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After news that Let the Right One In might become a TV series I found myself getting hot under the collar over a social media backlash, because the series would be American, and a renewed backlash...
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Interesting Shorts: the Story of Baelbrow
The Story of Baelbrow was a supernatural detective story that was part of a series featuring Flaxman Low by E. and H. Heron (the pen-names of Katherine and Hesketh Prichard). The series was printed in...
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Runaway Nightmare – review
Director: Mike Cartel Release Date: 1982 Contains spoilers There are some moments that take your breath away for all the wrong reasons and this film adds up into just under an hour and a half of such...
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New Blood Rising – review
Director: Chad Zuver Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers So, when I write a review I like to get actor details from IMDb but avoid the other reviews until I’ve written mine. However, having noticed...
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Interesting Shorts: Good Lady Duncan
Published in 1896, Good Lady Duncan was a short by prolific author Mary Elizabeth Braddon and follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) and Bella Rolleston – a young woman determined to earn a salary in...
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Grimm: Mommy Dearest – review
Director: Norberto Barba First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers I have to admit that I don’t watch Grimm (see NOTE below). I am aware of it though; a series about a hidden world of creatures –...
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Grimm: Chupacabra – review
Director: Aaron Lipstadt First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers I previously reviewed the season 3 episode of Grimm, Mommy Dearest but before that a friend, Everlost, warned me that there was a chupacabra...
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Blood Reign: The Saga of Pandora Zweiback – Book 2
Author: Steven A Roman First published: 2015 Contains spoilers The Blurb: PANDORA ZWIEBACK IS DEAD...OR IS SHE? She was stabbed in the heart with an ancient mystical spear. Her mother was kidnapped by...
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Vamp or Not? The Tomb
I remember watching this Michael Staininger directed film back in 2009 when it was released. I couldn’t remember too much about it however. I knew, of course, that it was loosely based on the Poe story...
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Honourable Mention: Ultrachrist!
This 2003 film directed by Kerry Douglas Dye is a no budget comedy about the return of Jesus (Jonathan C. Green). Having come back to Earth – to New York specifically – (and after a run around town...
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Marvel’s Avengers Assemble: Blood Feud – review
Director: Jeff Allen First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers Of course, the Avengers (2012) was a must see super-hero movie and so it is little surprise that it spawned a cartoon spin-off. (Confusingly the...
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The Things that Fly in the Night – review
Author: Gizelle Liza Anatol First published: 2015 Contains Spoilers The Blurb: The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in...
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Bikini Vampire Babes – review
Directors: Ted West & Margaret Root Release date: 2010 Contains spoilers I must admit to having approached this with trepidation… I mean the title alone was enough to cause that. It just summoned...
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Honourable Mention: Vampir, Zan-e khoon-asham
From director Mostafa Oskooyi and released in 1967, this is a real rarity and so I have to apologise for the quality of the screenshots but the version of this I managed to see was clearly a poor video...
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – review
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Sometimes the buzz around a film threatens to overshadow the film itself. When I first started hearing about this it was suggested that...
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Di Gal Bite Mi – review
Director: JC Money Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I stumbled across this movie on YouTube and that’s all I have been able to find. There is no IMDb page, no homepage for the film, no page I can...
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Teeth and Blood – review
Directors: Al Franklin & Pamela J. Richardson Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers There is a lot to say about premise. The premise of a set of a vampire movie being haunted by actual vampires is a...
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Vampires Everywhere; the Rise of the Movie Undead – review
Author: Charles E Butler First published: 2012 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Vampires Everywhere is a review book that concentrates on the vampire movies that inspire fear. From The Cabinet of Dr...
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Honourable Mention: Ruddigore
It may seem odd, to those familiar with it, that I am giving a mention to the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Ruddigore – in the guise of the 1982 Barrie Gavin directed version. So, before I go into the...
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Vamp or Not? Knights of Badassdom
This was a 2013 movie directed by Joe Lynch, though I understand that the final cut might have been somewhat out of the director’s control. It was mentioned to me by Everlost as having definite ‘Vamp...
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