Tuesday 22 August 2017

264 The Blood-Beast Terror ( 1968 )


This  offering  from  Tigon  is  not  a  bad  story  although  if  you've  seen  The  Reptile  recently  , you'll  work   out  what's  going  on  long  before  Peter  Cushing's  droll  detective  assisted  by  Dave  from  Minder  ( Glyn  Edwards )It's  told  at  a  very  leisurely pace  though , with  a  long  extract  from  a  student  play  that's  barely  relevant  to  the  plot.  The  producers  show  real  faith  in  the  audience's  patience , tolerance  of  Roy  Hudd  as  a  jolly  mortuary  assistant   and  acceptance  of  biological  inaccuracy  like  moths  having  claws  and  teeth.

Wanda  Ventham  ( as  Clare  Manninger )  

Sex :  Nice  cleavage

Death : Burns  to  death  in  a  bonfire


Wanda's  had  a  long  career  mainly  on  TV  with  perhaps  her  most  well-known  role  being  Rodney's  mother-in-law  in  Only  Fools  and  Horses . She  is  currently  in  Sherlock  playing  mother  to  her  real-life  son  Benedict  Cumberbatch. She  is  now  82.

Vanessa  Howard  ( as  Meg  Quennell )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Vanessa  plays  an  uninteresting  innocent  in  this  one.




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