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Beautiful Vampire – review
Director: Eunkyung 'Jude' Jung Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Korean media really does seem to like vampires. There are several series flying around – some I have managed to watched, others not...
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Vamp or Not? Aterrados
Aterrados (or Terrified) was a 2018 film hailing from Argentina and directed by Demián Rugna. The film takes a haunted house (or houses) premise and does some interesting things with it. There is an...
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Rampant – review
Director: Sung-hoon Kim Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Billed as a zombie movie (it isn’t, at most it is zompire) hailing from Korea (with the original title Chang-gwol) this has drawn...
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I am Legend as American Myth – review
Author: Amy J Ransom First published: 2018 The Blurb: Over the decades, Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science-fiction films, including The Last Man...
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Kissing Cousins: I am Omega
Let’s get things straight from the get go… I am Omega is not, in any way, shape or form, a vampire film. It is, in the wider sense, a zombie film (the creatures might be infected rather than undead but...
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Short Film: The Alpha Omega Man
You might remember me looking at the short, no-budget effort Dracula AD 2015? This is another gentle, no-budget spoof/homage to a classic film by director Joshua Kennedy, which was released in 2017 and...
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Short film: Love, Death & Robots: Sucker of Souls
Love, Death & Robots is an anthology series – based primarily around sci-fi – in which each short episode is animated. It was a Netflix original, with season 1 premiering in 2019 and this 13 minute...
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Zombillénium – review
Directors: Arthur de Pins & Alexis Ducord Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Based on a graphic novel series by Arthur de Pins, this French animation tore me slightly – I recognised the fact that...
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Honourable Mention: Char Man
I am not massively a fan of the found footage sub-genre of horror, for every one that works there are plenty more that don’t and plenty that leave you with a bad case of the ‘why are they still...
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Nella Notte – review
Directors: Lorenzo Onorati & Giovanni Pianigiani Release date: 2004 Contains spoilers So, I stumbled upon this film on You Tube under the English title of Into the Night and whilst I can absolutely...
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Short episode: The Kirlian Frequency: The Masters of the Night
Director: Cristian Ponce First aired: 2017 Contains spoilers And this will necessarily contain spoilers as this episode of the Argentinean animation played with genre tropes effectively but did...
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Diary of a Necromancer – review
Director: Alex DiSanto Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers In some respects, you have to admire a teen filmmaker crafting films (just straddling the line between short film and feature, as this does)...
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Dr Liebenstein – review
Director: Erik Karl Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers First thing to note is that I understand a special edition of this film was pulled together in 2018. I’ve not found much but from what I can...
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Shifter – review
Director: Jason Xavier Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers You’d be forgiven for wondering if this was a werewolf film (with vampires). It is not – the shifters referred to in the title are vampires...
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Short Film: Blade: Existence
Thanks to Everlost for pointing this one out. This is a 2018 fan film of Blade (K DyRec Butler), directed by K DyRec Butler, and I have previously looked at the fan film Daywalker: Blade Origins - and...
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Short Film: Eternal Love Lost
One thing I like about looking at short films is the idea that I can simply present them to you and lay off the critique. However sometimes I just can’t. Take this 15-minute short film by Joey Harlow...
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Vitaortus Book 3 - review
Author: Dea Schofield First Published: 2014 The Blurb: After the shape-shifting violence of the night of the Brumalia in Vitaortus Book Two, Devi Trevathan, Prime Channel, has trouble forgiving her new...
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The Field Guide to Evil – review
Directors: Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz (segment) Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers The Field Guide to Evil is an anthology film that was produced by Tim League & Ant Timpson who also...
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Van Helsing – Season 3 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2018 Contains spoilers The SyFy post-apocalyptic series returns and it manages (for the most part) to keep the pace that it achieved in Season 2. I say ‘for the most...
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Más Que a Nada en el Mundo – review
Director: Andrés León Becker & Javier Solar Release date: 2006 Contains spoilers Vampires, as I often say, get everywhere and this Mexican family drama, titled in English More Than Anything in the...
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