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October Faction: Season 1 – review
Directors: Various First aired: 2020 Contains spoilers October Faction was a Netflix production that has run one short season (10 episodes) and, I understand, has been cancelled. This is a shame for,...
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Subferatu – review
Director: Patrick Penta Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This one was difficult, I went in wanting to really like it and I didn’t hate it but there was something just off in it (or me) around the...
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Short Film: Bone Mother
Directed by Dale Hayward and Sylvie Trouvé, and released in 2018, this stop motion animation, whose parts were 3D printed, comes in at around the 8-minute mark. It features Baba Yaga (Renee Madeline Le...
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Vamp or Not? Nothing Left to Fear
I enjoy scholar and academic author Simon Bacon’s exploration of the genre but sometimes his view of whether something is a vampire (or vampiric) is a stretch, even for me. In the case of the 2013...
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The Shining – review
Director: Stanley Kubrick Release date: 1980 Contains spoilers When I reviewed Doctor Sleep, the sequel to the Shining, I did so on the basis that the True Knot, the primary antagonists, are energy...
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Short Film: Invite Only
Released in 2019, this film by Joe Leone runs to 27 minutes and has a dichotomy at its heart that perhaps was best avoided. The film starts with Lucille (Kate Brandenburg) in a hotel room, reading....
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Bad Girl Dracula – review
Director: Andrew N. Shearer Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers From the people who brought us Space Boobs in Space comes a completely vampire focused film and calling this a review is a bit of a...
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Brothers Dracul: Volume 1 Blood of the Dragon – review
Author: Cullen Bunn Artist: Mirko Colak First published: 2018 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: The legend of Vlad the Impaler is the stuff of nightmares. The inspiration for the most iconic of...
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Verotika – review
Director: Glenn Danzig Release date: 2019 Contain spoilers The feature directorial debut of Glenn Danzig, best known for his musical work with the Misfits, Samhein and Danzig, this is an anthology...
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Short Film: Ashes of Doom
I nearly ran this under the title of “Commercial Vampire” as it is a commercial – or at least a public information film disguised as a commercial, disguised as a film and created for the Canadian...
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Honourable Mention: Northern Ballet Presents Dracula
Over two decades ago I went to the ballet. It was the first time I had ever been to the ballet and I watched the Northern Ballet Theatre present Dracula. For a ballet-philistine, such as myself, it was...
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Betaal – season 1 – review
Directors: Patrick Graham & Nikhil Mahajan First Aired: 2020 Contains spoilers The Betaal is probably best known among genre fans, renamed as the vetala, in the Indian folkloric story named as...
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City of the Vampires – review
Director: Ron Bonk Release Date: 1993 Contains spoilers So, this straight to VHS release has been on my radar for a while but it was pretty unavailable. No longer, as the folks at SRS Home Video have...
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Short film: the Cure
This 2015 French short film, directed by Xavier Mesme, was recorded in English and comes in at around the 15-minute mark. As things open, we are exposed to an electronic conversation between Miss Waltz...
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Monsterland 2 – review
Directors: Jonathan Holbrook & Elena Stecca (segment) Release date: 2019 Contains spoilersI have previously looked at portmanteau film Monsterland, which was full of vampiric goodness, this second...
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Vampires – season 1 – review
Directors: Vladimir de Fontenay & Marie Monge Release date: 2020 Contains spoilersThis is a French series, 6 episodes long, which dropped onto Netflix. We are in the realm of a teen vampire (ish,...
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Honourable mention: Pig Blood Vampire
I have sat and wondered how to write up this 2020 film, directed by Nick Josephs, and probably the first thing to say is that it isn’t a vampire film (despite the title) but it does have a moment...
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The Vampires of Zanzibar – review
Director: John Birmingham Release Date: 2010 Contains spoilersThis was floating around as a free watch for a while and, as such, might have simply received an Honourable mention. However, the film has...
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Honourable Mention: Neverwhere
So, back in 1996 the BBC aired Neverwhere – based on a concept by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry and I was really excited about it. The concept of a hidden London beneath London, an urban fantasy, was...
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What We Do in the Shadows: Season 2 – review
Directors: Various First aired: 2020 Contains spoilers So, in the middle of lockdown from Coronavirus along come some vampire antics to keep us entertained. In the UK we had to wait until the end of...
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