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Back from Grimmfest 2026
Greetings from the other side of Grimmfest and I’ve had a fab four days of horror and there were, indeed, some vampire and vampire adjacent films to report back on. First of all, of course, the...
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Grimmfest 2026
It is that time of year and I’m off to Grimmfest 2026. Whilst I’m gone, I will not be posting reviews, though I will check for comments occasionally. Normal service should resume 12th October and I...
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Dracula Revamped – review
Director: Clint Cure Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers This Australian film runs on a conceit similar to Shadow of the Vampire with an actor playing a vampire perhaps really being a vampire. However...
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The Terror – Devil in Silver – review
Director: Various First aired: 2026 Contains spoilers The Terror is an anthology TV series, where each season is a standalone story. Devil in Silver is season 3 and is the first in a contemporary...
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Short Film: Vampire’s Crown
Vampire’s Crown is a 3-minute animated short produced at the University of Hertfordshire by Hiren Solanki, Henry Mountain and Nick Hughes in 2011. The film starts with a vampire (in Dracula mode) in a...
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Honourable Mention: Folktales Of The Cryptids – The collected edition
Writer: Joseph Oliveira Artists: various Release date: 2026 (collected edition) Contains spoilers Another comic book from indie publishers Afterlight Comics and they do tend to do quality releases....
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A Stranger in the Woods – review
Director: József Gallai Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I do like Bill Oberst Jr. (Age of the Living Dead, the Good Things Devils Do, Dis& the Black Water Vampire), a genre actor whose...
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Grindsploitation – review
Director: Various Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Coming from Troma, Grindsploitation was sort of an anthology based around exploitation cinema. I say sort of as most of its 2.5 hour running time...
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Vamp or Not? The Night Sitter
Directed by Abiel Bruhn and John Rocco, this 2018 film features witches but there can be an overlap into the vampire or use of vampire tropes. In this case I think there is an inference that we can...
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Unforgiven – review
Writers: Mark Russell & Tim Seeley Artists: Sid Kotian & Dave WachterContains spoilers The blurb: Collects Spider-Man: Unforgiven (2022) #1, X-Men: Unforgiven (2022) #1, Captain America:...
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Feed – review
Director: Marco van Bell Release date: 2026 Contains spoilers This Irish release mixes the world of influencers with the legend of the dearg-due (in variant spelling dearg-dul). Quoting Bane, it “is a...
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The Night Boyz – review
Director: BonVida Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers It is not a rule, as such, but often the adding of a ‘z’ to a film title indicates not only that the film is going to be a modern urban (often...
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Short Film: Hunger
This was a 2016 short at less than 5 minutes and directed by Joffre Taylor. It starts with two guys chatting but their status as ne’er-do-wells becomes apparent when they see a woman go past and...
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 6 – review
Art and story: Shin'ichi Sakamoto First published: 2025 (UK) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Dracula meets manga in this surreally beautiful and chilling retelling of Bram Stoker’s quintessential horror...
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Shake, Rattle & Roll: Evil Origins – review
Directors: Joey De Guzman, Ian Loreños and Shugo Praico Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers I enjoy the Shake, Rattle and Roll franchise, for the most part, and this is the 17th instalment in the...
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The Death of Snow White – review
Director: Jason Brooks Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers The linking of Snow White and vampirism is a sometimes used trope. There was Snow, Glass, Apples that has the character of Snow White as a...
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Honourable Mention: The Final Curtain
Edward D. Wood Jr. created this 22-minute pilot episode for a TV series that never happened in 1957, it was considered lost and then found, and released at Slamdance Festival in 2012. It follows an...
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Sex and Xen II – review
Director: Man-Kei Chin Release date: 1996 Contains spoilers The second in the series of films, I have previously given an honourable mention to the third film, which contained a fleeting visitation of...
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Babanba BanBan Vampire – season 1 – review
Director: Itsurô Kawasaki First Aired: 2025 Contain spoilers I previously reviewed the live action version of this and this time it is the turn of the anime series. A note about the name, the...
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Honourable Mention: Futurama: Our Flag Means Medical Coverage
2026 saw the return of Futurama and the third episode of the season, directed by Peter Avanzino, Dwayne Carey-Hill and Ira Sherak, had vampires – at least in a Fleeting Visitation, It starts at the...
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