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Dracula Sir – review
Director: Debaloy Bhattacharya Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This film in Bengali is an unusual one for the page as it isn’t strictly a vampire film (though this is not entirely unheard of for...
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Crowdfunding: The Virginia Bitches
Another crowdfunded vampire film, the blurb for this one goes a little like: “A female death metal band who are vampires break down in a town full of cannibals led by a Warlock.” Short and to the...
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Honourable Mention: WarHunt
I wasn’t sure whether to ‘Vamp or Not?’ the 2022 war/horror flick WarHunt, but the vampiric aspect seemed too obvious, or even to review it. Partly to save the film’s blushes with a review and partly...
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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires – review
Director: Mike Mort Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers What the world needed, but didn’t know it, was a faux-80s action stop-motion animation. A piece that knowingly riffs that decade’s action...
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Danni and the Vampire – review
Director: Max Werkmeister Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers I love it when this happens – I’d forgotten about hearing of this one before it appeared on Amazon Prime Video and, having watched the...
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Empire of the Vampire – review
Author: Jay Kristoff First Published: 2021 Contains spoilers The Blurb: It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity;...
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Theatre Macabre: The Vampire – review
Director: Stanislaw Lenartowicz First Aired: 1971 Contains spoilers Theatre Macabre was a Polish anthology series, which was dubbed into English for the US market, with stories based on classic short...
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Short film: Wan Mei
Shown at Screamfest under the title Perfect, Wan Mei is a 15-minute short directed by Yiyi Yin and released in 2016. It is a very unusual vampire – though I would suggest still worthy of the name. Xiao...
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Entwined – review
Director: Minos Nikolakakis Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers I watched Entwined on the basis that I would (hopefully) be getting a decent dose of folk horror (which it is, with an aura of the...
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All the Moons – review
Director: Igor Legarreta Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Filmed in the Basque language, All the Moons is a beautifully shot film and it certainly didn’t go in the direction I thought it might as I...
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Short Film: Klans Rules
This short film has a runtime of just over 23 minutes and was written and directed by Hilton Ariel Ruiz. The film does quite a bit for the short run time, despite this it is much more a set-up for a...
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Bite Night – review
Director: Maria Lee Metheringham Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers After writing this review I went and checked critic reviews on IMDb and wondered whether I had been harsh. My soul searching led to...
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Dark Stories to Survive the Night – review
Directors: Guillaume Lubrano & François Descraques Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers The background to this – as I can piece it together – is that there is a French TV series entitled Dark...
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Honourable Mention: 60 Seconds to Live
From the same stable as the 60 Seconds to Die films and I called the first one of those “an absolute smorgasbord of quality.” Going on to suggest that, “The art of the short is not easy, to be able to...
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American Cannibals – review
Directors: C.D. Ruiz3 & John Rainwaters Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This was an odd one as the conceit of a documentary crew making a film about vampires made one think it would be a found...
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Don't Kill Me – review
Director: Andrea De Sica Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers I was contacted, separately, by Simon and Leila about this one (whose original Italian title was Non mi Uccidere). Simon suggested, “They...
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I Thirst for Your Blood – review
Director: Aidilfitri Mohamed Yunos Release date: 2017 Contains spoilers Aku Haus Darah Mu in its original Malay, this 2017 horror film had a really interesting central premise that promised to offer an...
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Essential Literature: Powers of Darkness
Authors: Bram Stoker (original Novel) & A—e (adaptation) Translator: Anna Berglund Editor: W Trimble First Published: 1899 (serialised), 2022 (English translation)Contains spoilers In 2017 Hans...
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Use of Tropes: Star Trek: Nemesis
2002 saw the release of director Stuart Baird’s Star Trek: Nemesis and, for some reason, it was one of the few Star Trek movies I never got around to watching. Later I told myself I had to, especially...
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Little Vampire – review
Director: Joann Sfar Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Based on the French series of books, Petit Vampire, by Joann Sfar, I’m not sure that there is a connection with the Angela Sommer-Bodenburg...
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