A scientist, working with genetics, creates a creature that is capable of transforming back and forth between a giant Death Head moth and a beautiful woman. The creature masquerades as his daughter when she is in her human incarnation and feeds on the blood of her victims when she is in the moth form.
Production Details
A Tigon Production
88 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Camera Operator: Second Unit | Alan Lavender | 26 | 30 Sep 1941 | 30.09.1941 | 83 | 3 | |
Directed By | Vernon Sewell | 64 | 4 Jul 1903 | 21 Jun 2001 | 97 | 6 | |
Hairdresser | Henry Montsash | 62 | 17 Sep 1905 | 29 Sep 1974 | 69 | 16 | |
Make-up Artist | Rosemarie McDonald-Peattie | 1 | |||||
Production Manager | Ricky Coward | 1 | |||||
Production Secretary | Pat Rambaut | 5 Oct 2023 | 1 | ||||
Publicist | Frank Law | 1 | |||||
Set Dresser | Freda Pearson | 1 | |||||
Sound Maintenance | Alan Lavender | 26 | 30 Sep 1941 | 30.09.1941 | 83 | 3 | |
Special Effects | Roger Dicken | 28 | 15 Apr 1939 | 18 Feb 2024 | 84 | 2 | |
Writing Credits | Peter Bryan | 48 | 28 Sep 1919 | Sep 1972 | 52 | 22 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Clare Mallinger | Wanda Ventham | 32 | 5 Aug 1935 | 05.08.1935 | 89 | 1 | |
Granger | Kevin Stoney | 46 | 25 Jul 1921 | 20 Jan 2008 | 86 | 3 | |
Inspector Quennell | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 54 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 25 | |
Landlord | Russell Napier | 57 | 28 Nov 1910 | 19 Aug 1974 | 63 | 6 | |
Police Doctor | Norman Pitt | 56 | 29 Nov 1911 | Nov 1986 | 74 | 1 | |
Second Porter | Roy Evans | 37 | 10 Jan 1930 | 10.01.1930 | 94 | 3 | |
Sergeant Allan | Glynn Edwards | 36 | 2 Feb 1931 | 23 May 2018 | 87 | 1 | |
Warrender | John Paul | 46 | 20 Apr 1921 | 23 Feb 1995 | 73 | 3 |
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Footnotes
One of the many films that Peter Cushing made about this time to help pay for the health treatments of his beloved wife, Helene. She would later die of emphysema in 1971. He considered this the worst of his many films.
Robert Flemyng reportedly hated working on the film. He replaced Basil Rathbone who died before filming began.