Tales from the BackRoom - Horror, Sci-Fi and Exploitation movie and Television reviews

 The second of January 2020 - and a virulent and deadly danger is about to be unleashed upon the modern world... ...But I'm not here to talk about COVID 19, I'm talking about another virulent foe that arrives in the modern world - Count Dracula, because that's exactly what he does in episode two of Moffatt and Gatiss' take on Bram stoker"s horror classic. Episode two - Blood Vessel deals with Dracula's sea voyage to England (the so-called "modern world") on board the Russian passenger ship The Demeter. We get to see Cleas Bang's Dracula at his urbane and gleefully sadistic best in this episode as he mixes among the mortal crew and passengers. Bang is again great fun to watch in this episode as we see Dracula get up to all sorts of vampiric mischief. One moment he's seducing an elderly German countess who he wooed back in her younger days. The next he's draining the blood (and knowledge) of a German crew member, just so he can obtain the cr...