Blood Bath (1966) on Netflix
Antonio Sordi paints beneath an old belltower, as his ancestor Erno did before he was burned at the stake. Sordi is a vampire. Dorean, his girlfriend, meets him only on the beach.
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Five hundred years after his ancestor Erno was condemned for conspiring with the devil and burned at the stake, Antonio "Tony" Sordi paints in a studio beneath an old belltower and sells his canvases for prices beyond the local beatniks' means. He is a vampire who kills young women, poses them for his paintings and lowers their bodies into a vat. Dorean, an aspiring dancer he has been seeing for two weeks, knows nothing of that side of him. He refuses to let her into the studio, so they meet on the beach. Max, a beatnik experimenting with new artforms, spots his missing model Daisy Allen in one of Sordi's new paintings and asks her sister Donna to visit the artist.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blood Bath (1966)
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- When Roger Corman had Stephanie Rothman rework Jack Hill's footage into a vampire film, William Campbell refused to take part in another reshoot, so she used a different actor for the vampire and gave Campbell's character the power to change shape to explain the mismatch.
- William Campbell agreed to return for Jack Hill's reshoots only after insisting on a sizeable paycheck, reportedly angering Roger Corman, who nonetheless agreed to the actor's demands.
- Sid Haig had no beard when Jack Hill shot his scenes, but had grown one by the time Stephanie Rothman brought him back for reshoots, which explains the film's facial-hair continuity errors.
- Because Stephanie Rothman's Blood Bath ran only 62 minutes, too short for television, extra footage was filmed for another version, including a six-minute sequence of Linda Saunders dancing non-stop on a beach.
- Jack Hill shot his new scenes in Venice, California, to match the European look of the original Yugoslavian footage, turning the spy thriller into a horror film about a madman who kills his models and makes sculptures of their bodies.
SPOILER
The actor who played the vampire was uncredited in every print and stayed unidentified for years; a production still names him as Jim Begg, a character actor-turned-producer who later appeared in Rothman's It's a Bikini World (1967).
