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Short Film: Vampire Chaos
So, when I looked at Eternal Love Lost I suggested that it became the opening of this film – originally named Search for Love Lost and directed by Joey Harlow in 2011. I watched it as Vampire Chaos on...
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Dracula in a Women’s Prison – review
Director: Jeff Leroy Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers The first reaction to a film with the title Dracula in a Women’s Prison is that it is likely to be poor... on the other hand if the filmmakers...
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Honourable Mention: Hellboy
This is the 2019 reboot of Hellboy, directed by Neil Marshall, and staring David Harbour as the eponymous hero. Now, we’ve looked at a Hellboy product before in the form of Hellboy Animated: Blood and...
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Short Film: Zompire! Dr. Lester's Monster
Weighing in at 14 minutes this is a creature feature that was a 2010 film school project for director Lucien Knotter, filmed in Black and White and featuring the increasingly popular zompire… though...
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Honourable Mention: Mara
Mara is a 2018 movie directed by Clive Tonge and the reason for including it here is because the mara is a vampire type (related in this to the Hag, which I’ll come back to), According to Bane “The...
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Short Film: Band-Aids Don't Fix Vampire Bites
This is a short film by Helen Pazen and comes in around the 3.5-minute mark. The story itself is fairly simple with Steven (Zachary Chamberlin) walking along a street at night with his mobile pinging...
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Drink Slay Love – review
Director: Vanessa Parise Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This is the filmed version of a young adult novel about a female vampire going to high school. And it was via Lifetime… Now before you turn...
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NightShadow: A Vampire's Chronicle – review
Director: Jess Solis Release Date: 2019 Contains spoilers Coming in at 50 minutes I might have looked at this “anthology” as a short film but felt compelled to review it – Just to warn you, I guess....
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Shivers Down Your Spine – review
Director: Mathew Kister Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Shivers Down your Spine is a portmanteau film that you can track down on DVD but the VoD through Amazon has never really been forthcoming...
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Short Film: the Vampire Hunters Club
For a short film, this 2001 35-minute flick by Donald F. Glut was a veritable who’s-who of US genre B actors, as a venerable group of vampire hunters finally track down Dracula (Daniel Roebuck). The...
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The Bleeding Game – review
Director: Sean-Michael Argo Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I’ve long been a fan of Lovecraft’s mythos, and the classic writer of damned and eldritch things once touched on vampirism in his story...
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Short Film: Die Jägerin
Posted onto YouTube in 2014 this is a fan film created by Kurt Kliebisch and Kevin Schmidt and was brought to my attention by Alex Malkavian on the Facebook Group Vampire Fans. I’m looking at this as a...
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Crazyhead – review
Directors: Al Mackay & Declan O'Dwyer First aired: 2016 Contains spoilers Crazyhead was a short-lived British TV series that ran for a short 6 episode run. I didn’t pick up on it when it aired but...
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Playing with Tropes: Pretty Dead
When I sat down to watch this, I wasn’t expecting to feature it on TMtV. I expected a riff on the zombie genre and, more specifically, the perspective of someone turning into a zombie. Its other name,...
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Bloodsucker’s Planet – review
Director: Mark Beal Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Mark Beal is the director behind beat-arthouse/grindhouse-noir flick Enchiridion, which was rereleased as Bloodsucker’s Handbook. Mark contacted...
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Queen Dracula – review
Director: Curtis Everitt Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Oh lord… This flick recently appeared on Amazon Prime and, of course, I gave it a whirl. Aside from gender swapping the antagonist (and...
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Short Film: The Vegan Vampire
Fear not when this film suggests that the recovered 1928 film is 142 minutes in length – this 10-minute short (that seems to have the celluloid break at the end) is actually a 2010 creation directed by...
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Decades: Marvel in the 70s – Legion of Monsters
Author and artists: various First published: 2019 (collection) Contains spoilers The blurb: Celebrate 80 years of Marvel Comics, decade by decade - together with the groovy ghoulies of the Supernatural...
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Honourable Mention: the Man from the Diogenes Club
The Blurb: CAN'T ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE? Send for the man from the Diogenes Club! The debonair psychic investigator Richard Jeperson is the Most Valued Member of the Diogenes Club, the least-known...
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Subspecies – review
Authors: Cullen Bunn & JimmyZ Art: Daniel J Logan First released: 2018 (tpb) Contains spoilers The blurb: Michelle survived being attacked by the vampire Radu, defeated him on more than one...
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