Its plot follows a vampire who rapes a living woman, resulting in the birth of a child who feeds only on blood.

In 1940 California, college student Paul proposes to his girlfriend, Leslie Hollander, in the cemetery where they shared their first kiss.

It turns out that Croft was a prolific murderer and rapist in Massachusetts, who was electrocuted to death in the Boston Subway while attempting to flee from police.

While wandering through the town, Croft enters the home of a local housewife, kills her and feeds on her blood.

Her housekeeper, Olga, urges Leslie to contact the town doctor, as the infant is pallid and will not take milk.

Leslie begins drawing her own blood into syringes and filling bottles to feed the baby, whom she names James.

Blaming him for his mother's suffering, the adult James chooses to dedicate his life to hunting his father.

In one of the towns along his journey, James enrolls in a folk mythology class, where he meets Anita Jacoby, a graduate student, and her roommate Anne Arthur.

Or perhaps not?”[4] Grave of the Vampire was made on an estimated budget of $50,000 and was shot in eleven days in downtown Los Angeles, California.

[8] Upon its initial release Grave of the Vampire gained attention for its depiction of a mother cutting herself to feed her child blood.

If you can watch it in the context of its times, it’s quite revolutionary in its treatment of its female characters, allowing them a glimmer of equality in a genre where they were usually required to do little but look pretty and scream.

"[7] Daily Dead noted that the film "changed things up a little and injected a bit of fresh plasma into a sub-genre desperate for a transfusion.