The Artus DVD, Part 4

The doctor relents and goes with Carl. The hideaway is a windmill that reminds me of the windmill in MILL OF STONE WOMEN and BRIDES OF DRACULA, both made later and now considered classics. (BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE's Jimmy Sangster was involved with the screenplay of BRIDES.)

Once inside, Carl shows Callistratus' body, and then we see the heart in a glass jar that will replace the damaged heart. We assume it is the gravedigger's heart. The doctor performs the transplant. (It would be many decades before heart transplants would become a reality.) Once done, the doctor asks for more money in the future or else... The doctor would still be needed we think, but Carl has different intentions when he hears the threat. While Carl is making sure that the doctor will never threaten again, a bat comes out of the rafter and flies toward the camera. This "bat"is placed in the film later, and reminds me of the effect of Dracula's transformation in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN.