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Honourable Mention: Angst
Director Gerald Kargl is, career wise, probably better known for documentaries but his 1983 film Angst, whilst based on the case of Austrian serial killer Werner Kniesek is most definitely a feature...
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Kickstarter: Night is Falling
I was recently contacted by Barry Dodd co-creator/writer of upcoming comic Night is Falling, which is currently going through a Kickstarter process. The story is described as follows “In NIGHT IS...
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Night Walker – review
Author: Aaron L Speer First published: 2014 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Vampires wage a secret, merciless war for ownership of Sydney. But just when humans seem nothing more than prey, the hunters...
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Short Film: The Session
The Session is a short that was directed by Nicholas Grant, release in 2018 and comes in at around the 15-minute mark. It starts off with a jiggly foot. Kathy (Mindy Gilkerson) has attended a therapy...
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Krasue: Inhuman Kiss – review
Director: Sitisiri Mongkolsiri Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers The krasue is not a stranger to these pages. The Thai vampiric creature, described as a floating head with entrails and heart...
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Shrunken Heads – review
Director: Richard Elfman Release date: 1994 contains spoilersSo recently I was contacted by Matt from Vampire Film Reviews who mentioned the Full Moon Pictures' movie Shrunken Heads. Indeed, I’ll let...
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Honourable Mention: The Friday Night Death Slot
The Friday Night Death Slot is a point in broadcasting where popular perception is that there will be little to no viewers and a programme placed there will receive poor viewing figures. The conceit...
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Short Film: Vam-PIE-Her
This was a short children’s animation from 2016, directed by Samantha McEachin-Ifill, and strongly fits into the mainstreaming of vampires through the medium of children’s programming that I discuss in...
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Fear Files: Har Mod Pe Darr – episode 11 – review
Director: Unknown First aired: 2015 Contains spoilers This is an Indian horror anthology show that appeared on Netflix (in the UK at least). The blurb from Netflix for this one said: “A policeman who...
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Use of Tropes: The Death of Halpin Frayser
Born in 1842, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce is widely accepted as an important and influential author within American Literature – a critic, who wrote fiction in a variety of genres, he is perhaps best known...
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Before the Sun Rises: Darkness on the Horizon BOOK TWO – review
Author: Christopher Renna First Published: 2019 Contains spoilers The Blurb: THE ONLY EASY DAY WAS YESTERDAY - - Despite the odds, Morgan defeated his captor, DuPont, and the Immortals of the East...
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Short Film: It’s in the House
Posted onto YouTube on Halloween 2017, this 5-minute short film, directed by Graham Burrell, is effective and poses as a slasher until the ending. Starting with a masked man (Joshua Rust) breaking into...
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Classic Literature: The Last of the Vampires
First published in Contemporary Review, Vol.63, in 1893, this story by Phil Robinson is interesting as it features a vampire that is a separate species but also because the description thereof is...
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Succubus: Hell-bent – review
Director: Kim Bass Release date: 2007 Contains spoilers There has often been a conflation between vampires and succubae and equally some people who seem to get quite offended if a connection is drawn...
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Honourable Mention: Unearthed: The Curse of Nephthys
We’ve come across the work of Beau Yotty before, and his clairvoyant evil-fighting character Don Slayer (Beau Yotty), in the two shorts Call the Babysitter and Midnight Workout. This is a 2018 short...
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B Negative – review
Director: Philip Codd Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This is an English film – modestly crowd funded I believe – and is a comedy but therein lies the rub I’m afraid. The concept was good but, for...
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Vamp or Not? Island of the Burning Damned
So, this is a 1967 British sci-fi/horror that was directed by Terence Fisher, starring Christopher Lee and guests starring Peter Cushing. I was contacted by Clark, who asked whether I had seen the film...
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Short Film: Dracula’s Coffin
This is a 26-minute short from 2018, directed by Stephen Wolfe and – at the time of writing – is doing the festival circuits and it is a comedy… and (bearing in mind the subjectivity of comedy) I’m...
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Dracula Vampyre in Beijing – review
Director: Tim Lies Release date: 2019* Contains spoilers *release date according to Amazon Prime video – no IMDb page at the time of review to confirm. Oh dear Lord, this is bad. A film that is in both...
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Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead – review
Director: Suk-Yoon Kim Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I have to thank Leila for putting me onto this – the third Detective K film. This is a Korean series about an eighteenth-century Korean...
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