Hellsing Ultimate – review
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4d ago
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 first 4 DVDs of the OVAs that make up Hellsing Ultimate, which is 10 OVAs in all and then I stalled as the further OVAs did not seem to emerge in the UK. Eventually I picked up a Malaysian set with the full OVA series and was all prepped to watch through Hellsing Ultimate. Alucard Before that I re-watched Hellsing, wrote a review (and subsequently sat on it for quite some time) and ..read more
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Hellsing – review
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4d ago
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 Ultimate. First a little background. Although I am posting this review in 2024 (and, as I'll explain in a forthcoming review, wrote the review some time ago), I actually first watched (and had the DVD set) of Hellsing before I started Taliesin Meets the Vampires. I never re-watched the series, after the blog started, for review and therefore didn’t review it. Alucard Following the seri ..read more
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The Takeover – review
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6d ago
Director: Trent Harris Release date: 2022 Contains 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 for a sequel, so might have been keeping its powder dry for that, but over all I just didn’t think it allowed itself to be followed particularly well. It seems to be in a world where the vampire-apocalypse has taken place, but the end credit area further suggests this is with an eye on Covid-19. There was a lot of inter-personal politics and double-crossing going on but this was ..read more
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Use of Tropes: Shake Rattle & Roll Extreme
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1w ago
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, Glitch, is a great demonic entry and I was also rather taken by zombie-esque final segment Rage with people turned by space parasites, and the segment carrying the fun conceit that the more violence they commit the more powerful they become. The segment that has led to this article is Mukbang, directed by Jerrold Tarog, which was interesting because it moves directly into the world of internet inf ..read more
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You Shouldn't Have Let Me In – review
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1w ago
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 with an unusual vampire type (spider based) and a neat bit of lore that was used really well. Of course, the name is a riff on the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel/filmic spin offs (where the US vehicle uses the alternative Let Me In rather than Let the Right One In) and seems to have slowly crept in as a trope, for instance being the baseline for Let the Wrong One In. Brianna attacked ..read more
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Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: Papa wa Kyûketsuki!? – review
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1w ago
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 live action footage, including actors, cultural references and plot. This episode of the Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (Dinosaur Squad) saw aspects cut into a couple of the Mighty Morphin’ episodes and the vampire aspect, which had Japanese actors, was lost in that. The episode title translates to Papa's a Vampire!? hiding in foliage A young girl is walking in a park ..read more
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Short Film: Dracula a Silhouette Animation
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2w ago
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 the title page suggests!), the broad chops of the story owe something to Deane and Balderston respectively. attacking Lucy The animation is very basic, using silhouettes and intertitles as opposed to voice actors – this decision fits well with a silhouette of Dracula who owes much to the Orlock incarnation. The intertitles are very simplistically written as befits the curtailed and ..read more
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The Undying – review
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2w ago
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 together to create a powerful and seamless narrative. I'm the stranger with strange habits which make me avoid the full light of day, enter into the warm circle of your fire and will exchange my yarn for your company... The stranger, George, tells a story of wonder and horror. Jangamuttuk, his father and Master of the Ghost Dreaming, is a shaman with ceremonies to send the white ghosts ba ..read more
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The Temperature of Darkness
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2w ago
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 based on Dracula and, in doing so, it carries an interesting conceit – which does take some suspension of belief, to be fair. It is also, ostensibly, a found footage style film – this doesn’t hold to scrutiny as there as some deliberate shots out with the in-film cameras, nevertheless it is mostly in that style. It is clearly a budget film and several of the players have only this in their IMDb ..read more
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Tales to Keep You Awake: The Nightmare – review
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2w ago
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 has rightly been called the Spanish Twilight Zone. It made episodes both from original ideas and based on classic tales (largely Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe) and cast a wide net on its ideas. Some episodes were geared towards the macabre – there is an excellent first season version of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar – but others had a touching sentimentality – The Rocket (El cohete) b ..read more
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