When medical researcher Vincent Ball is sent to prison for conducting experiments that have not been approved by the medical board, a mysterious doctor (Donald Wolfitt) who runs his own prison arranges to have Ball transferred there. Wolfitt intends to use Ball's knowledge to do his bidding which includes experiments on other prisoners. Wolfitt, we learn, is suffering from a rare blood condition, and that makes him rely on other people's blood so in one way he is a vampire, but not in the traditional way of Bram Stoker. Suspicious of where Ball has been transferred and later learning that he has apparently been killed in escape attempt, his fiance Barbara Shelley arranges to get a job there as a housekeeper. As there usually is in films like this, there is a deformed assistant (Victor Maddern) who made be deranged in his willingness to assist Wolfitt, but he won't let anybody harm Shelley. This of course leads to the inevitable showdown and a few violent endings for some of the characters.
An above average horror with plenty of science fiction elements, this has great art direction as well as some delicious camp. Certainly there are hints that Wolfitt's character died of vampires death and somehow came back to life, but twists just proved that theory. inexpensive state to see modern being introduced to Shelley when she takes on the job the castle, because she doesn't even flinch, one of the few horror heroines not to do so when confronted by a monstrous looking creature. That opens modern character to have some sympathy in his favor, and as a result, he ends up being one of the most memorable characters in this film, the other being William Devlin's prisoner who plays an important part in letting ball know the secrets of the castle. The ending it's pretty gruesome, but there were hints that the castle was going to explode or catch on fire like American International did in all their Edgar Allan Poe tales, but the writers chose a different route.
An above average horror with plenty of science fiction elements, this has great art direction as well as some delicious camp. Certainly there are hints that Wolfitt's character died of vampires death and somehow came back to life, but twists just proved that theory. inexpensive state to see modern being introduced to Shelley when she takes on the job the castle, because she doesn't even flinch, one of the few horror heroines not to do so when confronted by a monstrous looking creature. That opens modern character to have some sympathy in his favor, and as a result, he ends up being one of the most memorable characters in this film, the other being William Devlin's prisoner who plays an important part in letting ball know the secrets of the castle. The ending it's pretty gruesome, but there were hints that the castle was going to explode or catch on fire like American International did in all their Edgar Allan Poe tales, but the writers chose a different route.