Doctor Blood's Coffin
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| Directed by | Sidney J. Furie |
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| Story by | Nathan Juran |
| Produced by | George Fowler |
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| Cinematography | Stephen Dade |
| Edited by | Antony Gibbs |
| Music by | Buxton Orr |
Production company | Caralan Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £25,000 |
Doctor Blood's Coffin is a 1961 British horror film directed by Sidney J. Furie from a screenplay co-written by Nathan Juran, and starring Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, and Ian Hunter. It follows young biochemist Dr. Peter Blood (Moore), who returns to his hometown in Cornwall with the belief that he can selectively restore life by transplanting the living hearts of 'undeserving' people into dead people who 'deserve' to live.
The film is significant for being one of the first two zombie films to be shot in colour, the other being the obscure 1961 American film The Dead One, and for its early portrayal of zombies as homicidal rotting cadavers. It was released in the UK by United Artists in January 1961 and in the US in April of that year. In the US, it was released on a double bill with The Snake Woman, also directed by Furie.