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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} The Blood Lust of a FRENZIED VAMPIRE!]]]]
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4	''The Blood Beast Terror'' is a 1968 British SciFiHorror film from 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).
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6	Cushing once said this was [[OldShame probably the worst movie he had ever done]], although that didn't stop him from [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously turning in a good performance]]. The man was a [[ConsummateProfessional pro]].
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8	Not to be confused with ''Film/NightOfTheBloodBeast''.
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10	!!This film contains examples of:
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12	* AutopsySnackTime: The coroner has a meat pie while examining the murdered corpses, joking that [[BlackComedy it's "a nice change from cold meat."]]
13	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Dr. Carl Mallinger]], creator of the moth creature is at this at first, until the beast is revealed to be planning to leave the nest permanently.
14	* CassandraTruth: The sole witness to the murders tries to tell the authorities about the monster, but is dismissed as having been DrivenToMadness by trauma. Luckily, Inspector Quinnell decides to investigate it anyways because it's all he has to work with.
15	* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
16	* 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.]]
17	* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:The weremoth is killed when a bonfire is lit by our heroes taking advantage of its instinct to go towards light.]]
18	* MarketBasedTitle: ''The Blood Beast Terror'' became ''The Vampire Beast Craves Blood'' in the US.
19	* MothMenace: The main antagonist is a weremoth.
20	* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: {{Averted}}. The scientist character in the film is explicitly an entomologist, and all his science we see is somehow related to bugs.
21	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: These are blood-sucking weremoths created by mad science.
22	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Weremoths created by mad science. They also have a remarkably fast transformation, depicted as almost instantaneous.
23	* ShowWithinAShow: One scene features an amateur play seemingly based on the Burke and Hare grave-robbing murders.

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