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Crowdfunding: 1987: Blood of the Bat
Fan films can be really well done and the guys behind the proposed Batman (mashed up with the Punisher) fan film 1987: Blood of the Bat have already made one fan film in this universe called 1986,...
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VampyrZ on a Boat – review
Director: Mark Allen Michaels Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This, apparently, is the third of a trilogy of films by Mark Allen Michaels, which contain much the same actors (and sometimes the...
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Honourable Mentions: Corrective Measures
This is a Tubi original film that was directed by Sean Patrick O'Reilly and came out in 2022, and shows a level of ambition for the free streaming platform, especially as it stars Bruce Willis and...
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30 Days of Night (2018) – review
Author: Steve Niles Artist: Piotr Kowalski First published: 2018 (TPB) Contains spoilers The blurb: Bitter cold, endless night, and hungry shadows: the horror franchise that upended the classic vampire...
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Vampirus – review
Director: Ryan Ohm Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Whilst I think the film title poor, it feeds directly into this film’s pandemic setting – in Chicago during Covid-19 lockdown (shelter in place)....
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House of Darkness – review
Director: Neil LaBute Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This was watched on the big screen at Grimmfest 2022, released fairly close to the Invitation on its theatre release. I have seen similes...
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Blood & Sand: The First Book of Rue – review
Author: Aisling Wilder First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Ancient vampire Rue keeps to herself. It makes it easier to fight the constant hunger that plagues her. That is, until the...
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Short Film: A Vampire's Heartbreak
This short film directed by Kevin Forte clocks in at just over 15-minutes and was released in 2019. It follows born vampire John (Anthony Fagan) and the events with his love, and turned vampire, Lori...
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Hood Vamps – review
Director: Gregory Tucker Release date: 2003 Contains spoilers By the credits a 2003 release film, and lacking an IMDb page that I could find, this relatively short feature (it comes in at 72 minutes)...
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Honourable Mention: Werewolf by Night
The 2022 Halloween Marvel one-shot brought Jack Russell (Gael García Bernal, Vamps), AKA Werewolf by Night, and Man-Thing (Carey Jones) to the screen and, one hopes, to the wider MCU. This, in turn,...
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The Mouth is a Coven – review
Author: Liz Worth First Published: 2022 Contains spoilers The blurb: Have you ever seen a ghost? In Starling City, there are spirits on every street corner. Everyone in town seems to have at least one...
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I Dream of a Psychopomp – review
Director: Danny Villanueva Jr. Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers A psychopomp is a being tasked with guiding the souls of the recently deceased to the afterlife. The movie uses the word in that...
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Vamp or Not? You Won’t Be Alone
This 2022 Macedonian film is a folk horror (sort of) film directed by Goran Stolevski and I was struck, as I watched it, by similarities to Catalonian vampire flick All the Moons, at least in broad...
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New web series: Sheigala: Vampire Business Women
Directed by Andrew McPherson and produced by the wonderfully named Fu Man Pooch productions, Sheigala: Vampire Business Women is an Aussie web serial, described as “paying homage to all things 80s”,...
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Vampire Alice in Wonderland – review
Director: Les Sekely Release date: 1997 Contains spoilers I’ve used the title for this film above although, in terms of content, it is fairly meaningless. Indeed the alternate title of Vampire Time...
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel – review
Author: Louise Murphy First Published: 2003 Contains spoilers The blurb: A poignant and suspenseful retelling of a classic fairy tale set in a war-torn world, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz,...
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Short Film: The United Monster Talent Agency
At around 8-Minutes the United Monster Talent Agency is a little bit of classic monster joy directed by Greg Nicotero and released in 2010. This isn’t so much a short film, rather it is a spoof news...
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Slayers – review
Director: K. Asher Levin Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This should have been a genuinely fun take on the genre but it managed to get bogged down in its own conceits and gimmicks rather than...
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Use of Tropes: Vesper
I caught Vesper at the 2022 Grimmfest and it was an unusual entry for the festival line-up as it really isn’t horror (whilst the tagline for the festival calls it a Festival of Fantastic Films, in...
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Honourable Mention: Irma Vep (Series)
I looked at Olivier Assayas’ film Irma Vep as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ because it is mentioned in Gelder’s New Vampire Cinema and whilst I don’t think it was Vamp, I would say it used some tropes, and it...
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