The Return of the Vampire
“The Vampire's Prey... a Beautiful Girl! Compelled to follow his commands! The blood of her fiancé on his hands! How can she escape the vampire?”
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Genres
Horror
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Return of the Vampire performed
Budget
$75,000
Worldwide Gross
$1.1M
Gross Profit
$1.0M
Return
14.5× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$216K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~44/56, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (45% of the domestic run, typical for Horror) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Armand Tesla
Bela Lugosi
Armand Tesla
Nicki Saunders
Nina Foch
Nicki Saunders
John Ainsley
Roland Varno
John Ainsley
Andreas Obry
Matt Willis
Andreas Obry
Lady Jane Ainsley
Frieda Inescort
Lady Jane Ainsley
Sir Frederick Fleet
Miles Mander
Sir Frederick Fleet
Elsa Walter - Governess
Ottola Nesmith
Elsa Walter - Governess
Dr. Walter Saunders
Gilbert Emery
Dr. Walter Saunders
Detective Lynch
Leslie Denison
Detective Lynch
Detective Gannett
William Austin
Detective Gannett
Miss Northcutt (uncredited)
Jeanne Bates
Miss Northcutt (uncredited)
Horace (uncredited)
Billy Bevan
Horace (uncredited)
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