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Bloody Johann – review
Director: Jakub Krumpoch Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers The connection between Faust and vampires is one that rears its head occasionally – with the earliest examples I can think of being 1856...
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Short Film: Queen of Night
This was a 2021 short film, hailing from the Bronx as a community project, and comes in at 7.5 minutes. It starts with D’Angelo (Michael Beasley) running down the road and something is pursuing him. We...
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Carmilla: The First Vampire – review
Author: Amy Chu Illustrations: Soo Lee First published: 2023 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was... CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York...
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Night for Day – review
Director: Russ Camarda Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Sneaking on to Amazon Prime is this competent but ultimately tame flick that had an interesting concept that might have been expanded on and...
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Vampire Brides – review
Director: Gary Whitson Release date: 1994Contains spoilers A straight to video release this low budget vampire film relies on the male gaze (though it is mostly coy about it and sometimes inept) to...
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Short Film: Queen of Night Chapter 2
A sequel short film to Queen of Night, this one released in 2023 and just under 9.5 minutes. In the first short we met D’Angelo (Michael Beasley) and his friend Millie (Natasha Collado) in the...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Analyzing the Series and...
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Erin Giannini the Chapter Page can be found here. This chapter of the Handbook gave an overview and introduction to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, concentrating on the...
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Adze the African Vampire – review
Director: John Droese Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I am not a big fan of found footage films generally (though there are exceptions). Where some work, others break their own internal logic,...
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Kuyang – review
Director: Yongki Ongestu Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I do like a krasue film – and that’s exactly what this Indonesian film is, though they use the name kuyang as the Indonesian variant of the...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Canadian Vampires
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Murray Leeder the Chapter Page can be found here. This chapter of the Handbook takes a look at vampire films, and some literature, coming out of Canada and...
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Honourable Mention: Rick and Morty: Mort Ragnarick
Season 7 of Rick and Morty actually had two vampiric visitations. I have previously featured Rickfending Your Mort but the second episode with a vampire was episode 9, Mort Ragnarick. Like all the...
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The Haunting of Hill House – review
Director: Mike Flanagan First aired: 2018 Contains spoilers I watched this series as it came out and there was clearly a vampiric aspect, as we’ll explore, but I never committed it to a blog review....
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Night Club Volume 1 – review
Author: Mark Millar Artist: Juanan Ramirez First published: 2023 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: You're 17 years old and you've been bitten by a vampire. Do you live in the shadows and drink human...
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Use of Tropes: Trinil: Kembalikan Tubuhku
A 2024 film from director Hanung Bramantyo, this Indonesian film uses the kuyang as a central creature (and touches into sleep paralysis also). Now the kuyang is the Indonesian variant of the krasue...
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Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology – review
Director: Nichole Carlson (segment) Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Clubhouse is a voice based social media app and this anthology film was born of a group on there. This means there are some...
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Interesting Shorts: The Lady and the Peddler
A short story by S Y Agnon from 1943, I came across this particular story when it was mentioned by Melissa Weininger in her essay From Dracula to the Motmindam: The Evolution of the Jewish Vampire in...
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Use of Tropes: Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club
Having sought out the Lady and the Peddler my next stop on the journey inspired by Melissa Weininger’s Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire chapter was this 2017 film directed by Guilhad Emilio Schenker....
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Inside Job: Whoas-Feratu – review
Directors: Mike Bertino & Vitaliy Strokous (supervising director) First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers Inside Job is an animated series that follows Regan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan, True Blood&...
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Greenberg the Vampire – review
Writer: J.M. Dematteis Artists: Steve Leialoha & Mark Badger First published: 2015 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Oscar Greenberg is not your typical vampire. He doesn't drink human blood, for...
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Shark Girl – Review
Directors: Justin Shilton & Rob Zazzali Release date:2024 Contains spoilers I had been approached to consider Shark Girl for review, with co-director Rob Zazzali suggesting “while not a straight-up...
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