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Hello Dracula 4 (Hai zi wang) – review
Directors: Chen Chun-Liang & Ulysses Au-Yeung Jun Release date: 1988 Contains spoilers I have, as I post this, jumped the third Hello Dracula film as, although I have access to it, I have never...
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The 3-D Army – review
Director: Chen Chun-Liang Release date: 1989 Contains spoilers Although it isn’t titled as such, this could be classed as Hello Dracula 5. It does not follow the previous films but it does have kyonsi...
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Honourable Mention: Magic Girl
Magic Girl, or Ling Huan Shao Nu, was released in 1992 and was directed by Wang Cheng. It’s technically Hello Dracula 6, given it is the sixth film with Chin Tu (Magic of Spell) as Grandfather and a...
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Classic Literature: Der Vampyr (1835)
I was recently involved in editing a paper by Álvaro García Marín for a future edition of the Journal of Vampire Studies, regarding a remarkable story find. The story that was the focus of the paper is...
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The Things We Cannot Change – review
Director: Joshua Nelson Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers The correlation between vampire and addict is quite a common use of the vampire as metaphor, possibly most famously in the Addiction. It is...
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Martin (Second Sight Films 2023 release) – review
Martin is, of course, George Romero’s foray into the vampire genre, which was released in 1976 (in festivals). The film has been reviewed here, and the score remains the same, and so this review is for...
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Upyr – review
Director: Sergey Vinokurov Release date: 1997 Contains spoilers This is going to be a review with no score, once again, as I managed to see Upyr but with very rubbish subtitles – to the point that it...
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Remember Remember – review
Director: Mark Hindman Smith Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers Let’s aim for the elephant in the room first, the very idea of Guy Fawkes as a vampire hunter brings Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter...
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Short film: Dracula's Daughters VS the Space Brains
Running at just under 6 minutes, this little gem was directed by Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski, released in 2010 and was based on a feature script (and we can but hope), This was an ode to 50s...
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Honourable Mention: Girls Gone Gangsta
Released in 2007 and directed by John & Joseph Swider, the core part of this film wouldn’t so much as ping the radar for TMtV. It is the tale of three ladies who are the daughters of a legendary...
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Dracula’s Bride of Horror – review
Director: Tim Lee Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers A few years ago, I reviewed Dracula Vampyre in Beijing a singular mess of a film that found a place in my Worst 100. This film is a sequel, with...
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101: Modern Los Angeles Vampires – review
Director: Stan Harrington Release date: 2014 Contains spoilers This was one I had ignored because, for some reason, I had assumed it was a documentary of the so-called vampire societies out there. It...
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Use of Tropes: Among the Living (2022)
Directed by Rob Worsey, this 2022 UK flick is a zombie, or perhaps infected, movie. I would tend towards the former because, whilst the creatures are victims of a pandemic their very pale skin and...
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Honourable Mention: Huluween Dragstravaganza
Created for the 2022 Halloween season on Hulu, the Huluween Dragstravaganza was a short TV special that combined drag sketches and musical numbers themed around horror. It starts with Ginger Minj in a...
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Blood Covered Chocolate – review
Director: Monte Light Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers Touching on themes of addiction and mental health, Blood Covered Chocolate is a low budget piece with lofty ideas that moves purposefully into...
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The Dark Dawn – review
Author: Jerry Knaak First Published: 2022 Contains spoilers The Blurb: San Francisco 1943 After an injury saved him from the hell of World War II, Jonas Dietrich is on the verge of becoming the...
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Short Film: Mur-Pire
This is a 2017 short that was directed by Alex Rivers and comes in at just under 18-minutes. The name? Mur-Pire is a portmanteau word made up of murderer and vampire, and is absolutely not used in the...
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Cemetery of Lost Souls – review
Director: Rodrigo Aragão Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers The version of this Brazilian horror film, entitled O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas in the Portuguese, was somewhat different on Tubi as...
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First Impression: Renfield
So last night it was a family cinema trip to see Renfield (Director Chris McKay) and I have to admit a bit of trepidation. I do like a Nicolas Cage (Vampire’s Kiss) movie but there was every chance...
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Honourable Mention: Wolf Manor
Directed by Dominic Brunt (who was behind fun little zombie flick Before Dawn) and released in 2022, this flick also goes by Scream of the Wolf and is a werewolf movie that wears an affection for...
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