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Exorcism Master – review
Director: Xiang Qiu-Liang Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers A recent Chinese film this is one that carries a central monster that looks a bit more zombie than kyonsi and, in truth, the subtitles I...
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Honourable Mention: Holiday Hell
Holiday Hell is a portmanteau movie released in 2019 and containing, as far as I can tell, bespoke segments. In this honourable mention, however, it is the Jeff Ferrell wraparound that I am looking at...
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Nirvana Island: The Last 47 Days – review
Director: Takeshi Watanabe Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers The film Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island was flawed but was fun. A high-octane action adventure that took anime styling and...
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Short Film: Salem Occultist
Salem Occultist was a 22-minute-long film from 2016, which was directed by Alexander Roman. It is less a story and more an introduction to the character of Anton Bryson (Alexander Roman), which...
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Short film: Vampire (2017)
Made for Crypt TV at just over 3-minutes I really don’t see how I can avoid spoiling this one. Sorry folks. But it is a neat bit of nonsense, released in 2017 and directed by Joshua Giuliano. A man...
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Blood Immortal – review
Director: Robert Joseph Butler Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Also known as Love Immortal, this is a strange film as I’ll explain, nonetheless it is well done aside from the strange aspect. It...
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Honourable Mentions: the Curse of Valburga
Directed by Tomaž Gorkič and released in 2019, this is primarily a Slovenian slasher film but it does touch into the vampire genre in a few ways – with a fleeting visitation at the end. It is...
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Short Film: The Nightshift
Directed by Ed Cotton and released in 2020, The Nightshift is a short that comes in at the 14-minute mark and hails from the UK. As the film starts we see Brewster (Lex Stephenson), I assume named for...
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Vamp or Not? The Dinner Party
Released in 2020 and directed by Miles Doleac, the Dinner Party makes no secret within its trailer that cannibalism sits at the heart of the film. However, it is not that which has led to this Vamp or...
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One Death at a Time – review
Author: Thomas M Hewlett First published: 2016 The Blurb: “People think Alcoholics Anonymous is for drunks. It’s not. It’s for us, the real drinkers. The blood drinkers. All the rest of those meetings...
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Drafts of Dracula – review
Editors: Robert Eighteen-Bisang & Elizabeth Miler First published: 2019 The blurb: A decade after making Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula available to the public, Robert Eighteen-Bisang and...
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NYSferatu: Symphony of a Century – review
Director: Andrea Mastrovito Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Please note the review is taken from a screener, the screenshots, therefore, have a layer of watermarking that may, or may not be...
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Vampires vs. the Bronx – review
Director: Osmany Rodriguez Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Vampires vs. the Bronx was a Netflix production, released at the start of October as we entered the Halloween season. As we will explore...
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Short Film: IvY
This is a short film that was directed by Rubén Abarca in 2017 and comes in at 14 minutes. For me this plays interestingly with the relationship between the vampire and their Renfield and, whilst it...
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Dracula the Messiah: Part Two – the Seducer – Review
Director: Gregory Motton Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This is the second 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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Nosferatu (BFI Film Classics) – review
Author: Kevin Jackson First published: 2013 The Blurb: F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), the first screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, remains a potent and disturbing horror film. One of the...
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Nosferatu.Com – review
Director: Julien Dève Release date: 2020 Contains spoilersFound footage films are a strange beast. Not my favourite genre of film they are often an excuse for low quality photography and limited SFX....
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Blood of Drago – review
Directed by: Homer Broadnax Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers One of the key things for a film is to have a consistent and believable storyline (unless, deliberately, the script and direction can...
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Short Film: It’s Normal
This 2018 short film from director Nicole W. Solomon is about 16-minutes and is very clever in one specific way, which ties to the title, that I really enjoyed. We start off with scenes from the city...
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Carmilla (2019) – review
Director: Emily Harris Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I always get excited when a new version of Carmilla is produced. The Sheridan Le Fanu story is a cornerstone of the genre; massively...
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