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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Blood Bath (1966)
A beatnik artist who thinks he's a vampire in Venice Beach, California, murders his muses by lowering them into a boiling vat of wax.
A film with a history that's far more entertaining than the film itself. Beginning life as an East European spy thriller produced by Roger Corman titled Operation: Titian but seen to be basically unreleasable to US audiences, Corman hired writer director Jack Hill to incorporate footage from Operation: Titian into a new production called Portrait of Terror. However Portrait of Terror was also deemed rubbish (I can verify this as i watched it alongside Blood Bath last night and it was pretty awful, seemingly more a half baked thriller based on German Krimi films than horror film). Corman then hired Stephanie Rothman to film additional sequences which were also added to the film whilst removing huge swathes of footage altogether bringing the run time down from 90 minutes to a mere 60 odd minutes |
If you have got the Arrow release, you also get the 80 minute 'Track Of The Vampire' version as well as the three mentioned above!