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V-Wars: Blood & Fire: a Chronicle of the Vampire Wars - review
Editor: Jonathan Maberry First published: 2014 Contains spoilers The blurb: When anyone can turn. When every street is a war zone. Our world will burn. Our world will bleed. There is nowhere to run!...
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The Sins of Dracula – review
Director: Richard Griffin Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers I mentioned this film back in May, as the producers had a crowd-sourcing campaign online. I also backed the campaign myself and just the...
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Monster Force: Volume 1 – Review
Directed by: Chris Schouten First aired: 1994 Contains spoilers Monster Force was a short lived animated TV show, which used the Universal license to include the classic creatures from that studio. The...
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Grave Shivers – review
Director: Brent Sims Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Anthology/portmanteau films can be great and ones such as The ABCs of Death show that very short shorts can be magnificent in their own right....
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The Dracula Business – review
Director: unknown Release date: 1974 Contains spoilers This was a BBC documentary, which I came across as Anthony Hogg mentioned it to me. At the time of review available via BBC iPlayer the...
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Gangpire 2 – review
Author: Sentu Taylor First published: 2014 Contains spoilers The blurb: Oakland streets are rampant with small time players trying to make a name for themselves. Tacoma has seen it all. Two years after...
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Vamp or Not? Atlantis: Day of the Dead
I received a text message from my friend Everlost informing me that the episode of the series Atlantis that he was watching was a potential "Vamp or Not?" I'd not seen the programme before, indeed I...
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Interesting Shorts: the Fate of Madame Cabanel
In October 2014 author Lauren Owen, whose novel the Quick has previously been reviewed here, posted a top 10 vampire books on the Guardian website. It was an odd list, containing short stories as well...
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True Blood: Season 7 – review
Directors: various First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers My thoughts on the earlier seasons can be read at the following: season 1, season 2, season 3, season 4, season 5& season 6. Season 7 had been...
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The Originals – season 1 – review
Director: various First aired: 2013/2014 Contains spoilers A spin off from teen vampire series The Vampire Diaries, indeed the pilot episode was part of season 4 of the original show, the Originals...
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The Strain – season 1 – review
Director: various First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers Having pitched the idea for TV and being rejected, Guillermo del Toro worked with co-conspirator Chuck Hogan to develop the Strain trilogy of books...
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New Crowdsourcing Projects
I've just come across these two crowdsourcing projects, which I thought I'd share with you. The normal caveat applies; I share this for information only and you back them at your own risk. They are two...
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The Angels of Islington – Review
Author: Sarah Channing Wright Published: 2014 Contains spoilers The blurb: Onyx, Demon, Spider and Storm are vampires. They hide from an ancient enemy within the recesses of a Victorian warehouse...
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Mostly Dead – review
Director: Hernan Caraballo Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Whilst many of the vampire movies featured on TMtV are bought, sometimes I'm contacted by production companies and asked if I would like...
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Bloodsucka Jones – review
Director: Justin Armao Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers As always, when it comes to comedy we are in what I think to be the most subjective form of filmmaking. Humour really is a fickle thing and...
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Ed Wood's the Vampire’s Tomb – review
Director: Andre Perkowski Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers If someone designs a film to be a bad film, can a critic actually call it bad? This is a question I will struggle over during the length...
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Honourable Mention: Carmilla: the Harlequin Production
A few months ago I mentioned the play of Carmila, by my friend David MacDowell Blue, after he sent me a copy of the script. More recently David has given me access to a video shot of the play being...
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The Curse of Styria – review
Directors: Mauricio Chernovetzky & Mark Devendorf Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers My first draft of this review included a long rant about the production company and how they treated their...
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Honourable Mention: Carmilla (web series)
Done in the form of a vlog, Carmilla was a web series based, obviously, on J Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel. The first season ran for 36 episodes (of roughly 2 – 4 minutes length per episode) and a 2014...
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Joe Vampire – review
Directors: Sean Donohue & Mike Niche Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers You should not only not judge a book (or DVD) by its cover, you should also not judge it by the company it keeps. The...
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