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Karen DeWolf (story)
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Release Date:
15 September 1935 (USA) more
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Plot:
After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders. full summary | full synopsis
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Atmospheric little film that won't win any awards but is perfect as part of a horror fest on a dark and stormy night more (12 total)

Cast

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Ralph Morgan ... Prof. Paul Kristan
Maxine Doyle ... Marguerite Mane
Pedro de Cordoba ... Dr. Anders Bizet
Russell Gleason ... David
Mischa Auer ... Zan, the hunchback
Lucy Beaumont ... Mother Molly
Carl Stockdale ... John Mane
Barbara Bedford ... Martha Kristan
Robert Frazer ... Dr. Duprez
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink ... Franz Kristan
Heidi Shope ... Anna, the maid

Marilyn Knowlden ... Maria, the little girl
Paul Weigel ... Old Village Doctor
Edward Cecil ... John, the servant
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Demon of Doom (USA) (reissue title)
Life Sentence (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
67 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)

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Uses same music and sets as The Vampire Bat (1933). more

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2 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Atmospheric little film that won't win any awards but is perfect as part of a horror fest on a dark and stormy night, 14 August 2006
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Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

Vampiresque tale of a madman loose in a small village in the middle of the 19th century.Someone is tearing the throats out of villagers after dark. Who could it be and how does it relate to the events years earlier when a shipwrecked pregnant woman was bitten on the neck by a vampire bat? Well made melodrama with horrific overtones take many horror conventions and breathes just a bit of new life in them, Give this movie a good many points for daring to be different in its supernatural tinged tale. Add to it a great cast headed by Frank Morgan and Misha Auer (as a hunchback) and you get a fine little lost film. Sure it won't win any awards but as a movie to watch on a dark and stormy night with the lights on low its gangbusters Worth seeing, especially if you program a night of moldy oldie horror films.

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