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Oh My Ghost! 2 – review
Director: Poj Arnon Release Date: 2011 Contains spoilers Please pay attention as this will get confusing. The Thai film, Oh My Ghost! 2 is also called Hor taew tak 3. Hor taew tak (the first film) was...
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The Luke McQueen Pilots: Britain's Hidden Vampire Crisis – review
Director: Paul Taylor First aired: 2018 Contains spoilers I received a message that this was showing on the BBC and went onto iPlayer to have a look. Luke McQueen is a stand-up comedian known for...
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Souleater – review
Director: Michael Lang Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers So, the idea of a soul eater, a form of energy vampire, is fairly set. Then, when said creature turns out to be an overworldly creature...
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Vamp or Not? The Dark
This is a 2018 film directed by Justin P. Lange and when I read its blurb it was suggested that it was The Lovely Bones meets Let the Right One In and whilst I haven’t seen the former, the latter drew...
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Dracul – review
Authors: Dacre Stoker & J D Barker First Published: 2018 The Blurb: It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly...
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The Ghost Busters: The Vampire's Apprentice – review
Director: Larry Peerce First aired: 1975 Contains spoilers The Ghost Busters was a short-lived live action children show that a decade later spawned an animated sequel series called Filmation’s Ghost...
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The New Girls – review
Director: Sonny Fernandez Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers So, I watched this for review on the same day as I watched the Vampire Symphony and what a difference, indeed one worth juxtaposing. One...
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Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture – review
Editors: Simon Bacon & Katarzyna Bronk First published: 2013 The Blurb: Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their...
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The Baron – review
Director: Edgar Pêra Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers O Barão, in Portugese, this is a film based on a piece of Portuguese literature by Branquinho da Fonseca (which is by no means a vampire story)...
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Classic Literature: Manor (1885)
This short story by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) was originally published in a volume entitled Matrosengeschichten in 1885. Ulrichs is a fascinating person and is today seen as a pioneer of the...
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Vidar the Vampire – review
Directors: Thomas Aske Berg & Fredrik Waldeland Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Hailing from Norway, with the original title VampyrVidar, this is a deeply black comedy that is certain to...
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Race in the Vampire Narrative – review
Editor: U. Melissa Anyiwo First Published: 2015 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Race in the Vampire Narrative unpacks the vampire through a collection of classroom ready original essays that explicitly...
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Pharisee – review
Director: Timothy Novotny Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Feeling like an older film, Pharisee is a vampire movie where we could actually question if the vampire, Pharisee (Brad Slitt), is really...
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Playing with Tropes: We are What we Are
We Are What We Are, or Somos lo que Hay in the original Spanish, was a 2010 Mexican film directed by Jorge Michel Grau. It would be remade in 2013 by Jim Mickle, the director behind Stakeland and is...
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Short Film: Daywalker: Blade Origins
This is a 33-minute-long fan film directed by Markiss McFadden and released in 2017. It really is one of those fan films that begs the question, why are they often superior to a lot of the cheap-end...
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Vamp or Not? Breaking the Waves
This is a 1996 film by auteur Lars von Trier, which was nominated for the Cannes Palme d’Or and won the Grand prize of the Jury. So why look at it here? In a foot note to “André Gide, Nosferatu and the...
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Vamp Bikers – review
Director: Eric Spade Rivas Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers Oh my word, what did I just watch? Normally I watch a film and take notes, perhaps go over scenes again that I want to clarify or simply...
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The Vampire: a New History – review
Author: Nick Groom First published: 2018 Contains spoilers The blurb: An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the...
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Ken Russell’s Dracula – review
Author: Ken Russell Published: 2017 (3rd ed) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Written between Tommy and Altered States, Ken Russell’s screenplay for Dracula was one of Hollwood’s best kept secrets. It has...
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Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between – review
Author: Gary A Smith First published: 2016 Contains spoilers The blurb: The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies-always a cinema staple-were no...
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