For the Price We Paid, He Could Have Told Us to Go to Hell: The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)

Five showgirls, their manager Lucas (Alfredo Rizzo), and driver Ferrenc (Leonardo Botta) are caught between a rock and a hard place—in this case, between a storm and a desire not to shell out cash for lodgings. At their last lodgings, they ditched the bill (though Lucas left a tip for the maid). So it seems […]

Of Wonder Years and Childhood’s Fears: C. D. Kester’s Trailer Park

Four Houston youths find their nice, normal lives interrupted as mundane and supernatural threats collide in C. D. Kester’s novella length dark fantasy. Teenager Richie Sterling lives with his dad in the Los Hermanos Trailer Park along with his best friends Jose, Frankie, Jaime, and Roberto. They live normal lives, playing capture the flag or […]

Parable of the Bloodsucker: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling

When Shori attains consciousness, she has no memory of who she is, where she is, or what she is. She knows only the unrelenting hunger. It is satisfied at first by a surprisingly docile and self-sacrificing animal. Later, it is a human being who gets too close, who whispers words not of warning or fear […]

Victims of Superstition: Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

When Donna (Donna Anders) invites her besties to a séance, they have the chance to meet the enigmatic spiritualist Count Yorga (Robert Quarry), recently arrived from Bulgaria. Paul (Michael Murphy) cracks jokes, his sexy girlfriend Erica Landers (Judy Lang) is intrigued by the count’s mystique, Mike Thompson (Michael Macready) isn’t sure about the whole mess, […]

Dude, Synthetic Blood Sucks: Sundown (1989)

In the gorgeous wastes of John Ford country, amongst the mesas and buttes not far from Moab, Utah, there’s a little speck on some old maps called Purgatory. You don’t see the town on new maps, alas. Once it was a copper town, but when that boom faded, it dried up under the relentless sunshine. […]

Summer Girl Make Me Feel Fine: Glenn Rolfe’s Until Summer Comes Around

The Summer of 1986 looks to be lonesome for Rocky Zukas. His cousin and best bud Axel is heading overseas with his family, leaving Rocky to knock around Old Orchard Beach, Maine all by his lonesome. Well, all by his lonesome with the hordes of summer people who come around. But then, he encounters a […]

Yes, Master: Renfield (2023)

Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has been serving Dracula (Nicolas Cage) for over a century as his titular film opens. He’s betrayed every principle, his wife and daughter in order to protect this horrible Narcissistic “master,” pulling up stakes and moving when things get too hot, when the vampire hunters come calling (and are inevitably defeated). It’s […]

You’re Only Good For One Thing: Blood for Dracula

Count Dracula (Udo Kier) is on his last legs, fading away because of the inability to find pure blood in his native Romania. His servant Anton (Arno Jürging) has bought a car and has a plan. He will drive Dracula to Italy, where women are kept virgins because of that whole religion thing, and Dracula […]

Dude, Kids Suck: Dracula and Son

When Dracula (Sir Christopher Lee) met Herminie (Catherine Breillat), he fell madly in love and decided to lock her away to bear him a son. The night that happened, he turned her into his vampire bride, and welcomed her to the night. She was a reluctant bride to say the least, but she did finally […]

My Cute Little Fangs: Uncle Was a Vampire

When his castle is set for demolition, to make room for a nuclear power plant, Baron Roderico da Frankurten (Sir Christopher Lee) vacates the place and heads to Italy to stay with his last remaining descendant. Osvaldo Lambertenghi (Renato Rascel) is a count, has his own castle, so what can go wrong? Well, Osvaldo has […]

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