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Offline for a short while
I’m afraid I’m putting TMtV into hiatus for a short while, but for the best of reasons. I am about to wander Whitby bound for the annual Bram Stoker International Film Festival, which long time readers...
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Home Again, Home Again
I’m just back from the Bram Stoker International Film Festival and what a great time I had. Thanks to the friends I attend with and the friends I have at the festival also. Vampire wise there were the...
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All Cheerleaders Die – review
Directors: Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson Release Date: 2013 Contains spoilers When I watched the All Cheerleaders Die trailer I was struck that it looked a little like a low-end Jennifer’s Body...
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Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth – review
Director: Daniel Falicki Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers One way of escaping some of the constraints of budget is to limit the number of sets used in a film. The fewest, of course, is one and Aeon...
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Vamp or Not? Oculus
Can I just start by saying that Oculus is a great horror film, released in 2013 and directed by Mike Flanagan. It was a film, however, that made me think vamp as I watched it and so I thought I’d share...
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Gangpire – review
Author: Sentu Taylor Published: 2014 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Life has never been a walk in the park for Tacoma. With a crack addict as a mother, and no father, he has been responsible to take care...
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The Dying – review
Director: David P. Nicholson Release Date: 1997 Contains spoilers The Dying is somewhat of an anachronism in that it is a feature that was shot on 16mm back in the late nineties. It has been released...
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The Journal of Dracula Studies
I noticed that the 2014 Journal of Dracula Studies has just been published. If you want to get hold of it, the journal comes as part of the cost of subscribing to the Transylvanian Society of Dracula...
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Blood Ransom – review
Director: Francis dela Torre Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers The vampire tale Blood Ransom was both written and directed by Francis dela Torre and has – it has to be said – style in spades....
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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night – review
Director: Philip Smith Release date: 2014 The story of the events at Villa Diodati on the shore of Lake Geneva in 1816 was the subject of this dramatised documentary shown by the BBC over Halloween...
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Hansel and Gretel Get Baked – review
Director: Duane Journey Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I saw Hansel and Gretel get Baked at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival under the alternate title Hansel and Gretel and the 420...
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Summer of Blood – review
Director: Onur Tukel Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers It came as a bit of a shock to me that director (and star/writer) of Summer of Blood, Onur Tukel, once worked as Sergio Lapel. Some of you may...
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Kantemir – review
Director: Ben Samuels Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers I recently received a comment from olbas006 suggesting I check this movie out as there were hints of vampires. My thanks for the suggestion...
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The Quick – review
Author: Lauren Owen First published: 2014 Contains spoilers The blurb: You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick – But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the...
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Honourable Mention: Die Schlacht der Idioten
This is a short silent film (with German intertitles) from 1986 and directed by Christoph Schlingensief and to say it is strange is an understatement and yet it was compelling in just as strange a way....
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O komis... Tsakonas – review
Director: Takis Simonetatos Release Date: 1989 Contains spoilers O komis... Tsakonas, or Count Tsakonas, or Count Tsakonas and his Draculettes (as one title version went) was a shot on video Greek...
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Honourable Mention: Morbius the Living Vampire
With the major Marvel film franchise that is seeing massive movies weaving an intricate fantasy world over the big screen, it is hoped that they might see their way to bringing some of their darker...
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V-Wars Volume 1: Crimson Queen
Writer: Jonathan Maberry Art: Alan Robinson First Published: 2012 Contains spoilers The Blurb: New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry takes you on a non-stop thrill ride of action, horror...
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Vampire Camp – review
Director: Ray Nomoto Robison Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers This is a film that I had seen floating around the google play store and, one slow night, decided to rent. As I sat down to watch it, I...
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An Amusing Aside
I came across the video below on one of the vampire Facebook pages I frequent. Despite an annoying watermark in the centre is well worth a watch, and less than two minutes long. It features one of the...
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