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Haunted Hotties – review
Director: Dean McKendrick Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers At first glimpse, you’d think that this is one of those films that was clearly shot as an adult movie but then had all the sex stripped...
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Mandao of the Dead – review
Director: Scott Dunn Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers This was a low budget effort that does its darndest to work above its budget and does so through story and plot, which is refreshing. It is...
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Short Film: Frank Drinks at Night
This was a short that was directed by Henry Lobdell and released in 2022. It is a scant 12:30 in length and, honestly, felt like it was a bit of fun between some buddies rather than anything else. Of...
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Martin (Midnight Movie Monographs) – review
Author: Jez Winship First published: 2016 The blurb: George A. Romero changed the face of Horror cinema with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. But it would be a decade before he caught lightning in a bottle...
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Let the Right One In – Season 1 – review
Director: Various First Aired: 2022 Contains spoilers Some time ago I wrote an article for online magazine Vamped entitled Defending Abby: Nothing Wrong with ‘Let the Right One In’ Remakes. It...
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The Vampire Next Door – review
Director: Myles Gaia Release date: 2022* *Date based on YouTube posting Contains spoilers This film, written and directed by Myles Gaia, is astounding for it being an amateur production, shot on iPhone...
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Short Film: Vampire Story
Directed by Gary J Byrnes, this 2013 short comes in at 8:30 and is a very stylised piece that chooses imagery over direct narrative – though the film does have a story to tell across its short length....
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Blood Herring – review
Author: E H Drake First Published: 2023 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Enjoy this fast paced mystery with an all new spin to vampire lore. Why did the vampires hide for so long? It's been three years...
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Blood (2022) – review
Director: Brad Anderson Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This one vexed me, with high production values and a great main performance this should have been brilliant but there was just something...
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Vamp or Not? Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
Having upgraded to Blu-Ray, I was giving classic horror Let’s Scare Jessica to Death a re-watch and on the disc was a brief interview with Kim Newman. He mentioned a couple of more modern films that he...
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Broadway on Showtime: Passion of Dracula – review
Director: Bob Hall First Aired: 1980 Contains spoilers This stage play version of Dracula (based around the 1979 Bob Hall and David Richmond adaptation) was recorded for television at the Ed Sullivan...
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Honourable Mention: Abnormal Attraction
Directed by Michael Leavy, this film was released in 2018 and runs on a premise that monsters and folklore creatures are real and living openly amongst humans. Through this it touches on racism and,...
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Vlada: a Dracula Tale – review
Author: Christopher Denmead Illustrator: Ken Hunt First Published: 2021 Contains spoilers The Blurb: We take the entire cast of Dracula and Gender Swapped the cast, Its (sic) the classic story with new...
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Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids – review
Director: Vincent Soberano Release date: 2019 Contains spoilers This is another aswang movie to come out of the Philippines, though the film’s country of origin is the USA and it was recorded in...
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Painted in Blood – review
Director: Aaron Mirtes Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers I was torn as to whether to review this as a vampire film or honourably mention it. It isn’t a typical vampire film, by any stretch. The...
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Use of Tropes: Stuck in the Darkness
An Italian horror film that was directed by Alessio De Bernardi and released in 2020, this was a film that struggled with itself, leaving quite a garbled mess behind. Opening with an image of a...
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Short Film: Vampire CEO
This 2017 short, directed by Adam Gambrel, comes in at just over 10-minutes and is a lovely example of minimalist short film making. With just the characters of Derek (Chase Anderson) and Edwin Black...
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The Last Nosferatu – review
Director: Alan Delabie Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers The info on this, over at IMDb, is sparse. The database suggests it is a film of US origin, and it is in English. However, star and director...
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Hello Dracula – review
Director: Chiu Chung-Hing Release date: 1986* Contains spoilers *IMDb lists this as 1985 but the Hong Kong Movie Database lists it as 1986 and the more detailed release dates list on IMDb concur and do...
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Hello Dracula 2 (Ha luo jiang shi) – review
Director: Wang Chih-Cheng Release date: 1987 Contains spoilers The sequel to Hello Dracula, this has many of the same cast though adds in a Western thread and eschews much of the comedy – though...
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