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Let Me In: Crossroads – review
Author: Marc Andreyko Art: Patric Reynolds First Published: 2011 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Abby's life as a vampire is dangerous enough as it is, and it's about to get much, much worse - the murder...
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Another Break!?!
What, you might ask, am I doing having another break in posting? Apologies guys, but Rebellion Punk Festival 2017 starts tomorrow and I’m fully concentrating on that; good music, good mates and dirty...
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Vamp or Not? Jug Face
Also known as The Pit, Jug Face was directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle and released in 2013. The film was mentioned by Simon bacon in Becoming Vampire who said “a patch of land seems to draw the...
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Vamp or Not? 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
Why, oh why are you doing a ‘Vamp or Not?’ on 28 Days later? I wouldn’t blame you for asking that question straight off the bat. The 2002 Danny Boyle directed 28 Days Later was something of a watershed...
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Innocence – review
Directed by: Hilary Brougher Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Vampires and girl schools, a trope that goes back to at least Blood of Dracula and, you know what, they can work. This isn’t in a girl...
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Vampire Cleanup Department – review
Directors: Sin-Hang Chiu & Pak-Wing Yan Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers There have been some really interesting vampire films coming out of China over the last few years, though some are...
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The Transfiguration – review
Director: Michael O'Shea Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers There has been a small buzz around the Transfiguration but, to be candidly honest, not so much of a buzz as I might have expected having...
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Honourable mention: The Matrix Reloaded
The 1999 Wachowskis’ film The Matrix was a landmark in Sci-Fi cinema and it is of little surprise that the sequels (of which this is the first) were comparatively lacking. It was always going to be a...
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Castlevania – season 1
Directed by: Sam Deats Release Date: 2017 Contains spoilers The Castlevania series is a computer game series by Konami. I have played a little of it (mostly Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, which I...
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Realm of the Damned: Tenebris Deos (Graphic Novel) – review
Author: Alec Worley Illustrator: Pye Parr First published: 2016 Contains spoilers: The Blurb: There's no one left to protect us from what lurks in the dark. There's no Hellboy, no Mulder and Scully, no...
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Short Film: Allure
This was a 2004 short film directed by Pat Pizzuto and is just over 21 minutes in length. It is fairly simplistic story wise and starts with a guy, Marty (Eric Constein), going into a bar and ordering...
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Hacked Horror Film Massacre – review
Director: Angus Simon Release date: 2013* Contains spoilers *release date as suggested by Amazon Prime Video page, the film does not have an IMDb page at the time of writing the review. It is somewhat...
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Vampariah – review
Director: Matthew Abaya Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Vampariah is a Filipino/American production and is based, I understand, on director Matthew Abaya's earlier short, entitled Bampinay. It...
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Shake Rattle & Roll 2K5 – review
Director: Richard Somes (segment) Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers Shake Rattle & Roll is a Filipino horror anthology film series and this is actually the 7th in the series. The films all...
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Lust of the Vampire Girls – review
Director: Matt Johnson Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers I find it difficult to know how to take Lust of the Vampire Girls. Despite it suggesting on the DVD case that it is “an homage to European...
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Life Sucks – review
Authors: Jessica Abel & Gabriel Soria Illustrator: Warren Pleece First published: 2008 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Life sucks for Dave Marshall. The girl he's in love with doesn't know he exists,...
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The Monster Project – review
Director: Victor Mathieu Release Date: 2017 Contains spoilers Found footage films are, I think, generally a love it or hate it style. With notable exceptions, I tend to find them a way of disguising...
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Honourable Mention: Minions
Minions seem rather popular but, as I haven’t watched the Despicable Me films I am absolutely behind the curve. That said I knew that I would have to, at some point, do an Honourable Mention of their...
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Derakula – review
Director: Reza Attaran Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers It was almost inevitable, one guesses, that a vampire film should come out of Iran following the success of American-Iranian film A Girl...
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Classic Literature – Dracula: Or the Undead - A Play in Prologue and Five Acts
The fact that Bram Stoker wrote the seminal vampire novel Dracula and published it in 1897 is likely to be known to most readers who come here. That he wrote a play based on his novel that was...
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