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Honourable mention: Justice League
Before I begin, let’s get one thing straight. I really like the DC Universe movies. I get that many don’t, but I do. I like the dark edge, I enjoy the movies and, unlike many, I like the oeuvre created...
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Manananggal in Manila – review
Director: Mario O'Hara Release date: 1997 Contains spoilers This was a film hailing, as the title would suggest, from the Philippines and features the manananggal – the bat winged vampire woman whose...
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Honourable mention: The Apple
This is another one that I have author Doug Lamoreux to ‘thank’ for. Though, to be fair, it does contain a vampire – if only in fleeting visitation. However, the vampire doesn’t take away that this...
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Habit – review
Director: Simeon Halligan Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Not to be confused with the Larry Fessenden film from 20 years before, this trades the seedy underbelly of New York for the equally seedy...
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The Beaumonts – review
Director: Jamie Sharps Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers When this appeared on Amazon video my first thought was of the Butcher brothers’ films The Hamiltons and The Thompsons. There are some...
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Dawn in Damnation – review
Author: Clark Casey First Published: 2017 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Buddy Baker is a dead man. Literally. After gunning down more men than Billy the Kid-and being hung by a rope necktie for his...
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Short Film: Fine Dining
Coming in at round the 9-minute mark, Fine Dining is a gorgeous short directed by Usher Morgan. At the end of the credits an intertitle actually tells us how the film came to be: “This film is the...
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Night of Death – review
Director: Raphaël Delpard Release date: 1980 Contains spoilers “La Nuit de la Mort!” to give the film its original French title, is a film I stumbled across and it certainly is a vampire film, though...
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Short Film: Nunja
Directed by Autumn Gieb, this is roughly 20 minutes long (excluding end titles) and I couldn’t find a date although the companion piece was copyrighted to 2014. So, when I mention a companion piece...
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Little Deaths – review
Director: Sean Hogan (segment) Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers Little Deaths is an anthology film and by the title (i.e. la petite mort) you can tell that the segments are about sex and death, and...
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Dracula in Love – review
Director: Izidore K. Musallam Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Well, its another Dracula film and the fact that this actually adds another film into the character’s ever-growing résumé is about the...
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Guest Blog: Interesting Shorts: Valeska
We welcome Clark back to the blog as he looks at Valeska, a short from the collection Voices of the Damned. Author: Barbie Wilde Published 2015. Contains spoilersHorror fans will probably best know Ms...
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Monsterland – review
Director: Various Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This is another portmanteau film that brings together unconnected (and I assume previously released) shorts as a whole. The wraparound has a...
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Neighbours – review
Director: Shyam Ramsay Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers This is a Bollywood offering from Shyam Ramsay, of the famous Ramsay brothers and is not, it must be stated at the head of the review, a...
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The Blood Harvest – review
Director: George Clarke Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This is an odd one and there is a twist spoiler necessary I’m afraid. A film from Northern Ireland this is absolutely a budget film (the...
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Sunset Society – review
Directors: Phoebe Dollar & Rolfe Kanefsky Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This is a film of two parts, if not halves, with an original film directed by Phoebe Dollar as the centre piece to a...
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Vampira – review
Director: Joey Romero Release date: 1994 Contains spoilers This offering from the Philippines eschewed their own rich mythologies and folklore to take a very western style of vampire. Indeed we even...
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A Little bit of Me Time
Not an announcement of a hiatus but just a quick blog to note a couple of things.Firstly, is to mention the book Growing up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children’s Media edited by Simon Bacon...
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Deadpool: Dracula’s Gauntlet – review
Authors: Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan Artists: Reilly Brown, Khary Randolph & Scott Koblish Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers The Blurb: A tale of Boy meets Ghoul – as only the demented...
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Short Film: Endless
I do like to bring you a short film on occasion, and this was one I found rather outstanding. It comes in around the seven-and-a-half-minute mark, was directed by Matt Bloom and released in 2011. It...
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