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Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy – review
Director: Julian Radlmaier Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers One that I had heard of but only recently sourced (the German DVD has English subtitles for those interested) this film runs from the...
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Hunter – review
Director: David Tarleton Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers For a competent little film this one certainly released with little fanfare and then faded into obscurity, showing up as a free view on the...
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The Journal of Edwin Underhill – review
Author: Peter Tonkin First Published: 1981 Contains spoilers The Blurb: It all began on New Year's Eve, with a party at the Rectory, and an accident. Drunk and humiliated, schoolmaster Edwin Underhill...
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Honourable Mention: Lisa’s Nightmares 3
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 1996. I have previously featured the...
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Obayifo Project – review
Director: Paco Arasanz Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The obayifo is an African vampire type and as Bane describes it: “The Ashanti people of the Gold Coast of Africa have in their vampiric lore...
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The Well – review
Director: Federico Zampaglione Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Seen on the big screen at Grimmfest 2024, from the trailer I suspected this one was Vamp and indeed it was – and despite being a bit...
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Live on Stage: Dracula (Blackeyed Theatre production)
On 8th November I went to the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, to watch the the Blackeyed Theatre production of Dracula. The cast (of 6) took on multiple roles with three of the cast playing Dracula (David...
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Redneck Volume 1 – Deep in the Heart - review
Author: Donny Cates Illustrations: Lisandro Estherren First published: 2017 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Bad Blood Runs Deep The Bowmans are VAMPIRES who have quietly run the local barbecue joint...
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Nosferatu Re-Animated – review
Director: Fran Blackwood Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Another day, another Nosferatu variant. This time an animated version. The animation was done off the original film and is digital in...
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Seymour the Unfortunate Vampire – review
Director: Joe Kane Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This film was, I believe, a reconstruction of a web serial, now pulled into a feature and despite trying to do urban fantasy, in a comedic way,...
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Silent Bite – review
Director: Taylor Martin Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Set at Christmas, this has less a Christmas horror feel than it feels inspired by From Dusk Till Dawn, with its premise of criminals on the...
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Honourable Mention: Sundelbolong
Directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra and released in 1981, Sundelbolong is an Indonesian film starring Suzzanna and is part of the Severin films All the Haunts be Ours volume 2 set. The set quotes Sophie...
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Short Film: Stake
Released in 2023 and directed by Michael Sparks, this short film comes in at just over 10-minutes. The story is very simple, watched by her assailant as the sun rises, a woman – Alex – comes round in a...
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Suckers – review
Directors: Brandon Morson & Kenny Pettis Jr. Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers When I first sat down to watch this, I was concerned. Clearly a film set in the world of social media influencers,...
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Swap – review
Director: Dallas King Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers With a tagline of “Fifty Shades of Red”, one knows what we’re going to get from this and, whilst it is not hardcore, folks going in need to...
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Vamp or Not? Monstrosity
Suggested to me by Simon Bacon, this 1963 film was directed by Joseph V. Mascelli and Jack Pollexfen and it matches its title as it is a bit of a monstrosity. Simon saw within it a potential of it...
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Short Film: Sympathy for Count Dracula
A 13-minute short, this Sami Aleksi Hakkarainen directed film, entitled Sympatiaa Kreivi Draculalle in the original Finnish, takes one of the megatext tropes and turns it on its head. Vampires and...
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The Ninth Heart – review
Director: Juraj Herz Release date: 1979 Contains spoilers Despite being in the All the Haunts be Ours vol 2, Folk Horror boxset, this Czech film actually has more of a fairytale/fantasy feel. Yet,...
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Carmilla – critique
Director: Janusz Kondratiuk Release date: 1980 Contains spoilers This was a Polish TV presentation of LeFanu’s Carmilla that I have been aware of for quite some time, indeed I long had a murky version...
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Honourable Mention: Beauty and the Beast
This Czechoslovakian film from 1978 is a dark retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast and can be found in the Severin films set All the Haunts be Ours Vol 2. There is a mention of blood...
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