The Blood Beast Terror is a watchable Hammer-fest that is certainly original in its premise of a young woman who transforms into a deadly human-sized moth! The fiendish lepidoptera preys on men a-plenty and drains them of blood, while its terrible visage drives witnesses beyond the very rim of sanity. Investigating the mystery is Inspector Quennell, played by the peerless Peter Cushing, ably assisted by Sergeant Allan (Minder's very own Dave!), who uncovers Dr Mallinger's insect/human meddling and solves the case via a (modest, it must be said) bonfire that attracts the deadly moth to the destroying flames. The film is not great and there is time wasting present in the form of a really long amateur dramatics production sequence. Moreover, moths are not noted for their blood-sucking ways so it is an odd choice of creature as the source of menace (perhaps if wardrobes of clobber had been found masticated beyond repair then that could have been a more precise threat). Furthermore, it is not clear how a moth creature is able to transform into a human - what were they first? Still, if anyone has ever dreamed of seeing a weremoth film, then The Blood Beast Terror delivers on that fantasy.
Review of The Blood Beast Terror
