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Love Lies Bleeding – review
Author: Aspasia S Bissas First published: 2017 (2nd Edition) Contains spoilers The Blurb: What happens when a predator loves its prey? Centuries-old Mara is dying a slow death when she meets Lee, a...
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The Night Seekers – review
Director: Menetie T. Ejeye Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers So, I spotted this one on Amazon Prime and, if I’m honest, it was the name that attracted my attention. The trailer looked fairly poor...
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Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture – review
Editors: David Baker, Stephanie Green & Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska First Published: 2017 The Blurb: This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect...
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Honourable Mentions: The Adventures of Young Van Helsing: The Quest for the...
Well, this was err… special… and not in a good way. A 2004 offering from director Kevin Summerfield it kind of took the characters created by Bram Stoker and turned them into a low rent Relic Hunter.We...
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Short Film: Sirens
Another film I came across on Amazon Prime, this comes in at 13 minutes in length and (especially given the title) I am not overly sure that these are meant to be vampires but given fangs and a...
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Vamp or Not? SiREN
This 2016 film directed by Gregg Bishop was inspired/spun-off from the segment Amateur Night from the film V/H/S. Now given that I reviewed that, it might seem odd that this is a ‘Vamp or Not?’...
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Short Film: Confessions of a Vampire
As it appears on Amazon Prime, Confessions of a Vampire is allegedly a 2017 film directed by “Old Mill Entertainment”. If that name is familiar they were the company behind the atrocious Ghost bride of...
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Metal Hurlant Resurgence: Loyal Khondor – review
Director: Guillaume Lubrano First aired: 2014 Contains spoilers The Metal Hurlant series was a sci-fi anthology series (6 episodes per season) based on the comic book series Métal Hurlant – which was...
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Honourable Mention: Dracula on LongShorts
I was contacted by Ana from LongShorts which is a way of real-time drip-fed storytelling either through App (available from both the Apple App store and google Play) or via the medium of Twitter. In...
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New Orleans Vampires: History and Legend – review
Author: Marita Woywod Crandle First Published: 2017 The Blurb: New Orleans has a reputation as a home for creatures of the night. Popular books, movies and television shows have cemented the city's...
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Weresquito: Nazi Hunter – review
Director: Christopher R. Mihm Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers When I looked at the flick Mansquito I did so as an ‘Honourable mention’ on the basis that it was of genre interest but the lack of...
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Honourable mention: Minutes Past Midnight
Minutes Past Midnight is an anthology of short horror films released in 2016 and contains a variety (in content) of horror shorts that were mainly of a very high standard. Segments Ghost Train and the...
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Goatsucker – review
Director: Steve Hudgins Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers Whilst there are certainly quite a few films about el chupacabra – the goatsucker – I think this is the first that uses the English version...
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Vamp or Not? Replace
Replace is a 2017 body horror directed by Norbert Keil and after vacillating between this article or just outright declaring vampire and reviewing the film I decided to run with the ‘Vamp or Not?’...
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Slumber – review
Director: Jonathan Hopkins Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers So, we have another Mare movie – the energy vampire or demonic creature, which comes to a person petrified with sleep paralysis, sits...
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Vampire Wars (2016) – review
Director: Craig Ross Jr. Release date: 2016 Contains spoiler Whilst also going under the name Dead South, I’ve used the title that the Region 1 DVD I own runs with. The fact that this has a tagline of...
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Honourable mention: Lore: They Made a Tonic
This was the first episode of the first season of a made for Amazon series (based on a podcast, I understand) and directed by Darnell Martin. It is, going by this episode, a dramatized documentary and...
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Mr. Higgins Comes Home – review
Author: Mike MignolaArtist: Warwick Johnson CadwellFirst published: 2017Contains spoilersThe blurb: Preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless...
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Anno Dracula: One Thousand Monsters – review
Author: Kim Newman First published: 2017 Contains spoilers The Blurb: “There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong...” In 1899 Geneviève Dieudonné travels...
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Anno Dracula 1895 – Seven Days in Mayhem – review
Author: Kim Newman Artist: Paul McCaffrey First published: 2017 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: It is 1895, Count Dracula is Prince Regent and undisputed ruler of the British Empire, his power is...
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