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Creepshow Season 3 (Blu-Ray review) – review
Director: Various First Aired: 2021 Contains spoilers Ahead of the airing of Creepshow Season 4 on Shudder, Creepshow Series 1, 2& 3 are available on Blu-ray, DVD & digital in the UK and I have...
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Short Film: Maxx Bloodd - Vampire Spy
Directed by Rock Savage and released in 1993 (allegedly, there isn’t an IMDb page) this comes in at a scant 40-minutes and follows the exploits of super-spy Maxx Bloodd (Rock Savage), a vampire working...
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Use of Tropes: Dust Devil
In his essay, South African Vampires that he produced for The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire, Simon Bacon argues that Richard Stanley’s 1992 film Dust Devil is a vampire film. I’ll leave that for you...
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Spooky+ - review
Director: Chad Heffelfinger (segments) Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers This is a portmanteau film, with the wraparound starring the inimitable Doug Jones playing himself. He is getting ready to go...
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Ghost of Guts Eater – review
Director: S. Naowaratch Release date: 1973 Contains spoilers Originally called Krasue Sao, this is apparently the earliest Thai film to feature a Krasue and contains a whole load of ideas that,...
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DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War Part 2 – review
Written by: Matthew Rosenberg, Alex Paknadel, Matthew K Manning, Danny Lore & Mirka Andolfo Art: Illustrated by: Pasquale Qualand, Francesco Mortasino, Acky Bright, Haining & Mirka Andolfo...
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Succuba – review
Director: Jaron Lockridge Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers To avoid an inevitable comment – Taliesin Meets the Vampires looks at the widest spread of what might be termed as vampires and that...
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Short film: SON of Nosferatu
Directed by David Rose and released in 2011, this short film comes in at around the 20-minute mark and takes a comedic look at the vampire. Out on the streets of London a gaunt and ghastly character...
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Interesting Short: Fashion Model
From renowned Manga horror artist/storyteller Junji Ito comes this short, first published in 1992 and found, translated, in the collection entitled Shiver. I must admit it is early days in my...
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Sammy Slick: Vampire Slayer – review
Director: Christopher Leto Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers Sneaking onto Amazon’s VoD, comes Sammy Slick: Vampire Slayer and I have to admit I like the artwork, a little reminiscent of the art for...
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Vampire Nymphets – review
Director: David Stojan Release date: 2021 Contains spoilers A Mexican film, with no real dialogue (though there are recordings in English of what sounds like alleged Satanic cult survivors) this is a...
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Classic Literature: A Fool There Was
I have, of course, looked at the 1915 film A Fool There Was and decided the female vampire, played by Theda Bara, was indeed a vampire in the energy vampire sense of the word as well as a Vamp. I was...
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Honourable Mention: Fables for the Witching Hour: Vol 1
This was a portmanteau film from 2023 and the wraparound section was directed by Minh Collins. It is this section that interests us, as none of the segments featured a vampire. Indeed, they were all a...
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Night of the Caregiver – review
Director: Joe Cornet Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers A low budget horror film with a limited cast, Night of the Caregiver has a demonic entity at its heart but definitely aims for a vampiric...
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Trasharella – review
Director: Rena Riffel Release date: 2009 Contains spoilers Trasharella is one of those films that leaves me wondering where to begin. A vanity project, essentially, for director/writer/producer/star...
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Honourable Mentions: Debbie Does Demons
Ah, Donald Farmer, director of many a poor film… this is his 2023 opus and, whilst rubbish, it is so knowingly so that one almost can take it as a self-styled meme and appreciate it for that. The...
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Short film: Blood-Bubble Bushes
The 2018 series Junji Itô: Korekushon translated selected examples of Junji Ito’s horror manga into anime, the core series having 12, roughly 24-minute, episodes each containing two segments. The anime...
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The Beautiful Killers – review
Director: Marcus J Henderson Release date: 2023* *Date via Amazon Contains spoilers I hate to do this, I really do. As I watched this film my heart sank at the thought of writing what I quickly knew...
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Kickstarter: Dracula: Rise of the Vampire
From Director Dean Meadows comes a crowdsourcing for a British film that is said to be an unofficial sequel to Dracula AD 1972/Satanic Rites of Dracula and is set to star scream queen Eileen Daly as...
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Beneath Us All – review
Director: Harley Wallen Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers It so nearly hit for me, but this film unfortunately fluffed in a couple of places and the interesting set up of certain storylines could...
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