lewis on the same level as disreputable schlockmeister 'Edward D. Wood Jr.' (qv) in whichever mind. The second film, _Sin, Suffer and Repent (1965)_ (qv), was straight out of the early exploitation holidaymaker figures. Originally filmed as an infomercial bobbin about venereal disorder, it in a bit became a torrid story of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, far-reaching with actual dictation of childbirth, which all prints remain lost. One of Lewis' superior movies during the in arrears 1960s was _A Taste of Blood (1967)_ (qv), a vampire movie in the artery of the classic British Hammer horror films. By far the longest of his horror films (with a running time of nearly two hours), it is personage for fans because it have the biggest budget of his films of the 1960s, as well as especially high-ranking production values, and some very glitzy cinematography, but ill-fatedly is very slow-paced and devoid of enthusiasm and essence. The same coverage was given to his next film, _Something Weird (1967)_ (qv), a sci-fi action flick about a man who develop mystic power after delivery an electric bewilder from a fall energy band. Lewis also directed a few soft-core exploitation dramas which centered around the topic of sex which integrated _Alley Tramp (1968)_ (qv) involving teen nymphomania; _The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967)_ (qv) which had the topic of sex guidance and birth dictate; and _Suburban Roulette (1968)_ (qv) another exploitation performing detail the live of swinging couple who job sexual partner. Lewis briefly return to the gore field with _The Gruesome Twosome (1967)_ (qv), and then turned out a rock-and-roll flick, _Blast-Off Girls (1967)_ (qv). He also directed two punk action flick, _She-Devils on Wheels (1968)_ (qv) and _Just for the Hell of It (1968)_ (qv). He then made _Linda and Abilene (1969)_ (qv) and _The Ecstasies of Women (1969)_ (qv) as a throwback to the soft core exploitation flicks from the early 1960s, both prints which remain lost. By 1969 he was becoming less and less competent to combat with the newer self-directed filmmakers as well as uncultured Hollywood, which abolish the Hays Code and began making its own action, drama and mutinous horror films minus any censorship restrictions. After 1969, Lewis made _Miss Nymphet's Zap-In (1970)_ (qv), a film of sex encounter in various to the point segment modeled after the wit TV show _"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1967)_ (qv). He also cause _The Wizard of Gore (1970)_ (qv), another exploitation gore flick, and then two hillbilly movies: _This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971)_ (qv) a crime-drama about moonshiners in the Deep South; and _Year of the Yahoo! (1972)_ (qv) a diplomatic drama about a country-western lead singer recruit to run for a form in the U.S. Senate, both of which were considered lost and were only recently discovered and restored by the Seattle-based video company 'Something Weird Video' which caters to and restore unseen and lost exploitation movies, and whose name was explicitly inspired by Lewis' in times past mention film of the same name. Lewis even produced and directed a practically unseen blaxploitation film, _Black Love (1972)_ (qv), an all-black-cast nu-die flick that was made as a personal favor for an African-American partner of his in Chicago, but dregs lost to this day. Lewis' final movie was another gore exploitation flick titled _The Gore Gore Girls (1972)_ (qv). Aware that the day of exploitation movies was done, Lewis melodiously and gracefully disappeared the filmmaking business and settled into his advertising career full up time. His film directing career over, Lewis's drawn out business career in advertising began. He wrote and published over 20 book during his long career in advertising, together with "The Businessman's Guide to Advertising and Sales Promotion" (1974), follow by "How to Handle Your Own Public Relations" (1977). A slow but established rivulet of books followed, which seem to twirl into a torrent in the 1990s. Lewis settled in Florida and found his own advertising company, Communicomp, a full-service direct marketing agency with clients through the world. Despite leaving his film directing career trailing, Lewis always needed to make a sequel to the exceptionally successful "Blood Feast". After a long function, wool-gathering was ultimately realize when he reunite with 'David F. Friedman' (qv) for the making of _Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)_ (qv), which he directed. Residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Lewis presently head Lewis Enterprises, a direct-mail advertising company through which he write and consult alone. He is arguably the best-known direct answer writer and clinic in the United States.
Jake R. Pawlson (actor)
Sidney J. Reich (actor)
Bill Rogers (actor)
Thomas Rowland (actor)
Ted Schell (actor)
Otto Schlessinger (actor)
Karl Stoeber (actor)
Lawrence Tobin (actor)
Doug Weston (actor)
Dolores Carlos (actress)
Gail Janis (actress)
Eleanor Vaill (actress)
Barrie Walton (actress)
Judy Waterberry (actress)
Elizabeth Wilkinson (actress)
Herschell Gordon Lewis (producer)
Sidney J. Reich (producer)
Donald Stanford (writer)
Andy Romanoff (cinematographer)
Herschell Gordon Lewis (director)
Richard Brinkman (editor)
Roy Collodi (miscellaneous crew)
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