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Wrath of Dracula – review
Director: Steve Lawson Release date: 2023 (scheduled) Contains spoilers Director Steve Lawson’s last foray into the vampire genre, Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing, was a strange beast. Making good use of low...
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Night's Black Agents: An Anthology of Vampire Fiction – review
Editor: Daniel Corrick First published: 2023 Contains spoilers The Blurb: The vampire is the most glamorous and iconic of Gothic figures. In Night's Black Agents, editor Daniel Corrick assembles a...
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Use of Tropes: Black Cat Mansion
Vampiric cats and ghost cats are a staple part of Japanese horror, reaching back to folklore and the yōkai bakeneko, or changed cat, we can also cite stories such as The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima. In...
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Penanggal: The Curse of the Malayan Vampire – review
Director: Ellie Suriaty Omar Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers It is nice for the penanggal (aka penanggalan) to get a look in within cinema and this Malay film actually sports some fairly good...
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A Fury – review
Author: Eva Vertrice First published: 2023 Contains spoilers The blurb: In 1161 A.D., Merek gifts his cousin and lover Maerwynn a silver ring, adorned with strange symbols and a black stone. That same...
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Short Film: Ten Questions
A film that comes in around the 25-minute mark, this was directed by Andrew Damon Henriques and released in 2013. It has a simple premise but does what it does well enough with a fair twist in the...
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Curado de Espantos – review
Directors: Adolfo Martínez Solares & Gilberto Martínez Solares Release date: 1992 Contains spoilers This is a fichera, or Mexican sex comedy, which gives it a degree of bedroom farce but the sex...
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Classic Literature: The Bruxa: a legend of Portugal
Some time ago I featured the 1863 story the Vampire; or, Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa by William H G Kingston. This was a remarkable story because it conflated the witch and the vampire mythologies but...
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Night – revisited (again)
Back in 2020 I had a new look at Byron C Miller’s film Night as it had received a re-edit from its original release from 2006. I was approached again by the director asking me if I wanted another look...
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Honourable Mention: House on Bare Mountain
What to say about this sexploitation flick from 1962, which was directed by Lee Frost and an uncredited Wes Bishop? Well let’s start with the wholly inaccurate blurb from IMDb “The Wolfman, Dracula and...
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Mr Stoker and the Vampires of the Lyceum – review
Author: Matthew Gibson First Published: 2023 Contains spoilers The Blurb: London, September 1888. Jack the Ripper roams the streets. A scream rings out from beneath the stage of the Lyceum Theatre… A...
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Captive – review
Director: Gregg Simon Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Captive appeared on Tubi and is a fairly competent but simple film, which perhaps could have done with some character expansion and certainly...
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Classic Literature: "The Wood Devil; or, the vampire pirate of the deep dell"
This short was reprinted in Night’s Black Agents and was originally printed in ‘The Penny Play-Book; or, library of dramatic romance: no. 6.’ In 1836. One reason for highlighting the story is to give...
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Honourable Mention: Hawaiian Ghost Stories
This was a 2020 film directed by Blake and Brent Cousins and, at the time of writing, has no IMDb page. I don’t know whether the fact that this collection of campfire tales, told to a group of kids by...
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Anunnaki The fallen of the sky – review
Directors: Joan Frank Charansonnet & Rubén Vilchez Release date: 2018 Contains spoilers I was contacted by a blog reader, some time ago, to suggest I look at this Spanish film, and I am going to...
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Classic Literature: The Crimson Weaver
R Murray Gilchrist was an English author who perhaps isn’t as well-known as he should have been. He lived between 1867 – 1917 and there is a definite weird fiction to some of his work. Certainly,...
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Short Film: Vamp Nite
This 2022 short film was directed by Roberto Lopez and comes in at about 21 or so minutes (with a mid-credit sequence) and my thanks to Everlost for drawing it to my attention. The film starts with a...
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Horus: the Awakening – review
Directors: Chris Davison & Trevor Ford Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers I’m unsure of the date of this one as it has no IMDb page at the date of writing the review, though I suspect it to be...
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Use of Tropes: The Silence of the Hams
Released in 1994 and directed by Ezio Greggio, this was a spoof that aimed primarily at Silence of the Lambs but drew in other crime, thriller and horror films that included a good dose of Psycho. It...
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VMT – review
Author & Illustrator: William Simpson First Published: 2022 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Vampires come in many forms and curious identities, full of diverse methodologies, not all Nosferatu of the...
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