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Red Dwarf: Polymorph – review
Director: Ed Bye First aired: 1989 Contains spoilersIn the UK, for people of a certain age, Red Dwarf is an institution. Comedy at its finest, it followed the misadventures of a group of misfits on the...
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The Haunting Hour: Grampires part 1 and 2
Director: Neill Fearnley First aired: 2012 Contains spoilersThe Haunting Hour was an R L Stine vehicle that ran for 4 seasons and was marked by having perhaps a slightly darker hue than vehicles such...
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Gangpire III – review
Author: Sentu Taylor First Published: 2015 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: When Tacoma finds out that the Honored Elders gave his wife, Helen, an ultimatum under a death threat he asks her to hide with...
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Preacher: Book 1 – Gone to Texas – review
Author: Garth Ennis Illustrator: Steve Dillon First published: 1996contains spoilersWow, I’m late to the party with these but better late than never. This collection contains the issues #1 to 7....
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Short Film: Baits
Director: Jacopo Calatroni Released: 2013 Contains spoilers Jacopo Calatroni as the vampireSometimes less is more. Let’s take Baits as an example, coming in at less than 5 minutes the film manages to...
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Honourable Mention: Mad Mutilator
Oh Lordy, Lordy… sometimes there is inept, sometimes surreal and sometimes we get a unique combination of the two. Welcome to Mad Mutilator, also known as Ogroff, a bizarre and rubbish French offering...
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Short film: Upir
Director: Patrick Lenahan Release date: 2003 Contains spoilers Upir is just over eight minutes long and is dialogue free. The film seems overexposed and the sound is scratchy giving it an older feel...
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Short Film: A Feast in Kalix
I was contacted very recently by Viking Almquist. Viking is a long time reader of the blog who has noticed that I am currently running quite a few short vampire film articles. Viking wrote, directed,...
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Aleta: Vampire Mistress – review
Director: Phil Condit First released: 2012 Contains spoilers Originally entitled Empress Vampire, this film had been on my radar for quite some time – having stumbled some years back onto the film’s...
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Short Film: Vamp
Director: Zack Chapman Release date: 2013 Contains spoilersAt a shade under 19 minutes Vamp succeeds due to script and performances, with a great performance by principle lead Adam Budron as Ren, a...
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Bubba Ho-Tep – review
Director: Don Coscarelli Release date: 2002 Contains spoilers“What are you doing Taliesin?” I can see the questioning eyebrows raise but it’s very simple. The crossover between vampire and mummy is...
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V-Wars volume 2: All of us Monsters – review
Writer: Jonathan Maberry Artists: Marco Turini & Alan Robinson First Published: 2015 Contains spoilersThe blurb: Big Dog and V-8 are the top gunslingers in the escalating battle with vampire...
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Honourable Mention: the Warrior From Shaolin
This was a film directed by Chia Yung Liu under the name Lau Kar Wing and was released in 1980 (according to IMDb, elsewhere listed as 1984). It was (primarily) a comedy set during the Japanese...
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The Extinction Parade Volume 1 – review
Author: Max Brooks Illustrations: Raulo Caceres First Published: 2014 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: Max Brooks, author of World War Z and the Zombie Survival Guide, brings a new vision of stark terror to...
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The Stranger – review
Director: Guillermo Amoedo Release date: 2014 Contains spoilersThis is widely touted as an “Eli Roth presents” vehicle, which is all well and good but I am left – having watched the film – with the...
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When the Tik-Tik Sings – Review
Author: Doug Lamoreux First Published: 2015 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: In a sleepy historical Iowa town, on the banks of the Mississippi River, tourist season is in full swing, and the strangest...
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Vampires – review
Director: Richard Johnstone Release date: 2014 Contains spoilersOriginally called Bloodless (I’ll come back to the original title later) this British film has received a UK release under the incredibly...
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Classic Literature: After 90 Years
Milovan Glišić’s 1880 vampire story Posle Devedeset Godina, or After 90 Years, had been on my radar after seeing the film based on it, Leptirica. However the story had – as far as I knew – never been...
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Short Film: You don’t know My Secrets
An interesting short film, which I can’t find any IMDb details for, this is a vampire film of Chinese origin but uses a Western style of vampire rather than the kyonsi. As such I am afraid I am unsure...
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Annual Hiatus
Ok folks it’s that time of year again… time for me to travel over to Whitby for the Bram Stoker International Film Festival. This year’s film line-up appears to only have one vampire film that I...
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