American film director Herschell Gordon Lewis was known as the Godfather of Gore and made a number of cheap, gory horror movies in the 1960's. This is his stab at a variation on the Dracula story and is quite different to his splatter movies, apparently he claimed it was his masterpiece, personally I'd disagree. For a start there is very little gore here and it is a 46 minute wait until we get to see any. Elizabeth Lee does provide some nice eye candy but there is zero nudity. The acting is reasonably OK bar one, Lewis himself plays an English sailor and he has one of the worst Cockney accents that I have ever heard. Terrible! Production values are alright but what really lets this movie down is that it is too talky and at nearly two hours in length way too long. Essential viewing for fans of HGL but bottom line is it's more bore than gore.
Review of A Taste of Blood
