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First Kill – Season 1 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers This Netflix series ran for eight episodes and, I have to admit, whilst on my watchlist I didn’t go immediately to it. When I did, I broke off and...
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Use of Tropes: Dreaded Light
I'd spotted a trailer for this film by director Mark MacNicol, dated to 2022 (according to Amazon, at time of writing undated on IMDb), and I had my interest tweaked as there seemed to be reaction to...
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Boy #5 – review
Director: Eric SteeleRelease date: 2021 Contains spoilers There is a saying, “It’s grim up north”, a stereotype attributed to JB Priestley. Whilst his observations were about the North East, this film...
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Short Film: Love in Vein (2020)
I haven’t spotted an IMDb page (at time of writing) for Phillip Brown’s Love in Vein – however an interrogation of the film’s Facebook page suggests this dates to 2020 and was the director’s film...
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Vamp or Not? Dead Zone
This was a film, released in 2022 as a Tubi original, and directed by Hank Braxtan. On the surface it seemed like an apocalyptic zombie flick, with perhaps some debt to Resident Evil with a mutated...
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So Vam – review
Director: Alice Maio Mackay Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers There is, in my opinion, a real need for more modern queer explorations of the vampire. Now, there has always been a queer aspect to the...
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Spotlight on: Dracula: The Audio Drama
Adapted and directed by Lawrence Burgess, this is an audio dramatization of Dracula, novel accurate and the addition of sound effects, occasional incidental music and a full cast playing the parts add...
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Short Film: Harvest Moon
This was a short film from 2008 and directed by Micah Ranum. The running length is 9-minutes (and this is a short that carries a post-credit sequence). It starts with an establishing shot of the moon...
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Firebite: Season 1 – review
First aired: 2021 Directors: Warwick Thornton, Brendan Fletcher & Tony Krawitz Contains spoilers This Australian TV show had a really interesting opening premise and a beautiful setting. Some may...
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The Pallbearers’ Club – review
Author: Paul Tremblay First Published: 2022Contains Spoilers The Blurb: 1988, and puberty has hit Art Barbara hard - he's a painfully socially awkward teenager, underweight, acne-ridden, and bent...
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Hollyblood – review
Director: Jesús Font Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers I had just got to the end of this Spanish film on the day of its Netflix release when I got a message off Simon Bacon asking if I’d watched it...
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30 days of Night: Run, Alice, Run (volume 3)
Author: Steve Niles Artwork: Christopher Mitten First published: 2013 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Following the death of his beloved Stella, Eben Olemaun has embraced the dark side of vampirism....
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Short Film: Bite
Written and directed by Jack Pirie and released in 2018 this 4.5-minute short could feature something other than a vampire, but what we see fits into the mould and in looking at it through a vampire...
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Bite Nite (2011) – review
Director: Ernest E. Brown Release date: 2011 Contains spoilers I found Bite Nite available to watch on screenwriter (and actor) Adrian Horodecky’s YouTube. It is suggested that it is a satire and I...
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Honourable Mention: Greywood’s Plot
Directed by Josh Stifter and released in 2019, this indie flick surprised me by completely turning on its axis mid-way through. As it started, following seeing a shack in the wood in which sits the...
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Short Film: Nightingale
In the case of this 2020 short (14-minute) film by Jasper de Bruin, Nightingale refers to a member of the nursing profession. In this case Julia (Nina Fokker) who works the graveyard shift in a nursing...
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Zero Avenue – review
Director: Daniel Frei Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers I considered that this might be a case of a film using vampire tropes but there was enough within to convince me that this is actually a...
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The Munsters [2022] – review
Director: Rob Zombie Release Date: 2022 Contains spoilers The trouble with rebooting a beloved show like The Munsters is that it is a firm favourite. That’s not to say that such a reboot can't be done,...
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Criminal Macabre: Final Night - The 30 Days of Night Crossover – review
Author: Steve Niles Artist: Christopher Mitten First published: 2013 (tpb) Contains spoilers The Blurb: In this epic crossover with publisher IDW, Steve Niles's greatest characters come together in a...
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Honourable Mention: Las Antropófagas
This is a horror flick from Ecuador, which was directed by Jorge Bastidas and released in 2019. It is not a vampire film (as such) but it certainly is of genre interest. What we have is a story of...
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