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Creepshow: Meet the Belaskos – review
Directors: Justin G. Dyck & John Esposito First aired: 2023 Contains spoilers Into season 4 of Creepshow and, honestly, I thought the season as a whole was weaker than previous ones. Nevertheless,...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Australia and New Zealand Vampires
Written for Palgrave’s Handbook of the Vampire by Ashleigh Prosser and Blair Speakman their chapter page can be found here. As the chapter title suggests it looks at antipodean vampires and whilst it...
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Short Film: Vampire Siblings
At just over an hour this is close to being a feature, but the Kinigra Deon created vehicle is a web serial with the first season cut into a movie (there are three more movies of seasons 2 to 4...
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Tales to Keep You Awake: The Nightmare – review
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador First aired: 1967 Contains spoilers Tales to Keep You Awake (Historias para no dormir) was a thriller/horror anthology (with a touch of sci-fi) series in Spain that...
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The Temperature of Darkness
Director: Brett Davis Release date: 2013 Contains spoilers This is a film that, as I write, is available to watch on YouTube so this is less a review and more of an awareness raising article. It is...
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The Undying – review
Author: Mudrooroo First Published: 1998 Contains spoilers The Blurb:A daring and thrilling journey into a fantastical world of shamans and vampires where aboriginal Dreaming and Gothic horror are woven...
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Short Film: Dracula a Silhouette Animation
Animated and directed by John S. Carolan this is a short film version of Dracula that crams the story into just 6-minutes. Whilst the writing credits look both to Carolan and Bram Stoker (or Stocker as...
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: Papa wa Kyûketsuki!? – review
Director: Katsuya Watanabe First aired: 1992 Contains spoilers Power Rangers may have been a popular franchise in the US and UK, but they were based on a Japanese series called Super Sentai, with new...
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You Shouldn't Have Let Me In – review
Director: Dave Parker Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers A Tubi original, I put this on with low expectations but it managed to be more than expected and revealed itself as a neat little vampire film...
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Use of Tropes: Shake Rattle & Roll Extreme
It is always great to get a new entry into the long running Philippine horror anthology series, Shake Rattle & Roll. This new one from 2023 recently dropped onto UK Netflix. The first segment,...
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The Takeover – review
Director: Trent Harris Release date: 2022Contains spoilers I did try with this sci-fi, dystopian vampire film but I just couldn’t divine anything particularly coherent out of it. The film sets itself...
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Hellsing – review
Director: Kohta Hirano First aired: 2001-2002 Contains spoilers This is a review of the first Hellsing Anime series – the series of OVAs that followed/rebooted the story would come under Hellsing...
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Hellsing Ultimate – review
Director: Various First Aired: 2006-2012 Contains spoilers In my review of Hellsing, I gave a background that explained I had watched the original anime prior to starting this blog. Later I got the...
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Slay – review
Director: Jem Garrard Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers US streaming service Tubi has been putting original productions up for viewing and this vampire vehicle is a new one on their service. A...
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Handbook of the Vampire: Between the Traditional and the Metaphorical:...
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns the Chapter Page can be found here. Yarbro’s Saint Germain novels are much loved, I know, but embarrassingly I have only read the...
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Use of Tropes: Lullaby
Or, should I say, the use of a single trope and the trope in this 2022 release, directed by John R. Leonetti, is the use of the figure of Lilith (Kira Guloien). However, despite the entwinement of...
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Bury the Bride – review
Director: Spider One Release date: 2023 Contains spoilers The predominant spoiler to this review is that this is a vampire film. The blurb didn’t lead me to that conclusion, it was a Tubi original that...
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Sunset on the River Styx – review
Director: Aaron Pagniano Release date: 2020 Contains spoilers This is quite an arty film that plays around with time and leaves it to the viewer to understand what is going on with it. As such it could...
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Handbook of the Vampire: ‘Beyond Humanity’: An Expedition Charting Non-Human...
Written for Handbook of the Vampire by Adam Owsinki the Chapter Page can be found here. This was always going to be a tough one for me to look at objectively as it examines those folks who claim to...
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Short Film: Night Rulers
A short film from director Blake Ridder, who was behind a short Morbius Fan Film (which I’ll feature in the future), this is a 4-minute short and was released in 2022. It starts with Jess (Sorcha...
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