| A Taste of Blood | |
| Director: | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Producer: | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Starring: | Bill Rogers Elizabeth Wilkinson William Kerwin (as Thomas Wood) |
| Music: | Larry Wellington |
| Cinematography: | Andy Romanoff |
| Editing: | Richard Brinkman |
| Distributor: | Creative Film Enterprises Inc. |
| Runtime: | 117 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $65,000 (estimated) |
A Taste of Blood is a 1967 American horror film, produced and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It stars, among others, Bill Rogers and Elizabeth Wilkinson. The film was also known as The Secret of Dr. Alucard. Lewis considered it his masterpiece.[1]
A Miami businessman, John Stone, receives a parcel from England containing two old bottles of Slivovitz brandy from his recently deceased ancestor, and after drinking both bottles, becomes a vampire. Stone uses his newfound vampire powers to keep his wife, Helene, in a trance as he travels to England to kill the descendants of Abraham Van Helsing that murdered Count Dracula. Meanwhile, Helsing's distant relative, Howard Helsing, pursues Stone with the intent to put the reborn vampire to rest for good.