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Classic Literature: The Isle of Blood
When looking at vampire literature it is common to go back to 1819 and Polidori’s the Vampyre but, whilst this is recognised as the first English language prose, there were English poems and prose in...
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Honourable Mention: Hard Rock Nightmare
This Dominick Brascia directed movie from 1988 certainly feels as though it is a product of its age. For the most part a werewolf story it is the opening of the film that interests me from a vampire...
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Evil Cat – review
Director: Dennis Yu Wan-Kwong Release date: 1987 Contains spoilers My friend Leila identified this film with a suggestion it is “a bit of a hotchpotch fusing vampire lore, Bakeneko and ghost possession...
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Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror – review
Director: David Lee Fisher Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers David Lee Fisher ran a Kickstart for his version of Nosferatu back in 2014 (starting October 29th to be precise). It was a remix of the...
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Killadelphia, Volume 3: Home is Where the Hatred Is
Story: Rodney Barnes Art: Jason Shawn Alexander First Published: 2021 (TPB) Contains spoilers The blurb: A new horrifying chapter begins for the critically-acclaimed series from Rodney Barnes, the...
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Honourable Mention: Lego Scooby-Doo!: Haunted Hollywood
Directed by Rick Morales and released in 2016, this film merged the wholesome wackiness of Scooby-Doo with the equally wacky Lego brand of films to create a fun, if ultimately fluff, Scooby-Doo...
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The After Dark – review
Director: Tom Devlin Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This was an ambitious low budget vampire film in that there was a real push at world building and enough grasping to some common tropes to...
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Interview with the Vampire – Season 2 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers I was taken with Season 1 of this show. Fearing that it could never stand up to the gothic magnificence of the film, and open minded, but still...
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Brief Hiatus
Dear blog reader, It seems a while since I put the blog on hiatus but I’m off on my travels tomorrow for Grimmfest 2024 and have decided to have a brief break from TMtV for the duration. But worry...
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Nosferatu, créature des ténèbres (silent) – review
Director: Gérard Seigneur Release date: 2023 (2022) Contains spoilers Though copyrighted for 2022, I have seen that production was ongoing in December of that year so have assumed a 2023 release date –...
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First Impression: Bleeding
A 2024 film by Andrew Bell, Bleeding was shown at Grimmfest 2024, where we were warned of the dark tones in the film and it is dour but the dark, pretty nihilistic tone suits the film and the subject...
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Unnatural – review
Director: Whit Whitman Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I was given access to Unnatural as a screener and my first thought was one of trepidation. The film is clearly on a budget and, though...
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First Impression: Salem’s Lot {2024}
Whilst the 2024 reimagining of Salem’s Lot came out across most territories on streaming, for some reason in the UK it was released a week after the States into cinema. Dutifully I attended. The Gary...
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Honourable Mention: Deadpool & Wolverine
Some may call this 2024 Marvel film, directed by Shawn Levy, the film that saved the MCU – that remains to be seen. Drawing the ultra-popular Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds, Blade Trinity) into the MCU along...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr and the World of Dreams
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Gillian McIver the Chapter Page can be found here. Dedicated to the wonderful film Vampyr the author takes us on a study of the film touching on its financing,...
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Sangue Misto – review
Director: Chiara Natalini (segment) Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This is a film that Leila mentioned to me. It is a horror anthology set in Italy, each story being around a different...
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Death Streamer – review
Director: Charles Band Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Full Moon Pictures return to the vampire genre, this time with Charles Band himself at the helm and we get a fairly short feature with a...
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Dracula: the Count’s Kin – review
Director: Eric Pascarelli Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers An indie low budget flick, it does show as it shies away from gore sequences and even attacks to a degree. The film works towards crime...
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Honourable Mention: Acid Babylon
I previously looked at Cosmotropia de Xam’s earlier film Phantasmagoria 2: Labyrinths of blood, yet despite that being earlier than this 2020 release, that film is shown as a ‘coming soon’ at the...
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#DRCL midnight children, vol 3 – review
Art and story: Shin'ichi Sakamoto First published: 2024 (UK) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Dracula meets manga in this surreally beautiful and chilling retelling of Bram Stoker’s quintessential horror...
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