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Pinky – review
Director: Zah Ahmad Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This film, which includes energy vampires, didn’t really know what it wanted to be, I fear. Classing itself as part of the fantasy genre it was,...
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Honourable Mention: The Damned: A Night of a Thousand Vampires
Now I do like a bit of the Damned, and having seen them a few times I can honestly say they've always put on a good show. That said I have not seen them put on a show like the recent 2022 release of a...
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Short Film: The Vampire Project
I don’t know what the goal was from director Michael R. Morris when he created this, I assume direct to video, film in 1995. Whether it was meant to be a feature that just failed to have any length –...
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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities – the Autopsy – review
Director: David Prior First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers Cabinet of Curiosities was a Del Toro executively produced anthology series, where the great director introduces each episode, which was...
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The Invitation – review
Director: Jessica M. Thompson Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers The Invitation was a film that was spoilt by “the twist” in the trailer, or so people have complained, but the primary twist – that...
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Honourable Mention: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – the Retreat
Directed by Anu Valia, this 2022 episode from season one of the Marvel machine’s She-Hulk series, which brought us the titular character (Tatiana Maslany), also known as Jennifer Walters, who is Bruce...
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DC VS. Vampires 1 – review
Written by: James Tynion IV & Matthew Rosenberg Illustrations: Otto Schmidt First published: 2021 (thb) Contains spoilers The blurb: The war for Earth isn’t beginning… it’s already here! It’s the...
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Blood Relatives – review
Director: Noah Segan Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Watched as a Shudder Exclusive, this film was directed by, written by and starred Noah Segan and, as it started, I really wanted to love it...
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Honourable Mention: Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes
Directed by Kevin Kopacka and released in 2021, this film is a little bit special. German language it has a feel (in photography) of something from the seventies and, indeed, so does the poster I have...
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Short film: Bloodline
It’s been a while since I had a Richard Poche film featured on the blog and this particular one is from 2021 and comes in at 21-minutes. It is notable for its minimalism with a cast of just two....
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Deadlines – review
Director: George Demick Release date: 2020Contains spoilers This is a low budget film that had a few really nice reference points for the genre nerd to pick up on (and I’ll obviously highlight one or...
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Honourable Mention: Wednesday (season 1)
Wednesday was a 2022 reboot of the Addams Family that concentrated on the Wednesday character, portrayed older than the classic vehicles, and played by Jenna Ortega. Of its eight episodes, four were...
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Short Film: Nocturnu
A Brazilian film from 1998, this Dennison Ramalho film comes in at around 11 minutes in length and uses an interesting combination of Black and White and colour, with no dialogue but an almost...
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Sometimes in the Dark – review
Director: Carmine Cristallo Scalzi Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Haunting, I think this is the take-away word from this Italian feature. Listed on Amazon as both horror and arthouse, there is a...
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Use of Tropes: The Curse of La Patasola
So, when a film has in its blurb “…haunted by La Patasola, a famed vampiric monster from Amazonian folklore…” I honestly didn’t think I’d be writing a Use of Tropes article rather than a review....
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Vamp or Not? Flesh Contagium
I would be interested to see the development timeline for this 2020 Italian flick, which was directed by Lorenzo Lepori, as the concept has a world devastated by a flu virus and the vaccine causing...
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Slash/Back – review
Director: Nyla Innuksuk Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Adding in elements that explore the coming of age of Inuit girls (this film tells its story through the eyes of a group of girls), and also...
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Short Film: Vampire Bureau of Investigations – VBI
This is a short film that was directed by Ron Z. Miller, which comes in just under 8 minutes and was released in 2013 (according to the Amazon On Demand page, there was no IMDb page I could find to...
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Honourable Mention: The Freakshow Apocalypse: The Unholy Sideshow
From director Matthew Broomfield this 2007 film is described as the first two parts in a four-part miniseries. I can’t spot the denouement film and so hope it was never done because this is really...
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Monster Family 2 – review
Director: Holger Tappe Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers The film Happy Family, also known as Monster Family, has spawned this sequel four years later and brings the voice talent back to reprise...
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