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Gravebit – season 1 – review
Director: John Johnson Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers John Johnson was the director/actor behind the awful Skeleton Key and Skeleton Key 2: 667 Neighbour of the Beast. He was also behind the...
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The Little Vampire (2017) – review
Directors: Richard Claus & Karsten Kiilerich Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Based on the books of Angela Sommer-Bodenburg the Little Vampire has had the small screen treatment, in the form of...
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Honourable mentions: 2 Die For
From producer Tony Newton, who was also behind 60 Seconds to Die, this was another anthology of micro-shorts. I have mentioned before how much of an art there is to the effective short film and this is...
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Kissing Cousins: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
One of the most famous horror icons, the Monster often misnamed Frankenstein is a mainstay of the wider horror genre and Mary Shelley’s (originally anonymously published) 1818 novel is intimately...
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Tales of Frankenstein – review
Director: Donald F Glut Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Whilst Donald F Glut is known here at TMtV for some B grade vampire movies, he is also an author, having penned several reference works,...
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Vurdalaki – review
Director: Sergey Ginzburg Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This review comes with a health warning, as it were. I managed to stumble over a stream of this Russian film online. I then managed to...
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Vanished – review
Director: Matt Spade Release Date: 2018 Contains spoilers A budget movie from 2018, I was impressed by the crisp clarity of the photography in this. Unfortunately, despite ambition, the film itself did...
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Playing with Tropes: The Omega Man
One of the great things about introducing the “Playing with Tropes” section to the blog is that I finally feel I can cover off this 1971 film directed by Boris Sagal. Based on Richard Matheson’s I am...
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Kiss my Ashes – review
Director: Sam Salerno Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers There is weird and that can be good. Some directors specialise in weird and you can recognise the genius within that surrealism. Then you have...
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Honourable mention: Doomsday County
This was a themed anthology film from 2010 and whilst there are two parts that draw our attention – Vampire Academy directed by Art Brainard and Betty Beretta directed by Steven Shea – it receives an...
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Short Film: Midnight Thirst
This was a 2016 film directed by Deanna Meske, which came in around the twelve-minute mark. I came across it because its sequel was on demand at Amazon and found this on YouTube. Starting in a house, a...
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Sleepless Nights – review
Director: Wayne Whisenant (segment) Release date:2016 Contains spoilers This is another portmanteau effort this time masterminded by veteran b-movie/straight to video impresario Todd Sheets (from a...
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Apostle – review
Director: Gareth Evans Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This was a Netflix film that I had added to my viewing list, understanding it to be a folk horror film. I had in the back of my mind that it...
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Short Film: Midnight Death
This is a short 11-minute film directed by Deanna Meske and is the sequel to the short film Midnight Thirst. The first thing I noticed about this was that the photography seemed that bit more polished,...
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NYV: Punk – review
Author: KV McQuain First Published: 2016 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll... and the UNDEAD!?!Forced to flee across the country, a teenage runaway must struggle with...
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Vamp or Not? Kuntilanak (2018)
This 2018 film, directed by Rizal Mantovani and hailing from Indonesia, suffers from not quite knowing what it wants to be. It has a horror theme but the young cast pushes it down a kid’s arena to a...
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Honourable Mention: Ripper Street: A White World Made Red
I’d not, before this season 4 episode, watched any Ripper Street – a detective series set in Whitechapel at the end of the 19th Century. However my wife is a fan and had mentioned this episode to me...
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Ekimmu: The Dead Lust – review
Director: Andy Koontz Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This film appeared on Amazon Prime Videos and the picture of fangs accompanying the film there caught my attention – as you would imagine. I...
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Playing with Tropes: Cannibal
This is a 2010 film directed by Benjamin Viré and whilst not a vampire film per se it has a level of ambiguity woven within it and definitely touches on one of the major tropes of the genre. It also...
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Short Film: Monsters Anonymous
This short film, directed by Jeremy London, was released in 2016 and comes in at around the 20-minute mark. It is a veritable Monster mash with all the favourites; Dracula (Brian O'Halloran), the...
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