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Mimesis Nosferatu – review
Director: Douglas Schulze Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers The 2011 film Mimesis, which was subtitled Night of the Living Dead, was a fantastic concept. Mimesis means to imitate reality in art,...
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Short Film: Mutant Virus
A college effort, by the looks of it, and a budget of just $65, this is a 5-minute short directed by Jonah Henrickson and there isn’t a huge amount to say about it. A man (A.J. Brady) with a strange...
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Ma Petite Sophie – review
Director: Rubén Bautista Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This Spanish film was based on a short film of the same name from a few years before and came somewhat from leftfield, appearing on UK...
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Chills Down Your Spine – review
Director: Mathew Kister Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers The portmanteau Shivers Down Your Spine was a good fun, obviously budget restricted, indie horror anthology (with the score being let down...
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10/31 – review
Directors: Justin M. Seaman & Zane Hershberger Release date: 2017 Contains spoilersSo, I stumbled over this one on YouTube (the Kings of Horror channel) and as far as I knew it was just a Halloween...
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Short Film: End of Shift
The 2020 International Vampire Film and Arts Festival (IVFAF) was, due to the pandemic, virtual. Even better it was free to attend and over the two days showed plenty of films – both features and...
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To Drink of Your Blood – review
Director: Edin Alain Martínez Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers A Mexican film, Beber de tu Sangre (in the original Spanish) has appeared on Amazon video as Violent Delights and is a strangely...
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Drácula de Denise Castro – review
Director: Denise Castro Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this was a feature that had an interesting premise but did just enough to turn me off through its running length....
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Dracula, Motherf**ker! – review
Author: Alex De Campi Illustrator: Erica Henderson First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Vienna, 1889: Dracula's brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an ageing...
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Short Film: Mr. Hush Legacy
The film Mr Hush was not the greatest film ever, but it had something about it that could have been exploited. Some nine years later (in 2019) director David Lee Madison released a short film that was...
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Desire Path – review
Director: Marjorie Conrad Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Some reviews write themselves but others… not so much. Definitely the case of the latter when watching a film described as “An...
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Dracula is not Dead – review
Director: Luizo Vega Release date: 2020* Contains spoilers Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF (I have used the date as the release date therefore, as I have no evidence as to an earlier release). This is a...
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Use of Tropes: Hanagatami
We have looked at director Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s work before in the form of short film Emotion: densetsu no gogo = itsukamita Dracula and the magnificent House. Hanagatami was his dream, a project that...
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Short Film: Three in a Coffin
Eric L. Hansen’s short film comes in at approximately the 12-minute mark and is a cute foray into the relationship between familiar and vampire. What is interesting is that the film gives the familiar...
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La Rose de Sang – review
Director: Klaudia Lanka Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this feature can be summed up in a single word, melodrama. Not that there is anything wrong with melodrama when...
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Blood from Stone – review
Director: Geoff Ryan Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Filmed in Laughlin, Nevada, this vampire film feels more a character study than anything else – particularly following two vampires as they try...
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Vamp or Not? I Am Not a Serial Killer
This was a film that had been on my radar and then I lost sight of, that is until Simon Bacon contacted me and asked if I had seen it. He suggested that there might be a vampiric element to this....
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Dead Man Tells His Own Tale – review
Director: Fabián Forte Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers If it looks like a vampire, and it acts like a vampire, is it a vampire? In this case I’ll say yes even though the film makes a distinction...
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Short Film: Taking Shelter
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this is a 2011 short film directed by Jason Gregg and is just over 11 minutes in length. It begins with a man, William (Jason Gregg, Being Human) lighting candles in his...
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Stakeout – review
Directors: John Otteni and Paul Otteni Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This is a mockumentary where we follow filmmakers following, in this case, a vampire hunter. As such it has a similar...
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