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Hotel Transylvania – review
Author: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro First Published: 1978 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Since 1978, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has produced about two dozen novels and numerous short stories detailing the life of a...
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True Blood – Season 5 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2012 Contains spoilers Season 5 of True Blood is now on UK DVD and so it is time to look at the season. For a recap of my thoughts on previous seasons you can follow the...
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Vamp or Not? Grabbers
If you think your vampires should be, at the very least, humanoid you may want to give this ‘Vamp or Not?’ a skip, but this alien creature feature has hallmarks of the vampiric within and was deserving...
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The Dracula Tape – review
Author: Fred Saberhagen First Published: 1975 Contains spoilers The blurb: The never before told story behind the legend of Count Dracula! The story of the Count’s greatest love, Mina Harker, and the...
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Honourable Mentions: Da Vinci’s Demons – the Devil
Da Vinci’s Demons was a gritty, semi-occult series created by David S. Goyer and concentrating on the intrigue surrounding Rome during the early years of Leonardo Da Vinci (Tom Riley). The episode the...
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Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns
Director: A.J. Garcia Topete Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns is clearly filmmaking on a budget but, as we discover quite often, sometime a budget film can really...
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Honourable Mentions: Dark
For the last couple of days I have been playing Dark, a cel shaded video game in which you play a vampire – Eric Bane. Eric has no memory bar his name and a brief glimpse of a fast thing attacking (the...
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Inseminoid – review
Director: Norman J. Warren Release Date: 1982 Contains spoilers I vacillated between looking at Inseminoid as a vampire film (of the alien vampire genus), a 'Vamp or Not?’ or simply an honourable...
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The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles – review
Author: Andy Remic First Published: 2012 (omnibus) Contains spoilersThe Blurb: Falanor needs a hero The Land of Falanor has been besieged by foul invaders, the infamous Army of Iron. The resistance is...
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Vamp or Not? Big Trouble in Little China
The 1986 cult movie Big Trouble in Little China was directed by John Carpenter and several people have, over some time, suggested that I look at the film in terms of a ‘Vamp or Not?’. I am sure that...
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I, Vampire – Volume 1: Tainted Love – review
Writer: Joshua Hale Fialkov Artist: Andrea Sorrentino First Published: 2012 (Trade Paperback) Contains spoilers The blurb: The War of the Vampires begins. For hundreds of years, vampire Andrew Bennett...
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Off Topic: The Witch-Child Shumba-Lumba
I was contacted recently by Morien Wyn Jones, artist and illustrator, who asked if I might showcase his gothic poem The Witch-Child Shumba-Lumba. Now, to be fair, I often get requests to feature or...
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Dracula – performed at Whitby Abbey
staking LucyMyself and my family have just had a weekend break in Whitby. A favourite place for both Sarah and I, it was number 1 son’s first visit and he wanted to see the Abbey. We climbed the 199...
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Honourable Mention: Night Terrors
Receiving an honourable Mention because it is free to view online, Night Terrors is a short film by Florida director Felix Alvarez. It begins with a woman (Krystal Lynn Hedrick) jogging whilst a man,...
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I, Vampire – Rise of the Vampires – review
Writers: Joshu Hale Fialkov & Peter Milligan Artists: Andrea Sorrentino, Admira Wijaya & Daniel Sampere Release date: 2013 (trade paperback) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Against an Ancient...
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Enchiridion – review
Director: Mark Beal Release Date: 2012 Contains spoilers Enchiridion is a Latin word that means handbook or manual and the most famous enchiridions seem to be ecclesiastical in nature. Now Enchiridion...
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Is this a Zombie? – review
Director: Takaomi Kanasaki First aired: 2011 Contains spoilers Also known as “Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?”, is this a Zombie is the first season (the second being tagged with “of the dead” at the end of...
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Music: Bats of Mercy
Something a little different that I came across via Facebook. Bats of Mercy is a Goth compilation album made up of Nordic bands and is free but donations are welcome. A message from the compilation’s...
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Kiss of the Damned – review
Director: Xan Cassavetes Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers There is a huge dose of Euro-horror with this US film, from the stylistic original movie poster (which I have used on this review rather...
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Ancient Blood: A Novel of the Hegemony (The Order Saga) (Volume 1) – review
Author: Brian P McKinley First Published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Avery Doyle loves vampires; he’s read every novel, seen all the movies, and researched the folklore. When his first...
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