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'''''The Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth (played by Creator/WandaVentham, the real-life mother of Creator/BenedictCumberbatch).

Cushing once said this was [[OldShame probably the worst movie he had ever done]], although that didn't stop him from [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously giving a good performance]]. The man was a [[ConsummateProfessional pro]].

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'''''The ''The Blood Beast Terror''''' Terror'' is a 1968 {{British|Films}} British SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth (played by Creator/WandaVentham, the real-life mother of Creator/BenedictCumberbatch).

Cushing once said this was [[OldShame probably the worst movie he had ever done]], although that didn't stop him from [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously giving turning in a good performance]]. The man was a [[ConsummateProfessional pro]].
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Not to be confused with ''Film/NightOfTheBloodBeast''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: One scene features an amateur play seemingly based on the Burke and Hare grabe-robbing murders.

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* ShowWithinAShow: One scene features an amateur play seemingly based on the Burke and Hare grabe-robbing grave-robbing murders.

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'''''The Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth.

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'''''The Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth.weremoth (played by Creator/WandaVentham, the real-life mother of Creator/BenedictCumberbatch).

Cushing once said this was [[OldShame probably the worst movie he had ever done]], although that didn't stop him from [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously giving a good performance]]. The man was a [[ConsummateProfessional pro]].



* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Averted}}. The scientist character in the film is explicitky an entomologist, and all his science we see is somehow related to bugs.

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* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Averted}}. The scientist character in the film is explicitky explicitly an entomologist, and all his science we see is somehow related to bugs.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature is at this at first, until the monster is revealed to be both very calculating and very much uninterested in remaining in his control.

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature is at this at first, until the monster beast is revealed to be both very calculating and very much uninterested in remaining in his control.planning to leave the nest permanently.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature.

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature.creature is at this at first, until the monster is revealed to be both very calculating and very much uninterested in remaining in his control.
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* MarketBasedTitle: ''The Blood Beast Terror'' became ''The Vampire Beast Craves Blood'' in the US.
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* CassandraTruth: The sole witness to the murders tries to tell the authorities about the monster, but is dismissed as having been DrivenTpMadness by trauma. Luckily, Inspector Quinnell decides to investigate it anyways because it's all he has to work with.

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* CassandraTruth: The sole witness to the murders tries to tell the authorities about the monster, but is dismissed as having been DrivenTpMadness DrivenToMadness by trauma. Luckily, Inspector Quinnell decides to investigate it anyways because it's all he has to work with.
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'''''Thr Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{Britush|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth.

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'''''Thr '''''The Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{Britush|Films}} {{British|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth.
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'''''Thr Blood Beast Terror''''' is a 1968 {{Britush|Films}} SciFiHorror film from Creator/TigonBritishFilmProductions starring Creator/PeterCushing. It concerns a series of murders committed by a weremoth.
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* AutopsySnackTime: The coroner has a meat pie while examining the murdered corpses, joking that [[BlackComedy it's "a nice change from cold meat."]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature.
* CassandraTruth: The sole witness to the murders tries to tell the authorities about the monster, but is dismissed as having been DrivenTpMadness by trauma. Luckily, Inspector Quinnell decides to investigate it anyways because it's all he has to work with.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Dr. Mallinger realizes what destruction he has wrought in the end, and tries to destroy both weremoths. He only succeeds in destroying one before getting killed.]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The weremoth is killed when a bonfire is lit by our heroes taking advantage of its instinct to go towards light.]]
* MothMenace: The main antagonist is a weremoth.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Averted}}. The scientist character in the film is explicitky an entomologist, and all his science we see is somehow related to bugs.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These are blood-sucking weremoths created by mad science.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Weremoths created by mad science. They also have a remarkably fast transformation, depicted as almost instantaneous.
* ShowWithinAShow: One scene features an amateur play seemingly based on the Burke and Hare grabe-robbing murders.
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