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Shock Value: Legacy Anthology – review
Editors: Mark Adams & Matt Warner First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: Werewolves, Vampires, Monsters Hellbound media presents a collection of terrifying tales that find their...
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Interview with the Vampire: Season1 – Blu-Ray review
Director: Various First aired: 2022 Contains spoilers I have previously reviewed season 1 of Interview with the Vampire and have been lucky enough, with the release of the UK Blu-Ray edition, to get a...
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Pandemic Thirst – review
Director: Chris Woods Release date: 2022 Contains spoilers The Covid-19 Pandemic impacted all our lives, in one way or another, and so it is logical that it would also impact movies. More so for the...
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Honourable Mention: Soichi
My journey into the work of Junji Ito continued with the collection Soichi – primarily because the last story, Rumors (which I will cover as a story in its own right), features an appearance by Miss...
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Fiona’s Guardians – review
Author: Dan Klefstad First Published: 2020 Contains spoilers The Blurb: When a vampire seduces you, death is minutes away. When she hires you, you'll soon wish you were dead. It’s a truth known to...
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Up-coming: Plant Week
For the next week on TMtV I will be concentrating on three films that fall under the banner of Vampiric Plants. Plants and vampires being conflated is nothing new. In folklore, ethnologist Tatomir...
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The Ruins – review
Director: Carter Smith Release date: 2008 Contains spoilers Thanks to Simon Bacon who put me on to this, suggesting it contains “all manner of vampy vegetation”. Based on a novel by Scott B Smith this...
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The Woman Eater – review
Director: Charles Saunders Release date: 1958 Contains spoilers Another film I have to thank Simon Bacon for; this is an obscure British horror flick and has an interesting premise, a plot hole that a...
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Mandrake – review
Director: Tripp Reed Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers First things first, this is a Syfy film and so you can gauge the quality on that fact. I watched it primarily because I thought it might fall...
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Interesting Short: Rumors
As mentioned in my look at the Soichi collection, Rumors was a Sochi story by Junji Ito. It was featured in Souichi's Diary of Curses, which was published in 1997, but I have seen a date of original...
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Short Film: Jackal
This is a 12-minute short film, released in 2022 and directed by Will Patrick Roberts. My thanks to Everlost for putting me on to it. It begins with the famous quotation from Bürger’s poem Lenore,...
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Zombie World – first look
Director: ? (Fang Yinghua) Release date: Possibly 2020 Contains spoilers This is one of a slew of Chinese films, running in at just over an hour, that have appeared on YouTube through a couple of...
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 1 – review
Art and story: Shin'ichi Sakamoto First published: 2023 (UK) Contains spoilers The Blurb: Dracula meets manga in this surreally beautiful and chilling retelling of Bram Stoker’s quintessential horror...
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Salvación – review
Director: Denise Castro Release date: 2016 Contains spoilers I have previously reviewed the Denise Castro film Drácula de Denise Castro and I had heard of this film when I did, but the Salvación DVD...
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Short: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Wax Works
A Universal cartoon from 1934, which was directed by Walter Lantz, who also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, this sees a little boy (Bernice Hansen) abandoned in a basket on the doorstep of Oswald’s wax...
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Bloodthirst – review
Director: Michael Su Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers The apocalypse has happened… that’s the premise of this 2023 film set in the Nevada dessert and it is a low budget flick that had some pretty...
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Use of Tropes: Alice in Terrorland
One book I have always adored is Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and, as I moved from childhood, I realised what a good vehicle it was to create a darker, adult hue. This is the case...
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Short Film: Vamp
A short film directed by Denise Castro from 2015, this was an extra on the Salvación DVD and was a little familiar. It tells the story of Vamp (Liliana Pérez, Salvación), a female vampire and her lover...
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Gabi ng Lagim – review
Director: Felix Villar (segment) Release date: 1960 Contains spoilers Night of Terror, as the English translation of the title goes, was an anthology of four stories – though in surviving prints the...
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Creepshow Season 4: Blu-ray review
Director: Various First aired: 2023 Contains spoilers The fourth season of Creepshow hits UK Blu-ray and it is a season that has one definite vampire episode and one certainly vampiric episode and I...
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