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Short Film: Bats in the Belfry
Hailing from Portugal, this 7-minute long animated short was written and directed by João Alves and takes place in the Wild West. It is night time and Deadeye Jack has tracked money bags he meant to...
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Whistling Past the Graveyard – review
Author: Jonathan Maberry Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers The Blurb: A lonely, nerdy paperboy encounters ancient evil on the shadowy back roads of his home town. A little girl spends her nights...
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Lady Belladonna's Tales from The Inferno – review
Directors: Robert Posey & Justin Holtzen (segment) Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This is an anthology stitching shorts together, which is the second Lady Belladonna (Tawnya Bass) film. The...
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Short Film: Down in the Dark
This is a 2018 short that comes in around the 6-minute mark and was directed by Daljit Kalsi Jr. As it manages to throw a monster mash together you can probably guess that it doesn’t have much more...
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Short Film: Vampire Couch Trip
This 2017 short film was directed by Devin Dugan and comes in at just over 17 minutes. The basic premise is that four vampires hire the services of a psychologist, Dr Hazel (Nick Breslin), to discuss...
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Use of Tropes: the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
If it had not been for the more obvious tropes used in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (and that isn’t too obvious) I doubt I would have written this for the blog. Released in 1986 and directed by Tobe...
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Demon Squad – review
Director: Thomas Smith Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This is an urban fantasy film sporting alternative titles Night Hunters and Full Moon, Inc. The easiest way to describe it is probably that...
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Vamp or Not? Wicked Witches
First released in 2018 under the title The Witches of Dumpling Farm, this is a flick directed by Martin J Pickering and you can see, from the cover art, why this went to a ‘Vamp or Not?’ – sharp teeth,...
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Short Film: Shadowglade
This is a 35-minute film from 2015, directed by Ezra Peace, which takes the buddy cop theme along with urban fantasy and merges them into what is, essentially, a pilot with a lot more story to go. It...
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The Silver Dagger: The Vampires of Crimson Cove Book 2 – review
Author: Alistair Cross First published: 2019 Contains spoilers The blurb: Brother Against Brother Life in Crimson Cove has been good to the Colter Brothers since Gretchen VanTreese was staked and her...
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Gogol: Season 1 – review
Director: Egor Baranov First aired: 2019 Contains spoilers I reviewed the film Gogol: Viy last year. The series of films that Baranov was producing was unusual as the aim was to release them and then...
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Use of Tropes: Through the Mirror
In the original Spanish A Través del Espejo, directed by Freddy Novillo, this is an odd one. It is a succubus film – and as we know the overlap between vampire and succubus is frequent. However, this...
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Short Film: Taste of Night
This eight-minute Russian film, directed by Liudmila Komrakova and released in 2017, is not what you might first expect. Described on YouTube as a Tango Film, the concentration is on dance. Dance and...
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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead – review
Director: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I was in correspondence with Simon Bacon recently when he asked me if I knew of any mermaid/vampire crossover. This does happen...
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The Dark Truth – review
Author: Jerry Knaak First Published: 2017 The Blurb: "I was a predator. And I was going to own it."A Night Out San Francisco PR pro Elizabeth Rubis reluctantly agrees to a night out on the town. Little...
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The Magnificent Dead – review
Director: Shane Scott Release date: 2010 Contains spoilers Whilst I have seen online commentary with regards this film suggesting that it is a zombie film, it most definitely is not. Indeed a watch...
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Short Film: Babe
Uploaded to YouTube in 2018, Babe is a film directed by Brian Butterfield that comes in at the 5-minute mark. A woman (Danielle Abbott) is concerned about her boyfriend (Blake G Rogers Mack), who she...
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Use of Tropes: Zombies Reborn
This is a 2012 Chinese film directed by Xia Yong (though Amazon lists the director as Xіа Wеі) and is one of the crop of fairly poor Chinese films that are filtering through at the moment in the “on...
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Vampires: First Blood – Volume 1: The Vampire Lords – review
Editor: James Grant Goldin First Published: 2019 The blurb: Before Edward… Before Lestat… Before Dracula… These vampires set the stage for all the rest… Arnold Paul… The ‘real’ vampire of 18th Century...
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For Ever & Ever – review
Director: Vladimir Chubrikov Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This Russian film is odd, in that it doesn’t quite know what it wants to be and, perhaps even more so, takes some story shortcuts that...
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