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Your Daily Dracula – François Giroday, The Phantom Eye (1999)
Your Daily Dracula – François Giroday, The Phantom Eye (1999) This Concorde Production was made as a serial run by the American Movie Classics channel during a horror season (MonsterFest), though it...
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I have won an award …
At the 22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, I’ve won ‘Best Column’ for Kim Newman’s Dungeon in The Dark Side. … BEST COLUMN KIM NEWMAN’S DUNGEON (The Dark Side) Runners-up: Scene Queen by...
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Your Daily Dracula – Patrick Stark, Dracula Consummation (2011)
Your Daily Dracula – Patrick Stark, Dracula Consummation (2011) A barebones production made in Hallsville, Missouri, with varying screen shapes, inconsistent sound recording, awkward line readings and...
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Film review – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
My Sight & Sound review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is online.
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Your Daily Dracula – Peter Kjaer as ‘Vampire Master’, Jiang shi yi sheng...
Your Daily Dracula – Peter Kjaer as ‘Vampire Master’, Jiang shi yi sheng (Doctor Vampire) (1990) After the success of Mr Vampire, the Hong Kong film industry let loose a flood of ‘hopping...
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Seven of the most memorable interlopers in cinema …
I wrote a piece on interlopers for the Screenshot BBC site. I’m also interviewed about Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley in this edition of the show.
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Film review – The Strangers Chapter 1
My notes on The Strangers Chapter 1 The trailer sold this as ‘how the Strangers came to be the Strangers’, but don’t expect any of that here. The trio who turn up in masks to menace innocent clods are...
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Your Daily Dracula – Joel Ross, Vampire Symphony (2013)
Your Daily Dracula – Joel Ross, Vampire Symphony (2013) An unusual Dracula adaptation made in Canada, posted on Youtube in three chapters. It’s dialogue-free and elliptical, with almost...
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Film review – the Subspecies series
A Daily Dracula special … Your Daily Dracula – Anders Hove as Radu Vladislas (or Vladislav), Angus Scrimm as King Vladislas (or Vladislav), Subspecies (1991) After the fall of the Ceausescus, Romania...
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Your Daily Dracula – as Waldemar Wolfahrt as Baron von Frauler, El Vampiro de...
Your Daily Dracula – as Waldemar Wolfahrt as Baron von Frauler, El Vampiro de l’Autopista (The Horrible Sexy Vampire) If El Vampiro de l’Autopista – The Vampire of the Motorway – is a fairly...
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Your Daily Dracula – Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Otra ves Dracula (1970)
Your Daily Dracula – Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Otra ves Dracula (1970) A five-part Argentinian TV serial starring Menta in a dual role as actor-manager Daniel Carvel and a beak-nosed Count Dracula. Here’s...
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Your Daily Dracula – The Devil Came Home (2021)
Your Daily Dracula – The Devil Came Home (2021) For the most part, this is a typical low-key, homegrown British horror – written and directed by George McCluskey, who also plays a key supporting role,...
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Your Daily Dracula – Caden Miller as ‘Max’, Connor Alexander as ‘Nosferatu...
Your Daily Dracula – Caden Miller as ‘Max’, Connor Alexander as ‘Nosferatu #1’, Mimesis: Nosferatu (2020) Douglas Schulze’s Mimesis (2011) – which, in retrospect, gets to be called Mimesis: Night of...
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Your Daily Dracula – Daniele Liotti (Anthony Foster) as Vlady Drak, Un...
Your Daily Dracula – Daniele Liotti (Anthony Foster) as Vlady Drak, Un Vampiro a Miami (Breakfast With Dracula) (1993) Among the most obscure (deservedly) Dracula movies, this isn’t a horror film or a...
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Coming soon – The Conversation (1974)
Coming soon – The Conversation (1974) I’ve contributed an essay to this release … Order here …
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Film review – Longlegs
My notes on Longlegs Oz Perkins makes distinctively low-key horror films – the kind which give you a general feeling of unease, as if your mood was affected by a sub-audial thrumm, rather than a series...
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