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Playing with Tropes: The Neon Demon
Some time ago my brother suggested that he would like to see me look at the 2016 Nicolas Winding Refn film about the fashion industry on TMtV and whilst the surreal and horrific exploration might seem,...
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New Breed – review
Director: Stephen Groo Release date: 2001 Contains spoilers “Are we nearly there yet?” Had I been watching this with someone else I may have actually vocalised similar as I don’t think an hour has...
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Playing with Tropes: the Texas Chain Saw Massacre
“What in Sam Hill do you think you’re doing at this here vampire genre blog?” I can almost hear you say it, but just bear with me here. This film clearly needs no introduction. Dating back to 1974 and...
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Civil Blood: The Vampire Rights Case that Changed a Nation – review
Author: Chris Hepler First Published: 2018 Contains spoilers The Blurb: IT'S A GENERATION FROM NOWAND JUSTICE MAY BE DEAD THE PLAINTIFFIn a future America still recognizable as our own, the outbreak of...
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With a Kiss I Die – review
Director: Ronnie Khalil Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Tying Shakespeare (and his works) into the vampire genre isn’t unheard of and director Ronnie Khalil looks to do just that with this vehicle...
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Bitten: Victoria's Shadow – review
Director: Grant Austin Waldman Release date: 2001 Contains spoilers The streaming video industry has pluses and minuses due to its insatiable need to promote new content. On a plus side it will plumb...
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When Brave Men Shudder: The Scottish origins of Dracula – review
Author: Mike Shepherd First Published: 2018 The Blurb: Gripped by the demon of inspiration, he entered into the mind of the infamous Count Dracula… The year: 1895. The place: a remote Scottish fishing...
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Black Violet – review
Director: István Várady Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers That Black Violet would appear, according to IMDb, to be István Várady’s directorial debut makes it an astounding effort – not perfect...
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Vamp or Not? We are the Flesh
Controversial art/horror film Tenemos la carne (which is actually 'we have the meat') was a 2016 Mexican film directed by Emiliano Rocha Minter and I feel slightly disingenuous running this as a ‘Vamp...
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Short Film: the Phantom Hour
From 2016 and directed by Brian Patrick Butler this is an 8-minute short film that takes some inspiration from the expressionist films of yore and we see this as it opens in the stylised intertitles...
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An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted) – review
Director: Anne Welles Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This is a kooky little comedy that is inoffensive but perhaps lacked either a little depth or a little offensiveness to give it that bit of an...
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Ghoul – Season 1 – review
Director: Patrick Graham First aired: 2018 Contains spoilers This is an Indian mini-series, made for Netflix and combines a dystopian future with the supernatural and – if we are going to be honest – a...
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Warriors of Terra – review
Director: Robert Wilson Release date: 2006 Contains spoilers Ok, it’s “made by science” vampire time and whilst the V word isn’t mentioned and the film is shot as an atypical creature feature, this is...
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Aswang – review
Director: Michael Laurin Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This is a US/Philippines’ production that uses the traditional form of the aswang. The term aswang literally means monster and is both an...
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A Mosquito-Man – review
Director: Michael Manasseri Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers Science goes mad and creates a mosquito human hybrid… its actually not an unheard of trope and the madness of the science is underlined...
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The Vetala: A Novel of Undying Love – review
Author: Phillip Ernest First Published: 2018 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Nada Marjanovic, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Zagreb, has spent more than twenty years translating an obscure...
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A Sweet and Vicious Beauty – review
Director: Eric Thornett Release date: 2012 Contain spoilers If there was ever an example of a film that was overly long this would be it, but before we look into it let us address the vampirism within...
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Honourable Mentions: 60 Seconds to Die
If I were reviewing this, rather than offering an honourable mention, I would have caveated this article with a “contains spoilers” warning, and in some respects how could it not spoil the story when...
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Tales from the Hood 2 – review
Director: Darin Scott (segment) Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Tales from the Hood was a portmanteau film from 1995 and so it has taken quite a while for the sequel to emerge. Again a...
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Dracula’s Daughter – review
Authors: Gary D. Rhodes, Tom Weaver & Michael Lee First published: 2017 The blurb: Cross and wooden stake in hand, Dr. Gary D. Rhodes re-enters the sepulcher of supernatural cinema, casting his...
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