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Child of the Night (Power of the Blood World Book 1) – review
Author: Nancy Kilpatrick First Published: 2011 Contains spoilers The Blurb: POWER OF THE BLOOD WORLD Revised and Updated! Child of the Night is book 1 of a 4 vampire-novel series that throbs with...
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The Outsider – season 1 – review
Director: Various First Aired: 2020 Contains spoilersI recently discovered that the Stephen King novel the Outsider is, at heart, a vampire novel. I then discovered that it was filmed as a 10-episode...
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Vampire Dad – review
Director: Frankie Ingrassia Release date: 2020 Contains spoilersPulling itself back in time to the sixties, something the film does admirably well, Vampire Dad is a comedy that feels more like the...
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Among the Shadows – review
Director: Tiago Mesquita Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers It is always a good idea, when outlining a narrative, and subsequently plotting a story, to actually have a story that is any way, shape or...
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Honourable mention: Father Brown: The Mask of the Demon
Father Brown is a detective TV series set in 1950s Britain, where the amateur sleuth is a Roman Catholic Priest, the eponymous Father Brown (Mark Williams, Being Human (UK)) and, to be honest, I’ve...
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Short Film: Harker
Director: Anthony Steven Giordano Release date: 2005 Contains spoilers This short film was a puppetry piece (and so I assume the actors listed are the primary puppeteers) that sought to recreate the...
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Vamp or Not? Aragami
Aradami was brought to my attention By Leila, wanting my view as to whether the film fit into the vampire genre – she had erred to ‘no’. It is a 2003 film by Ryûhei Kitamura, who is known to TMtV for...
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Van Helsing: Season 4 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2019 Contains spoilers Van Helsing is the SyFy series now in its 4th season and based on the Zenoscope Comics. I previously reviewed Season One, Two and Three and if you...
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Use of Tropes: Sawney: Flesh of Man
Also known as Lord of Darkness, this was a 2012 feature directed by Ricky Wood and concentrates on surviving members of Sawney Bean’s clan. You are probably aware that Sawney Bean was, allegedly, the...
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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation – review
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I don’t know what it is about this franchise but, despite rather enjoying it, I am always late to the party. The third instalment of...
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Phantasmagoria 2: Labyrinths of blood – review
Director: Cosmotropia de Xam Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I haven’t seen the first film, that this is the sequel to, but despite having two primary characters in common I doubt it matters. The...
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Bio Raiders – review
Director: Tommy Leung Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers This was an odd one. I read it was a vampire film and was prepared for it to go down the more usual kyonsi movie route. Then, as I watched, I...
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Honourable Mentions: 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy
The Sex and zen films are Chinese softcore flicks that stand on the cusp of falling into the adult categorisation but, certainly in this case, actually fall on the side of bedroom farce (to a point)....
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Short film: Punishment
This was a short film directed by Saowalak Jokthong, Manoon Nutchada, Noppavit Nonsiriwong and Peerapol Taiyaithieng, which is a whole lot of directors for an 8:18 long film. The film itself is silent,...
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Short Film: Acts of a Vampiric Nature
This is a 12-minute short that was directed by Tinofara Michael Hapaguti and released in 2015. There is a bit of an Edvard Munch theme to the short in that the painting Love and Pain, also known as...
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Strange Events – review
Director: Oliver Park (segment) Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Strange Events is another horror anthology that compiles previously made short films and, to be honest, I’m still a little split...
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Vamp or Not? Death Ship
B movie horror fare from 1980 and directed by Alvin Rakoff, this was, I guess, partly a naziploitation film and certainly was a strange beast of a premise with a ship that seemed to be alive. My friend...
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Blood Vessel – review
Director: Justin Dix Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Though released in 2019, this hit VoD in 2020 hot on the heels of Subferatu. Unlike the former this is set at the end of the war (rather than...
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Short Film: Work Sucks!
This is a 2019 short film directed by Chris Ruppert and coming in at 15 minutes. It is played for laughs and thus the rubber body parts and laughable fangs actually work within the farcical concept. As...
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Honourable Mention: Carolina Grindhouse: Anderson's Own Horror Movie
Released in 2019 and directed by Kevin Woods and Rachel Mangan, this was a film shot and dedicated to the town of Anderson. Kevin Woods used locations and locals to create a portmanteau film. The...
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