vampire Archives - Desperate Living

The uniquely grotty world of the 1970s British softcore sex film is explored through its highlights and lowlights

Looking back at the revolutionary 1985 horror comedy that helped kickstart the Hong Kong exploitation movie craze of the 1990s.

A horror comedy western that proves to unexpectedly be more than the sum of its parts and might just be a lost classic.

Jean Rollin’s lyrical, gore-drenched zombie film is one of the overlooked masterpieces of European horror cinema.

Exploring the symbiotic relationship between horror and adult movies.

One of the last-gasp efforts from the legendary studio was a big-budget comic book adaptation – but it failed to get off the ground.

The first series of Noah Brown’s little cartoon monster concludes with a return to form for our troubled hero.

How a German playboy used the notoriety of being falsely accused of being a serial killer to become an unlikely 1970s celebrity.

In its centenary year, we take a critical look back at the first Dracula film and the movie that kickstarted gothic horror as we know it.

The slick and stylish British TV series that mixed vampirism, spy drama and action is better than you might have been led to believe.

The hallucinogenic vampire cinema of French cinema’s most underrated fantastic film director.

Continuing our Hammer Horror retrospective with a look at their swashbuckling, vampire-battling superhero.