Blood Drinkers (US Import)

Five years after TERROR IS A MAN became the first international horror hit from the Philippines, producer Cirio Santiago (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) and director Gerry de Leon (BRIDES OF BLOOD) delivered Hemisphere’s next landmark shocker: Ronald Remy (MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND) – in a performance Critic After Dark calls “perhaps the most compelling incarnation since Christopher Lee” – stars in this orgy of gothic terror and Filipino pulp, complete with rubber bats, hunchback henchmen, theremin, whippings, rampant Catholicism and radical color tinting that remains unnerving more than half a century later. Amalia Fuentes (CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES) co-stars in “one of the more unusual vampire movies you’ll ever see” (DVD Drive-In) – also known as BLOOD IS THE COLOR OF NIGHT and VAMPIRE PEOPLE – now scanned from the only complete 35mm print known to exist!Manong of the Philippines: Interview With Script Supervisor and Gerry De Leon’s AD Dik TrofeoHemisphere Appreciation by Filmmaker David DecoteauAudio Commentary With Film Historians Nathaniel Thompson and Howard S. BergerPartial Audio Commentary With Hemisphere Marketing Consultant Samuel M. ShermanDeleted ScenesBlood Drinkers TrailerVampire People TrailerRadio Spot