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Short Film: The Night Courier
This is a short around the 20 minutes mark that was directed by Mason McDonald and released in 2021. It is a neatly put together piece but also a piece where I picked up more from the IMDb description...
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The Last Slay Ride – review
Director: Jason Hawkins Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers A Christmas themed vampire movie – excellent, there just aren’t enough but, unfortunately, this one didn’t set my Christmas Spirit soaring....
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Night of Vampyrmania – review
Director: Richard J. Thomson Release date: 1993 Contains spoilers The oddly named Night of Vampyrmania was a straight to video French film that is a portmanteau film in which the segments and...
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Short Film: Soy Leyenda
This short by Mario Gómez Martín was shot in 1967 and released by Escuela Oficial de Cine, Spain’s official National Film School, and excitingly is a make of I am Legend. It has appeared on YouTube,...
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Interview with the Vampire – Season 1 – review
Director: Various First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers Also referred to as Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, this TV adaptation of the opening volume of the author’s famous series of vampire...
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Short Film: The Mare
Whilst nothing overtly vampiric seems to happen within Casper Rudolf Emil Kjeldsen’s 18-minute short film, which was released in 2018, it deserves a place here for a couple of reasons (beyond the fact...
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Carmilla and Laura – review
Author: S D Simper First published: 2018 Contains spoilers The blurb: In the late 19th century, Laura lives a lonely life in a schloss by the forest, Styria, with only her doting father and two...
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Los Vampiros de Coyoacán – review
Director: Arturo MartínezRelease date: 1974 Contains Spoilers I’ve wanted to see Los Vampiros de Coyoacán for some time. Indeed I have the film a couple of times on DVD as I’ve attempted to get hold of...
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Use of Tropes: La Sombra del Murcielago
An outing for Blue Demon, the title of this Federico Curiel 1968 outing translates to The Shadow of the Bat and, to be clear from the outset, this is not a vampire movie. It is, however, a movie that...
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Harvest of Horrors – review
Director: Clint Drago Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers A portmanteau film, this one was clearly a low budget, indie affair but it was one where the segments were clearly shot for the film (rather...
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Short Film: Dracula's Mother
Over the years we have had various relations of Dracula (Ryan Mulkay), be it his daughter, son, widow and even his dog. In 2007 director Paul Awad decided to introduce us to his mother (Mary Lechter)...
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Use of Tropes: Kuntilanak 2
Rizal Mantovani’s 2019 film is a sequel to a film that I looked at as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ and concluded that it might be Vamp if one accepted that an aspect of the film portrayed energy vampirism. The...
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Night Hunt – review
Director: Ricardo Islas Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers I can’t help it, I have a soft spot for the films of Ricardo Islas, they are low budget and contain some questionable performances but they...
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Vampfather – review
Director: Stuart Paul Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear… I kind of knew when this was released as a Walmart exclusive, it just didn’t bode well. On the other hand, it...
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Honourable Mention: Vampiri Su Medju Nama: Ćao Inspektore 2
This Yugoslavian film, which translates to Vampires are Among Us, is a buddy cop comedy and the second of the Hi Inspector series. It was released in 1989 and directed by Zoran Calic. It follows small...
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Short Film: Six
Coming in at the eleven-minute mark, this short film from director L. Gustavo Cooper is a class piece of film-making, though as a short film it perhaps is better as a proof of concept for a longer...
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Amityville Vampire – review
Director: Tim Vigil Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers This is yet another in the flood of recent films that tag Amityville to the title and, in this case, there is a link at the beginning with the...
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Use of Tropes: Lilith’s Hell
The mythological figure of Lilith has become inextricably linked with vampires in the genre’s megatext. It is this figure, therefore, that is the main trope from the genre within Vincenzo Petrarolo’s...
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Kickstarter: Night is Falling Volume 1
Some time ago I featured a kickstarter for issue 1 of Night is Falling, a comic book written by Karen and Barry Todd and Greg Tulonen, and illustrated by Alysa Avery. Since then, the comic has grown in...
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A Cleansing of the Blood: An Anton the Undying Story Collection – review
Author: Scott Harper First published: 2022 Contains spoilers The blurb: “Is there immortal blood, blood which will forever quell the red thirst?” asks Anton the Undying of Bregit, Mortark of North...
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