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Short Film: Sol
delightA short film directed by Denise Castro, this was an extra on the Salvación DVD and is so short that this will be an equally short article. It follows a couple going into a cinema. The film they...
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Drained – review
Directors: Peter Stylianou & Sean Cronin Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This is an indie UK film with some clever ideas and, as you’ll see, for the most part I enjoyed it but, whilst...
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Video Shop Tales of Terror – review
Director: Sam Mason-Bell (segment) Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers This portmanteau horror film harks back to the days of VHS and has a varied level of success as it explores six tales of terror –...
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Worth Each Penny presents Scary Stories – review
Director: Tatiana Wisniewski (segment) Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Pulled together by Mark Mos, this is one of a group of anthology films released in 2022 based on shorts from various LA film...
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Short Film: Where Blood Lies
A ten-minute-long film from 2019 that was directed by Byron Q, this takes us into the Second World War and Romania in 1942. A group of Nazi soldiers hold villagers and demand to know where the creature...
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Use of Tropes: The Substance
With numerous Oscar nominations I thought it about time I watched Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 movie The Substance. I went in expecting body horror, I also recognised many influences on the narrative as I...
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The Radleys – review
Director: Euros Lyn Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Based on the novel by Matt Haig, which I really rather enjoyed, I procrastinated when it came to watching this film version and, having now...
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The Last Breath Before Death – review
Author: Alan Golbourn First Published: 2024 Contains spoilers The Blurb: BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER A missing brother … An imminent phenomenon … Award-winning comic book illustrator and artist Jimmy...
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Short Film: Bandit Blood be Bitter
From 2022 and coming in at 10 minutes, this short film directed by Asdis Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir manages to tell its story without dialogue and a cute, self-contained little tale it is. It starts with...
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Henry Danger: The Movie – review
Director: Joe Menendez Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers I was not aware of Nickelodeon’s Henry Danger (Jace Norman) franchise and so, having stumbled across this, went in cold and, the good news...
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The Route of Ice and Salt – review
Author: José Luis Zárate Translation: David Bowles First published: 1998 (2021, English translation) Contains spoilers The Blurb: A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic...
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Guest Blog: Interesting Short: The Antimacassar
Please welcome Clark to the blog who has come with an interesting short. The Antimacassar was a story by Greye La Spina and was first published in Weird Tales, Volume 41 (Issue 4) in 1949. Clark’s...
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Rose Red – review
Director: Craig R. Baxley Release date: 2002 Contains spoilers Rose Red was a Stephen King penned miniseries that I was aware of when it was released but passed me by and then I just forgot about it....
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer – review
Director: Craig R. Baxley Release date: 2003 Contains spoilers Having established that Rose Red is a vampire film – with potentially vampiric ghosts but, more importantly, a vampiric building, it...
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Short Film: Blood & Lust
This is a short film directed by Patrick Eichner and released in 2023, it comes in at just under 38 minutes. My thanks to Akash Inti, who plays the role Akash in the film, who gave me access to the...
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Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel – review
Author: Kiersten White Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The Blurb: In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for...
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Daylight to Dark – review
Director: Jake C. Young Release Date 2024* Contains spoilers *date taken from the Amazon page as IMDb does not have a date listed at time of writing. This is a film that references, and is set in the...
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Hungerstone – review
Author: Kat Dunn Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers The Blurb: FOR WHAT DO YOU HUNGER . . . ? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured,...
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City of Demons – review
Director: Charles Band Release date: 2025Contains spoilers It really seems like the guys at Full Moon Features have given up trying. That’s somewhat unfair, there is some original material coming...
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Fangs Out: Blood Apocalypse – review
Director: Chris Schwab Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Originally billed as Fangs Out 2, I can see little connectivity between this and Fangs Out bar them being about vampires, and Randy...
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Short Film: It Gets Dark Too Early
Released in 2022, this short film by Rebeca Spiegel comes in a under 10-minutes and is a great piece of short film making. It does, however, have a dark theme around sexual assault that some might find...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Chronicling the Critical Reception of True Blood
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Lauren Rosewarne, the Chapter Page can be found here. There is no doubt that True Blood (I have linked to my Season 7 review, which in turn links reviews for the...
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Ambrogio: The First Vampire – review
Director: Alex Javo Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers There is something interesting about the “legend” of Ambrogio, something that might be said to be in the realm of post-truth. This is cited as a...
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Four Nights in Fear Forest – review
Director: Mark Polonia Release date: 2024* Contains spoilers *2024 according to IMDb, however the Blu-ray came out in 2025 and the copyright on the film says 2025 I’ve generally not held the work of...
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The Passenger of the U-977 – review
Writer: Rodolfo Santullo Artist: Carlos Barocelli First published: 2025 Contains spoilers The Blurb: On August 17, 1945, the residents of Mar de Plata watched in astonishment as the massive silhouette...
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