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Strike the Blood – review
Directors: Takao Sano & Hideyo Yamamoto First aired: 2013-2014 Contains spoilers Strike the Blood began life as a Japanese light novel, which transitioned to Manga and then this anime television...
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Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Directed by: Sam Liu Release date: 2015 Contains spoilersThe first thing I saw, with regards this straight to DVD release, was a webisode where Batman (Michael C. Hall) was tracking down Harlequin...
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Honourable Mention: White is for Witching
The Blurb: In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, Luc,...
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Interesting Shorts: Graour the Monster
Graour the Monster was a short story from 1903 by Camille Debans and can be found reproduced in English in the volume the Misfortunes of John Bull, translated by the inimitable Brian Stableford. It...
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Sorry to regular readers but I have been sidetracked by Rebellion 2015, which is right at its midpoint. Normal service should resume on Monday 10th August but, in the meantime, enjoy this track by the...
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Poltergeist the Legacy – the Crystal Scarab – review
Director: Brad Turner First aired: 1996 Contains spoilersI really enjoyed Poltergeist the Legacy when it first aired and recently picked up (cheap) the first season DVD set. Unfortunately the further...
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Mercy: the Last New England Vampire – review
Author: Sarah L. Thomson First published: 2011 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD HALEY BROWN is struggling to cope. She’s got a new stepmom, her cousin is dying from a terminal illness, and...
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Honourable Mention: First Bite
Films using the vampire panics are depressingly few and far between, which is why this short animation by Drew Christie and narrated by Timo Sämann was most welcome. It was created for the New York...
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Vampire Evolution: From Myth to Modern Day – review
Authors: E R “Corvis Nocturnum” Vernor and L E Carruba First Published: 2015 Contains spoilersThe blurb: Vampires are beings of myth: folkloric creatures who live off the blood of the living and have...
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Honourable Mentions: the Master and Margarita
This novel by Mikhail Bulgakov was written between 1928 and 1940 but remained unpublished until released as a serial in 1966-67. It was released as a volume in 1967 and as an uncensored book in 1973....
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Return of the Demon – review
Director: Ying Wong Release date: 1987 Contains spoilersMo gao yi zhang, in Cantonese, the name Return of the Demon is possibly a misnomer (or at least not literally a demon) despite the bad guy in...
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Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories –...
Editor: Michael Sims First published: 2010 Contains spoilersThe blurb: Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty...
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Jonathan – revisited
Director: Hans W. Geissendörfer Release date: 1970 Contains spoilersWhen I first looked at this film I gave it an “honourable mention” due to the fact that the print I looked at was so horrendous....
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Empire of the Dead – Act 2 – review
Author: George A Romero Illustrator: Dalibor Talajić First published: 2015 (trade paperback) Contains spoilersThe blurb: Zombies vs. Humans vs. Vampires Welcome back to a very different New York City,...
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Vamp or Not? Freak Encounters – Vampire Virus
I have to admit that I have never been one for hidden camera shows. Freak Encounters purports to be one that takes the concept of a creature from cryptozoology and recreates it on an unsuspecting butt...
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Honourable mention: Dracbeth
The merging of vampires and Shakespeare is not an unknown concept though the results vary, ranging from the entertaining, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, to the not so entertaining, Hamlet the...
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House of Monsters – review
Director: Dawn Brown Release date: 2012 & 2015 Contains spoilersHouse of Monsters started life as a one-off stop motion short (embedded below). This concentrated on the Mummy but did feature a...
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Honourable Mention: Drakul
This is a 2014 web series/film directed by Michael Merino. The four episodes or the 70 minute cut can be viewed over at MCM Films. As these can be viewed for free they have been looked at here as an...
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The Crimson Corset – review
Author: Alistair Cross First published: 2015 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: Welcome to Crimson Cove Sheltered by ancient redwoods overlooking the California coast, the cozy village of Crimson Cove has it...
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Honourable Mention: The Master and Margarita (2005)
Regular readers will know that I only recently discovered the marvellous novel the Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Since then I have looked out for the visual adaptations. I have watched the...
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