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Manborg – review
Director: Steven Kostanski Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers I received a text from my friend Leila suggesting Manborg as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ – I disagree as, from the beginning, there is no doubt that...
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Vamp or Not? Hellraiser
When I looked at the film Under the Skin I received a comment from friend of the blog Alex who suggested I should look at the 1987 Clive Barker directed classic horror film Hellraiser. Indeed Alex...
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Hellraiser 2: Hellbound – review
Director: Tony Randall Release date: 1988 Contains spoilers Having decided in a recent ‘Vamp or Not?’ that the original Hellraiser flick can be classed as Vamp due to Uncle Frank (Sean Chapman), and...
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A Short Break
For those who don’t know, today is the first day of Rebellion Festival and I’ll be enjoying four days of punk and alternative music. The festival is actually in my home town but I’m still going to put...
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Interesting Shorts: The Skeleton Count, or, the Vampire Mistress
I originally provided this post as a guest blog for Something Wicked This Way Comes. Unfortunately that blog is now defunct and so my article went with it. I have decided to reprint (and rewrite) here...
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Hellraiser Revelations – review
Director: Víctor García Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers After I decided that Hellraiser was Vamp, due to the presence and activity of Uncle Frank, I dutifully then looked at the second film as...
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Kardinal – review
Author: Thomas Emson First Published: 2012 Contains spoilers The Blurb: The vampires are rising again and humanity is on the brink. In Britain, the undead’s allies are about to triumph in a General...
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Vampire Stories – review
Editor: Alan Durant First Published: 1998 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Bloodcurdling and bone-chilling! Bloodsucking vampires and savage werewolves – two of the most petrifying creatures of classic...
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True Blood – Season 6 – review
Directors: Various First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers My thoughts on the earlier seasons can be read at the following: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4& Season 5. If I felt that the 4th...
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Bloody Irish: Celtic Vampire Legends – review
Author: Bob Curran First published: 2002 Contains spoilers The Blurb: ”The bedclothes were gripped and pulled, as though someone was trying to drag me to the floor. A hand—at least, I thought it was a...
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The Aswang Complex in Philippine Folklore – review
Author: Maximo D. Ramos First published: 1990 I have wanted to get some of Ramos’ work on the aswang for a long time. This is the first volume I have managed to get (the volumes appear from time to...
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The Boy God – review
Director: J. Erastheo Navoa Release date: 1982 Contains spoilers Rocco, ang Batang Bato, was allegedly inspired by Clash of the Titans – watch very carefully and you may just about see that, though the...
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Blood Lad – season 1 – review
Director: Shigeyuki Miwa First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers Anime can be a funny old beast, but despite that I do like it. A lot of recent vampire related anime has fallen into the Harem genre and...
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Honourable Mention: La Herencia Valdemar
I picked up the Spanish Blu-Ray of La Herencia Valdemar, or the Valdemar Inheritance, not thinking that there would be a post here. The set has this 2010 film and the sequel. La Sombra Prohibida (the...
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Realm of the Vampire: History and the Undead – review
Author: Daniel J Wood First published: 2009 The Blurb: Do vampires exist? Our ancestors certainly believed they did. We are forced to rely on ancient records and eyewitness testimony, and absolute...
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The Anatomy of Fear – review
Authors: Christopher Vander Kaay & Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay First Published: 2014 The Blurb: During in-depth conversations with 21 horror and science-fiction film writers and directors,...
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Meeting Taliesin
Do you want to know a little bit more about me? Don’t answer that... but for those that do I have, today, been interviewed over at Vamped. Thanks to Vamped’s Erin and Anthony for the honour.
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Honourable Mention: Airship Dracula (episode 1)
I have only found one episode of the web serial Airship Dracula, which was directed by Mike Roberts, and I don’t know if more are to follow but I was rather taken with it and so thought I’d post. This...
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Honourable Mentions: Carmilla: A Play in One Act
My friend David MacDowell Blue is a big fan of vampires, but more so he is a huge fan of Carmilla and, of course, why not – it’s a seminal piece of vampire literature. David created the annotations for...
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Money, Vampires & Weed – review
Director: Richard Poche Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers We’ve seen a couple of films by Richard Poche before. Previously we have looked at A Candle in the Dark and Crimson. Neither were brilliant...
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