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Honourable Mention: Dark Realm
Ron Fitzgerald (Lilith) – actor and stage illusionist is no stranger to the vampire genre. As well as being in Lilith he has been in a couple of low budget vampire films that I haven’t yet managed to...
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Bloodrunners – review
Director: Dan Lantz Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers There is a 2010 short entitled Blood Runners but if that was almost a post-modern noir then this, its almost namesake, goes back to an era that...
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El Misterio de Cynthia Baird – review
Director: José María Zabalza Release date: 1985 Contains spoilers Apparently filmed in the 70s and then languished on a shelf until 1985, the Mystery of Cynthia Baird is also known as El Retorno de los...
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The Lempire’s Lament – review
Author and artist: David Williams First Published: 2010 The Blurb: “It’s tough being immortal when you’re born suicidal…” Such is the plight of the long-suffering lempire. Part lemming, part vampire,...
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After the Blood Rush – review
Director: Pete Trudgeon Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers On a double disc with the Vampire bitches – which was reviewed here as Marty Jenkins and the Vampire Bitches - this is definitely the weaker...
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Sangue del mio Sangue – review
Director: Marco Bellocchio Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Many thanks to blog reader Alberto who has emailed me with a couple of suggestions of films for the blog – in both cases films I hadn’t...
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Fledgling – review
Author: Octavia E. Butler First published: 2005 Contains spoilers The blurb: Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near fatal...
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Essential Literature: Powers of Darkness
Authors: Bram Stoker (original Novel) & Valdimar Ásmundsson (adaptation) Translator: Hans Corneel de Roos First Published: 1900 (serialised), 1901 (novel), 2017 (English translation) Makt Myrkranna...
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Stake Land II – review
Director: Dan Berk & Robert Olsen Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Though I know many who dislike the film, I really do rate the original Stake land, indeed I predicted in its review that it...
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Cryptic – review
Directors: Freddie Hutton-Mills & Bart Ruspoli Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers It wouldn’t surprise me to discover that Cryptic had its roots on the stage – its one-set format would lend...
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Vampire Resurrection – review
Director: Mark Morris Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This is in no way related to the 2001 Vampire Resurrection and I really hoped that I was going to get something out of this UK low budget...
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Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign (First cour) – review
Director: Daisuke Tokudo First aired: 2015 Contains spoilers This is the first twelve episodes of Seraph of the End, an anime that has a second part that runs for a further twelve episodes. The disc I...
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Honourable Mention: Blood on Méliès' Moon
Blood on Méliès' Moon is an auteur piece by director Luigi Cozzi and released in 2016. Cozzi not only directed by also stars, as himself, and it is his first film in 27 years (not counting the...
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Short Film: Frankula
Frankula is a 7-minute short film directed by David Barry and is a British cinephiles’ dream. Barry, you might recall, played Frankie Abbott (Mummy’s little soldier) in the film and series “Please...
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Night Kaleidoscope – review
Director: Grant McPhee Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Night Kaleidoscope, which originally had the ironic working title of Land of Sunshine, is an odd duck. I really wanted to like it a lot more...
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Vamp or Not? A Fool There Was
I have internally debated whether to look at this as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ on and off through the years, indeed I have vacillated with regards the answer also.Whilst this Frank Powell directed 1915 film...
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Blood Demon Rising – review
Director: Harry Tchinski Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers For a low budget film to use as much CGI as Blood Demon Rising (AKA Grimises Rising) uses is very brave but just a tad foolhardy. The...
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Mona the Vampire: Brainwash Boogie – review
Director: Louis Piché Co-director: Jean Caillon First aired: 2000 – 2001 Mona the Vampire was originally a series of children’s books written and illustrated by Sonia Holleyman and adapted for...
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Zombie Emperor – review
Director: Ying Hua* Released date: 2016* Contains spoilers I stumbled across this 1 hour long kyonsi (not zombie) movie on YouTube and at the time of review can find precious little in the way of...
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Guest Blog: When Your Support Characters Become Protagonists
Today we welcome author Catherine Green to TMtV as she tells us a little about her characters and how they seem to come to life within the writing process. Catherine has written several vampire...
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