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Freaks of Nature – review
Director: Robbie Pickering Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers As a concept this sounded brilliant. Small town USA, a place where humans, vampires and zombies live side by side in relative harmony...
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Ten Years of TMtV
Dear Blog reader, on the 5th March 2016 this blog will have been running for ten years. I think that is some achievement and I know there are readers out there who have been with me from the beginning....
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Ten Years of TMtV: Some of the Best Bits of the Last Ten Years
I started TMtV almost by accident. I had wanted to post a comment on the blog The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire but I needed a blogger account to do so. I registered for Blogger and thought that I may...
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Ten years of TMtV: Guest Blog: Bite of the Vampire
It’s my great pleasure to welcome Paul Wakefield (AKA Everlost) to TMtV as part of the 10 year celebrations. Paul and I met in a wonderfully convoluted way – which is a story probably best told over a...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Guest Blog: Carmilla and Us
It’s my great pleasure to welcome David MacDowell Blue to TMtV as part of the 10 year celebrations. David is a friend who I met through Leila’s Vampire Forum prior to starting TMtV and I remember it...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Favourite Stakings
I thought today I’d look at staking vampires. The following ten stakings are particular favourites because of the implement used, the reason for staking or just the impact of the filming. They are...
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Ten years of TMtV: Taliesin Meets… Jean-Marc Lofficier
For this post on our Ten Years of TMtV series I have the great honour of posting this interview with Jean-Marc Lofficier. Jean-Marc and his wife Randy are veterans of the comic book world, having...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Guest Blog: A Scholar and a Gentleman—My Mate, Andy
It’s my great pleasure to welcome Anthony Hogg to TMtV as part of the 10 year celebrations. When I discussed the idea of Guest blogs with those involved in this event I never really gave them much...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Taliesin’s Top 10 Vampire Films
I have had a top 100 films posted on the blog since 2009. A top set of films is always going to cause a tad of controversy – no one is likely to agree – but I thought, during the ten years...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Guest Blog: Radu Vladislas and Me
It’s my great pleasure to welcome Gabriel InAstra to TMtV as part of the 10 year celebrations. I met Gabriel through this blog and post comments, which led to email correspondence. Gabriel lives on the...
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Ten Years of TMtV: Things to Make you go Hmm
TMtV is Ten Years old today!I hope you have enjoyed our little celebration. I’d like to thank those who have been involved, Dave Copsey for the artwork, Jean-Marc Lofficier for the interview and the...
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Fifty Percent Vampire – review
Author: D K Janotta First Published: 2015 Contains spoilers The blurb: TEENAGE GIRL FLEES THE UNDEAD !!! Living at home is driving seventeen-year-old Astrid Sonnschein nuts. She’s desperate to leave...
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The Hunted – review
Director: Robert Chapin Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers The Hunted was a long standing web series (the franchise’s webpage is here), which as well as creating content actively encouraged fan...
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The Vampire Gaytooth: A Most Unusual Vampire – review
Author: Michael John First Published: 2014 Contains spoilers The blurb: An ancient entity roams the streets of a Southern California city. He "borrows" other living mortal bodies to perpetuate his...
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Hrabě Drakula – review
Director: Anna Procházková Release date: 1971 Contains spoilers One of the great things about the vampire genre is that no matter how many vehicles you’ve watched, something can still appear out of...
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Get Outta Here – review
Director: Nick Leung Kwok-Ban Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers This one really did sneak in and is an oddity in many respects. A Hong Kong movie, with a Western vampire premise, it is best...
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Kwaidan – review
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Release date: 1964 Contains spoilers Kwaidan was an anthology film based on Japanese ghost stories, specifically those collections of Japanese folk tales compiled by Lafcadio...
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The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend – review
Editors: Barbara Brodman & James E Doan First published: 2013 Contains spoilers The blurb: Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western...
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Honourable Mention: The Dybbuk
Before we start, the Dybbuk is not a vampire film. Hell I’m not even sure whether we can class the folklore it is based on as a type of vampirism. However the dybbuk is listed as a type of energy...
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead – review
Director: Jess Franco Release date: 1973 Contains spoilers A suggestion by Ville, I had never considered looking at this movie as I had got it into my head that it was a zombie film. There is a version...
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