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IMThem – review
Director: Antony De Gennaro Release Date: 2021 Contains spoilers This is a very strange release that appeared on Amazon and, I suspect, there were pretensions within it of David Lynch as the filmmakers...
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Vamp or Not? Breeder
This is a 2020 Danish film directed by Jens Dahl and I suppose it sits within the Torture Porn sub-genre (kind of, as I’ll discuss it pulls short) and then veers off into revenge territory. However,...
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Waiting for Dracula – review
Directors: Domiziano Arcangeli & Steve Oakley Release date: 2012 Contains spoilers Part filmed in low-budget filmmaker David DeCoteau’s house (or so it appeared to be), which he himself used as...
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Short Film: Boo
Directed by Rakefet Abergel, released in 2019 and coming in at the 15-minute mark, I actually caught this on a broadcast of short films arranged by the London Horror Society, so thank you to them for...
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Use of Tropes: The Retreat
The Retreat is a 2020 film that was directed by Bruce Wemple and is a film that concerns itself with the wendigo. However, there can be some overlap between wendigo and vampire and this uses a trope...
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The Amityville Harvest – review
Director: Thomas J. Churchill Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Where to start? Well, it isn’t an Amityville movie, not in how I know them (though I have to admit I have not stayed abreast of the...
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Lilin’s Brood – Review
Directors: P.W. Simon & Artii Smith Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers The Lilin were a form of Jewish demon that became tied into the Lilith myth and are known as the offspring of Lilith and...
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Transfusion: Vampires Versus Robots – review
Author: Steve Niles Artist: Menton3 Contains Spoilers The blurb: In a future overrun by out-of-control machines and monsters, a handful of human survivors try to fight their way back to a normal life....
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Short Film: Online Order
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF. This was a 2020 short by Johan Nayar that comes in at just under 5 minutes. It was inevitable that lockdown and how people cope with it would become a theme within films and...
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Honourable Mention: Buck Wild
This 2013 film directed by Tyler Glodt is a buddy/zombie comedy flick that sees four city slickers, as it were (although they are perhaps not too slick), heading into the Texas countryside on a deer...
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Tokyo Ghoul (2017) – review
Director: Kentarô Hagiwara Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers So, I have previously looked at the first two seasons of the Toko Ghoul anime as a 'Vamp or Not?' Within that I looked at the close...
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Sabotage: Book 2 in the Occupation Series – review
Author: Jeff Dawson First published: 2018 Contains spoilers The blurb: June 22nd, 1941. Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa. He defiantly states that when the door is kicked in, Stalin’s corrupt...
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Vamp or Not? The Guardian
Recently I was having a conversation with my friend Leila about jubokko – a type of yōkai tree that amounts to a vampiric tree. Sometimes claimed of folkloric source, it may have been invented by...
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Crowdfunding: The Damnation of Dracula
You may recall when I looked at the Sébastien Godin directed Blood Rites of the Vampyr and found an enjoyable low budget film with definite nods to Jean Rollin working in consort with a more modern...
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Honourable Mention: The Wings of Dracula
Lucas Alifano as SewardThis is a “zoom play”, directed by Starina Johnson and the script of which was written by a friend, David MacDowell Blue. This friendship is one of the reasons for giving this an...
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Lured – review
Director: Dawei Lee Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I’m not sure that we can call Lured a ‘found footage’ film, as there isn’t an indication that the footage shot was found and there are moments...
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Crowdsourcing: Dracula: The Swedish Drawings of 1899-1900
Hans Corneel de Roos is a Dracula scholar who, I would hope, needs little introduction. He is a passionate student of the novel and whilst I don’t always agree with his conclusions, they are always...
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Short Film: Sang Papier
Just under 8-minutes, this Canadian short film was directed by Kevin T. Landry and despite not being related to its antipodean predecessor, I couldn’t help but be reminded of What We Do in the Shadows...
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You Are My Vampire – review
Director: Hoi Lee Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers You are my Vampire is a Korean romantic comedy in which a character may or may not be a vampire. It leaves you with a sense at the very end but...
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Looking for Something to Suck: The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes – review
Author: R. Chetwynd-Hayes Editor: Stephen Jones First published: 2014 Contains spoilers The Blurb: In these exsanguinating stories, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes masterfully reinvents the vampire genre as he...
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