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Short Film: Blood Lust
Coming in at around the eight minutes mark this short film was directed by Sydnee Bethel and released in 2016. It starts with an intertitle telling us that a newly turned vampire, Jason (Chris Levine),...
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The Night Crew – review
Director: Christian Sesma Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers So, I’m going to spoil this one right off the bat as this is an action film about heavily armed bounty hunters who run in with the Cartel...
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Vampires: First Blood Volume II: The Vampire Ladies – review
Editor: James Grant Goldin First Published: 2019 The Blurb: The literary evolution of the female vampire begins with the legendary LILITH...but is she a cursed monster, or a symbol of the rebellious,...
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Vamp or Not? Wind Walkers
When I did my ‘Vamp or Not?’ of the film Ravenous I received a message that stated “It's not a vampire. It's the Wendigo. There's a HUGE difference.” This missed both the point of the feature and the...
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Classic Literature: A mystery of the Campagna (1887)
Written by Baroness Anne Crawford Von Rabe under the penname Von Degen, this story first appeared in Unwin's Magazine Christmas Annual in 1887 and is a stylish tale of vampirism in Italy. Interestingly...
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Hipira – review
Director: Shinji Kimura Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers Based on a book written by Katsuhiro Otomo and illustrated by Shinji Kimura, Hipira is a short anime series of short episodes, each coming...
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Draug – review
Directors: Karin Engman & Klas Persson Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I have been looking forward to this Swedish folk horror film for a while now and it has just received a wide streaming...
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Vampz!: Revisited
It feels a little strange revisiting a film that, according to IMDb was released in 2019 but that is because the Ramsey Attia vehicle started life as a free to watch web serial in 2012 and I originally...
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Preacher – Season 4 – review
Directors: Various First aired: 2019 Contains spoilers So we come to the end of the Preacher series, a series finishing with a definite story ending. It has been a fun, irreverent, gore soaked comic...
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Rabid – review
Directors: The Soska Sisters Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I have a strange relationship with the original David Cronenberg Rabid. I love the concept but the execution feels off. I think...
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Vamp or Not? Killer Sofa
First thing to say about this 2019 New Zealand film that was directed by Bernie Rao is around the title and poster. The title is inaccurate as we are looing at a recliner not a sofa and the poster adds...
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Short Film: Lilith
A 22-minute long Belgium short that was directed by Maxim Stollenwerk and released in 2013, this is a stylish little short that follows the fortunes of a young (looking) vampire named Lilith (Renée...
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Short Film: From Dusk till Dad
Technically part of a short anthology series by Cracked, called Tales to get Scared To, and renamed I'm Worried My Step Dad's A Vampire on their YouTube Channel, this is a 2016 short film directed by...
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Nosferatu’s Crush – review
Director: Mike M. Burke Release date: 2006 Contains spoilers I knew about this micro-budget film but hadn’t seen it to review. When it came up on Amazon Prime I felt a wee bit of dread as I really...
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Theresa & Allison – review
Director: Jeremiah Kipp Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This feature length story is set in the same world as the web-serial 21st Century Demon Hunter. After watching this I am now watching the...
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Use of Tropes: Killers Within
There are many films that touch tropes from the vampire genre but, I’d guess, many do so accidentally or unconsciously. Other films do so absolutely knowingly and a single line in this 2018 Irish film...
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Savagery of the Rebel King – review
Author: Nancy Kilpatrick First Published: 2019 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Necros, the most rebellious of the vampir kings, has carried a burning hatred for the one who forced him into this undead...
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Saving You, Saving Me – review
Directors: Tina Jetter* Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers *The IMDb page shows the film to have been co-directed between Tina Jetter and Marc I. Daniels, the film credits listed Jetter only. I have...
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Honourable Mention: Devil’s Vendetta
This Hoi-Ching Cheung directed film was an action/comedy hailing from Hong Kong and released in 1991. The basic story was set around a devil or demon named Twiggy (Mondi Yau, the Romance of the...
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Bliss – review
Director: Joe Begos Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Whilst the blurb I read for this movie didn’t mention vampirism, there are reviews out in the wide-open spaces of the internet that do mention...
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