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Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu – review
Directors: Tatsuya Oishi & Akiyuki Shinbo (chief director) Release date: 2017Contains spoilers The last of the Kizumonogatari trilogy (you can read also the reviews of Part 1 and Part 2) this was...
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Short Film: Rick and Ruby
This 14.5-minute short from director Scott Woodburn was released in 2019 and is billed as a horror comedy, though through the opening set up you’d be forgiven for wondering at the comedy label as, to a...
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Honourable Mention: Blood Lust
This Benedict Mart film from 2016 was one that I really wanted to be a straight-out vampire flick – though I know before watching it that it features sirens. Unfortunately, it came out a little less...
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Dark Trésor – review
Directors: Richard Davis & Jamila Marie Release date: 2020* Contains spoilers *date from Tubi I found this film on Tubi, a short feature at just over an hour running time. Unfortunately, I knew...
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Short Film: The Final Voyage of the Good Ship Demeter
The scenes within Dracula from the Demeter have oft been considered a source for standalone terror. They have been novelised, both in prose and graphic form, they were the source for a feature length...
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Dracula: His Women: The Legend of Dracula, Book II – review (& revisit)
Author: Perry Lake First Published: 2021 (2nd edition) Contains spoilers The Blurb: No woman can resist Dracula—and some will love him forever! Meet the many brides of Dracula—seductive, inhuman...
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Chapelwaite: Season 1 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2021 Contains spoilers Chapelwaite is a series built upon the foundation of the Stephen King short story Jerusalem’s Lot. The short itself is a prequel to Salem’s Lot,...
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Snow, Glass, Apples – review
Author: Neil Gaiman Artist: Colleen Doran First Published: 2019 Contains spoilers The blurb: A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen...
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Short Film: Crazy Dracula Spring Break Weekend
From directors Matt Granger & Mikey Granger (as the Granger Brothers) comes this 2011 comedy short that runs for 13-minutes. It starts off at a pool party and Dracula (Matt Granger) is in party...
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Let the Wrong One In – review
Director: Conor McMahon Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Horror comedies are an odd thing, they might work but often do not and that can just be around sense of humour differences. My trepidation...
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First Impressions & Crowdfunder: Lords of LA
Lords of LA is a new indie graphic novel and I have been lucky enough to see the completed pages so far courtesy of writer Frank J Zanca. For the art; pencils are by Alex Femenias and inks by Maria...
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A.K. Tolstoy’s “A Taste of Blood” – review
Director: Santiago Fernández Calvete Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers Let me be clear from the off-set this is a review of the Western (US/UK) release of this Argentinean film and may not reflect...
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Use of Tropes: Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
Ok, there’s one trope we see in the second film… sort of… and we can retrofit a trope into film 1 at a push… but it is my excuse to get the Australian zombie series par excellence on to the blog. My...
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Short Film: 400 Ways to Kill a Vampire
This Christine Parker directed short was released in 2013 and comes in at around the 21:30 mark. What we get is a vampire hunter’s story and a lovely nod over to many classic tropes. The opening...
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The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes – review
Director: Tim Trageser Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers With its original German title of Die Wolf-Gäng I was (and still am) going to wax lyrical about how this is (in essence) a Harry Potter...
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Cult of Dracula – review
Author: Rich Davis Art: Various First Published: 2022 Contains spoilers The Blurb: The collected edition of the hit horror comic book series by Rich Davis that changed all we thought we knew about...
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Kicking Blood: A Vampire Love Story – review
Director: Blaine Thurier Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers The drawing of a comparison between vampirism and chemical addiction is not a new idea, nor is the idea of a vampire trying to kick the...
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Dracula: Plots & Schemes: The Legend of Dracula Book III – Review (& Revisit)
Author: Perry Lake First Published: 2021 (2nd Edition)Contains spoilers The Blurb: Dracula and his vampire hordes plot and scheme to enslave the world and rule the Night! Dracula hacks and slashes his...
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Vamp or Not? Don't Wake the Dead
This was a 2008 flick by Andreas Schnaas, who is known for his low budget, splatter filled madcap horrors. It was Leila who suggested to me that I could look at it as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ and pointed out...
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Short Film: Beauty Juice
Directed by Natasha Halevi, this 5-minute-long film succinctly tells its story by having very little on show. We see the film’s title on a business card, on the reverse it suggests it is a special...
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