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Honourable Mention: Les Revenants
Let’s make it clear from the first sentence, Les Revenants (marketed in the English market as They Came Back and then the Returned) is not a vampire film. Nor is it a zombie movie, at least not in the...
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Music: The Awakening
An early post as I don’t know if I’ll post over the next four days because I’ll be indulging in the Rebellion festival. The band I am featuring today aren’t there, more’s the pity, but I am posting up...
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Vampire Boys 2: The New Brood – review
Director: Steven Vasquez Release date: 2013 Contains Spoilers When I wrote my review for Vampire Boys I suggested that one element that was missing from a lot of gay orientated horror films was the...
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Blood Shot – review
Director: Dietrich Johnston Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers One thing I have discovered in the years I have been writing this blog is that you really have to keep your eye out. Blood Shot has been...
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Honourable Mention: The Cleveland Show: A Nightmare on Grace Street
I am not the biggest fan of the Cleveland Show. I wonder if I haven’t given it enough time but, try as I might, it just doesn’t hit the parts that Family Guy does for me. Having said that, this 2011...
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Crowdsourcing – The Impaler
The Impaler is a vampire film using the figure of Vlad Ţepeş. It is due to be premiered at the 2013 Bram Stoker’s Film Festival and I am looking forward to the viewing. You may be wondering why the...
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Gossamer: A Story of Love and Tragedy – review
Author: Lee Thompson First Published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: An ancient witch, Dorothy Good, has lost everything to the vampire who has blown in on the hot desert wind and lain waste to her...
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I… Vampire – review
Writer: various Artist: various First published: 1981 – 83 (comics) Contains spoilers The Blurb: The dawn of the living undead! “Four hundred years ago my vampiric kiss transformed the woman I loved...
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Kickstarter: The Supernaturalists
Another kickstarter project I recently noticed is a graphic novel by Patrick Neighly called the Supernaturalists. Concerning vampires during the Jazz Age, the project is described as: 'Near Dark' meets...
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Holy Knight (part 1 & 2) – review
Director: Jiro Fujimoto First aired: 2012 Contains spoilers Holy Knight is a (so far) two part ova, each part being just under 30 minutes. The lead character Lilith Kishimoto (Maaya Uchida) reminded...
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Vamp or Not? The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Ah Jess Franco, there is no other director's work quite like his, and the 1972 La maldición de Frankenstein proves that point. Like many Franco films there are multiple editions. Some are ruder, some...
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Lesser of 2 Evils – review
Director: Timothy Whitfield Release date: 2006 Contains spoilers Lesser of 2 Evils is a short film that is available to watch on YouTube (at the time of posting). It also appears on the DVD of short...
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Honourable Mention: Street Trash
I knew Street Trash had a very brief vampire moment in it but I had been putting off watching it. By the story description I expected something about the level of the average Troma release but, when I...
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Honourable Mentions: Madhouse
Okay, this one is a real stretch and just to get things straight – whilst there are two people dressed as vampires in a costume party (and another as a vampire’s victim) – there are no real vampire...
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Macskafogó – review
Director: Béla Ternovszky Release date: 1986 Contains spoilers I was led towards Macskafogó by Alex, but it has taken me a while to get around to it – which is a shame because it was a good fun...
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Vampire – review
Director: Shunji Iwai Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers In 1886 Richard von Krafft-Ebing, an Austro-German psychiatrist, published the book Psychopathia Sexualis, a study of sexual perversion and...
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Honourable Mention: The Impaler
The Impaler is a 2013 film directed by Derek Hockenbrough. It has been mentioned as a vampire film in articles I have read and thus you may be wondering why this is an honourable mention rather than a...
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The Coldest Girl in Cold Town – review
Author: Holly Black First published: 2013 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: All her friends are dead. If everything goes to plan, all his will be too. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is set in the...
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A bit of News
Firstly, apologies for not posting yesterday – I literarily forgot; I had plenty of articles to go for, including the Gabrielle Faust edited anthology High Stakes and a “Vamp or Not?” of the 1977 Toho...
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Vamp or Not? House
When I get a late night text about a film telling me that it is definitely of genre interest, perhaps even vampire – all in capitals, no less – then I am tempted to check it out as soon as possible....
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