Author: Kat Dunn Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers The Blurb: FOR WHAT DO YOU HUNGER . . . ? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to the Peak District, to the remote, imposing Nethershaw estate, where he plans to host a hunting party. Lenore must work to restore the crumbling house and ready it for Henry's guests - their future depends on it. But as the couple travel through the bleak countryside, a shocking c ..read more

Director: Jake C. Young Release Date 2024* Contains spoilers *date taken from the Amazon page as IMDb does not have a date listed at time of writing. This is a film that references, and is set in the same world as, 1990’s turkey American Vampire. Now, giving that film some love is kinda cool because it featured Adam West (and, well… Adam West). It also feels odd because American Vampire is a really poor film. That said, if such a poor film is your inspiration then the bar is set nice and low and you should be able to step over it with ease. old Drac The film opens with a man s ..read more

Author: Kiersten White Release date: 2024 Contains spoilers The Blurb: In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide. Her name was written in the pages of someone else's story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula's first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire, and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula's clutches - and trying to discover who she really is and what she truly ..read more

This is a short film directed by Patrick Eichner and released in 2023, it comes in at just under 38 minutes. My thanks to Akash Inti, who plays the role Akash in the film, who gave me access to the film. As a truck pulls into woods we see a man, Gus (Christopher J Reilly), with night-vision headgear moving through the dark. In the truck a guy has picked up a young woman – Dame Demonica (Danél Catherina Minnaar), according to the end credits – he is not backwards about the fact that he wears a wedding ring and takes it off and pockets it. Demonica fed They start to get hot and he ..read more

Director: Craig R. Baxley Release date: 2003 Contains spoilers Having established that Rose Red is a vampire film – with potentially vampiric ghosts but, more importantly, a vampiric building, it became apparent that I should also look at this TV movie, which serves as a prequel to the miniseries. It is based on a novel by Ridley Pearson, under the pseudonym Joyce Reardon, PhD – a main protagonist of the miniseries – and that novel was based on Stephen King’s script. Overall it does little to add into that background, more showing us visually things that are mentioned (and perhaps captur ..read more

Director: Craig R. Baxley Release date: 2002 Contains spoilers Rose Red was a Stephen King penned miniseries that I was aware of when it was released but passed me by and then I just forgot about it. Recently I saw a post on Facebook that suggested the vehicle featured vampiric ghosts and it does but, more, it features a vampiric building – the titular Rose Red. For those wondering, I have a fondness for vampiric buildings and so to, it seems, does Stephen King. I wrote about the niche sub-genre in a chapter of the Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire and it is fair to say that King has list ..read more

Please welcome Clark to the blog who has come with an interesting short. The Antimacassar was a story by Greye La Spina and was first published in Weird Tales, Volume 41 (Issue 4) in 1949. Clark’s reading of it is from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection volume Queens of the Abyss, edited by Mike Ashley. The British Library series have proven to be fine volumes. In this short story we follow Lucy Butterfield, a young woman who is staying as a guest at a farmhouse somewhere In the rural Haycock region, near Quakertown. She, as one does, locks her bedroom door at night, but can ..read more

Author: José Luis Zárate Translation: David Bowles First published: 1998 (2021, English translation) Contains spoilers The Blurb: A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews. He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have ..read more

Director: Joe Menendez Release date: 2025 Contains spoilers I was not aware of Nickelodeon’s Henry Danger (Jace Norman) franchise and so, having stumbled across this, went in cold and, the good news is, they manage to adequately explain the background in short order. Henry Hart, as a child, becomes the sidekick to superhero Captain Man (Cooper Barnes) under the pseudonym Kid Danger. Having gained powers, and whilst saving the people of Swellview, Henry faked his death and moved to the city of Dystopia to become the crime fighting hero Henry Danger, along with his best friend Jasper (Sean ..read more

From 2022 and coming in at 10 minutes, this short film directed by Asdis Guðrún Ragnarsdóttir manages to tell its story without dialogue and a cute, self-contained little tale it is. It starts with wanted posters and, particularly Monty Sprout described as a wily bandit. It cuts to whom I assume is Monty (the character names gave no real indication when checked in the credits) who takes a deep breath that is, almost, like he is coming back from the dead – and I assume that is what the filmmakers wanted the audience to guess. 1st vamp As he trudges through the snow, we move elsewh ..read more