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Blood Born – review
Director: Reed Shusterman Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Vampire infants, they add a whole level of creepiness to the uncanniness of the vampire, and this is a vampire infant film – sort of. I...
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Short Film: Crimson Matrimony
This was a short film directed by Bejan Faramarzi and released in 2015 and is a visually rather sumptuous short with the feel, perhaps, of a vampire LARP. It starts in a woodland clearing where there...
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30 Days of Night: The Beginning of the End Volume 1 – review
Author: Steve Niles Artist: Sam Keith First published: 2012 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Fright-master Steve Niles returns to the creation that launched his career for an all-new 30 Days of Night...
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Super Hot – review
Director: Taylor King Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers If I told you that I was reviewing a film called Super Hot about vampires in a sorority house then I’d expect your mind to either wander...
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Horrifying Tales from the Dead – a revisit (sort of)
Director: David Heavener Release date: 2020* Contains spoilers *Date from Amazon page. I have titled this a revisit but it isn’t really. This is an anthology film made up of shorts that were based on...
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Short Film: Hunt and Prey
Hunt and Prey, or Jäger und Gejagte, is a 2014 short film that comes in at slightly under 13-minutes and was directed by Nadine Knobloch. (I thought the title should be translated to Hunter and Prey...
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Public Service Announcement: Following by EMail
Many people follow Taliesin Meets the Vampires by email. However, the Feedburner service I used is ceasing to offer this service very soon. I have now set up a similar system with follow.it and have...
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Bleed With Me – review
Director: Amelia Moses Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers There has been a wave of recent vampire films that, in a pacing way at the very least, feel similar; Rose: A Love Story, My Heart Can’t Beat...
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Honourable Mention: Scare Me
Not to be confused with the horror portmanteau film also called Scare Me from the same year, this is sort of a portmanteau film starring, written and directed by Josh Ruben. I say “sort of” because it...
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Vampire Holmes: Season 1 – review
Director: Yoshinobu Sena Release date: 2015 Contains spoilers Vampire Holmes was a smartphone game that this anime series (of 13 episodes) was created to advertise. Just because a series was designed...
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Short Film: A Tale of a Sassy Little Girl
Directed by Francesca Nobili, this stop-motion animation from 2017 is less than 3-minutes in length and is a neat little foray into imagination. The sassy little girl is in bed when there is a knocking...
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Wrong Place, Wrong Time – review
Director: Justin Price Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Action heist film meets vampires in a film that doesn’t contain the heist – honest. This is one of those low budget efforts where the...
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Honourable Mention: Hellkat
Directed by Scott Jeffrey & Rebecca Matthews and released in 2021, it was only as I sat down to write this article that I realised that the directors were also responsible for Bats. It is odd as...
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Shin Tetsujin 28: The Curse of Dracula – review
Directors: Katsuyoshi Yatabe & Tetsuo Imazawa First aired: 1981 Contains spoilers Shin Tetsujin 28 was a 1980s anime based on the manga Tetsujin 28-go and adapted for the States as The New...
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Short Film: Slayer
This 2018 Czech film by Dimitri Kanjuka is a 10-minute short that was part of the 2018 Screamfest and, at time of writing, is on YouTube but available in the US and not necessarily in other...
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Honourable Mention: Creepshow: Model Kid (S2 ep1)
From the modern reimagining of Creepshow comes this story that was in season 2 episode 1 paired with the story Public Television of the Dead (which was, incidentally an Evil Dead related story staring...
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Village of the Vampire – review
Director: Roberto D'Antona Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers I fail, and always have, to see the point in dubbing a movie – bar some accessibility reasons. For each movie where the dubbing is well...
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Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes – season 1 – review
Directors: Harald Zwart & Petter Holmsen Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers A Norwegian series on Netflix (and my thanks to Ian for pointing it out to me), Post Mortem masquerades as a Nordic...
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Vamp or Not? The Village in the Woods
This is a British folk horror directed by Raine McCormack and released in 2019. It captures, really well, that sense of Uncanny with the protagonists kept off kilter by the familiar feeling distinctly...
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Honourable Mention: The Watch
There is some controversy surrounding the 2020 (just) BBC adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (the show doesn’t adapt a single novel but elements of a couple of the novels based on the...
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