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Review Bela Lugosi / Dracula / House Of Dracula [1931]
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 135 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £19.70

Review Dracula / House Of Dracula [1931] / Bela Lugosi:


Review Redemption / The Nude Vampire [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Olivier Martin
  • Maurice Lemaitre
  • Ly Letrong
  • Jean Rollin
  • Caroline Cartier
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £8.32

Review The Nude Vampire [1969] / Redemption:


Review Image Entertainment / Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dennis Price
  • Alberto Dalbés
  • Geneviève Robert
  • Howard Vernon
  • Fernando Bilbao
  • Jesus Franco
Release date: 2006-08-01
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £4.87

Review Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Female Vampire [1973] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jesús Franco
  • Jack Taylor
  • Monica Swin
  • Luis Barboo
  • Jesús Franco
  • Alice Arno
Release date: 2000-08-08
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Daniel White
Price: £11.69

Review Female Vampire [1973] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

Eurotrash sex/horror auteur Jesus Franco's Female Vampire delivers nudity, drinking of human body fluids, plentiful zoom shots, languorous music, a vestigial storyline and the odd moment of surrealism (a flapping bat car ornament). It opens with a soulful-eyed brunette (Lina Romay) striding through misty woods wearing only thigh-boots, a leather belt and a black cloak, then chancing across a breeder of tropical birds upon whom she performs an act of oral sex that winds up painfully and fatally for the poor chump. One of Franco's better films, this still has an extremely leisurely pace which means that the story drifts dreamlike (or tediously, depending on your point of view) between protracted but unappealing sexual encounters as a smitten fellow with the requisite 70s porno moustache (Jack Taylor), a vampire-hating doctor (director Franco) and a blind coroner pursue the gloomy Countess for their own reasons. The vampire is mute but has an Anne Rice-style whining voice-over, and the dubbing means that everyone else seems equally dissociated from the words that fail to approximate their lip movements. Fans of Lina's frustrated naked writhings get to see her do the thing on top of several men and women, a bed, a tree and in a bath of blood. To Franco-philes, it's a masterpiece; to everyone else, wearisome tat. On the DVD: Female Vampire on disc comes with a nice widescreen transfer of a print that goes on longer than any previous UK release (though it runs 94 mins, not the 101 listed on the cover); an alternate opening sequence (with the title The Bare Breasted Countess); a fairly complete list of Franco credits; a French trailer (for La Comtesse aux Seins Nus); and four brief alternate scenes from a version of the film with less explicit sex but more blood (i. e. , necks are bitten but not private parts). -Kim Newman.

Review Universal Studios / Shadow of the Vampire [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Malkovich
  • E. Elias Merhige
  • Catherine McCormack
  • Cary Elwes
  • Udo Kier
  • Willem Dafoe
Release date: 2003-06-17
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.09

Review Shadow of the Vampire [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Shadow of the Vampire is a film full of good ideas that are only partially developed. Clever, engaging, and boosted by the sublime casting of Willem Dafoe as Nosferatu "actor" Max Schreck, its premise is ripe with possibilities but the movie's too slight to register much impact: characters remain achingly underdeveloped and the whole lacks a sense of pace or structure. What's left, however, is enough for anyone to get their teeth into: the delightful performances from a sterling cast and director E Elias Merhige's affectionately tongue-in-cheek homage to a landmark of German silent cinema. John Malkovich is aptly loony as the eccentric director FW Murnau, whose passion in filming the 1922 classic Nosferatu leads to the extreme casting of Schreck as the vampire, a vision of evil who, in this movie's delightfully twisted imagination, actually is a vampire, sucking the blood of cast and crew members who've dismissed Schreck as an over-zealous method actor. As these on-set maladies and "accidents" continue, Schreck wields greater control over Murnau, who descends into a kind of obsessive art-for-art's-sake madness until diva co-star Greta Schroeder (Catherine McCormack, doing wonderful work) is served up as the actor's ultimate motivation. Merhige and his actors (including Cary Elwes, as intrepid cameraman Fritz Wagner) have great fun with this ghastly escapade, and the humour is kept delicately subtle to balance the movie's artistic aspirations. To that end, Dafoe is just right, his bald pate and gaunt features a perfect match for the mysterious Schreck, his grimace and talon-like fingers suggesting a human vulture on the prowl. Likewise, the re-creation of Nosferatu's expressionist style is both fanciful and brilliantly authentic. Too bad, then, that this movie suffers from a case of vampiric anaemia, with budgetary shortcomings apparently the cause of at least some of its shortcomings; if Shadow of the Vampire shared the depth and richness of, say, Ed Wood, it might have been a cult classic for the ages. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Passion River / Crimson [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Erika Smith
  • Richard Poche
  • Elizabeth Di Prinzio
  • Stuart Brazell
  • Jade Tailor
  • Cliff Poche
Release date: 2008-07-29
Creator: Richard Poche
Price: £6.89

Review Crimson [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Passion River:


Review Anchor Bay / Frankenstein Created Woman/The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • Julie Ege
  • Roy Ward Baker
  • Terence Fisher
  • Cheh Chang
  • Szu Shih
  • David Chiang
  • Robin Stewart
Release date: 2004-07-27
Run time: 182 min.
Price: £9.46

Review Frankenstein Created Woman/The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Anchor Bay / Nosferatu: The Vampyre/Phantom Der Nacht [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Werner Herzog
  • Isabelle Adjani
  • Roland Topor
  • Bruno Ganz
  • Werner Herzog
  • Klaus Kinski
Release date: 2002-07-09
Run time: 107 min.
Price: £11.20

Review Nosferatu: The Vampyre/Phantom Der Nacht [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Zeitgeist Films / Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dave Moroni
  • Tara Birtwhistle
  • Guy Maddin
  • CindyMarie Small
  • Johnny A. Wright
  • Wei-Qiang Zhang
Release date: 2004-05-18
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £10.01

Review Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Zeitgeist Films:


Review Retromedia Entertainment / Blood Castle [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ezio Sancrotti
  • Enzo Fisichella
  • Erna Schürer
  • Agostina Belli
  • José Luis Merino
  • Carlos Quiney
Release date: 2003-02-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £13.35

Review Blood Castle [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Retromedia Entertainment:


Review Cheezy Flicks / Dracula vs. Frankenstein [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jr. Lon Chaney
  • Jim Davis
  • Forrest J. Ackerman
  • Regina Carrol
  • Anthony Eisley
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Lava
Price: £5.44

Review Dracula vs. Frankenstein [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cheezy Flicks:


Review Image Entertainment / Les Vampires [1915]
Actors & Directors
  • Fernand Herrmann
  • Louis Feuillade
  • Marcel Lévesque
  • Jean Aymé
  • Musidora
  • Édouard Mathé
Release date: 2005-04-05
Run time: 399 min.
Price: £17.03

Review Les Vampires [1915] / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Taste the Blood of Dracula [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Lee
  • Gwen Watford
  • Peter Sallis
  • Linda Hayden
  • Geoffrey Keen
  • Peter Sasdy
Release date: 2004-04-27
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £7.52

Review Taste the Blood of Dracula [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Taste the Blood of Dracula is one of the best of Christopher Lee's Dracula series for Hammer. A group of businessmen who, out of sight of their families, like nothing more than to frequent brothels and generally behave in sensation-seeking ways, are persuaded by Dracula's servant (a splendidly manic Ralph Bates) that summoning up the orthodontically-challenged aristocrat would be the ultimate thrill. They warily agree, purchasing relics for the necessary ritual from a shifty dealer (Roy Kinnear-who else?), but panic halfway through the proceedings and decide to kick their initiator to death instead. Unfortunately, it's too late, and Dracula materialises as they make good their escape, swearing to avenge the murder of his servant. While the subsequent descent into paranoia by the three villains-Dracula himself hardly counts in comparison with this odious bunch-isn't exactly the stuff of Rosemary's Baby, it still infuses the plot with an element of psychodrama that is unusual for a Hammer fang-fest. There are strong performances pretty much all round, but Peter "Clegg" Sallis quakes exceptionally nicely as one of the trio of miscreants. The sets, props and costumes are of an unusually high order, too. -Roger Thomas.

Review Ventura Distribution / Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Amber Newman
  • Jenny Wallace
  • Lorissa McComas
  • Mark Burchett
Release date: 2000-10-24
Price: £23.83

Review Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ventura Distribution:


Review Brain Damage / Lifeblood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kristin Brenneck
  • David Errickson
  • Steven J. Niles
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £5.19

Review Lifeblood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Brain Damage:


Review Anchor Bay / Masters of Horror: The V Word [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jodelle Ferland
  • Branden Nadon
  • Ernest R. Dickerson
  • Michael Ironside
  • Arjay Smith
Release date: 2007-12-11
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Marshall Harvey
Price: £4.75

Review Masters of Horror: The V Word [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Columbia TriStar / Forsaken [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Johnathon Schaech
  • Brendan Fehr
  • Kerr Smith
  • Phina Oruche
  • Izabella Miko
  • J.S. Cardone
Release date: 2001-09-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £3.24

Review Forsaken [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

A road/vampire movie with teen leads, The Forsaken feels a lot like a sexed-up pilot for a TV series. Kerr Smith takes a job driving a classic car from LA to Miami, with clear instructions that no harm should come to the wheels and he shouldn't pick up hitch-hikers. In the middle of nowhere he is manipulated into giving a lift to a drifting slacker (Brendan Fehr) who turns out to have been bitten by a vampire year or so back. Fehr is keeping the transformation into a blood-drinking monster under control with medication, but needs to destroy the master fiend who sired his attacker to effect a total cure. When Smith is nibbled by traumatised babe Isabella Miko, he is infected too and they all hare off to track down Kit (Jonathan Shaech), a medieval French knight currently cruising the backroads with a posse of minion-cum-killer associates. Unlike Near Dark, from which it steals a lot, The Forsaken is pretty feeble in its re-imagining of the vampire myth: Shaech is just another pin-up pretty boy with highlit eyes who bungles his master villainy, while the very striking Phina Oruche (a black English model) is wasted in an eye-candy role as his nastiest disciple. Smith and Fehr do better in the traditionally weak hero parts, benefiting from snappy patter, but the plot keeps tripping over itself and the blood orgies and vampire combustions are third-hand. On the DVD: The Forsaken comes to DVD with three tiny deleted scenes, two minimal featurettes, trailers, filmographies, and a dry but absorbing commentary track from director JS. Cardone. -Kim Newman.

Review Lions Gate / How to Make a Monster/Blood of Dracula (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Malcolm Atterbury
  • Paul Brinegar
  • Herbert L. Strock
  • Gary Clarke
  • Gary Conway
  • Robert H. Harris
Release date: 2006-01-10
Run time: 144 min.
Price: £5.11

Review How to Make a Monster/Blood of Dracula (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Universal Studios / Blood Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Siri Baruc
  • Lorenzo Lamas
  • Sonya Salomaa
  • Leah Cairns
  • Fiona Scott
  • Ron Oliver
Release date: 2005-03-22
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £2.04

Review Blood Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Prism Leisure / Bloodsuckers [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Cushing
  • Robert Hartford-Davis
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Patrick Mower
Release date: 2003-09-01
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.99

Review Bloodsuckers [1972] / Prism Leisure:


Models & Brands:
Dracula / House Of Dracula [1931], The Nude Vampire [1969], Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Female Vampire [1973] (NTSC), Shadow of the Vampire [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Crimson [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frankenstein Created Woman/The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nosferatu: The Vampyre/Phantom Der Nacht [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood Castle [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dracula vs. Frankenstein [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Les Vampires [1915], Taste the Blood of Dracula [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Vamps: Deadly Dreamgirls [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lifeblood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Masters of Horror: The V Word [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Forsaken [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), How to Make a Monster/Blood of Dracula (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood Angels [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bloodsuckers [1972]

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