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The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature – review
Author: James B. Twitchell First Published: 1987 The Blurb: In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the...
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Short Film: Midnight Workout
This was an Eight Minute short, released in 2017 and directed by Beau Yotty who also plays the male lead – Don Slayer. It is, unfortunately, flawed. We start with Slayer in a workout session down a...
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Honourable mention: Domain of the Damned
Directed by Stacy Davidson and released in 2007 this seems to have appeared and then disappeared and it is a shame as it is flawed, it has bitten off more than it can chew but it was actually a really...
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Shake Rattle and Roll 9 – review
Director: Topel Lee (segment) Release date: 2007 Contains spoilers The ninth in the long running Philippine series of horror anthologies, I have to admit that I didn’t watch this with the view of...
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Honourable Mention: Bad Monsters
So, this was a portmanteau film and the wraparound was directed by Evan Tramel (according to the film credits – IMDb have another director listed), which was released in 2018. The wraparound was in the...
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Bog – review
Director: Don Keeslar Release date: 1979 Contains spoilers This is one that nearly went down a ‘Vamp or Not?’ route as what we have is essentially a gill-man type creature (Jeff Schwaab). We have...
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But Deliver us from Evil – review
Director: Joshua Coates Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Lilith (Alice Rose) has become linked to the media vampire but let us not forget that this is a fairly recent pairing, and also note that...
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Corbin Nash – review
Director: Ben Jagger Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Corbin Nash is a strange beast of a film reminding me visually of a grittier Vamp but it felt (to a degree) a little like Pearblossom or, at...
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Little Orphan Vampires – review
Author: Jean Rollin Translator: Peter Tombs First Published: 1993 (French edition), 1995 (translation) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Little Orphan Vampires is written by film director Jean Rollin....
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Vampire Clay – review
Director: Sôichi Umezawa Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers A slice of Japanese madness, this is indeed a film about clay that would seem to be vampiric. It’s a body horror – though perhaps not as...
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Honourable mention: Dracula Reborn No. 1
The Blurb: The first comic book in the series Dracula; the Unearthed Chronicles. Count Dracula is restored to life in the present day and begins his long centuries revenge on Van Helsing and his...
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Tod Browning's Dracula – review
Author: Gary D Rhodes First published: 2015 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Few movies in film history have resonated with audiences as deeply and for as many years as Universal’s original 1931 version of...
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Midnight Texas: season 1 – review
Director: various First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers This was another adaptation of a Charlaine Harris series – it is a supernatural based series (consisting of a trilogy) but unlike the Southern...
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Honourable Mention: Carmilla Hyde
This was a 2010 Australian movie that was written and directed by David De Vries and it isn’t a vampire movie. However, by the name you can tell it takes some of its premise from Carmilla and there are...
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It Came from Below – review
Director: Detdrich McClure Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers There is a general fear humanity seems to carry of the other – whether this is an instinctive fear, or something that is instilled as...
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Classic Literature: Dracula: The Ultimate, Illustrated Edition of the...
Authors: Hamilton Deane & John L. Balderston Editor: David J Skal First Published: 1924 (Deane), 1927 (Balderston), 1993 (this edition) You may recall I looked at the Stoker stage treatment of...
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Family Blood – review
Director: Sonny Mallhi Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This kind of came out of left field. I’d seen no pre-release build up, it was released straight to Netflix and Netflix didn’t even flag it to...
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Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Monster Squad – review
Writer: Frank Barbiere* Illustrator: Brent Schoonover* First Published: 2016 (TPB) Contains spoilers *Barbiere And Schooinover were primary writer and illustrator but the collection contains one issue...
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Empire of the Dead Act 3 – review
Author: George A Romero Illustrator: Alex Maleev First published: 2015 Contains spoilers The Blurb: It's zombies versus vampires — with desperate citizens caught in the crossfire — as the legendary...
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Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos – review
Author: Gerry Duggan Illustrator: Salvador Espin First published: 2016 (TPB) Contains spoilers The blurb: She is Shiklah-undisputed Queen of the Monster Metropolis below Manhattan! In the world that...
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