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First Impression: Sinners
Every so often a pundit will declare that the bottom has fallen out of the market when it comes to vampire films. In honesty, the concept is ludicrous, the 19 years this blog has been running would...
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Use of Tropes: A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
As a bakeneko (or ghost cat) film, A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse has some strange and unusual aspects but, of course, here at TMtV we look to the vampiric aspect and the bakeneko genre usually requires...
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The Cat Creature – review
Director: Curtis Harrington Release date: 1973 Contains spoilers A made for TV film, I wish I had seen this before submitting a chapter for a forthcoming book as it would have fit right in. It isn’t a...
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Honeybee – review
Director: Nicki Harris Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This one passed me by, and its identity as a vampire film nearly passed me by as I watched it, because the vampire aspect, that horror core,...
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Honourable Mention: Plan 9 from Aliexpress
This is a 2022 Russian experimental film from Diana Galimzyanova and, as I watched it, I was struck tonally of a comparison with Trasharella, though I’d say that this had less plot but more style, and...
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Short Film: Strigoi
This was a 2021 short film, directed by Florin Anghel and coming in at just under 14 minutes. It starts with the sound of laboured breathing, and we see that a poorly man struggles for breath. His wife...
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Hotel Transylvania the Series – season 1 – review
Director: Robin Budd First aired: 2017-18 Contains spoilers Based on the popular franchise Hotel Transylvania this forwent cgi and used a traditional drawn animation style. Most of the episodes...
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Vanther the Vanquisher: Bloodquest – cover review
The new Vanther volume by Scott Harper has been released and I was fortunate enough to get a advance copy and have contributed to the in book reviews and wanted to reproduce what I said about it here:...
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Short Film: Heartbreak and Lullabies
Directed by Chuck Harding and released in 2024, Heartbreak and Lullabies' running time of 47-minutes comes in just under feature length and probably had scope to go there if the filmmakers wanted....
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The Devil’s Child – review
Director: David Bohorquez Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers That this is a vampire film might be debated but I think it offered enough tropes to make us able to class it (even if we don’t get actual...
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Blood Blockade Battlefront – season 1 – review
Directed by: Various First Aired: 2015 Contains spoilers An anime based on a manga, Blood Blockade Battlefront takes place in a world where “the Great Collapse” caused the barriers between our world...
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Short Film: Lesbian Vampires from Outer Space
I made a conscious decision to stop reviewing short films and simply post about them, as the short film is a rather different movie form to the feature. When it came to this Sam Rooke directed film,...
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 4 – 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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The Night of the Chihuahua – review
Director: Guillermo Grillo Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers I’m never sure when going in to a horror comedy, the comedy genre is so subjective and, to be fair, in my subjective view many are just...
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Succubus {2024} – review
Director: R.J. Daniel Hanna Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Seen on the big screen at Grimmfest 2024, this is (by its very title) about a succubus but the succubus is using both flesh and spirit...
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Forty Coffins – One Shot Comic
Writer: Rodolfo Santullo Artist: Jok First published: 2025 Contains spoilers The Blurb: One by one they disappear. The ship Demeter is travelling from Romania to Whitby, England with a mysterious cargo...
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Short Film: Caesar & Otto in the House of Dracula
Directed by Dave Campfield and under 10 minutes long, this 2009 comedy offering was a short film sequel to Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre featuring Caesar (Dave Campfield) and his brother Otto...
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Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island – review
Directors: Cecilia Aranovich & Ethan Spaulding Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island was a bit of a gem for being a well animated, acted and scripted piece and also for...
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Mimì - Il principe delle tenebre – review
Director: Brando De Sica Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers In English the title is Mimì, the Prince of Darkness and this is a strangely effective Italian movie and one in which you question whether...
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D: Mina Harker's Journal – review
Author: Lawrence Burgess First Published: 2025 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Dracula. Bram Stoker's novel. Ten years later. Wilhelmina Harker. Headmistress. Wife. Mother. Her calling, to house and...
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Honourable Mention: Casual Relations
Casual Relations was a 1974, low budget experimental film by auteur Mark Rappaport, which consisted of vignettes of people in their casual relationships – mostly filmed in portrait form with voice over...
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Daisy – review
Director: Michael S. Rodriguez Release date: 2024* Contains spoilers *At the time of writing the IMDb page is silent on date, Amazon suggests 2024 This low-to-no budget film disarmed me in the fact...
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Night (1996) – review
Director: Glenn Andreiev Release date: 1996 Contains spoilers I have reviewed a couple of Glenn Andreiev’s films in the past but not been impressed. This film was sort of from 1996, screeners were sent...
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Dracula Book 1: The Impaler – review
Story: Matt Wagner Art: Kelley Jones & Jose Villarrubia First published: 2024 (tpb)Contains spoilers The blurb: The first of four planned volumes, The Impaler explores the legendary count before...
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Short Film: The Dark Gift - The Kevin Derrick Gentry Story
According to the Amazon page a 2023 film, directed by Ashei Khan and coming in at 34 minutes long, this is a bit of a mixed bag. Sometimes a tad experimental, sometimes with over-powered vampires,...
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