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Fangs Vs. Spurs – review
Director: Patrick Love Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers To be honest, the idea of a film being released in 2016, not garnering a single IMDb review (as I wrote this) and hitting Amazon VOD in 2023,...
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Children of the Night – review
Director: William Stead Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Children of the Night is a feature directorial debut for William Stead and, whilst it does do things wrong, it is an impressively shot...
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Classic Literature: The Vampyre Bride
Written by Edwin Roberts and released in 1850, this was one of the stories that struck me in the excellent anthology Night’s Black Agents. The story was originally published in Reynold’s Miscellany. It...
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Short Film: The Dead Hour: Alcoholic Vampire
The Dead Hour was a series showcasing short films dating to 2010 and all the short episodes were directed by Daniel B. Iske. The episodes are opened with a radio DJ, Raven (Melissa Holder), introducing...
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Ghetto Goblin – review
Director: Jordan Harland Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers For this South African film that was originally titled Blood Tokoloshe and I owe Simon Bacon thanks for putting me on to it. What we get is...
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Honourable Mention: Rick and Morty: Full Meta Jackrick
Another Rick and Morty season, another fleeting visitation of a vampire. This is episode 7 of season 6, airing first in 2022 and directed by Lucas Gray and Wesley Archer, and is a full-on meta...
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Dc Vs. Vampires: All Out War Part 1
Written by: Matthew Rosenberg, Alex Paknadel, Pasquale Qualand, Guillaume Singelin & Emma Vieceli Illustrated by: Neil Googe, Pasquale Qualand, Guillaume Singelin & Haining First Published:...
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Count Abdulla: Season 1 – review
Director: Asim Abbasi First aired: 2023 Contains spoilers Appearing from left field, this UK series was produced for ITV – not known for being a bastion of quality entertainment. This station-heritage...
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Kuntilanak 3 – review
Director: Rizal Mantovani Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This is the third in a series that could have realistically been called Kids vs Kuntilanak. I’d looked at the first in the series under...
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Honourable Mention: Witch's Night Out
Directed by John Leach and released in 1978 this was a strange Halloween animated special that sees the people of a town who have really forgotten how much fun Halloween can be. The kids, Small (Tony...
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Subspecies V: Bloodrise – review
Director: Ted Nicolaou Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers There is the subspecies fan in me that was (and still is) so excited for this late entry into the series but, if I am honest, it isn’t...
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The Psychopath and the Lady Vampire – review
Director: Marcos Lomelí Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers A new Mexican film that manages to belay the low budget to some degree but, at the same time, lacked something at its core. It wasn’t around...
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Short Film: Eternal
I’ve done my best to pull the details for this Timothy Nennig short as the IMDb page seemed to have cross-pollinated with another film of the same name. Therefore, I am running with a 2019 release date...
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The Witcher: A Grain of Truth – review
Adaptation: Jacek Rembiś, Travis Currit (English adaptation) Art: Jonas Scharf Contains spoilers The blurb: Geralt's encounter with a beast reveals the truth behind fairy tales in this graphic novel...
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Renfield – review
Director: Chris McKay Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers So, I’ve waited until the UK Blu-Ray release of Renfield before reviewing. I had previously given my First Impression of the film, after the...
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Use of Tropes: The Herd
This is a 16-minute short film directed by Melanie Light and released in 2014. It is billed as a feminist-vegan horror film and, whilst watching, it is one where the misogyny displayed is palpable....
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Dampyr – review
Director: Riccardo Chemello Release date: 2022Contains spoilers A comic book film, this is based on the long running Italian Dampyr series and, for the most part, it looks pretty darn slick (there is...
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Fangs Out – review
Director: Dennis Devine Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers This is a low to no budget vampire flick that had a kernel of a good idea, in broad brush, but then spoilt it with poor effects, juvenile...
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Short Film: Wake Up
Wake up is a five-minutes-long stylised vampire short directed by Busarin Phukhang and is a silent piece. It starts with a girl walking into a coffee shop and meeting a friend. There is dialogue but it...
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Honourable Mention: Dead Vision
This feature (at a few seconds over 60 minutes) by director Kavan Mulvey was released in 2021 and is getting an Honourable Mention (rather than a scored review) as you can watch it for free on YouTube...
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