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Fanged Up – review
Director: Christian James Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This one almost snuck out but I spotted it just before its UK release. A horror comedy set in a prison (fanged up = banged up, geddit?)...
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Female Vampires Online – review
Director: G.R. Claveria Release date: 2011/12* Contains spoilers This low budget film started life as a web-serial called FemVamp.com and was cut together from that extant footage. *I have listed the...
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Takut: Faces of Fear – review
Directors: Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto Release date: 2008 Contains spoilers Those who read this blog regularly will know I have a soft spot for anthology and portmanteau films and so, when I...
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Honourable Moon: Warlock Moon
Despite the movie poster’s vampiric look, I need to begin by saying that this 1973 movie directed by William Herbert is not a vampire movie but it is so much more than the “cannibal movie” it is often...
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Danger, Dames & Dangerous Games – review
Director: Alexander Salazar Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers At first glance the title looks silly – but don’t worry its purposefully so as Danger, Dames & Dangerous Games is a low budget urban...
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Vampire Ticks from Outer Space – review
Director: Michael Butt First released: 2013 Contains spoilers On a genre level, are ticks enough to be classed as vampires and thus make a film part of the vampire genre? It is a dilemma I’ve struggled...
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Nishi Trishna – review
Director: Parimal Bhattacharya Release date: 1989 Contains spoilers Facebook friend Prodosh recently suggested three Bengali films I might like to check out. A quick google was actually successful in...
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Short Film: Sangre De Cristo: The Trilogy of Terror
This is a short 2018 animation, directed by Pasquale Encell and Steve Encell, which features three stories and comes in at roughly 18 minutes. The animation is described (on Amazon) as displaying...
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Horror and Hamsters – review
Director: Randy Smith (segment) Release date: 2018 Contains spoilersWhen is a vampire film not a vampire film? There could be a few answers to that but today we are looking at the segment La Grosse...
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Rakter Swad – review
Director: Dhruba Dutta Release date: 1993 Contains spoilers Facebook friend Prodosh recently suggested three Bengali films I might like to check out. A quick google was actually successful in...
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Gogol: Viy – review
Director: Egor Baranov Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Regular readers will know that I adore Viy and have a soft spot for the filmed versions. The Russian 1967 movie, Viy, is one of my favourite...
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Vitaortus Book 2 – review
Author: Dea Schofield First Published: 2014 Contains spoilers The Blurb: This supernatural fusion tale twists and twines along as Devi Trevathan, the world's only Prime Channel (and herb-growing,...
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The Vampire Symphony – review
Director: Jeff Scott Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers The association of Dracula with symphonies is old indeed, stretching back to 1922 and Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens. Like the classic...
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Dracula An International Perspective – Review
Editor: Marius-Mircea Crișan First Published: 2017 The Blurb: This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic. As well as the transformation of the...
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Short Film: Bar Talk
This was a short (under 9 minute) film directed by Lowell Northrop and released in 2014. I actually caught it on a short film series on Amazon Prime entitled Hollywood Horrorfest and as I watched it,...
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The Zee Horror Show: Dahshat – review
Directors: Tulsi & Shyam Ramsay First aired: 1994 Contains spoilers When I reviewed the Indian film Neighbours, a friend, Prodosh, informed me that not only had Shyam Ramsay directed that but...
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Honourable Mention: Blood Fest
Directed by Owen Egerton and released in 2018, this is a tribute to the horror genre sort of film that plays with the tropes but perhaps is a bit less clever than it thinks it is and therefore...
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Honourable Mention: Terror Tales from the Horror Library
A blink and you miss it moment from this horror anthology, dated by Amazon as 2016. Like many of these anthologies that are currently appearing to satisfy the need for more and more films for Video on...
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Preacher Season 3 – review
Director: various First aired: 2018 Contains spoilers Oh Preacher, how I love thee… Yes, the most irreverent show on demand is back and this season has more vampiric goodness than the previous seasons....
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Vamp or Not? All the Devils are Here
This is a 2014 film by Ryan Lightbourn and when I put it on I wasn’t expecting to do a ‘Vamp or Not?’, I was content to be watching a mid-range creature feature/Evil Dead/kids find themselves at a...
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