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Bloodline – review
Director: Rami Yasin Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This Egyptian vampire film contains some conceits within it that do not bear too heavy a scrutiny, but it is a well shot exploration of how the...
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Monster Mash – review
Director: Jose Prendes Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The Asylum is not known for quality productions but they have hit the formula of pumping the films out with a name attached – in the case...
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Short film: Bellatrix
A 35-minute film directed by Eric Chisholm and Kathleen Carrier'e Pefferkorn, this short film was released in 2010 and was somewhat ambitious for a clearly budget film – with both some (very primitive)...
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Nosferatu The Untold Origin – review
Author: Louis J Pecsi Artwork: Louis J Pecsi First published: 2009 Contains spoilers The Blurb: In the year 1922, Nosferatu graced the silver screen with his shadowy specter. He was a creature of total...
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Chillers 3 – review
Director: Tyler Benjamin Release date: unknown Contains spoilers An anthology movie, and third in the series, at the time of writing IMDb still shows this as an upcoming movie with no date but it is...
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The Legend of Lake Hollow – review
Director: Chris Hollo Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The wendigo is a strange creature to place under the vampire taxonomy, when it comes to film depictions, as it can sometimes be portrayed as...
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Short film: Helsing
At 29-minutes this is a Ryan Henry Johnston short film from 2014 and follows the continuing adventures of Van Helsing (Patrick Morrison) in the modern day (one assumes). in churchIt starts with a...
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Immortal Gifts – review
Author: Katherine Villyard Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers The blurb: He lied about his identity. Two hundred years later, he’s still paying the price… Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to...
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How to Make a Werewolf – review
Directors: Omar Reid & Steph Henderson Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I won’t lie, after picking up on the title and checking IMDb to see if there were vampire characters in (there were,...
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Alien Siege – review
Director: Robert Stadd Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers Oh lawdy. This came on my radar as an alien vampire film and it is (in a very loose definition of vampire sense). It is also a film that was...
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Honourable Mention: Captain Amazingly Incredible and the Space Vampires from...
You may think I’ve gone mad giving this 2010 New Zealand flick, directed by Karl Burnett, an honourable mention rather than a review, especially given the title but, whilst we do get the vampires in...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Carmilla and the Daughters of Darkness
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Brigid Cherry the Chapter Page can be found here. This was a HotV chapter looking at Le Fanu’s Carmilla through its adaptations and intertextual connections,...
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The Damned – review
Director: Thordur Palsson Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers I thought long and hard on whether to review this supernatural tale set in Iceland. The main thrust of the tale surround draugr, which are...
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Little Bites – review
Director: Spider One Release date: 2024Contains spoilers Is Little Bites a vampire film? Well there is certainly something vampiric going on and central monster Agyar (Jon Sklaroff) shares his name...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Carmilla in Context
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by S. Brooke Cameron, the Chapter Page can be found here. This was another HotV chapter looking at Le Fanu’s Carmilla, this time looking at the original text and...
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Short Film: Sol
delightA short film directed by Denise Castro, this was an extra on the Salvación DVD and is so short that this will be an equally short article. It follows a couple going into a cinema. The film they...
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Drained – review
Directors: Peter Stylianou & Sean Cronin Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers This is an indie UK film with some clever ideas and, as you’ll see, for the most part I enjoyed it but, whilst...
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Video Shop Tales of Terror – review
Director: Sam Mason-Bell (segment) Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers This portmanteau horror film harks back to the days of VHS and has a varied level of success as it explores six tales of terror –...
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Worth Each Penny presents Scary Stories – review
Director: Tatiana Wisniewski (segment) Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Pulled together by Mark Mos, this is one of a group of anthology films released in 2022 based on shorts from various LA film...
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Short Film: Where Blood Lies
A ten-minute-long film from 2019 that was directed by Byron Q, this takes us into the Second World War and Romania in 1942. A group of Nazi soldiers hold villagers and demand to know where the creature...
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