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Short Film: Search/Destroy: A Strontium Dog Fan Film
Strontium Dog was a 2000 AD strip (though it started in the comic Starlord) and was a post nuclear series in which mutants were deemed second class citizens, subjected to racism and generally...
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Vamp or Not? All Girls Weekend
The 2016 Lou Simon directed All Girls Weekend is part slasher with aspects reminiscent of the Blair Witch Project (a landscape that won’t allow you to escape) and a touch of the Evil Dead (specifically...
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Potent Media's Sugar Skull Girls – review
Director: Christian Grillo Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers I don’t know whether putting the production company’s name at the head of the title of this was designed to create a corporate franchise...
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Short Film: Fiend Fatale
Fiend Fatale is a short film, coming in at around the 12-minute mark, directed by Steven Shea and released in 2013. However, I should tell you in advance that this is a proof of concept and therefore...
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Blood Renegades – review
Author: Rosemary A Johns First Published: 2017 The Blurb: Light lives for his vampire family. Now he may die for it. Light – rebel, lover, anti-hero – will be burnt at the stake in fourteen days. When...
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Power Rangers Mystic Force – review
Director: various Release date:2006 Contains spoilers You may not have heard of the Japanese long running series Super Sentai. It has run since 1975 and is an example of the tokusatsu genre. The...
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Blood Hunters – review
Director: Tricia Lee Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Regular readers will know that occasionally I start a review with the admission that I considered looking at the film as a “Vamp or Not?” When...
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Essential Literature: Dracula in Istanbul
Like the recently released Powers of Darkness, Kazıklı Voyvoda (now named Dracula in Istanbul) was less a translation and more a re-imagining of Dracula. In some respects this was much more important,...
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The Last Revenants – review
Director: Jim DeVault Release Date: 2017 Contains spoilers Director Jim DeVault steps away from his Blood Reunion trilogy and enters a new world of lore. If there is one thing I can say about DeVault...
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Preacher Season 2 – review
Directors: various First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers I enjoyed the First Season. It may have been more like a prequel to the comic books (and took story aspects in different directions) but it was...
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Power Rangers Turbo: Carlos and the Count – review
Director: Lawrence L. Simeone First aired: 1997 Contains spoilers So this is a further example of a vampire in long running tokusatsu series Power Rangers. This example is in the Turbo incarnation and...
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Short Film: Plasma (2017)
Weighing in at just 5 minutes I caught this 2017, Vittoria Citerni di Siena directed film on Amazon Prime but have not been able to find out very much about it. Silent, it is indeed an oddity with a...
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Monsters Among Men – review
Director: Ryan Blazic Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Coming out of nowhere, straight onto Amazon Prime, I must admit that I wasn’t expecting too much from Blazic’s vampire film. However, I found...
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Kickstarter: Vampfest
The folks of Vampfest sent me a press release for the 2018 Vampfest and asked me to share it. The festival has been running a couple of years and takes place in Sighisoara, a beautiful town. I thought...
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Back to the USSR – review
Director: Jari Halonen Release date: 1992 Contains spoilers Glasnost means different things to different folks. However, given the border proximity between Finland and the USSR it certainly would have...
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Space Boobs in Space – review
Director: Andrew N. Shearer Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Given the title, one might be forgiven for wondering whether this offering falls into the (softcore) porn end of the vampire genre. This...
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Short Film: Dracula: The Legend Lives
This is a 7-minute short film, released in 2017 and directed by David Heavener and whilst the title and the IMDb credit gives us the vampire’s name as Dracula, in film the name Drac von Stoller (David...
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Tiyanak – review
Directors: Peque Gallaga & Lore Reyes Release date: 1988 Contains spoilers This is a Filipino movie from the 80s and I was rather excited to see that it was on Amazon Prime (subtitled, of course)...
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Shake, Rattle & Roll XV – review
Director: Perci M. Intalan (segment) Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers The 15th iteration of the long running Filipino horror anthology series and like all the films in the series consists of three...
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Super Inday and the Golden Bibe – review
Director: Michael Tuviera Release date: 2010 Contains spoilers So the word Bibe in Tagalog means duck – we’ll get to that in a second. The reason for looking at this film, in the first instance, was...
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