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On the 3rd Day – review
Director: Daniel de la Vega Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers When I say contains spoilers, I mean great big blooming ones as this is a film that deliberately hides its vampiric credentials until...
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Vampir – review
Director: Branko Tomovic Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Very much a folk horror vibe with this low budget exploration of the vampire, and rightly so as writer/director/star Branko Tomovic wanted...
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The Name of Fear Collection: Tales of Anton the Undying – review
Author: Scott Harper First published: 2022Contains spoilers The Blurb: Rome may have fallen, but its greatest hero still fights to keep the supernatural world in check. Once a powerful gladiator,...
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Short Film: Shallow Graves
This short comes in at 13.5-minutes, was directed by James Stark and was released in 2020. It is a neat little film that manages to use familiar film scenarios to broadcast its general direction and...
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Dracula on Holiday – review
Director: Robbie Moffat Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This is a strange one, and no mistake. A Scottish film, set in Scotland and clearly shot (in part) in Scotland, but when the primary...
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Short Film: Teething
I think that the thing I liked the most about this 9-minute short by Glen Matthews, released in 2020, is the fact that they managed to get over the fact that main character John (Hugh Thompson,...
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Alberto Breccia's Dracula – review
Artist: Alberto Breccia This edition: 2021 Contains spoilers The blurb: In this wordless, full-colour collection of satiric short comics stories, an internationally acclaimed cartoonist chronicles the...
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The Panther Women – review
Director: René Cardona Release date: 1967 Contains spoilers In truth, when I started watching this Luchador movie I wasn’t expecting to review it, I was just looking forward to some Mexican nonsense...
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Short Film: Blood for Dracula
This Richard Redmond directed short film comes in at just over 10-minutes and was posted to YouTube in 2015. It is a spoof advertisement for ebaybodyparts dot com. It starts with Dracula (Douglas...
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Use of Tropes: Cannibal Apocalypse
There is no doubt that Italian director Antonio Margheriti knew his way around the vampire genre, but also that his vampire films (and those that played with tropes from the genre) were some of the...
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Sharkula – review
Director: Mark Polonia Release Date: 2022 Contains spoilers One half of the Polonia brothers, you have to give Mark Polonia props for cranking out low budget film after low budget film since the 80s....
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Vamp or Not? The Nameless Days
The Nameless Days is a 2022 film directed by Andrew Mecham and Matthew Whedon and centres around the Aztec figure of the cihuateteo – though the film doesn’t say as much (only mentioning cihuateteo)...
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Mutant Vampires from the Planet Neptune – review
Director: Calvin Morie McCarthy Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers With a title like this we can expect some B movie beats and we certainly get them with this indie offering. It perhaps offers a...
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Renfield: Slave of Dracula
Author: Barbara Hambly First Published: 2006 Contains spoilers The Blurb: A fresh take on Bram Stoker's Dracula focuses on the obsessive devotion of Renfield to his vampire master, embarking on a...
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Honourable Mention: The Blood of the Dinosaurs
This is a 19-minute short, first released in 2021 and currently doing the festival circuit. In fact, it was due to the occasion of it being featured in the 2022 HollyShorts Film Festival that director...
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Day Shift – review
Director: J.J. Perry Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Made for Netflix, this feature was directed by J.J. Perry, a stunt coordinator who worked on John Wick: Chapter 2 and so the action sequences...
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Short Film: Frenzy 2
This short film, which comes in at just over 11-minutes, is the middle short of three directed by Chris R. Notarile that concentrate on the character Frenzy (Dani Scott) an immortal woman whose...
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Chupa – review
Director: Tom Hoover Release date: 2000 Contains spoilers This really is a low budget flick, the Tubi version being of a really low resolution – which I doubt impacted the experience too much. Yet it...
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30 days of Night: Blood-Stained Looking Glass (volume 2) - Review
Author: Steve Niles Artwork: Christopher Mitten First published: 2012 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Fright-master Steve Niles continues the all-new 30 Days of Night series! As Alice Blood debates...
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Le Bal de Dracula
A very short film, at just under 4-minutes, that was directed by Lucas Dupuy – this has a tremendous amount of style in the photography, forgoing anything other than a basic narrative (which is...
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