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Blood-Drinking Beings
Leofwine_draca7 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
100 YEARS OF HORROR is a 26-episode TV series made in 1996 and featuring the delightful Christopher Lee as host, his sonorous narration exploring the history of horror cinema in the 20th century. Each themed episode contains plentiful clips from the films mentioned along with brief interview footage seemingly culled from other documentaries as well as TV shows and the like.

This second episode, BLOOD-DRINKING BEINGS, explores non-Dracula and non-traditional vampire movies in Hollywood and beyond. The films discussed include The Omega Man and Countess Dracula as well as Corman's Not of this Earth. Hammer and Universal are well covered again and even Paul Naschy gets a brief but welcome look-in.
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Fun Episode
Michael_Elliott7 September 2017
100 Years of Horror: Blood-Drinking Beings (1996)

*** (out of 4)

The second episode in Ted Newsom's series takes a look at various blood suckers who aren't exactly Dracula himself. This episode takes a look at films like BLACK SABBATH, THE VAMPIRE BAT, DEAD MEN WALK, THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, NOT OF THIS EARTH and THE OMEGA MAN among many others.

Fans of the series (it's a really good one) will certainly be entertained by this episode and especially since there are clips from all of the movies as well as interviews with the filmmakers. We get to hear a few comments from the likes of Roger Corman, Roy Ward Baker, Ferdy Mayne, Dick Miller, Caroline Munro, Jimmy Sangster and Brinke Stevens as well. The episode does a nice job at highlighting some of the lesser known bloodsucker movies and the interviews are certainly worth sitting through the episode for.
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