“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Much love to my fellow night children, on Stoker‘s 169th birthday, let us always celebrate the dark! Continue reading
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The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
The Blood Spattered Bride is a surprisingly good giallo-style thriller that is not as blood spattered and silly as the title suggests. It is essentially another iteration of the much interpreted Carmilla story by Sheridan LeFanu, which is the proto type for the female/lesbian vampire and which also predates and heavily influenced Stoker’s Dracula. In … Continue reading
Jean Rollin is French for Unisom
Jean Rollin is a French writer and director of numerous films, mostly about vampires and naked women. But unlike other sexploitation films he is a total yawn fest. Rollin somehow manages to take sexy and compelling elements and create films that put me to sleep. Most of the movies involve a pair of pretty ladies … Continue reading
Let The Right One In (2008) – Let Me In (2010)
Let Me In is virtually a scene for scene remake of the original, so I am gonna talk about Let The Right One In first. This is an amazing film and probably one of the best vampire, if not horror movies, ever, because it doesn’t shove old, simple stereotypes down our throats. The … Continue reading
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