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Honourable Mention: The Black Tavern
The Black Tavern, or Hei Dian, was a 1972 Shaw Brother movie directed by Wing-Cho Yip and the basic premise of the movie saw a beggar monk in a tavern telling all who will listen to his song about an...
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The Tomb – review
Director: Fred Olen Ray Release date: 1986 Contains spoilers Good old Fred Olen Ray, he really is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to B movie madness. This time around we have vampires with...
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Vamp or Not? Mill of the Stone Women
Another suggestion from friend of the blog Ville, and I can only apologise that it has taken me so long to get to this film. I had seen it before and really should have gotten around to looking at it...
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Short Film Bloodtraffick
Director: Jennifer Thym Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers I’d gone over to TubiTV and was watching the Hillbilly Horror Show, which features horror shorts, when I came across Bloodtraffick. Set in a...
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Vamp or Not? Prey
Originally released as Indigenous, this 2014 film was directed by Alastair Orr and came onto my radar due to one word… Chupacabra. Now the chupacabra is one that almost always warrant a ‘Vamp or Not?’...
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Brief Hiatus
Sorry guys but for the best of reasons there won’t be any posts for a week.However, when we return look out for reviews of the book Blood of the Dragon, and of the film the Forbidden Girl, as well as a...
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The Forbidden Girl – review
Director: Till Hastreiter Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I came across this as someone posted about it on Facebook (my apologies, I can’t recall who and thus give you proper credit). It was the...
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Dolly Biters!: The Vampire Girls of Victorian London – review
Author: Paul Voodini First published: 2015 The Blurb: Four saucy tales from the legendary vampire girls of Victorian London, bound up in one alluring volume! Tales to quicken the pulse, thrill the...
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Vampyres (2015) – review
Director: Víctor Matellano Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers I am not against remakes. Let me make that perfectly clear. Some remakes surpass the original, some plough their own furrow, some are...
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Blood of the Dragon: The Journals of Vlad Draculya the Impaler – review
Author: David T Pudlevitcz Illustrator: David St. Albans Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers The blurb: Being the only true journal of Vladislaus Tepes Bassarab called Draculya; Voivode of Wallachia,...
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The Blood Let – review
Director: J.R. McGarrity Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Opening with a quote from Rickles’ the Vampire Lectures is probably not the best way to open a vampire film. Whilst I have time for the...
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Vamp or Not? Finger of Doom
This was a Shaw Brothers production from 1972 that was directed by Pao Hsueh-Li and originally entitled Tai Yin Zhi. It has all the stylish hallmarks of the Shaw Brothers and an intriguing central...
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Kung Fu Vampire – review
Director: Cheung-Yan Yuen Release date: 1993 Contains spoilers Xiang xi shi wang is a film that centres itself on corpse herding and the term vampire and zombie seems interchangeable in the subtitles....
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V-Wars: Shockwaves
Edited by: Jonathan Maberry First published: 2016 Contains spoilers The blurb: The Vampire Wars are raging. We're all infected. Anyone can turn at any time. Your ally one minute could be at your throat...
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Blood Trap – review
Director: Alberto Sciamma Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Appearing on Amazon’s VoD circuit this was a vampire film I hadn’t heard of before viewing – so I guess it kind of crept out of leftfield....
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The Sixth Watch – review
Author: Sergei Lukyanenko Translator: Andrew Bromfield First published (English): 2016 Contains spoilers The blurb: The Streets of Moscow aren’t safe. Vampires are attacking innocent people, and the...
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Daylight’s End – review
Director: William Kaufman Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This is most definitely a zompire movie. What seems a by the numbers zombie apocalypse film (a genre that part owes its existence to the...
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The Night of the Chupacabras – review
Director: Rodrigo Aragão Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers Now, I know quite often that Chupacabra films are covered under the auspices of ‘Vamp or Not?’ articles but in this case it was so...
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Vamp or Not? Orgy of the Dead
Although directed by Stephen C. Apostolof this 1965 movie was written by Edward D Wood Jr based on his novel of the same name and featured Criswell (Plan 9 from Outer Space). It often worms its way...
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Short Film: the High Cost of Dying
The High Cost of Dying is a 2015 film directed by Rodney V. Smith and based on a character from his prose series So You Might Be a Vampire. It follows the character Beatrice (Sara Cecile) who tells us...
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