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Queen of Blood – review
Director: Chris Alexander Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Never judge a book by its cover, but… if the DVD cover for auteur Chris Alexander’s first film, Blood for Irina, was wonderfully retro,...
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Classic Ghost Stories: Wailing Well – review
Director: David Bell First aired: 1986 Contains spoilers Wailing Well was one of the shorts written by master of the ghost story M R James and, as such, you might wonder why I am looking at it here?...
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Honourable Mention: Door to Door (Director’s Cut)
Sometimes I find myself in a quandary as to whether something should go down the review line or the honourable mention line. If it is a film then, if it is online for free, I tend to go down the...
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Only Lovers Left Alive – review
Director: Jim Jarmusch First released: 2013 Contains spoilers One issue I have about the place that I live is that if a film is slightly from left field there is a very good chance it will not play...
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Written in Blood: A Cultural History of the British Vampire – review
Author: Paul Adams First Published: 2014 The blurb: The British Isles has a remarkable association with vampires – chilling supernatural creatures of the night. From the nineteenth-century writings of...
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Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations...
Author: Erik Butler Release Date: 2010 Contains spoilers The Blurb: For the last three hundred years, fictions of the vampire have fed off anxieties about cultural continuity. Though commonly...
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1313: Boy Crazies – review
Director: David DeCoteau Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers Oh dear… another David DeCoteau flick and this one part of an unrelated series of films entitled 1313 – this one being the vampire flick....
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Vamp or Not? Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the Giant Leeches was also called Demons of the Swamp and was a 1959 film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and produced by the irrepressible Roger Corman. It was a creature feature, had a...
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Chimères – review
Director: Olivier Beguin Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Sometimes it’s the simple ideas that work the best, a film doesn’t have to be terribly original to be a powerful piece of cinema. Having...
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Saint Dracula – review
Director: Rupesh Paul Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers The claim is that Saint Dracula is the first 3D Dracula movie. Untrue. That honour goes to Dario Argento’s Dracula, which had its official...
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Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil: The Special Fathers vs. The Vampire Altar...
Director: unknown First aired: 2007 Contains spoilers Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil was a one season computer animated cartoon series about the character Lucy – the antichrist and 21 year old art...
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Taliesin's Worst 100
I’ve had a Taliesin’s Top 100 for some time, it’s a living list that changes as new reviews reveal films that deserve to be in that upper echelon of vampire films. What I never did was compile a worst...
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First Impressions: Dracula Untold
So it was off to the cinema to see the Gary Shore directed new Dracula movie and I held low expectations to be honest. So let’s get the obvious out of the way… It is a Dracula origin story, using...
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The Theology of Dracula: Reading the Book of Stoker as Sacred Text – review
Author: Noël Montague-Étienne Rarignac First published: 2012 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Few books have so seized the public imagination as Bram Stoker's Dracula, even more popular now than when it...
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Morbius: The Living Vampire: The Man Called Morbius – review
Writer: Joe Keating (with Dan Slott) Illustrator: Various First published: 2013 (collection) Contains spoilersThe Blurb: Somewhere inside Doctor Michael Morbius is a good man who just needs a second...
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Diabolik Lovers – season 1 – review
Directed by: Shinobu Tagashira First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers When I first started to watch Diabolik Lovers I expected it to be an example of a Shōjo anime, one created for a primarily female...
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A Night at the Theatre and a Kickstarter
Hello to all TMtV readers. I have been approached by a couple of folks about an event and a kickstarter and I wanted to share them with you. First of all, good friend of the blog Margaret let me know...
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Doctor Who: Mummy on the Orient Express – review
Director: Paul Wilmshurst First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers The latest incarnation of Doctor Who managed to get my attention back. Other than the Vampire of Venice and the Rings of Arkhaten - both of...
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Honourable Mention: Epitaph: Bread and Salt
Nathyn Masters had a vision and to create that vision he made a comic book. As well as a comic book he made this low budget (big ambition) prequel movie, which was released in 2013. Whilst you can buy...
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Vamp or Not? Flesh for the Beast
This was a low budget film from 2003, directed by Terry M. West and is a film about succubi. But, as we know, there is a Hell of a lot (pardon the pun) of crossover between vampires and succubi both...
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