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Grave of the Vampire

  • 19721972
  • PGPG
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
5.0/10
1.4K
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Grave of the Vampire (1972)
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A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.A young man, born of a rape committed by a legendary vampire against a living woman, vows to locate and vanquish his undead father.
IMDb RATING
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1.4K
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    • John Hayes
    • David Chase(screenplay)
    • John Hayes(screen treatment)
  • Stars
    • William Smith
    • Michael Pataki
    • Lyn Peters
    • John Hayes
    • David Chase(screenplay)
    • John Hayes(screen treatment)
  • Stars
    • William Smith
    • Michael Pataki
    • Lyn Peters
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    • 59User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
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    William Smith in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Lyn Peters in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki and Kitty Vallacher in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki in Grave of the Vampire (1972)
    Michael Pataki and Kitty Vallacher in Grave of the Vampire (1972)

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    William Smith
    William Smith
    • James Eastman
    Michael Pataki
    Michael Pataki
    • Caleb Croft
    Lyn Peters
    • Anne Arthur
    Diane Holden
    • Anita Jacoby
    Lieux Dressler
    Lieux Dressler
    • Olga
    Ernesto Macias
    Ernesto Macias
    • Lt. Panzer
    • (as Eric Mason)
    Jay Adler
    Jay Adler
    • Old Zack
    Jay Scott
    • Paul
    William Guhl
    • Sgt. Duffy
    Margaret Fairchild
    • Miss Fenwick
    Carmen Argenziano
    Carmen Argenziano
    • Sam
    Frank Whiteman
    Abbi Henderson
    • Carol Moskowitz
    Inga Neilsen
    Inga Neilsen
    • Leticia
    Lindis Guinness
    • Sam's Ggirlfriend
    • (as Lindus Guinness)
    Kitty Vallacher
    • The Unwilling Mother
      • John Hayes
      • David Chase(screenplay)
      • John Hayes(screen treatment)
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    • Trivia
      This film was shot in 11 days on a budget of $50,000.
    • Goofs
      The opening scenes of Caleb's attack on Leslie and Paul and the police department's investigation of the attack are supposed to take place 20 to 30 years before the main events of the film in the 1970s, but the men's long hair and the cut of the detective's suit in the beginning are clearly contemporary to 1972.
    • Quotes

      James Eastman: [voiceover] My mother found it difficult to tell me that I wasn't like other children; I could never share a life with whole human beings. I slowly learned that the thing that raped my mother and fathered me was no living feeling man, but a malignant force of cancer that refused to be destroyed. It wasn't only her blood my mother gave to keep me alive, her youth and her own life was sucked up into the syringe that fed me.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the film, the words "Fin--ou peut etre pas," appear on the screen, which are French for "The End -- or maybe not."
    • Alternate versions
      The UK Vipco DVD release is identical to the old cinema print, which was cut by the BBFC to remove a shot of a woman cutting her breast with a knife to feed her child blood and shots of blood running down her arm during a syringe injection.
    • Connections
      Edited into FrightMare Theater: Grave of the Vampire (2018)

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    5/10
    "I want you to make me a vampire.."
    A vampire called Caleb Croft rather inexplicably rises from his tomb several years after being presumed dead (perhaps they can lay dormant) and attacks a courting couple, raping the girl who then gets pregnant and gives birth to his son. Move on a couple of decades to the groovy early 1970's and the son, who feeds on blood from raw meat - he is some kind of "good" part-vampire - hunts down his father with the intention of driving a stake into his heart. This came out around the same time as the Count Yorga and Blacula movies, Croft is not as good as either of them in the vampire stakes (no pun intended!), but he is very callous and cruel none the less. There are are some decent, atmospheric scenes, such as the foggy cemetery at the start, plus a corpse in the shower with a slashed throat, later seen in any number of slasher movies. However the middle section of the film is pretty slow and dull, it sadly drags it down. The print used for the British DVD was quite appalling, so this did not help. Worth a watch but the name Caleb Croft won't remain in my movie memory for long.
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    • May 18, 2019

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    • Release date
      • October 13, 1972 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fern Dell, Griffith Park, Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Millenium Productions
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
      • Mono

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