Night of the Blood Beast, was a 1958 film produced by Roger Corman with the story by Gene Corman (yup, its double Corman time! - so you should know about what to expect here), with Bernard L. Kowalski directing.
The film stars:
John Baer, 
Angela Greene (who was one of Jack Kennedy's girlfriends during the early 40's for those of you who like a little pointless political trivia with your B movies), 
Ed Nelson, 
Georgianna Carter (who happened to be Jack Nicholson's very first love interest... hmmm... Blood Beast Babes seem to be a turn on for famous people named Jack ;) ), 
Michael Emmet, 
Tyler McVey and 
Ross Sturlin as "The Creature" (who would later reprise his role in the very same creature costume when it showed up again in the film Teenage Cave Man (1958)).The plot, which the film only seems at times to be mildly interested in sticking to, is something like this:
An astronaut returns from space dead (maybe).
The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien.
The revival of the dead astronaut (ok he wasn't dead then?), the death of a scientist (ok that dude is dead for sure, I think), and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body (ah ok, he wasn't dead, just pregnant!) bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity.
Night of the Blood Beast original version (shown on The Midnight Movie show, so you might want to make use of the video slider to skip some of their less than totally amusing "banter".)
Night of the Blood Beast - MST3K version (Ah, much more amusing.)
And if that's not enough blood beasting for you, you can always head on down to Eegah and Tabonga's Dungeon for more pics, information, and to sample some of the movie's music.
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