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Vamp U – review
Directors: Matt Jespersen & Maclain Nelson Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Also known as Dr Limptooth, by the alternate title we can tell this is a comedy and here comes the regular caveat…...
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Stalk Kill Travel Stalk Kill – review
Author: TP Keating First Published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Stalk Kill Travel Stalk Kill is the fast-paced, action-packed tale of a female vampire, told with an eclectic mix of humor,...
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Classic Literature: The Immortal Woman
The Blurb: When one is as beautiful as you are, one can have as much blood as one wants.”In 1675, a female vampire possessing the secret of immortality was burned alive. Forty-five years later, during...
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A Brief Pause
The Pogues sang, “sad to say I must be on my way, so buy me beer and whiskey 'cause I'm going far away.” Indeed I am going fairly far away, to the far end of the country at least, but only for a week....
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Hemlock Grove – season 1 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers Hemlock Grove, produced by Eli Roth (who directed an episode), is unusal in the fact that it was a series developed for and broadcast via online...
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Honourable Mention: The New Watch
Author: Sergei Lukyanenko Translator: Andrew Bromfield First Published: 2013 The Blurb: Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women are guardians of the Twilight, a shadowy...
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Dracula, Lord of the Damned – review
Directors: Ian Case, Brian Clement & Theodore Trout Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers This is a tough one to review as it is a film with a very low budget, lots of ideas and, clearly, it is a...
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Honourable Mentions: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
I haven’t properly gamed for a few months. A lot of work related travelling, the blog and finishing the degree I was doing kind of precluded anything more complicated than a simple android app. I do...
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So Pretty – review
Directed by: Al Lougher Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers So Pretty is a short film with a huge amount of class. Called the anti-Twilight by film school rejects, I don’t know if I’d agree. Rather it...
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So Dark – review
Director: Al Lougher Release Date: 2013 Contains spoilers Picking up from where So Pretty ended, this continuation of vampire Sean’s (Jeremy Palko, Vampire Diaries season 4) story widens its vista. Not...
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First Impressions: Byzantium
Neil Jordan is a consummate storyteller and that trait often is passed to his characters, so that the story we hear is a story within a story. Narrators reading us bedtime tales to fascinate us; be...
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Honourable Mentions: Revenants
The Blurb: “When the damned calls out to the avenger;“When the Stone missing from the Tomb of Tanneguy is found again;“Treguern, three times dead, will be resurrected.“The Prophecy of Treguern.” 1800,...
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An Irish Vampire In Hollywood – review
Director: Pegarty Long Release Date: 2007 Contains spoilers Oh Lordy, Lordy… I won’t go on about how the DVD cover is not representative of the film (though I could go on about how much better the film...
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Eldren: The Book of the Dark – review
Author: Willie Meikle First published: 2007 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Two boys in the West of Scotland awaken an ancient vampire. And the only way to stop it is in the power of a book—a bible...
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Angel – seasons 1- 5 – review
Director: Various First Aired: 1999-2004 Contains spoilers The internet can be a hostile place, mainly down to the fact that people are offered a voice and can use that voice anonymously and without...
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Unholy Testament – Full Circle – review
Author: Carole Gill Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: All of the hideous secrets of Blackstone House and its inhabitants are revealed in this, the third book in The Blackstone Vampires...
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Honourable Mention: Sanctuary Season 4
The series Sanctuary gets an honourable mention for two primary reasons. Firstly the premise that some of the key characters (reduced to two in this season, plus a further two in flash backs) were...
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Honourable Mention: 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside...
For a film that doesn’t – probably – feature a vampire, and that only gets an honourable mention, this Craig Moss directed 2013 flick probably has the longest title that has featured on the blog. A...
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RIP Richard Matheson
Breaking news that Richard Matheson has, sadly, passed away at the age of 87… His daughter Ali has written “My beloved father passed away yesterday at home surrounded by the people and things he...
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Blood for Irina – review
Director: Chris Alexander Release date: 2012 Contains spoiler The blurb on the DVD suggests that this is a film “inspired by Herzog, Rollin and Franco” and that is a heady combination – as to how close...
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