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Dracula: the Untold Story
So, myself and friend Dave (incidentally do check out Dave’s fantastic art on his Instagram page) found ourselves travelling to Manchester, to the Lowry, to watch the stage show Dracula: the Untold...
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Blood House – review
Director: Tony Manders Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers It is a shame that Blood House, a microbudget film, works poorly because we don’t get many vampiric building films and I really wanted it to...
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Vampires Are Real 2 – review
Director: J.R. Timothy Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers The sequel to Vampires Are Real, like the first film this was improvised and like the first one that improvisation proved to be hit and miss,...
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Die Wilden Kerle 5 – review
Director: Joachim Masannek Release date: 2008Contains spoilers This is a German film aimed towards a younger audience and concerns itself with the Wild Soccer Bunch. It is the 5th in the series of...
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Short film: Uno de Vampiros
Directed by Nicolas Sparnocchia and Dario Lucero this silent short comes in at just 2 minutes and yet manages to weigh in with an amusing denouement. It is nicely animated using digital technology. The...
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NOS4A2: Season 1 – review
Director: Various Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I received a message from friend of the blog Margaret wondering why I hadn’t reviewed this yet. Let me explain, I hadn’t caught this on TV and...
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American Horror Story – Double Feature – review
Director: Various First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers When I reviewed the fifth season of American Horror Story, I had to admit that I was not a regular viewer of the series, which to that point had...
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Jakob’s Wife – Blu-Ray Review
Director: Travis Stevens Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers As you’ll see if you look at my original review of Jakob’s Wife I rated it rather highly – indeed the film went straight into my all time...
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Dark Reflections – review
Author: Jason Brocket First Published: 2021 Contains spoilers The Blurb: The first thing of three: the world is lost to me. All that I once knew of the world has gone, slipped away right before my...
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Red Snow – review
Directed by: Sean Nichols Lynch Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers I had seen this film on pre-order DVD for region 1 but suddenly it appeared on UK Prime Video and what we have is a neat, simple...
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Morbid Colors – review
Director: Matthew Packman Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Released onto Amazon (UK) VoD just after Red Snow, enabling a good vampire release week, this couldn’t be more different than the other...
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What We Do in the Shadows – Season 3 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers A most welcome return, and whilst most will know this, for the uninitiated What We Do in the Shadows began life as a New Zealand based feature film...
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Honourable Mention: Frankenstein and Me
This was a 1996 feelgood movie directed by Robert Tinnell and had moments of Hallmark schmaltz but also some very well constructed monster segments and Burt Reynolds (the Cannonball Run), That monster...
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Stranger Bakemono ga Jiken Wo Abaku – review
Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers This made for TV film is based on shōjo manga the Poe Clan, though this is set in modern day Japan, as opposed to 19th and early 20th...
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Short Film: OK Monster
A 9-minute offering this time, OK Monster is a short film directed by Jamie DeWolf and as it starts it is clearly a pair of interviews with two separate people – Harold (Hugo Nono) and Bianca (Yael...
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Chinese Speaking Vampires – review
Director: Randy Kent Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Chinese Speaking Vampires is a comedy/action film that predicates around one conceit that – from a genre fan point of view – was terribly...
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Short Film: BloodBound
This 2017 short film by Michael Nicle totals some 18 minutes and strikes as a young filmmaker flexing his creative muscles and experimenting with his craft – and that is no criticism. What we get is a...
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Happy Xmas from Taliesin Meets the Vampires
Illustration by Brian Borough taken from Norman Bridwell’s Monster Holidays (1974), I believe.
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Killadelphia, Volume 2: Burn Baby Burn – review
Story: Rodney Barnes Art: Jason Shawn Alexander First Published: 2021 (TPB) Contains spoilers The blurb: Continuing the critically-acclaimed, sold-out series from breakout star RODNEY BARNES, the...
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The Witcher: A Grain of Truth (s2e1) – review
Director: Stephen Surjik First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers If you look at my review of the vampire episode of Season 1 of the Witcher, you’ll see that I really enjoyed that season – indeed I,...
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