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Short film: Incarnation
I came across this 2020 short film by Noboru Suzuki online and, unfortunately, that source is long gone. This is a shame as this is such a well-done film that tells quite a story in its 13 minutes run...
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Domnisoara Christina – review
Director: Viorel Sergovici Release date: 1992 Contains spoilers A little background, if I may, of how I came to know this film existed. On occasion I am known to attend the excellent online lectures...
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Blood Hunt – review
Author: Jed MacKay Artists: Pepe Larraz & Sara Pichelli Release date: 2024 (tpb)Contains spoilers The Blurb: Collects Blood Hunt #1-5 And Material From Free Comic Book Day 2024: Blood Hunt/X-Men....
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Domnisoara Christina (2013) – review
Director: Alexandru Maftei Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I recently discovered the existence of Mircea Eliade’s novella ‘Miss Christina’ (1936) and my post on the previous film version of it...
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Nosferatu (2024) – review
Director: Robert Eggers Release Date: 2024 Contains spoilers When I see a film at the cinema, I tend to write a First Impression rather than a review and then I’ll review it later, when I have the home...
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First Impression: Sinners
Every so often a pundit will declare that the bottom has fallen out of the market when it comes to vampire films. In honesty, the concept is ludicrous, the 19 years this blog has been running would...
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Use of Tropes: A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
As a bakeneko (or ghost cat) film, A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse has some strange and unusual aspects but, of course, here at TMtV we look to the vampiric aspect and the bakeneko genre usually requires...
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The Cat Creature – review
Director: Curtis Harrington Release date: 1973 Contains spoilers A made for TV film, I wish I had seen this before submitting a chapter for a forthcoming book as it would have fit right in. It isn’t a...
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Honeybee – review
Director: Nicki Harris Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This one passed me by, and its identity as a vampire film nearly passed me by as I watched it, because the vampire aspect, that horror core,...
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Honourable Mention: Plan 9 from Aliexpress
This is a 2022 Russian experimental film from Diana Galimzyanova and, as I watched it, I was struck tonally of a comparison with Trasharella, though I’d say that this had less plot but more style, and...
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Short Film: Strigoi
This was a 2021 short film, directed by Florin Anghel and coming in at just under 14 minutes. It starts with the sound of laboured breathing, and we see that a poorly man struggles for breath. His wife...
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Hotel Transylvania the Series – season 1 – review
Director: Robin Budd First aired: 2017-18 Contains spoilers Based on the popular franchise Hotel Transylvania this forwent cgi and used a traditional drawn animation style. Most of the episodes...
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Vanther the Vanquisher: Bloodquest – cover review
The new Vanther volume by Scott Harper has been released and I was fortunate enough to get a advance copy and have contributed to the in book reviews and wanted to reproduce what I said about it here:...
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