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Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century – review
Author: Stacey Abbott First published: 2017 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Exploring how the figure of the vampire has been infused with the language of science, disease and apocalypse, while the zombie...
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Cult of the Vampire – review
Director: Andrew MacKenzie Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Perhaps, sometimes, I think too hard. It’s just, when I watched Cult of the Vampire I really felt there was a lot missing. For a start...
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The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters – review
Director: Peter Balakoff (segment) Release date: 1965 Contains spoilers Expectation can do a lot, I guess. I think I expected the little rascals or maybe the Bowery Boys. It certainly wasn’t the former...
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The Vampire, Dracula and Incest: The Vampire Myth, Stoker's Dracula, and...
Author: Daniel Lapin First published: 1993 Contains spoilers The old saying goes that you should never assume as it makes an “ass of U and me”, unfortunately that is what I did with this volume. I...
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All Hallows’ Eve – review
Director: Harry Sparks Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers Not to be confused with the more robust 2013 vehicle of the same name, All Hallows’ Eve is a portmanteau film in which a group of crazy kids...
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30 Years of the Lost Boys
The Lost Boys premiered on 27 July 1987 and, not quite thirty years on, on 25th June 2017, my better half took me to Liverpool where we watched the film on the big screen (I had previously seen it on...
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Blood Kisses – review
Director: Robert Kornhiser Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers There are certain images that set up an expectation. When a vampire film begins with imagery of spiked metal railing you just know...
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Honourable Mention: The Whitby Witches
The Blurb: When orphans Ben and Jennet arrive in the seaside town of Whitby to stay with Alice Boston, they have no idea what to expect. A lively 92-year-old, Miss Boston is unlike any other foster...
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The Very Beast of Transylvania Television – review
Directed by: Michael J. Heagle & Troy Antoine LaFaye (series) First aired: 2007-2012 (series) Contains spoilers I stumbled over Transylvania Television on Tubi TV where they had 5 episodes from the...
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Vamp or Not? Dead Awake
One form of vampire in the Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions is the Old Hag. Her presence is part of a wider archetypal form as the hag appears through various traditions, sitting upon...
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Upcoming film: Ladies of the Red Club
I’ve just come across this and thought I’d leave you the trailers - they are both very different - to have a look at. The film description has been provided by the film’s creative force Alan Pells:...
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Vamp or Not? Dreadtime Stories
I caught the 2014 Jacob Grim directed portmanteau flick Dreadtime Stories simply because I like portmanteau/anthology horror films. However, there was one story within it – Empty – that made me think I...
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Apostle of Dracula – review
Director: Emilio Schargorodsky Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers Originally titled Dracula 0.9, this film recently appeared on Prime Videos. Unfortunately the Spanish film is dubbed into English,...
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Honourable Mention: Becoming Vampire
Author: Simon Bacon First Published: 2017 The Blurb: Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define...
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Realm of the Damned: Tenebris Deos – review
Director: Tom Paton Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Realm of the Damned is a motion comic, meaning that it is a graphic novel that has had the original art manipulated into animation, with...
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Nightcomer – review
Director: Alain Silver Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers There was, in the early 21st Century, a glut of vampire movies. The popularity of the genre (due to franchise hits on the big screen and...
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Vamp or Not? The Red Violin
We have certainly come across vampire objects before, be it the catalytic Cronos device or a Vampire Motorcycle. We have seen a vampire musical instrument before in the form of the Vampire Guitar...
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Short Film: Uploading Victims
This film from 2014 was directed by Supisara Panichkasem is an experimental piece, mostly without dialogue, and to be fair is more style than substance. The thin story sees people being attacked on the...
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Lempire. The Beginning (The Lempire Book 2) – review
Author: David Williams First published: 2017 The Blurb: After sharing his despair and frustration of never reaching his destiny as a Lemming in 'The Lempires Lament', it's time to remember the good...
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Honourable Mention: Rick and Morty: Big Trouble in Little Sanchez
So, I hadn’t watched any Rick (Justin Roiland) and Morty (also Justin Roiland) and a friend, Dave, had repeatedly suggested I was missing out. “Just watch three episodes,” he said… and I did… and I was...
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