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Death Rider in the House of Vampires – review
Director: Glenn Danzig Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers There was always going to be a shadow of doubt over this film after Danzig’s feature directorial debut with Verotika which, whilst not as bad...
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Short Film: Morbius Fan Film
Coming in at just under 4-minutes this is a fan film from 2020, which was directed by Blake Ridder and Alperen Emirzeoglu. The premise is simple, just offering the keynotes version of Morbius (Louis...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Bloodsuckers from Beyond: Cold War Era Space...
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Matthew Jones the Chapter Page can be found here. This chapter of the Handbook looked into science fiction vampires that were contemporaries to, and analogous of,...
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A Bloodthirsty Killer – review
Director: Yong-min Lee Release date: 1965 Contains spoilers Also known as A Devilish Homicide, this Korean film owed a lot – I thought – to the Japanese story The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima and those...
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Vampire in Oakland – review
Director: Pharoah Powell Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers It is frustrating watching a film and knowing that the creative behind it clearly believes in what they have made but doesn’t have the...
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Universal Monsters: Dracula – review
Author: James Tynion IV Artist: Martin Simmonds First Published: 2024 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH creators, James Tynion IV (W0rldtr33, Something is Killing the...
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Honourable Mention: American Horror Story: Coven
I have looked at two of the American Horror Story seasons here; Hotel and Double Feature. As I don’t religiously watch the series, all I knew about Coven (which is season 3 and was aired in 2013) was...
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Insane Like Me? – review
Director: Chip Joslin Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This indie vampire film has some heart, I’ll give it that. It also has some logical faux pas in its narrative that undermines it but, when it...
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Evil Eye – review
Director: Isaac Ezban Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Vampiric witches, you have to love ‘em and these ones hail from Mexico. I saw this film, which they find themselves in, at Grimmfest and...
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Superman and Batman Vs. Vampires and Werewolves – review
Author: Kevin VanHook Artist: Tom Mandrake First published: 2009 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: When Superman and Batman team up, they're the World's Finest Heroes - so what happens when they're...
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Short Film: Dracula & Lucy
A short while ago I featured a crowdsourcing article for a film to be called City of Bats. Very recently I received an email from Giovanni Produzione saying: vampire Lucy“Hello, I´m a long time reader...
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Feral – review
Director – Mark Young Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers You’d be forgiven for wondering whether Feral is a vampire film or not, after all the blurb on the DVD calls the creatures in this “rabid,...
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Sunrise – review
Director: Andrew Baird Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers It pains me when a film doesn’t live up to its potential and this certainly had a lot. Taking a premise that human evil is far worse than...
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Handbook of the Vampire: The Bloody Countess Elizabeth Bathory
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Cristina Santos the Chapter Page can be found here. One of the early comments in this chapter that struck me was the fact that the Erzsébet Báthory story is one...
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Use of Tropes: The Northman
As I sit, anticipating Robert Eggers’ new version of Nosferatu, it felt the right time to revisit his earlier films. I am a huge fan of The VVitch and The Lighthouse and I really did enjoy the Northman...
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A Darker Light – review
Director: Mark Allen Brown First released: 1996 Contains spoilers A direct to video film, not on IMDb but ghosting around on YouTube, this isn’t a great film – I need to put that out there. However, it...
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Tales from the Void – review
Director: James Szymkow-McKenney Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers An anthology film hosted by Lord John T. Laing (Johnny Laing), which contains three shorts – by the looks of it produced for the...
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Honourable Mention: Lisa's New Nightmares
This is a straight to video vanity project directed by low budget director Todd Jason Cook and featuring his then wife Lisa Cook (now Lisa DeWild) and released in 1994. Lisa starred in many of her...
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Use of Tropes: The Heiress
The Heiress was a Joe Lujan directed portmanteau film released in 2023 and had a surround that showed the Heiress (Anthony Avery, Scare Me) as the keeper of several monsters. As she and her servant...
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Mr. Midnight: Beware the Monsters – My Class Vampire – review
Director: Sean Masterson First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers Mr. Midnight: Beware the Monsters is a Singapore originating series, filmed in English primarily and aimed at teens. It concerns itself with...
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