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Beast of the Bering Sea – review
Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers I don’t know why Syfy do what they do. If they have money to make films then why, oh why not make good ones. When I heard they were...
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Honourable mention: The Batman Chronicles Volume 1
The Batman Chronicles Volume 1 is the first volume of a series that contains the very first adventures of Batman. Contained within the volume are the first appearances of Hugo Strange, Robin, the Joker...
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Batman and the Mad Monk – review
Story and Art: Matt Wagner First published: 2006-2007 Contains spoilers This was the second reimaging of Batman’s encounter with the Mad Monk – we looked at the original story here. Between this...
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Armando Creeper’s Valley of the Vampire – review
Director: A Neal Release: 2006 (re copyright notice) Contains spoilers I found this film on YouTube and, to my knowledge, it has not had a DVD release nor is it on IMDb (at time of review). It does an...
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The Devil’s Gravestone – review
Director: Jay Mackenzie Roach Release Date: 2010 Contains spoilers This was one of those frustrating films that, for everything it did right, it managed to make a mistake also. Probably unavoidable, to...
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McHale’s Navy – the Vampire of Taratupa – review
Director: Hollingsworth Morse First aired: 1965 Contains spoilers I must admit that I was unaware of the series McHale’s Navy. As I settled down to watch this vampire orientated episode from the third...
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Stixx – review
Author: Remy Porter First Published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: There's a murderer loose in Greystones, a small estuary village tucked against the wintry, wooded trails of O'Halloran Hill. The...
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The Unwanted – review
Director: Bret Wood Release Date: 2013 Contains spoilers Director Bret Wood was the man behind the magnificent Indie flick Psychopathia Sexualis and, indeed, I interviewed him about that film. So when...
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Honourable Mention: The Pink Panther and Friends – Pink Plasma
The Pink Panther is a cultural classic, a series of cartoons based on the opening credits of the live action crime comedies of the same name and featuring the always cool Pink Panther (character, not...
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Vintage Vampire Stories – review
Editors: Robert Eighteen-Bisang & Richard Dalby First Published: 2011 Contains spoilers The blurb: Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages...
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Interesting Shorts: The Vampire
The Vampire by Jan Naruda is an odd little story, which appears in anthologies from time to time. I wanted to look at it here as, despite various sources suggesting it was published in 1920, it is a...
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Eventide: Lost in Darkness - Review
Author: S W Best First Published: 2013 Contains spoilers The Blurb: "MURDERED on her wedding night.""BETRAYED by her sister.""FORCED to make a deal with the Devil to become a vampire.""LOST in darkness...
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Dead Frequency – review
Director: Rob Burrows Release date: 2010 Contains spoilers I feel incredibly mean. Dead Frequency is an independent movie (with all the issues that can carry with it) and director Rob Burrows was...
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The Ship of Monsters – review
Director: Rogelio A. González Release date: 1960 Contains spoilers Some Mexican cinema is crazy; that’s a fact and La Nave de los Monstruos is a prime example. In this we manage to get a sci-fi,...
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Honourable Mention: Mansquito
I was half a breath from just reviewing the 2005 Tibor Takács' movie Mansquito, also known (as can be gathered from the screener packaging still used by Amazon) as Mosquito Man. Ultimately I decided...
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Let Them Eat Cake
Can there be a better marking of the years than a cake? Especially when it looks like this. Arranged by Sarah, my better half, and crafted by the talented Jennifer Ireland this wee fellow has me...
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Pretty Dead Things – review
Director: Richard Griffin Release date: 2006 Contains spoilers This is a low budget film that hasn’t, perhaps, had the greatest distribution. I found it on a US DVD two movie set. It is a comedy, the...
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Crowd Sourcing News
A couple of projects to tell you about, as always these are for information only and backing is done at your own risk. The first is a film being made by Richard Griffin called Sins of Dracula and the...
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The Monster Club – review
Author: R. Chetwynd-Hayes First Published: 1976 Contains spoilers The blurb: Hidden beneath the streets of London is a dark and dreadful establishment known as The Monster Club, where vampires indulge...
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Honourable Mentions: Rivers of London
The Blurb: My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (as the Filth...
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