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Penny Dreadful: Season 3 – review
First aired: 2016 Directors: Various Contains spoilers The first season of Penny Dreadful was excellent but also had some aspects that could have been better pulled together (less problems and more...
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La Stirpe di Orazio – review
Directors: Riccardo Bernasconi & Francesca Reverdito Release date: 2016* Contains spoilers *the studio asparagus page suggests a 2015 date but the copyright on the episodes’ states 2016 Following a...
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Frightmare – review
Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane Release date: 1983 Contains spoilers There was a question mark in my mind as to how I’d treat the film on TMtV. Whilst main character Conrad Radzoff (Ferdy Mayne, the...
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Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen – review
Director: Thomas Smugala Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers Sometimes I just don’t hate films as much as others seem to do. Sometimes I stumble across a film that has a sub-genre theme and give it a...
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Vamp or Not? Tower of Evil
A 1972 film directed by Jim O'Connolly this is a very quick and dirty ‘Vamp or Not?’ The film starts with two fisherman, John Gurney (George Coulouris) and his son Hamp (Jack Watson), braving the fog...
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Honourable Mention: Ángeles y Querubines
This is a rare 1972 Mexican film directed by Rafael Corkidi and it is one that you could argue has more than a fleeting visitation and that the vampire is in plain sight all the way through but, on a...
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Trancers 4: Jack of Swords – review
Director: David Nutter First aired: 1994 Contains spoilers Full Moon pictures are best known on TMtV for their Subspecies series of films (and spin offs). But as well as those there is the long running...
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Honourable Mention: The Monster Pool
I stumbled upon an anthology film entitled the Monster Pool: Chapter Two – an outlet for indie filmmakers from Ottawa and available on VoD, DVD and Blu-ray. It did, of course, beg the question of what...
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Trancers 5: Sudden Deth – review
Director: David Nutter Release date: 1994 Contains spoilers So, whilst Trancers 4 did come to an ending, what it didn’t do was return Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson, Near Dark, Live Evil& Wicked Lake) to...
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Honourable Mention: Monster Pool the Second Chapter
So, we recently looked at the anthology collection entitled Monster Pool, which was used to showcase shorts by Indie filmmakers from Ottawa. The guys behind the series were good enough to give me...
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Pura Sangre – review
Director: Luis Ospina Release date: 1982 Contains spoilers In 1977 Columbian filmmaker Luis Ospina co-directed a short film with Carlos Mayolo entitled the Vampires of Poverty. The film was a retort to...
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Blood Reunion 3: Hunters – review
Director: Jim DeVault Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers I was taken with the first Blood Reunion, it was flawed but interesting nonetheless. Unfortunately the second film failed to capitalise on...
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Monster Mash: The Movie – review
Directors: Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow Release date: 1995 Contains spoilers Not to be confused with the year 2000 animation this is a live action musical. It was based around Bobby Pickett’s famous...
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Spooky Kids – review
Director: Tony Randel Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers There has to be something said for a film having a good title. Whilst, of course, content is much more important the title can draw a...
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The Devil’s Mistress – review
Director: Orville Wanzer Release date: 1966 Contains spoilers The Western Horror, and more specifically the Western Vampire Movie, are a fairly rare breed – although there are some excellent examples....
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Vamp or Not? Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is a 2016 anime series directed by Tetsurō Araki and it is steampunk in tone and setting. Ian contacted me and suggested it as a “Vamp or Not?” and it was a good call. The...
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Honourable Mention: National Lampoon’s Class Reunion
Released in 1982 and directed by Michael Miller this was a film written by John Hughes and comedically, for me, falls flat (it definitely has not aged well but I suspect it was flat back in the day)....
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Mother May I Sleep with Danger – review
Director: Melanie Aitkenhead Released: 2016 Contains spoilers The original Mother May I Sleep with Danger (MMISWD) was a 1996 thriller starring Tori Spelling about a killer who targets, isolates,...
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Expressionism in Cinema – review
Editors: Olaf Brill & Gary D. Rhodes First published: 2016 Contains spoilers The Blurb: One of the most visually striking traditions in cinema, for too long Expressionism has been a neglected...
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Honourable Mentions: Zee-Oui
There is a type of serial killer who are dubbed by the press as vampires – leading to such monikers as the Hanover Vampire or the Vampire of Düsseldorf. To my knowledge, Si Quey – or as spelt in this...
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