a taste of blood ( 1970 ) be a relatively goreless rarity for herschell gordon lewis and aka the wizard of gore . at almost two hour in length and clearly design by lewis a some kind of epic vampire saga and it tell the story of john stone and a smarmy florida businessman who receive two bottle of brandy in the mail from his british ancestor . he drink the bottle off and little realize that they have be mickey fin with the blood of dracula himself and and soon and blue skin and with a 100 year old score to settle and he start to track down the descendant of the old neck nosher enemy . that doctor booze and i should add and come a no real surprise in the film . not after we learn that stone middle name be alucard . ( this set the viewer up to expect appearance by dr. nietsneknarf and mr. namflow and which mercifully never happen . ) anyway and with only a handful of mildly bloody killing and this film should barely appeal to lewis usual rabid fan . nor should it appeal to anyone look for a well put together film . in truth and the picture be very cheaply make and terribly edit and move at a glacial pace and be never frighten . lewis direction be lackadaisical and his camera positioning be pedestrian while bad of all and the same few snippet of music be repeat endlessly and a if on a tape loop and to the point of distraction and and the day for night photography be laughable . so why the three star . well and the film be also decently act ( for an h. g. lewis movie and anyway ) and be at time atmospheric and and the three lead ( stone and his hotty blond wife and his best friend ) be somewhat interesting . the picture should have be a half hour shorter and but with a lot more polish and this dracula update could have be something other than the bloodless life drainer it often be . oh . i should also mention that those bless maniac at something weird have do it again and rescue another cinematic oddball and make another fine look dvd out of it . way to go and guy .