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Short Film: Dracula’s Daughter (2020)
Coming in at 5 minutes this short, directed by Tony Laudati, is a reimagining of the famous scene in Dracula’s Daughter where Countess Zaleska (Ausma Fiame) has Lili (Juliet Picard) pose for her, as a...
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula starring Bela Lugosi – review
Adapted by: Robert Napton Illustrations by: El Garing First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: For the first time ever Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece is being united with the definitive...
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Dracula’s Orgy of the Damned – review
Director: James Baack Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I caught this on a YouTube channel, which has since vanished, and it wasn’t posted at a great resolution, so apologies for the screenshot...
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The Good Things Devils Do – review
Director: Jess Norvisgaard Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Garnering some derision from reviews, the Good Things Devils Do was director Jess Norvisgaard’s first feature and I don’t think it...
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Vamp on the Batwalk
I’ve been contacted by the guys at Jellyfish Game Studios about their forthcoming card-based game, Vamp on the Batwalk. As they say in the press release: Vamp on the Batwalk offers a fresh take on the...
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Thirst – review
Directors: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson & Gaukur Úlfarsson Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers An Icelandic horror comedy, Thirst (Þorsti) is low budget and throws in a lot of gore. There is a bit...
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Use of Tropes: In Fabric
The 2018 Peter Strickland film In Fabric is an outstanding film and one that is described as a (sort of) ghost story. However, I saw elements within it that tie into vampire genre tropes. Whether this...
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Short Film: Murphy’s Chupacabra Hole
A short film directed by Nathan Tarantla and released in 2018, this goes to show that sometimes simple works really rather well. I rather like a bit of old-time radio and this, despite a modicum of...
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The Tale of the Vampire Rabbit – review
Poet: Michael Quinlyn-Nixon Illustrations: Michael Quinlyn-Nixon First Published:2020 The Blurb: A totally fictional and completely unhistorical account of the origins of Newcastle’s mysterious...
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Girls Just Wanna Have Blood – review
Director: Anthony Catanese Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers If I told you that the original title of this was Teenage Bloodsuckin' Bimbos then it might offer you a measure of the film by title...
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Honourable Mention: Onus
Onus is a 2020 film by Alex Secker is nearly a folk horror film, and I say nearly because the folk horror element deserved more attention. It also has what might be described as a vampiric side that...
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Honourable mention: Deathcember
Deathcember is an anthology of short shorts, released in 2020, that looks to put the horror back into the holiday season and is based around an advent calendar type of graphic to lock the segments...
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Vampire Trailer Park – review
Director: Steve Latshaw Release date: 1991 Contains spoilers I always say that comedy is subjective but despite not matching my humour this straight to video 90s flick did actually manage a level of...
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Carmilla: A Critical Edition – review
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Editor: Kathleen Costello-Sullivan First published: 2013 (edition) The Blurb: First serialized in the journal "The Dark Blue" and published shortly thereafter in the...
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Wilczyca – review
Director: Marek Piestrak Release date: 1983 Contains (lots of) spoilersI vacillated with this film as to whether to review it or suggest it was a film that used some tropes from the vampire genre. I...
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Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies - review
Editor: Vanessa Morgan First Published: 2019 The Blurb: This is an overview of the most offbeat and underrated vampire movies spanning nine decades and 23 countries. Strange Blood encompasses...
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Broil – review
Director: Edward Drake Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers So there is little out there to suggest Broil is a vampire film (in actual fact the film flirts with the V word and then suggests it is much...
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Christabel – review
Director: Alex Levy-Heller Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers The Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Christabel is sometimes cited as a vampire piece. As far as I can tell this goes back to an...
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Use of Tropes: Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus was a Hong Kong movie from 1984 that was directed by Yuet-Sang Chin. It involves a travelling Chinese opera company that gets more than it bargained for when it discovers that the theatre...
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Short Film: Dépression saisonnière
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, Dépression saisonnière, or Seasonal Depression, is just under 8-minutes long and was directed by Yohann Thiou. Elisa (Vanessa Larose) is watching TV (Night of the Living Dead)...
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