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Crowdfunding: Dracula: City of Bats
It’s always an honour when filmmakers, be they established or aspiring, contact me and tell me that they are a fan of this blog. Today I received a mail from Giovanni from Giovanni Produzione telling...
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Quartz Vein – review
Director: Jared Masters Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Writer/director/star Jared Masters has, according to IMDb has made a slew of low budget B movies and from what I can gather crowdfunded this...
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Creepshow: Sibling Rivalry (S2 Ep3) – review
Director: Rusty Cundieff First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers From the modern reimagining of Creepshow comes this story that was in season 2 episode 3 paired with the story the Right Snuff. This one was...
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Fascination: The Celluloid Dreams of Jean Rollin – review
Author: David Hinds Publication date: 2016 The blurb: May 1968. Parisian streets are awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, a surreal vampire film causes a riot: The audience smashes...
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Revisited: Terrified – review
Director: Demián Rugna Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This Argentinean film was looked at by me a couple of years ago as a Vamp or Not? under its Spanish title Aterrados. Be warned that the link...
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Short Film: The First Taste
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF. This was a 2018 short film directed by Amanda Violetto and Kai Pacifico Eng that came in at just under the nine-minute mark. It played with embarrassment around sexuality...
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From the Pages of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker - Review
Author: Tony Lee Artwork: Neil van Antwerpen & Peter-David Douglas First published: TPB 2009 Contains spoilers The blurb: The first graphical 'sequel' to Dracula ever to be endorsed by a member of...
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Death Drop Gorgeous – review
Directors: Michael J. Ahern, Christopher Dalpe & Brandon Perras Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers If you go out to find information about Death Drop Gorgeous you will see it described as a...
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Everybloody’s End – review
Director: Claudio Lattanzi Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This Italian movie’s title is somewhat clunky and I think works better with the original title Crucified – however, the Blu-Ray I have...
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Honourable mention: Soul Reaper
I’m rather glad I’m not reviewing Bob Pipe’s 2019 Brit horror flick because I would have to be horrible about it. It is a cabin in the woods flick that wants to be Cabin in the Woods, if the film were...
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Short Film: Elysia
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this 2020 short was directed by Wesley Mellott and comes in at 10 minutes. At the head of the film, we meet Elysia (Rachel Donahue), a human who is in a relationship with...
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Son – review
Director: Ivan Kavanagh Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers If I had to sum Son up it would be a film that takes its beat from what we might guess happened, postpartum and post film, to Rosemary’s...
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Guest Blog: Cain as Vampire
Today on TMtV we welcome author Dina Rae to the blog. Cain, the biblical figure, has been a source of artistic speculation. Whilst association with vampirism would seem to date to the Vampire the...
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Short Film: A Mother’s Love
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF. Sometimes, when it comes to short films, simplicity is the best strategy. A Mother’s Love comes out just shy of the 5-minute mark and was directed by Adam H Stewart. I’d guess...
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Black as Night – review
Director: Maritte Lee Go Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers When I’ve watched a film, I like to avoid other reviews until I’ve written my own. In this case the film seemed to have garnered such low...
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Midnight Mass (miniseries) – review
Director: Mike Flanagan Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers There was a conspiracy of silence begged for by Mike Flanagan with regards this Netflix miniseries, which was complied with with great...
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Vamp or Not? Bingo Hell
This 2021 release was directed by Gigi Saul Guerrero for the Welcome to Blumhouse movie run that the production company were doing in association with Amazon. I watched it as the trailer looked fun,...
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Short Film: Fair Prey
Viewed at the 2020 IVFAF, this is a short film directed by Ryan Rosenblum and is listed on IMDb (at time of writing) as 2021, though this is clearly in error. The film comes in at 2.5 minutes and...
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The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 – review
Director: Deon Taylor Release Date: 2021 Contains spoilers When I watched the first Meet the Blacks film I did so knowing that this vampire vehicle was due to be released, unknowing that in the first...
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The Vampire's Puppet – play (L.A. area)
I have been contacted by Chris Levine who had come across my article about a short he is in, Blood Lust. He is currently in a vampire play that started its run the other day and asked if I would blurb...
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