Kulay dugo ang gabi (1964)

Director:

Gerardo de Leon

Writers:

Cesar Amigo (screenplay)
Rico Bello Omagap (story)

Release Date:

May 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

A Cult of Undead Creatures Seek Fresh, Warm, Human Blood!

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Priest | Dwarf | Blood | Whip | Twin Sister

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Ronald Remy	...	Dr. Marco
Amalia Fuentes	...	Charito / Katrina
Eddie Fernandez	...	Victor de la Cruz
Eva Montes	...	Tanya, the vampire bride
Celia Rodriguez
Renato Robles
Mary Walter	...	Charito's mother
Paquito Salcedo	...	Elias, the guardian
Felisa Salcedo
Andres Benitez
Fred Param
Eddie Arce
Conchita Cruz
Vicky Velasquez
Cesar Aguilar

Also Known As:

Blood Is the Color of Night (USA)
Color of Night (USA)
The Blood Drinkers (USA)
The Vampire People (USA) (reissue title (TV title))

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Philippines | USA

Language:

Tagalog | English | Filipino

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Company:

People's Pictures

Trivia:

In the American release, the role of the very unconvincing rubber bat was expanded from what appears to have been only one shot in the original (and given the name, "Basra"), because the distributor loved the little monster.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007) (V)

Entertaining Filipino vampire schlock.

An evil genius vampire whose minions include a hunchback, a midget, a hot chick with sunglasses, and a rubber bat tries to save the life of his vampire lover by transplanting her with the heart of her long, lost sister. The sister, inconveniently, is still alive. Plays at times like an Ed Wood movie, at others like a classic, albeit low-budget, horror film. Made in the Philippines, which lends jungle atmosphere, interesting architecture, and enough catholic iconography to satisfy the Pope. Badly dubbed in English, including the fact that three completely different characters are, evidently, supposed to be mute and make the exact same, "Uhn, uhn, uhn," noises in the exact same voice, which is blissfully confusing. Features one singing cowboy scene, Captain Kirk-style martial arts, and a musical score that sounds like it could be library tracks but nonetheless is very effective. The film is sometimes black and white, sometimes color, and sometimes tinted a garish magenta, which actually works to heighten the atmosphere at least part of the time. Anyone who has read this far and is still interested will not be disappointed.