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Short Film: Dracula’s Ex-girlfriend
This is a short Nebula exclusive, directed by Valentina Vee and released in 2024, which comes in at around the 30-minute mark. It was written by and stars Abigail Thorn, whose Philosophy Tube YouTube...
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A Place Among the Dead
Director: Juliet Landau Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers and a bit of a rant Back in 2016 Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer& the Yellow Wallpaper) started a crowdsourcing on Indiegogo to...
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Vampire Lake – review
Director: Daniel Zubiate Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers A micro-budget film there was heart involved, I feel, but it suffers from what I would think was inexperience as much as lack of budget....
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Honourable Mention: Hellboy: The Crooked Man
Directed by Brian Taylor and released in 2024, this feels like a film to maintain rights to the Hellboy (Jack Kesy, the Strain) franchise but, whilst it gets nowhere near the fabulous first two Hellboy...
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Nosferatu – The Real Story – review
Director: Robin Bextor Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Created, clearly, to cash in on Egger’s soon to be released version of Nosferatu, I have to say that I’d rather have a documentary than a...
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Nosferatu (Cinecrypt Adaptation) – review
I got the Cinecrypt adaptation of Nosferatu as an additional perk with their Kickstarter of a short comic Nosferatu: A Winter’s Tale. The graphic has no publication detail such as publication date,...
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Interesting Shorts: Nosferatu a Winter’s Tale
Author: Ash Redburn Artist: Morgan Twiston Davies First Published: 2024 This Cinecrypt comic was backed by myself on Kickstarter and, I have to admit, when it arrived I was slightly taken aback by its...
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The Death That Awaits – review
Director: Richard J. Lee Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The biggest spoiler would seem to be that this is a vampire film. The IMDb blurb says “A drifter searching for answers to a mystery from...
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The Vampire and the Vigilante – review
Director: Rene Perez Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This is a fairly short feature coming in at 75 minutes and, whilst it doesn’t outstay its welcome, it is in many respects too short. There are...
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Killadelphia, Volume 4: The End of All – review
Author: Rodney Barnes Art: Jason Shawn Alexander Release Date: 2022 (TPB) Contains spoilers The blurb: The perfect jumping on point for new readers and a pivotal turning point for the series! The...
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Honourable Mentions: Cryptids
A portmanteau film from 2023, with the segment we are interested in directed by Billy 'Bloody Bill' Pon (whose feature Circus of the Dead I have a real soft spot for), the segment is too short and...
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Cobwebs: the Trinity Arises – review
Director: Delia Ruffin Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers For reasons that will become quickly apparent, I am not going to give this film the sort of in-depth review I normally do, and I do not...
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit – review
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa Release date: 1968 Contains spoilers Coming out of the kabuki theatre tradition with a primary tale having been translated as the Vampire Cat of Nabéshima, I have found...
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Vampire Genesis – review
Director: Michael Lee Buie Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers Crossing vampires with aliens is not unheard of and it can work but sometimes one wonders what the point was. Sometimes the...
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First Impressions: Nosferatu (2024)
What to say about Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu? I have seen both positive and negative commentary before attending a viewing but I have to say I was spellbound by what I deem to be a magnificent film (from...
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Short Film: Heist Night
Coming in at around 8-minutes and directed by Angel Alvarez, this 2022 short is simple in plot but does set itself as a prequel to something else. It starts with a “crew” scoping the home of George...
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The Hungry Snake Woman – review
Director: Sisworo Gautama Putra Release date: 1986 Contains spoilers An Indonesian moment of madness from the mid-eighties, my thanks to Leila who sent me the disc of this. It stars Suzzanna...
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Vampire's House of Cain – review
Director: Greg Galloway Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I don’t actually know if it was budget or script that defeated this film, but defeated it was. The story was fairly simple but managed to...
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Short Film: Aurora
This 2024 short film comes in at 13-minutes and was directed by Rita Osei. It starts with a back view of Aurora (Djinda Kane), stood on a bridge. The scene cuts to a woman (Melanie Gray) having an...
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Honourable Mention: Monster Carnival: A Comics Anthology
An anthology graphic novel, with a wraparound of the contents being stories told by the monster carnival, this was first published in 2019. It contains several strips by different writers and the one...
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