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Killadelphia Volume 1: Sins of the Father – review
Author: Rodney Barnes Artist: Jason Shawn Alexander First published: 2020 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: When a small town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father-the revered Philadelphia...
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Dark Forces – review
Director: Bernardo Arellano Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Ah Netflix, you can bring us some films from all over the world, introducing us to new and strange vistas… But some of them come with a...
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Queen: the Awakening – review
Director: Trevor Ford Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers It really irks sometimes. You get a movie, its from out of nowhere but as you watch you get photography and locations well above the standard...
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Honourable Mention: Shopping Tour
This Russian film, directed by Mikhail Brashinskiy and released in 2012, was a found footage styled film that had the footage shot on a mobile (with the world’s longer battery life, apparently). It...
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror - A Film by F. W. Murnau: A Shot-by-Shot...
Author: Roy A Sites First published: 2014 The blurb: Nosferatu -- Does this word not sound like the Deathbird calling for you at midnight? Beware of it, otherwise you will fade away and images of your...
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Short film: Wicked Conclusions
This 2016 short film, directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr., was just over 12 minutes long and opens with a street scene as someone puts a poster up for a missing dog. In a kitchen Ben (Erik Searle) makes...
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Xane: The Vampire God – review
Director: Johnny Pendragon Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This one looks as though there was some budget involved and, in many respects, that is worrying as the film was on shaky grounds all the...
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Ten Minutes to Midnight – review
Director: Erik Bloomquist Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers A film that did well on the festival circuit (including the UK’s Grimfest 2020), it really does defy expectation. A simple blurb for it...
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Short Film: One for the Road (2020)
I am sure many readers are familiar with the story One for the Road – Stephen King's short story sequel to Salem’s Lot. This 2020 production of the story as a film is actually the fourth short I’ve...
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These Savage Shores Vol. 1 – review
Author: Ram V Artist: Sumit Kumar First published: 2019 (TPB) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, the East...
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Honourable Mention: Cry of the Werewolf
Directed by Henry Levin and released in 1944 this is very much a werewolf film (of the four-legged variety) but a little scene at the beginning makes it worth mentioning here. The film starts at the La...
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Captain Sabertooth and the Magic Diamond – review
Directed by: Marit Moum Aune & Rasmus A. Sivertsen Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This is a Norwegian kids animation and the version I saw was dubbed into English, with Norwegian actor Kyrre...
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Painkillers – review
Director: Roxy Shih Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers A take on the vampire genre that pushes it to being a psychological disorder, this one might pass the uninitiated by. Under the hood it is a...
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Short Film: Things we Dig
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF. This is a short, listed as 2019 on IMDb but copyright listed as 2020 on the film, that is just under 19 minutes and was directed by Pia Thrasher. The director is on record as...
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Night of the Cobra Woman – review
Director: Andrew Meyer Release date: 1972 Contains spoilers This was a joint US/Philippines production and I might have looked at it as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ but there is definite eating of youth within it....
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Manga Classics Dracula – review
Author: Bram Stoker Adaptation: Stacy King Artwork: Virginia Nitouhei Contains spoilers The Blurb: An ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania - but it won't lurk there forever. Now Count...
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Short Film: State Zero
This is a short sci-fi/horror from director Andree Wallin, released in 2015 and coming in at just under 17 minutes. The short takes many of its cues from I am Legend (the film not the novel) and it is...
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Climate of the Hunter – review
Director: Mickey Reece Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I didn’t know what to expect from Climate of the Hunter, but whatever proto-expectations I had were dashed by what I saw. An urbane, witty,...
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Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell – review
Director: Mitch Schauer Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers The marvel (and DC are the same, to be fair) machine rumbles on with another franchise tie-in, in the form of an (almost) feature length...
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Short Film: Another Nail in the Coffin
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this Australian short comes in at 12 and a half minutes and was directed by Nadia Russell, and I was really rather taken with it, if I’m honest. So an intertitle tells us that...
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