The rubber bats used in the movie were bought from a local branch of Woolworths.
The car used in the movie is an original 1903 De Dion Bouton model Q, loaned to Hammer by the National Motor Museum.
The director Don Sharp admitted, years later, that he wasn't keen on horror films. However, he decided to make "Kiss of the Vampire" slightly different to the usual Hammer movies.
Universal Pictures delayed the release of this film by a few months so that a comparison could not be made with the concurrently released Hitchcock film The Birds (1963).