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The Vampire Dies in No Time: Season 1 – review
Director: Various First Aired: 2021 Contains spoilers The Vampire Dies in No Time is an anime based on a manga, and my thanks to Leila for pointing it out. It is a case of the (English) title being...
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Honourable Mention: Dead by Midnight (Y2Kill)
This is a portmanteau film with the wraparound being the broadcast of the shorts themselves from Hell, or so it seemed. None of the shorts are vampire related but as well as the shorts there are also...
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Short Film: La Piedad
This 2013 Mexican short (coming in at just under 10-minutes) was directed by Mariela Martinez and is a simple story with a good amount of atmosphere. Frederico (Emilio Ridderstrom) – IMDb suggests the...
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The Monsters Without – review
Director: Randal Kamradt Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This Philippine film is far from perfect but it is not fatally flawed, indeed it has a lot of charm. It was provided to me for an honest...
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Honourable Mention: Cannibal Tick
This is a grade-z movie released in 2020 and directed by Ross Carlo and William Long and I’ll start with the title. They are not, obviously, cannibal ticks for, if they were, the ticks would be feeding...
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Nosferatu – review
Author: Rafael Nieves Artist: Ken Holewczynski First Published: 2017 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Beyond the Carpathian Mountains, in the land called Transylvania, there lived a monster that preyed on...
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Reign of Chaos – review
Director: Rebecca Matthews Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Give director Rebecca Matthews her due, she and her partners in crime are pumping out the low budget films (Matthews has, at time of...
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Wrath of Van Helsing – review
Director: Sonner Metin* Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers *According to Tubi the director is Sonner Metin, there is no listed director on IMDb at time of writing. This is a flick by Jagged Edge...
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Honourable Mention: Castle Rock
This was a TV series that ran for two seasons between 2018 and 19. The Castle Rock of the title is a fictional town featured in several Stephen King stories and the seasons featured characters and...
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Short Film: This Mortal Coil
With a running time around 17.5-minutes, and directed by Sean King, This Mortal Coil carries the conceit that it was based on a true story. Given the lack of supernatural aspect to this I could believe...
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The Taste of Blood – review
Director: Allen Kool Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers It is important, I think, for films to enunciate their story – not all films, some hinge on obscurity, or capturing a moment rather than...
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Short Film: The Demons of Dorothy
This short film is 30-minutes long and was directed by Alexis Langlois. It was released in 2021 and hails from France. It is very much a fantastique film and pitches itself as glittercore. It owes a...
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk – review
Directors: Tony Watt & Vivita (& F W Murnau) Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers The last time I reviewed a Tony Watt film it was Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter, which was an...
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Dracula and Philosophy: Dying to Know – review
Editors: Nicolas Michaud & Janelle Pötzsch First Published: 2015 The Blurb: John C. Altmann decides whether Dracula can really be blamed for his crimes, since it’s his nature as a vampire to behave...
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The Sanctuary – review
Director: Allen Kool Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers So, I watched the film The Taste of Blood without realising that it followed this film (set some twenty years earlier). The sequel had plenty...
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Short Film: Uncommon Enemies
At a nice, little 10-minute mark this Alex Hatz directed film tells us that it is set in Nazi occupied France and then changes that to vampire occupied. It is night and an American sergeant (Michael...
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V for Vengeance – review
Director: Kelly Halihan Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Appearing on VOD, V for Vengeance isn’t great but nor is it absolutely terrible. It is a film that should have had more attention paid to...
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Dracula: Into the Mouth of Death: The Legend of Dracula Book 4 – review
Author: Perry Lake First Published: 2022 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Featuring the greatest names in vampire literature... The beautiful vampiress Carmilla seduced the daughters of the noble houses of...
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Stay Out – review
Director: Jeff Carroll Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This is a low budget film that, in its just under 70-minute running time, does plenty wrong and yet has something that might have been built...
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Short Film: Feed Your Muse
From director Brendan Beachman, this 2020 short is just over 18-minutes in length and, despite broadcasting its punches, builds up a nice atmospheric film with a neat little twist in the tail. Andrew...
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