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Fangs – review
Director: James Ian Mair Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This was a low budget vampire flick that I found free to view on YouTube. There was an aspect that reminded me of the film the Return of...
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Crowdsourcing: Embrace
I have been contacted by Aten Entertainment and asked to share their crowdsourcing project for the vampire feature Embrace. The details of the film are: Embrace is a modern-day film centered on a...
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Vamp or Not? No One Gets Out Alive
I was put onto this 2021, Santiago Menghini directed film by Simon who suggested it was ripe for a ‘Vamp or Not?’ Based on an Adam Nevill novel, the story is transplanted from the West Midlands of...
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Use of Tropes: Egomania: Island Without Hope
With the original title, Egomania - Insel ohne Hoffnung, this was a 1986 movie by Christoph Schlingensief and I think it is fair to say that it is more a tone poem than a narrative movie containing...
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Short Film: The Witch’s Bargain
The Witch’s Bargain is a short film that was the featurette on week 1 of the 2021 Killer Valley Horror Film Festival. Running since 2007, it was a new one on me but running online and featuring horror...
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V/H/S/94 – review
Director: Ryan Prows Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers When I reviewed the original V/H/S my review proved itself to be controversial with some – but the segment that had vampiric overtones was one...
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Bad Candy – review
Directors: Scott B. Hansen & Desiree Connell Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Anthology films and Halloween would seem to go hand in hand. I have offered mild concern in the past that many...
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Short Film: Lisa
Lisa was a short film directed by Jacob Pinger and was on week 2 of the 2021 Killer Valley Horror Film Festival. Whilst the entity within the film might be identified as one of a couple of things,...
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Night Teeth – review
Director: Adam Randall Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers I watched Night Teeth a couple of days before sitting down to write this review and I am still undecided about how I feel with regards the...
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Use of Tropes: Tales of Terror
I was contacted by Leila who wondered if I had given thought to the potential vampire aspects of the segment Morella in the 1962 Roger Corman vehicle Tales of Terror. In truth it was one of Corman’s...
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Creepshow: Mums (S3 Ep1) – review
Director: Rusty Cundieff First Aired: 2021 Contains spoilers The Creepshow TV series got a third season and the opening episode (and first segment) Mums was one where we can see a vampiric plant –...
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Creepshow: Drug Traffic (S3 ep6)
Director: Greg Nicotero (segment) First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers I’m watching this season of Creepshow as they drop and, to be honest, I thought ep 5 was a tad weak and, of course, that can colour...
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Short Film: Familiar
This short film was in the third block of shorts presented in the Killer Valley Horror Film Festival and is a ten-minute piece directed by David J. Ellison and released in 2021. It is also a rather...
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Peacocks, Pedestals, and Prayers – review
Author: Dina Rae First Published: 2021 Contains spoilers The Blurb: A chain of advertising agencies, a new breed of humans, and a fallen angel to worship... Andel Talistokov is a fallen angel who uses...
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Dead & Beautiful – review
Director: David Verbeek Release date: 2021 Contains spoiler Aimed at being much more a social commentary than a horror film, this film looks beautiful but is ultimately soulless. The social commentary...
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Taliesin meets… …Jason Brocket
In today’s post I meet Jason Brocket, an author whose vampire novel, Dark Reflections, is due for release December 2021. Jason, welcome to Taliesin Meets the Vampires, can you tell us a little about...
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Horror Noire – review
Director: Kimani Ray Smith Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Horror Noire is a horror anthology released for Halloween 2021, which show cases films written and made by Black filmmakers, and I made...
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Short film: Mark of Lilith
This 32-minutes film was directed by Bruna Fionda, Polly Gladwin and Isiling Mack-Nataf and was released in 1986. Before I look at the film, I just want to mention the set it came with. I viewed it on...
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Honourable Mention: Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2
Directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski and released in 2021, this Polish film is (unsurprisingly) a sequel to Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight, which itself was a fun slasher variant film. With the sequel...
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There's No Such Thing as Vampires – review
Director: Logan Thomas Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Director Logan Thomas was behind interesting vampire film the Yellow Wallpaper, which was wonderfully surreal in places but languidly paced....
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