BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE should not be shown in anything less than 1.66:1 (it's hard matted practically the entire film that way), so I have no idea about the opening credits. I haven't watched Dark Sky's DVD of the film, so I don't know what it looks like aside from some of the screen caps some people have posted, but BLOOD is a strangely shot film, period.

However, I dug out a reel of the film (which I have in lab sections) and did some scans. It would seem to me that correctly framed, there should be nothing important lost at 1.85:1 (cyan border is 1.85:1, red is 1.66:1).

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and just for S&Gs:

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