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Red Spring – review
Director: Jeff Sinasac Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Although the undead apocalypse can be traced back to Richard Matheson’s wonderful I am Legend (1954), it was one of the vehicles partly...
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Age of the Living Dead – season 1 – review
Director: Paul Tanter Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This series (season 1 running at 6 episodes) was a Fox one that didn’t even flicker on my radar until it appeared recently on Amazon Prime…...
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Honourable Mention: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
This was the second Goosebumps movie, released in 2018 and directed by Ari Sandel – a film that knew what demographic it was aiming for and did what one might expect from a Goosebumps property. The...
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Short Film: Allen + Millie: A Short Romance
Weighing in at just 10 minutes and directed by Markus Redmond, this 2017 short has a twist that kind of telegraphs – hence me spoiling it by featuring the short here is not a particular issue. Allen...
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The Lake Vampire – review
Director: Carl Zitelmann Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Hailing from Venezuela, El Vampiro del Lago is a feature directorial debut for Carl Zitelmann and rather impressive it is too. It is part...
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Interesting Short: Wild Hunt
A short by Nancy Kilpatrick, this sits in the modern world (starting at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival) and follows L, a partially sighted fortune teller who truly head the Second Sight. As we meet...
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Accumulator 1 – review
Director: Jan Svěrák Release date: 1994 Contains spoilers That the concept of vampirism stretched well beyond that of troublesome corpses with a taste for blood is not only no bad thing but is...
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Vampires of Lore: Traditional Tales and Modern Misconceptions – review
Author: A P Sylvia First Published: 2019 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Vampire . . . the word immediately conjures up bloodstained fangs, an aversion to sunlight, bats, garlic, and wooden stakes. These...
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Short Film: Lost in Provence
There is a specific skill involved in capturing something worthwhile in a short film. This particular short from 2019 is 21-minutes long and was directed by Christy Oldham and – though it might just be...
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Short film: Paint the Town Red
Coming in at just the five-minute mark this short film from 2017 was directed by Christopher Andrew Graham and Ariel Hansen and does that thing that short films, when they work, do so well. What do I...
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Interesting Short: Vampyre Theatre
This is a short written by Nancy Kilpatrick and probably straddles that space between short and novella. This is both positive; the story was a quick, satisfying read, and negative; it feels like the...
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Capulina Contra los Vampiros – review
Director: René Cardona Release date: 1971 Contains spoilers So, I previously looked at a film featuring Capulina (Gaspar Henaine) when he was in his long-standing double act with Viruta (Marco Antonio...
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Vampire Slaughter: Eaten Alive – review
Directors: Charles Band & Ted Nicolaou Release Date: 2018 Contains spoilers I don’t know what it is about Full Moon Pictures and recycling their material. This is the fourth film in the Full Moon's...
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Vamp or Not? Fang
This is a 2018 film by Adam R. Steigert and is brave in the first instance as it is a budget werewolf movie. There was also a question, as I watched it, as to whether one of the main characters is...
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Tales of Found Footage – review
Director: Matthew I. Schmidt Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This is an anthology tale with a reluctant host, Fredrick Michaels (Richard Brogden), who is played as a classical actor not so happy...
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Revenge of the Pontianak – review
Directors: Glen Goei & Gavin Yap Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers As this hit its local Malay market it also appeared internationally on Netflix, which shows that the streaming service does do...
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Short Film: Daytime
Daytime is a short film by David Doria and comes in around the 17-minute mark. It is listed as 2018 on Amazon but doesn’t have an IMDb page to confirm this. It is one that plays with the vampire’s...
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Real Blood: The True Beginning – review
Director: Phillip Penza Release date: 2019* Contains spoilers *At the time of writing the review the IMDb page, unusually, did not carry a release date for the film. The 2019 date was taken from...
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Bite Me – review
Director: Meredith Edwards Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Whether you believe that they are fantasists, delusional (or otherwise psychologically scarred) or actually people who need to drink...
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Vamp or Not? The Kiss
This was a 1988 movie directed by Pen Densham and I was told about it by Leila who said “unearthed this in my vamp or not pile - see what you think. It's demon possession but there are some tropes...
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