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Count Rothchild (A Vampire Tale): A Gothic Fantasy Novel (Gothic Legends Book...
Author: Michael W. Huard First Published: 2019 Contains spoilers The Blurb: HIS CURSE IS BLOOD, YET HIS HEART SEEKS LOVE In the likes of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Interview with the Vampire a new...
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Blood Widow – review
Director: Brendan Guy Murphy Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers At the heart of this movie, which shouldn’t be confused with the 2014 slasher of the same name, is a very interesting premise. It isn’t...
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Short Film: Jezebel
A film recommended by Billy, this short film was directed by Nick Phillips, released in 2017 and comes in at just over 10 minutes and is a very nice little short that plays on a couple of genre tropes...
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Scare Me – review
Director: Conrad Glover (segment) Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This is a portmanteau movie, sort of, and was primarily directed by Mark Stephens, who directed a short called Scare Me, in 2016,...
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Short Film: Vampire {2014}
With the description as an ‘Indonesia Comedy Short Film’, this is just over 12-minutes in length and was released in 2014. It was directed by Fitro Dizianto and whether it is actually a comedy is...
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Vamp or Not? Short Night of Glass Dolls
This was the 1971 directorial debut for Aldo Lado, known here for his sci-fi flick the Humanoid, and is a gaillo styled film set in Prague. It came to my attention as I read Italian Vampire Films when...
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Dracula the Messiah: Part One – the Deceiver – Review
Director: Gregory Motton Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This is the first of a trilogy of films, based around the novel of Dracula and quite ambitious in scope – this part, which takes us up to...
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Honourable Mention: After School Lunch Special
A 2019 portmanteau film, directed by Andrew J Chambers this is a zero-budget affair that relied on gross out without the effects or acting to carry it through (born, of course, of the budget). Yet,...
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Short Film: The August Club
The August Club comes in at 42 minutes and I considered classing it as a short feature, rather than simply a short film. It is the opening of a series, directed by Daniel Richardson, concerning “the...
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Honourable Mention: M (1951)
I looked at the classic Fritz Lang film M (1931), which is by no means a vampire film, because the film was produced whilst the crimes of Peter Kürten, the so called Vampire of Düsseldorf, were in the...
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Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 – review
Author: Michael Guarneri First published: 2020 Contains spoilersThe Blurb: Demonstrates how and why the transnational figure of the vampire was appropriated by Italian genre filmmakers between 1956 and...
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Caltiki, the Immortal Monster – review
Directors: Riccardo Freda (as Robert Hamton), Mario Bava (uncredited) Release date: 1959 Contains spoilers Ok, let us get the directors out of the way first. Officially this is a Freda film, though he...
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Vamp or Not? Rome Against Rome
This Giuseppe Vari directed film from 1964, titled domestically Roma Contro Roma but also titled War of the Zombies, came into view due to being mentioned in the Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975...
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Short Film: Undercover Vampire Policeman
This was a 2016 short film by Juan Luis Martínez and comes in at 9-minutes. It opens with a bloodied hand against a fence as we are given a list of vampire lore that simply isn’t true – garlic, silver,...
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Weird Fiction – review
Director: Jacob Perrett Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Stranger Things may have brought retro-fitting horror/sci-fi into an eighties vibe straight into a general viewer eye, but reaching for that...
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Red Sunset Drive – review
Director: Thor Moreno Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Apparently, this started life as a novel, which I am not sighted on and so I came in cold as it were. Mixing the paranormal and cop procedural...
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Short Film: Anna
Directed by Richard Hamilton, this short film comes in at 20 minutes and, according to Amazon, was released in 2018 (at the time of writing this article I could not find an IMDb page to confirm this....
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Vampire Virus – review
Director: Charlie Steeds Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Also called After Dark, there was something about this film. Shot, I understand, in the UK but set in America the filmmakers did a good job...
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Road Wars – review
Director: Mark Atkins Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Now, how on earth did I miss this on its release? Probably due to the fact that it looks for all intents and purposes a mockbuster riding on...
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Short Film: A Prayer for the Undead
This short film was released in 2015 and directed by Ruben Rodriguez, coming in at just under the 13-minute mark. What I am conscious of trying to do when looking at small films, is give you a taster...
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