Vampiro Sangriento, El

AKA's:

Bloody Vampire, The / Count Frankenhausen

Release date:	1961 Mexico
Running time:	99' (cover 100' / Mexico 110') - Source: VHS NTSC b/w
Rating:	UK: PG; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Miguel Morayta (The Invasion Of The Vampires 1961) Producer: Internacional Sono Film SA / Tele Talia Films Score: Luis Hernandez Breton Writer: Miguel Morayta Director of photography: Raul Martinez Solares
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Begona Palacios / Anna "Ines" Cagliostro Carlos Agosti / Count Siegfried Von Frankenhausen Erna Martha Bauman / Countess Eugenia Von Frankenhausen Antonio Raxel / Count Valsamo De Cagliostro Raul Farell / Dr. Ricardo Pizarro Bertha Moss / Frau Hildegarde Lupe Carriles / Lupe, the Innkeeper Rafael Etienne / Torture Chamber Master N. Leon "Frankenstein" / Torturer Francisco A. Cordova / Gestas, the Servant Enrique Lucero / Lazaro
Summary:	Count Cagliostro (Antonio Raxel), whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter, Ines (Begona Palacios), and her fiance, the physician Ricardo (Raul Farell), to protect several valuable documents. When the doctor is summoned to the bedside of the ailing Countess Frankenhausen (Erna Martha Bauman), Ines enters the castle disguised as a servant. In this guise she attracts the amorous count, who is unaware of her conviction that he is a vampire, and incurs the wrath of Hildegard (Bertha Moss), the jealous housekeeper. Although the countess confides her fear of her husband to Richard, the doctor chooses to believe the vampire's assertion that his wife is mad. Unmasked by the angry Frankenhausen, Ines is rescued by Richard. The enraged vampire kills his wife, quaffs her blood, and escapes.
Note:	- Sequel to "The Invasion Of The Vampires". According to Mexican film historian David Wilt, "The Bloody Vampire" and ""The Invasion Of The Vampires" were shot back-to-back in December 1961-January 1962. "The Bloody Vampire" was released in September 1962, and the sequel, "The Invasion Of The Vampires" was released the following summer. - The film was re-edited and dubbed for the US by K. Gordon Murray. - A new method to kill a vampire is explained (though it isn't used in this film, but is in the sequel): as a vampire can survive having a stake driven through his heart, the only way to really kill him is by injecting "Clammic Acid" into his veins. It can be distilled only from the Black Mandragora flower that grows only on spots over which a man was hanged. - The castle set was also used in "The Brainiac" aka "El Baron Del Terror".
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