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Vitaortus: Book One – review
Author: Dea Schofield Release date: 2013 The Blurb: Devi is a specially gifted horticulturist whose quiet world is disturbed by mysterious beings attracted to her unique talents. They have big plans...
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Tiyanaks – review
Director: Mark A. Reyes Release date: 2007 Contains spoilers A little like Super Inday and the Golden Bibe, this film ages the tiyanak (or tiyanaks, plural, in this) to young children rather than...
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I Had a Bloody Good Time at House Harker – review
Director: Clayton Cogswell Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers What happened to the Harkers after the events in Dracula? It is a question that has inspired many stories and forms the nub of the...
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Come to my Brother – review
Author: Christopher Zeischegg First published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: David and Daniel grew up together in Northern California. They became friends and then brothers; started a band and then...
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Ludo – review
Directors: Qaushiq Mukherjee & Nikon Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers So, I’m looking for a horror film to watch – not a vampire film per se – and I spot Ludo on Netflix, an Indian horror film...
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The Ecstasy of Isabel Mann – review
Director: Jason Figgis Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers Hidden very much under the radar, this unusual genre entry was released in 2012 in its native Ireland but for the most part has gone...
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Blood River – review
Director: Christopher Forbes Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Christopher Forbes was the director and creative force behind the film Vampitheatre, a film that generated a soupçon of blog...
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The Becoming 2015 – review
Directors: Geovanni Molina & Marty Marrero Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers The blurb on Amazon Prime states: “Angels fall from the heavens. They then turn into Vampires. Only one man can save...
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The Little Vampire: New Adventures – review
Director: Christian Görlitz First aired: 1993 Contains spoilers Ostensibly following the 1986 series, the Little Vampire, this differed in many ways starting with the fact that it was a wholly...
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Blood Woods – review
Director: John Reign Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Simply appearing on Amazon Prime on the run up to Halloween, this was one that frustrated me by nearly getting things right and really not. I...
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Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Monsters and Mutants – review
Director: Various First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers With 6 episodes taken from season 5 of the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this has four episodes concerning the classic monsters and...
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Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter – review
Director: Tony Watt Release date: 2011 Contains spoilersJ. Gordon Melton, I blame you – in the nicest sort of way but I came across this due to some correspondence we had! There has been an increasing...
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Short Film: Vampire in Union City
This was a short film, coming in at 48 minutes, directed by Lucio Fernandez and released in 2010. I was lucky enough to be sent a DVD of the film, though it came with a health warning that it was...
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Honourable mention: I Love You to Death
I really didn’t know which way to go with this one. Our “vampiric” figure is not a vampire, I think, but displays cosmetic vampiric attributes that demanded I feature the film here. There didn’t seem...
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Honourable Mention: the LEGO Batman Movie
You’ll hopefully recall that I looked at the LEGO movie because of a fleeting visitation of the Friendly Vampire and, of course, Batman (Will Arnett) played a fairly large role in that film. This was...
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Bullets, Fangs & Dinner at 8 – review
Director: Matthew Rocca First released: 2015 Contains spoilers Bullets, Fangs & Dinner at 8 is an ultra-low budget film that is listed as a comedy (actually, one performance has a comedic edge to...
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Zapped: The Party – review
Director: Dave Lambert First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers I was contacted by my friend Everlost who told me that episode 3 of season 2 of Zapped was a vampire episode. Now, I must admit that I hadn’t...
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Honourable Mention: The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula
Getting an Honourable Mention as I am not straying into reviewing radio plays but by crikey this deserves a mention. The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula started life as a Anthony Hind’s script for...
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Semya Vurdalakov – review
Directors: Gennadiy Klimov & Igor Shavlak Release date: 1990 Contains spoilers The Necrorealism art movement was a Russian movement that is little known outside that country. I have featured a film...
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The Legend of Chupacabras – review
Director: Alberto Rodriguez Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers On a plus side the Chupacabras in this animated film are definitely vampiric in nature, so no need for a ‘Vamp or Not?’ The down side,...
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