The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season – DVD Review

Vampire Diaries is the middle ground between the drab Twilight and the awesome and sexually-charged True Blood. Continue reading “The Vampire Diaries: The Complete First Season – DVD Review”

Haunted Histories Collection – DVD Box Set Review

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Just in time for Halloween, The History Channel presents this 20 episode Haunted Histories box set filled with ghouls, ghosts, zombies, and witches. Continue reading “Haunted Histories Collection – DVD Box Set Review”

Blood Ties – Season One (Region 2) DVD Review

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 Blood Ties is a TV show based on a series of modern day books about vampires. The story follows Vicki Nelson (Christina Cox) a former cop who is now a private investigator as she investigates cases of the bizarre and unusual. Think a grown up version of Buffy with the standard monster of the week that comes with it.

While investigating the cases she joins up with former partner cop Mike Celluci (Dylan Neal) and vampire Henry Fitzroy (Kyle Schmid). The show in essence uses the same formula as Angel where a monster is encountered and then the vampire is sent in to fight it. There is more to the story though in even a full season set there is only a single bad episode. The rest are stories about vampires, exorcisms, haunted paintings and the list goes on.

Even though the show does sound rather generic on paper with the vampire sidekick and romance storyline that shows it type of book origins it is a good show. It takes a while to get used to and the DVD has no extras but the show is excellent and takes repeat viewings.

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