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  • Director: Newt Arnold
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Horror
  • Movie Type: Creature Film, Detective Film
  • Themes: Murder Investigations
  • Release Year: 1965
  • Country: US/PH
  • Run Time: 74 minutes

Plot

In the city of Manila, a baffling spree of terrible murders has the police force stumped. Beautiful young girls are found drained of blood through small incisions in their wrists, so Captain Miguel (Vic Diaz) calls for his American friend Adam Rourke (Robert Winston) to come to the Philippines and help solve the case. Rourke is an expert on sex crimes with an irreverent attitude toward his work, something that causes friction with Miguel's sister Sylvia (Katherine Henryk). Since several of the victims were employed at the Barrio Club, their investigation starts there with Rourke going undercover as a magazine writer. Mr. Calderon (Vic Silayan), the club owner, is suspicious of Rourke's request for an "interview," but promises to think it over. When hired killers start trailing Rourke, he knows he's on the right track, though the body count keeps rising and a break in the case is elusive. Meanwhile, Sylvia is falling for Rourke against her better judgment, so she gets a job at the Barrio Club in an attempt to search for clues and make sure he stays safe. A mysterious belly dancer (Yvonne Nielson) offers Rourke some valuable information, though discovering the secret of these horrible killings might lead to his destruction. At the same time, Sylvia is captured by the ghoul, a hideous monster with a mangled visage. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

Review

Blood Thirst is an entertaining horror/mystery tale with a twist on the standard legends that vampire fans might be expecting. Instead of the well-trodden territory of European-style vampires, this Filipino production features a blood fiend that worships the sun in return for eternal life. As played by Robert Winston, Adam Rourke is a suave but arrogant detective who's quick with a flip remark and not afraid to plant a wet kiss on the dame who just smacked his face. With the focus on this second-rate Mike Hammer, Blood Thirst sticks closer to private eye conventions than traditional horror, but the story moves fast enough to engage and some unsettling set pieces towards the end of the film bring it back to the realm of the eerie. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

Cast

Vic Diaz; Eddie Infante; Yvonne Nielson; Robert Winston

Credit

Newt Arnold - Director
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Blood Thirst
Directed by Newt Arnold
Produced by Newt Arnold
Written by N.I.P. Dennis
Starring Yvonne Nielson
Robert Winston
Judy Dennis
Release date(s) 1971
Country U.S.A. / Philippines
Language English

Blood Thirst, also known as Blood Seekers and The Horror from Beyond, is a 1971 Horror film directed by Newt Arnold and shot in the Philippines. It tells of an American detective investigating a series of vampiric murders linked to a Manila nightclub.

The film starred Robert Winston as detective Adam Rourke. Winston bore a strong resemblance to actor Anthony Perkins, and he brought a jokey, swaggering presence to the film. He spends much of his screen time swilling cocktails, shooting shadowy villains, and seducing his female lead, actress Judy Dennis, a haggard Audrey Hepburn doppelgänger who never appeared in another film. Winston's tough-guy character is somewhat sabotaged by a pronounced lisp, and his character's habit of engaging himself in extended quizzical monologues, which Winston does with a lopsided half-smile, makes his limning of Rourke decidedly eccentric.

The film's plot, scripted by N.I.P. Dennis in his only listed film credit, is frequently nonsensical, involving a South American belly dancer, played by Yvonne Nielson, who has uncovered an ancient Aztec secret for eternal life, involving regular blood transfusions. To this end, she has enlisted the aid of a Filipino club owner whose visage turns monsterous when he is stalking his prey; his character makeup here bears an uncanny resemblance to the makeup for Troma's Toxic Avenger.

The film features lush black and white photography in the tradition of American noir, including a near chiaroscuro obsession with light and shadow that is unexpectedly effective. Blood Thirst also relies on a canned jazz score that too-often sounds like burlesque compositions. A scene in which Judy Dennis creeps through an underground dungeon is undermined by a Little Egypt-style bump and grind number.

Blood Thirst was reportedly filmed in the 1960s but not released until the early 70s, where it mostly played the American grindhouse circuit, where it must have looked terribly dated alongside such lurid exploitation auteurs as Herschell Gordon Lewis.

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