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Monster X – review
Director: Patrick Rea (segment) Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This is another portmanteau film that takes short films previously produced and offers them a wraparound. The result of this is, of...
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Happy Family – review
Director: Holger Tappe Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Also known as Monster Family this is a joint UK/German animated feature aimed at a kid’s market but it does do some interesting things in its...
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Self-Induced Nightmares – review
Director: Ian Lawlor (segment) Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Whilst Amazon have listed this as Sin, it is listed on IMDb as Self-Induced Nightmares and is a portmanteau film. The surround has a...
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The Strain: Season 4 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers I have reviewed the previous seasons of the Strain: Season One, Two and Three and, of course, was a fan of the novels. Season 3 ended with a...
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The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies – review
Author: Gregory A Waller First published: 1986 The Blurb: With a legacy stretching back into legend and folklore, the vampire in all its guises haunts the film and fiction of the twentieth century and...
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Honourable Mention: The Magic Sword
The Magic Sword was a 1962 fantasy movie directed by Bert I. Gordon and stars Gary Lockwood as George (or Sir George, as he later claims) who is the ward of 400-years old Sorceress Sybil (Estelle...
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Night Invasion – review
Director: WаngJun* Release date: 2016* Contains spoilers *these are taken from the Amazon Video data. Note that this is often inaccurate but I couldn’t readily track down an IMDb page or a...
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Petrified – review
Director: Charles BandRelease date: 2006 Contains spoilers Sometimes you just need some nonsense… I was going to say cheesy sleazy nonsense but this one added in some sleaze (we’ll get to it) but then...
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Honourable Mention: The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
I am absolutely torn on this one. Part of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, this was an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm’s The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. It has a bit...
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Danger Mouse: From Duck to Dawn – review
Directors: Robert Cullen & Simon HallFirst aired: 2016 (episodes)Contains spoilersSo before we had the show Count Duckula the character had appeared in four episodes of the series Danger Mouse as a...
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Honourable mention: Deadtime Tales 2
Sometimes I despair at covering a given vehicle under the moniker ‘honourable mention’ as sometimes there is nothing honourable about it whatsoever. Let’s take Deadtime Tales 2… to be honest let’s take...
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Rancid – review
Director: Alastair Orr Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers South African film Rancid (AKA Expiration) is an odd one. Possibly closer to zombie than vampire these fall easily into the zompire camp....
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Guardians of the Night – review
Director: Emilis Velyvis Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers I’m going to say it from the get go, this owes such a debt to Night Watch its untrue – though it doesn’t have the grim atmosphere, lyricism...
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Shake Rattle and Roll Fourteen: The Invasion – review
Director: Chito S. Roño Released: 2012 Contains spoilers The Shake Rattle and Roll series of films have been featured here before and are a long running series of horror anthology films from the...
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Nosferatu A Symphony of Horror Full Sound – review
Director: F W Murnau New Material director: Strephon TaylorRelease date: (this edition) 2010 Another day, another version of Nosferatu, this one boasting full sound. So, what does that mean? It means...
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AS:VS Back in Business – review
Director: Jim Weter Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Despite saying, at the end of my review of AS:VS At Stake: Vampire Solutions, “There is a sequel – not yet released – and I am really looking...
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Redwood – review
Director: Tom Paton Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers I had noticed this was being made but it snuck out when released over in the UK, on DVD and stream. The press it got during production was...
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Kissing Cousins: Night of the Living Dead
When I read the Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires, Exterminating Zombies I decided that I should, at some point, look at this 1968 George Romero classic. Not that I agree with David Pirie who...
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Vampires of Sorority Row – review
Directors: Dennis Devine & Kathryn Glass Release date: 1999 Contains spoilers A low-grade comedy merging vampires and the college/sorority genres this was (I imagine) a straight to video effort...
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Honourable mention: Fangs for Nothing
This 2010 film by Andrew N. Shearer (the guy behind Space Boobs in Space) was originally called Fake Blood and was actually a fascinating little conceit. Taking the role of Edward D. Benjamin, Shearer...
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