THE VAMPIRES OF BLOODY ISLAND

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2nd October 2010
New vampire comedy movie features the best of Goth.
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18th August 2010
Fans demand gets cult British comedy 'The Vampires
of Bloody Island' a release in the USA and Canada.
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2nd October 2010
New vampire comedy movie features the best of Goth.

LONDON, ENGLAND

Vampire Films and Goth Music have always gone together hand in pale white hand. So fans of some of the best loved Goth bands in the world will be excited to find them in the latest vampire movie to get a global DVD release.

British bands Inkubus Sukkubus, Vampire Division and Corpse Nocturna along with Italian band Theatres des Vampires, Fever from Portugal and The Suburban Vamps from Maryland, USA all have tracks featured in 'The Vampires of Bloody Island', a spoof British vampire comedy amassing an enormous cult following in the UK and Australia and now looking set to do the same across America.

The film stars Pamela Kempthorne (Harry Potter, Shaun of the Dead) as Morticia de'Ath, a sarcastic vampire queen with ambitiously evil plans. Blundering into her island domain are two bickering London office workers and a mysterious vampire-hunting window cleaner, an unlikely trio who must fight lusty vampires, hungry werewolves and Satanic demons, while desperately trying to evade capture, keep their clothes on and stay alive long enough to defeat Morticia's terrifyingly evil Vampire Army.

With a kicking Goth soundtrack and a laughter filled story, it's no wonder Fortean Times magazine wrote "The Vampires of Bloody Island could attain Rocky Horror style cult status", while Horrorscribe magazine said "This has got to be the hottest new Vamp movie DVD out right now."

Released in the UK, Europe and Australia a few months ago, the film is gaining a loyal cult following fuelled by rave reviews in the press and celebrity endorsements including Star Trek actor Manu Intiraymi, Oscar shortlisted director Chris Jones and vampire author Narrelle Harris.

A growing trend is the Vampires of Bloody Island Party, kicked off in style by an article on the Radio Times website suggesting 'The Vampires of Bloody Island' as an ideal nights entertainment with friends, fancy dress and a bottle of wine.

Due to the phenomenal demand across Europe, the film has now also been released in Canada, the USA and South America. For American vampire movie lovers, and fans of Inkubus Sukkubus, Theatres des Vampires and the other bands featured in the film, it will be interesting to see whether 'The Vampires of Bloody Island' can repeat the same kind of success in the USA it has elsewhere. If the buzz surrounding the film in the UK is anything to go by, this is one refreshingly funny film that could soon take off in a big, big way.

"A kick-ass soundtrack" - The Fortean Times
"A laugh packed send up of every vampire film you've ever loved" - Horror Society
"A real cult classic." - The Scream Magazine
"A must-have for your DVD collection" - Britflicks
"The Vampires of Bloody Island seriously rocks! Everyone who calls themselves a Goth NEEDS to own this film!" - Vampire Film News

The Vampires of Bloody Island is available from Amazon or the films official website at www.bloodyislandmovie.com
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Pictures to accompany this press release are here.

18th August 2010
Fans demand gets cult British comedy 'The Vampires of Bloody Island' a release in the USA and Canada.

LONDON, ENGLAND

Just to prove all vampire movies needn't be either the sparkly teenage fantasy of 'Twilight' or the gruesome bloody gore of '30 days of Night', a new vampire movie hits the shelves this week which goes straight for the neck of the classic vampire films of old.
'The Vampires of Bloody Island' is a hilarious laugh-packed vampire comedy, made in a delightfully nostalgic style. And to add to its wonderfully quirky and eccentric atmosphere - it's British!

The bitingly fresh horror/comedy stars Pamela Kempthorne (Harry Potter, Shaun of the Dead) as a mildly deranged English aristocrat vampiress with plans to take over the world from her ancient castle on an English island. Out to stop her are two bickering London office workers and a bizarrely eccentric vampire hunter, blundering in and out of trouble, facing werewolves, demons and the loss of most of their clothing along the way!

The knockabout comedy resurrects from the grave all the vital ingredients of a vampire fantasy, with old creepy English locations, shockingly brilliant characters, wonderful English accents and dialogue as witty as the best of Buffy, all set to a kicking soundtrack from some of the worlds best known Goth bands such as Inkubus Sukkubus and Theatres des Vampires.

From an initial quiet release on a small independent label in the UK 'The Vampires of Bloody Island' has grown into a strong underground hit with the British press clambering over themselves to proclaim it as a cult vampire movie.
Chronicles Magazine called it "Bloody good fun". The Scream Magazine called it "A real cult classic". Fortean Times said it's "Laugh-out-loud funny" and "Could attain Rocky Horror style cult status" while Britflicks called it "A must have for your DVD collection".

English fans have even been holding Vampires of Bloody Island parties since the website of the popular 'Radio Times' magazine encouraged people to get together and enjoy the film with a bottle of wine as a means of escaping the recent Soccer World Cup.
With such a rapidly growing fan-base in the UK, vampire film fans in the USA and Canada have been lobbying for the film to also be released Stateside. A wish that has now been granted by cult DVD label The Weird World of Wibbell, who put it out this week.

Leading actress Pamela Kempthorne is delighted that the film is receiving such global attention:
"We filmed The Vampires of Bloody Island as a B-movie comedy, catching the style and flavor of the old English Hammer vampire films that we grew up loving." She said from her gothic styled home in London. "We always expected it to go down well with vamp lovers here in Britain, and hoped for some interest from other countries, but we never dreamt it would take off as big as it has. I've been getting loads of fan mail from New Zealand, from Brazil, all across Europe, we're going down well in countries I've barely even heard of before. It's fantastic that it's now come out in America. We never expected that, but there's been so many letters and emails from the USA that our distributor bowed to the demand and has released it there too. We're being compared a lot to Monty Python and Rocky Horror which is quite a compliment. Fans of English comedy are loving it!"

Included on the DVD are a stack of special features including a 'making of' documentary and two extra videos that are proving to be a hit at all the Vampires of Bloody Island parties.
"Yeah, there's also a Karaoke version of the title song on the DVD" says Pamela, "and there's a black and white silent movie in the style of the 1930's film Nosferatu, which was the movie that really kicked off the whole vampire craze. The first big vampire movie ever made. The fans are telling us they really love those. They're a good warm up to an evening of vampire fun-filled action watching the film."

So call up your friends, put on your best vampire fancy dress, open up a bottle or two, stick The Vampires of Bloody Island in your DVD player and have a Vampires of Bloody Island party!

The Vampires of Bloody Island is out now and available from www.bloodyislandmovie.com
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Pictures to accompany this press release are here.