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Invasion – review
Director: Shahram Mokri Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This film is the third feature by Iranian auteur Shahram Mokri and it carries themes and techniques from those earlier films as well as...
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Terror of the Master – review
Director: Jeff Kirkendall Release date: 1998 Contains spoilers A straight to video film now on disc from SRS Home Video this was (according to IMDb) the directorial debut by Jeff Kirkendall and is full...
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Deep Undead – review
Director: Dave Castiglione Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers This is a budget flick that has had the Blu-Ray treatment by Vinegar Syndrome and has a respectable score on IMDb, which as you watch you...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Black Vampires and Blaxploitation
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins the Chapter Page can be found here. Opening with the thought that “Blaxploitation film history… …is, in part, “a vampire story””, Jenkins'...
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Short Film: Nosferatu Rising
This is a short film that director Sean Genders released in 2018 and comes in around he 7-minute mark. I have to thank friend of the blog and correspondent Billy for making me aware of it. There is not...
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Corruption – review
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis Release date: 1968 Contains spoilers This is another film where medical processes are used in a vampiric way – this time to restore beauty, which makes it analogous to...
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First Impressions: Abigail
So, Number 1 son and I went to see the new big screen vampire release, Abigail. This is from Universal and the opening (and recurring) musical theme in the film is Swan Lake. This, of course, ties the...
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Satanic Hispanics – review
Director: Eduardo Sánchez (segment) Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Another portmanteau film, this one features segments directed by Latinx directors and Hispanic themed stories with a wraparound...
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Father Brown: the Dead of Night – review
Director: Carys Lewis First aired: 2024 Contains spoilers The programme Father Brown has featured on TMtV before and, like that time, Ian contacted me and told me that the latest episode of the...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Blood Is Life. Life Is Blood: The Psychology of...
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Nikki Foster-Kruczek and Catherine Pugh the Chapter Page can be found here. This entry into the Handbook of the Vampire looked into the psychology of vampirism...
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Nundead – review
Director: Donald Farmer & ors. Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers This is an anthology film, as well as a nunsploitation, and the IMDb page lists a whole load of directors including schlock...
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Wellington Paranormal: The Fear Factory – review
Director: Jemaine Clement First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers A return to Wellington Paranormal a spin-off series of What We Do in the Shadows. Season 1 had a vampire episode and this episode comes...
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Aged – review
Director: Anubys Lopez Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Perhaps I have been doing this for too long or perhaps punches are broadcast too far in advance but I kind of knew from just title and...
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Use of Tropes: Ghostkeeper
Now the wendigo (or windigo, in this) is an odd one in that it originates from Native American myth and thus is not the standard, undead, vampire. It is, however, cannibalistic and whilst sometimes...
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Short Film: Junji Ito Collection: Rumors
From the Junji Ito Collection comes this short anime recreation of the manga Rumors This episode first aired in 2018 and, as I mentioned in the look at the manga, the majority of the story follows...
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Piranha Women – review
Director: Fred Olen Ray Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This one was suggested by my friend Leila but I did already have it on my Tubi watch list. In fairness I can see a fair argument to suggest...
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Vampire Femmes – review
Director: Tim Sullivan Release date: 1999 Contains spoilers A shot on video flick from the late nineties, this is ghosting around on VHS (and had a DVD release at one point) and it is really from the...
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Blood Renegade – review
Author: E.H. Drake Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The Blurb: How does one deal with life after death when death doesn’t seem any different… except the need for blood? As Gabe struggles with his...
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 2 – review
Art and story: Shin'ichi Sakamoto First published: 2024 (UK) Contains spoilers The Blurb: In this beautiful, evocative, and often surreal retelling of Dracula, a fearsome enemy comes from the east,...
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Protégé Moi – review
Director: Robbie Lopez Release date:2023 Contains spoilers It is a bad sign when I have to rewatch a film, that I had been watching for review, because I fell asleep first watch. I mean, I am a man of...
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