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Honourable mentions: The Castle of the Carpathians
The Blurb: The descriptions of the quaint villagers of Werst, their costumes, manner of living, and belief in the supernatural world would in themselves prove an interesting narrative, but when coupled...
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Vampire Heaven – review
Director: Seta Natsuki & Yao Kawahara First aired: 2013 Contains spoilers The TV Tokyo series Vampire Heaven was somewhat twee; a twelve part live action drama that centred around a vampire,...
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Vampires of New England – review
Author: Christopher Rondina First published: 2008 Contains spoilers The Blurb: These are not fictional tales, but expert investigations of real people who were thought by their neighbors and others to...
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Honourable Mention: Imps*
Imps* stands for The Immoral Minority Picture Show and was written and directed by Scott Mansfield, who perhaps shouldn’t have bothered. It was clearly shot in the early 1980s (actually it was 1983, I...
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Holiday Give Away
Thanks to Scarlette D’Noire and Indie Publishing House we have two e-copies of the anthology book Vampires: Romance to Rippers an Anthology of Tasty Stories. You might recall that I reviewed the...
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Vampires Most Fowl
A little while back I published a blog post about Bovine Vampires, rare creatures to be sure, but out there nonetheless. In a comment on that post, blog friend Alex suggested that an article on vampire...
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Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights
A blurb: Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's...
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Honourable Mention: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty
I came across an article about Matthew Bourne’s choreographed and directed version of Sleeping Beauty that had just finished its Los Angeles run and is due to tour the US. The twist, as well as...
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The Monster of the Opera – review
Director: Renato Polselli Release date: 1964 Contains spoilers We have looked at the works of Renato Polselli before. The 1960 film the Vampire and the Ballerina was an interesting piece that bridged...
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Interesting Shorts: The Making of Marea
When I reviewed Romance to Rippers: An Anthology of Risque Stories Volume 1* I made special mention of the Making of Marea by Scarlette D’Noire saying it “was a tale of being turned and was, perhaps,...
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Eight Immortals – review
Director: Hung Min Chen* Release date: 1971* *Note, the IMDb page, details of date and director are based on the supposition that the Fusian DVD release is of the film "Ba xian du hai sao yao mo". If I...
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Classic Literature: The Lady of the Shroud
Bram Stoker’s The Lady of the Shroud was published in 1909 and like his great novel Dracula was an epistolary novel. Unlike Dracula, it was uneasy as a piece of literature but, from a TMtV point of...
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Just a Bite: A Transylvania Vampire Expert’s Short History of the Undead –...
Author: István Pivárcsi First published: 2012 The blurb: Historian and Transylvania traveller István Pivárcsi addresses the essentials in more than thirty bite size chapters: How did the vampire legend...
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Vamp or Not? Island of the Living Dead
A film from 2008 (according to IMDb even though the poster they show says 2006) and directed by Italian horror and exploitation director Bruno Mattei and you might be forgiven for wondering why the...
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Honourable Mention: Let the Old Dreams Die
Author: John Ajvide Lindqvist English Translation: Marlaine Delargy First published (Sweden): 2006 Contains spoilers The Blurb: From the acclaimed author of Let the Right One In comes a collection of...
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The Black Water Vampire – review
Director: Evan Tramel Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Found footage films are still rather popular but they do tend to be a love them or hate them form of the horror genre. There can be a level of...
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The Fourth Bride – review
Author: Carole Gill First Published: 2013 contains spoilersThe Blurb: After the tragic and sudden death of her groom, Dia, cursed by Dracula as a babe, is taken to his castle. Once there, she is...
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Hao! Hao! Kyonshi Girl – season 1 – review
Director: unknown First aired: 2012 Contains spoilers Hao! Hao! Kyonshi Girl was a Japanese series that was based around the Chinese hopping vampire the kyonsi (or variant spellings thereof). This...
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Vampire Riderz – review
Director: Dan Garcia Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers Now, when a film contains the rapper turned actor Sticky Fingaz (Blade the Series) and also mentions a daywalker in the blurb then it is only...
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Daddy, Santa Claus is Dead – review
Director: Yevgeny Yufit Release date: 1991 Contains spoilers Family of the Vourdalak (1843) by Count Alexis Tolstoy is a classic 19th Century vampire tale. Most famously it was made into one of three...
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