Prichards12345 The Blood Beast Terror is a film I recorded from the Horror Channel about 3 months ago and watched the other night. It features Peter Cushing, who should really have turned this one down, and Dave from Minder on the trail of a serial killer, who turns out to be Wanda Ventham (aka Benedict Cumberbatch's mum) transformed into a giant Death's Head Moth. No, I did not just make that up.The Moth suit is laughable - I really hope poor Wanda didn't wear it, and it was a stunt Moth-Man or something. No actor should be thus embarrassed. And the airborne Moth will have you giggling - it makes Bela Lugosi's Devil Bat look convincing.The plot makes little or no sense, the celebrated Etymologist professor, played with a suitably stunned expression throughout by Robert Flemyng, stages an am-dram play in his house which features Ventham being revived from the dead, which is arguably the weirdest scene in horror film history, and at the opening of the movie, what looks like the banks of Thames stand in for the Limpopo river! Even Cushing - the Alec Guinness of horror - can't make this work, at one point his sweetie-chewing Police Inspector even takes his daughter along to the locale where the killer-moth is hiding out,completely oblivious to the danger. The movie was made by Tigon, who either produced horror classics or dreadful crap. I'm sure you know which one The Blood Beast Terror is.....

JoeB131 There- I said it. Moth chicks! Okay, the plot is that a crazy Victorian Scientist manages to create a giant moth who also happens to be a vampire and a shape-shifter, capable of luring men to their doom. Peter Cushing plays a detective assigned to the case, and to give the poor man credit, he does his best with some dreadful material.A couple of the actors were so exaggerated in their performances you'd think they had escaped from the Monty Python set. (Seriously, the morgue attendant looked like he could have been played by Eric Idle.) Overall, the film quality is poor, the plot is jumpy and not at all streamlined. (The whole purpose is to create a boy moth, but the think was apparently made of kindling and went up like a match). After all the fretting, the lady moth (a truly lame special effect) burns to death after being lured into a flame. Gee, sorry, monster movies where the monster is killed easily aren't very impressive.

Michael_Elliott Blood Beast Terror, The (1967) ** (out of 4) Six bodies are found with their blood drained so Inspector Quennell (Peter Cushing) is called in. Once the investigation gets going it becomes clear that the attacks are being made by a huge moth like creature. This is one of those films that I had heard a lot about but ended up disappointed with after viewing it. I think whe you really boil it down this is nothing more than a remake of Monogram's The Devil Bat, which had Bela Lugosi. The two films share a lot of familiar things but the big difference is that this one runs nearly thirty-minutes longer. The extra running time just adds a lot of dialogue sequences, which are all rather bland and boring. I'm really not sure what's up with certain British films but this is one that just keeps on talking and talking. Cushing is a great actor but even he seems to be bored with this thing.

hellpepper OK, not one of the better offerings of British horror, that's true. But it does have Peter Cushing who is always fun to watch and I have to give credit for the writers to try to bring a somewhat more original monster to the screen than just another rehash in the Vampire or Frankenstein vein. Well, come to think of it aside from making the monster a moth ,this really is just another rehashed Vampire story with a few elements from the Frankenstein storyline thrown in for good measure. I cannot help but wonder if the monster was inspired by the legend of the Mothman, the legendary beastie from West Virginia. The resemblance is pretty close. A man sized moth creature with red glowing eyes.Shame more people have not seen this though, it's not as bad as its reputation. I find it pretty enjoyable.