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‘Underworld’ – vampires vs. werewolves on Netflix

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, fantasy, horror, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 03/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

Kate Beckinsale is an assassin for the royal vampire family in this mix of action spectacle and supernatural setting.

Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan in Neil Jordan's 'Byzantium'

‘Byzantium’ – Women and men and life immortal free on Kanopy

!Featured, based on a play, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Kanopy, Streaming Movies, SVOD 10/31/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Neil Jordan’s take on the vampire genre is a a Gothic tale with a twist of conspiracy and a radically different take on vampirism. Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan star.

Delphine Seyrig stars in Harry Kümel's elegant and sexy vampire

‘Daughters of Darkness’ – horror with elegance on Criterion Channel and Shudder

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, International Cinema, Shudder, SVOD 04/05/2022 Sean Axmaker

Delphine Seyrig stars in Harry Kümel’s elegant and sexy vampire film poised on the shadowy margins between art cinema and sexploitation.

‘Stake Land’ on Peacock and AMC+ and free on Kanopy

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, Kanopy, Peacock, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller 10/28/2021 Sean Axmaker

The 2010 indie horror film from director Jim Mickle is a survival thriller set during the vampire apocalypse.

Federico Luppi stars in the vampire film from Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Cronos’ on HBO Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, horror, International Cinema, Max, SVOD 10/01/2021 Sean Axmaker

The feature debut of Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is a magnificent mix of fantasy and horror, an alchemic twist on vampire lore and the costs of eternal life.

‘The Curse of Frankenstein’ – Hammer horror on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a novel, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, literary adaptation, Max, remake, SVOD 10/06/2020 Sean Axmaker

Britain’s Hammer Studios had been making films for decades before they suddenly redefined themselves with this lurid remake of the Universal Studios horror classic. Prohibited by Universal from copying their blocky make-up (and their script for that matter), Hammer returned to Mary Shelley’s novel for inspiration for The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)… and then went […]

‘Vampire’s Kiss’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, American Independent Cinema, Blu-ray, Comedy, Cult Movies, DVD, horror, satire, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/2019 Sean Axmaker

Nicolas Cage is perfectly cast in the devious black comedy Vampire’s Kiss (1989) as a New York literary agent whose latest one night stand lands him in bed with vampire Jennifer Beals, who takes a big, bloody bite out of his identity. The emotionally unstable executive develops an aversion to sunlight, a fear of crosses, […]