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The Vampire of Vourla and Other Greek Vampire Tales, 1819-1846 – review
Editor: Álvaro García Marín Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The blurb: Vampires are usually associated in the popular imagination with Transylvania and other Eastern European locales. But in this...
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Honourable Mention: Rick and Morty: Rickfending Your Mort
Another Honourable Mention for Rick (Ian Cardoni) and Morty (Harry Belden), this time from Season 7. Previously we have looked at the episodes Big Trouble in Little Sanchez, One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s...
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Fear PHarm 2 – review
Director: Dante Yore Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Clearly the sequel to Fear PHarm, this follows were the last film left off, ups the vampiric ante a tad and though it increases the slasher...
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Dark Ivory: Book 1 Blue Blood – review
Authors: Joseph Michael Linsner & Eva Hopkins Art: Joseph Michael Linsner Colouring: Joseph Michael Linsner & Eva Hopkins First published: 2010 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Ivory is a...
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Honourable Mention: The Mysteries of Myra
This literary restoration of the 1916 serial The Mysteries of Myra is based on the novelisation by Eustace Hale Ball, based itself on the Charles Goddard script. Regular readers might recall that I...
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person – review
Director: Ariane Louis-Seize Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers This Canadian film, in French language, is a dead-pan comedy with both coming of age and romantic elements and, of course, a title that...
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The Ezzera & Gore-Girl Horror Anthology – review
Director: Brandon Rhiness Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Another anthology made of shorts, although in this case the shorts were all previously directed by Brandon Rhiness and he is bringing...
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Le Vourdalak – review
Director: Adrien Beau Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Based on Tolstoy’s the Family of the Vourdalak, this is a really rather interesting French take on the story. It keeps the film in a period...
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Use of Tropes: The United States of Horror: Chapter 2
The second part of anthology series the United States of Horror, released in 2022, sees a segment from director Miceal Og O'Donnell entitled The Star in the Mirror. Set in the 50s this sees a record...
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Short Film: Vampire (2024)
Directed by Caroline Sheridan and coming in at a smidge under 5 minutes, this 2024 short film is a situational comedy in which one friend (Caroline Sheridan) accuses the other (Grace Larson) of being...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Context
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Andrew Smith the Chapter Page can be found here. A brave chapter as the idea of putting context to Dracula in roughly 8-9000 words, given the complexity of ideas...
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Don’t Suck – review
Director: RJ Collins Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers A comedy about a comedian (and a vampire) to my way of thinking is either going to work for you or not. Comedy is so very subjective, as I have...
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Alice and the Vampire Queen – review
Director: Dan Lantz Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Appearing for free (on the film is now YouTube channel), kind of out of nowhere, it feels churlish to be too critical of this film – especially...
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Countess Dracula – review
Author: Carroll Borland First Published: 1994 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Carroll Borland is the legendary star of early cinema, who's portrayal of "Luna" opposite Bela Lugosi in the 1935 motion...
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Short Film: Scampire
This was a film that runs just under 6-minutes and was directed by Frank Romano III, it was released in 2023. It starts with a large castle and Nina (Keilah Jude) waits, bottle of wine in hand, ready...
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Abigail – review
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I originally looked at Abigail as a First Impression having watched the film on the big screen. I promised a...
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Vampiras: The Brides – review
Director: Ivan Mulero Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers A, mostly, Spanish language film that was filmed in Spain but is set primarily in LA, this film looks at the brides… Now, Stoker never refers...
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Use of Tropes: The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond
This 1960 film was directed by Yoshihiro Ishikawa and is part of the bakeneko genre of films – changed cats, essentially. Leila contacted me and suggested there were tropes here and, an element of the...
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Dracula’s Child – review
Author: J. S. Barnes First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Evil never truly dies... and some legends live forever. In Dracula's Child, the dark heart of Bram Stoker's classic is reborn....
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Satan’s Menagerie – review
Director: Gary Griffith Release date: 2001* Contains spoilers *Actually shot in 1995 but not finding a release until 2001, this is a budget straight to video affair but, you know what, it was really...
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