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Dracula Vs Frankenstein – review
Directors: Tyler Ralston & Marc Slanger Release date: 2002 Contains spoilers In 1971 a film was released called Dracula Vs Frankenstein. If you look at the comments to that review you will see some...
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The Poe Clan Vol. 1 – review
Author & Illustrator: Moto Hagio Translation: Rachel Thorn Published: 2019 (Hardback English translation) Contains spoilers The Blurb: The Poe Clan: a race of undead that feeds on the energy of the...
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Some Smoke and a Red Locker – review
Director: Zetkin Yikilmis Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I think what weighs on my mind, as I think about the 94 minutes of my life I won’t get back after watching this, is the fact that the...
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Honourable Mention: Domina Nocturna
Released in 2021 this Brazilian film was directed by Larissa Anzoategui and is entirely without dialogue. My quandary was how to tackle and explain it here. As such I decided to reproduce the IMDb...
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Short Film: The Blood of Love
Directed by Jeff Meyers and released in 2015 this short comes in at just under 20 minutes (and my thanks to Simon Bacon for spotting it on Vimeo). It is a really interesting take on the genre. It...
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Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage – review
Author: Catherine Wynne Release date: 2013 The Blurb: Bram Stoker worked in the theatre for most of his adult life, as theatre reviewer in Dublin in the 1870s and as business manager at London's Royal...
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Comrade Drakulich – review
Director: Márk Bodzsár Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers Hungary was the source of one of the oldest (and unfortunately lost) vampire films in the form of Drakula Halála and was the birthplace of...
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Monster Killers – review
Director: Ben Steiner & Calvin Main (segments) Release date: 2020 Contain spoilers Monster Killers is yet another in the bow wave of anthology films made up from pre-existing shorts. This one uses...
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Short Film: Choice Cuts
A short that comes in under 5-minutes, this was directed by Keith Jefferies and Jeff Meyers and is slightly spoiled just by being featured on TMtV. So, it starts with a kitchen (in a hotel or...
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Honourable mention: Lovecraft Country – season 1
Lovecraft Country Season 1 aired in 2020 and was notable for creating a supernatural show based (very loosely) on Lovecraftian lore but with a primarily black cast – certainly with regards the...
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Fear Chamber – review
Directors: Jack Hill & Juan Ibáñez Release date: 1968 Contains spoilers I received a message from Leila asking whether I had ever considered this film as a vampire film – which I hadn’t. However I...
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Dead Indian Wars – review
Author: Clark Casey First Published: 2018 Contains spoilers The blurb: After fending off an attack by the werewolf pack, the saloon is in shambles and half of the dead outlaws have been sent to Hell....
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Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing – review
Director: Steve Lawson Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers I must admit to being intrigued when I saw the trailer for this. Another filmed version of Dracula, the conceit of this version is that it...
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The Dark Terror – review
Author: Jerry Knaak First Published: 2019Contains spoilers The Blurb: Stunning Revelations As Elizabeth Rubis learns to rule the children of the night and develop her abilities, her recent past comes...
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Conjure X – review
Director: Tim Troemner (segment) Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers So, Conjure X is yet another anthology film created by stitching shorts together and, in this case, I certainly had seen the first...
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AMYM: The Mamluk Who Defied Death – review
Author: KV McQuain First Published: 2016The Blurb: It's 1811, the spring wind blowing out of the western desert heralds disaster for the Mamluks of Egypt. Cairo is tearing itself apart in its struggle...
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Darkness of Day: The Tenth Anniversary Edition – review
Director: A.J. Ager Release date: 2010 Contains spoilers Some times things don’t turn out as you’d expect. As this started I was convinced I’d probably be writing a review of a film that was going to...
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Abduction of Two Rulers – review
Author: Nancy Kilpatrick Release date: 2018Contains spoilers The Blurb: A conference between two species ends in disaster when Sapiens Queen Blanka and the Vampir King Thanatos are treacherously...
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Raw – Blu-Ray review
Director: Julia Ducournau Release date: 2016Contains Spoilers French genre movie Raw is getting a limited-edition Blu-Ray release in the UK (release date April 19, 2021) and I was given early-access...
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La Marca del Muerto – review
Director: Fernando Cortés Release date: 1961 Contains spoilers This could almost be a “Revisited” article as I have kind of looked at this before. However that was a version reedited and dubbed for the...
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