This was one of our very first video cassette releases and was available on both VHS and Beta, it was one of three titles that Derek had quickly picked up from it’s producer Tom Blakeley at the onset of the video cassette boom. Unlike ‘Night of the Big Heat’ and ‘Isand of Terror’, which were both directed with some gusto by Hammer veteran Terence Fisher, this was directed by Lance Comfort and was a rather lackluster supernatural drama, with Vampirism at its core! As with the two other films, Tom hadn’t any publicity material available, even though they were less than 15 years old. So the video label was was made up of a single photo with Carole Gray lying in a coffin! Carole had been Cliff Richard’s co-star in ‘The Young Ones’, after which she appeared in ‘Island of Terror’, ‘Curse of the Fly’ and ‘The Brides of Fu Manchu’, but her career had never taken off and her final role was as a chorus girl in 1969s ‘Oh! What a Lovely War’ in which she wasn’t even given a credit. This was the poorest selling video cassette of the three from Tom. The label was designed by Marianne Frost.
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
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