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Welcome, children of the night! Join Dan Owen and Hugh McStay for VAMPIRE VIDEOS, as they explore a century of bloodsucking cinema with weekly guests and experts.
From early German Expressionism and Hollywood's Golden Age, into 1950s B-Movies and Hammer horror, to modern blockbusters, comedies, indie dramas, and romantic fantasies, Vampire Videos will cover every variety of the vampiric on screen... one bite at a time.
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[7x9] Our penultimate episode of Season VII takes us to millennial horror with J.S Cardone's vampire road trip movie The Forsaken, starring Kerr Smith as a budding filmmaker who agrees to deliver a car to Florida, only to get entangled with a vampire hunting hitchhiker...
And back for her third appearance on the show is film critic and podcaster Kat Hughes...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kat Hughes
Editor: Dan Owen
"We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great Amercian Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since." -- Nick
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[7x7] We finish the Blade trilogy with David S. Goyer's Blade: Trinity, starring Wesley Snipes as the eponymous vampire slayer, now joined by two human companions (played by Ryan Reynolds and Jessical Biel), who must contend with a resurrected Dracula...
Returning to the show, helping us go over the film, is writer and podcaster Tony Black...
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest
Tony Black
Editor
Hugh McStay
"Movies are just a comforting fairy-tale compared to the real deal. Bram Stoker, he wrote a good yarn. But the events that he described back in 1897, God, that was just a tiny piece of the mosaic." -- Hannibal King
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[7x7] We're delving into early Hollywood cinema for Robert Siodmak's horror sequel from 1943, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as 'Count Alucard', a European nobleman who's invited to the American South to marry a plantation owner's daughter obsessed with the occult...
And making her debut on the show is Trashwire podcaster and Geek Girl Authority film writer Kim Pierce...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Pierce
Editor: Dan Owen
"The angel of death hovers over a great house. I see it in ruins... weeds, vines growing over it, bats flying in and out the broken windows." -- Madame Zimba
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[7x6] Season VII resumes with Jim Jarmusch's drama Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as two vampire lovers coping with immortality, whose relationship is tested by the unexpected arrival of a family member...
And back via the sarpodphagus, to help us delve into this acclaimed indie film, is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Robert Clark
Editor: Hugh McStay
"I just feel like all the sand is at the bottom of the hour glass or something." -- Adam
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[7x5] It's arthouse horror with Philip Ridley's 1990 drama The Reflecting Skin, which concerns an eight-year-old boy growing up in the 1950s American prairie, who starts to believe his quiet English neighbour (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire killing his friends...
To talk about this unusual and divisive movie, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Mary MuñozEditor: Hugh McStay
"Have you been exploding frogs again?" -- Ruth Dove.
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[7x4] It's our seventh Hammer film with Count Dracula, as Christopher Lee's fanged fiend is resurrected by a young disciple in 1970s London, where he must face the descendent of his greatest adversary, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). It's Dracula A.D 1972...
And joining us on the show is returing guest Wayne Talbot, comic-book writer, colourist, and creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic...
Hosts: Hugh McStay& Dan Owen
Guest: Wayne Talbot
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Okay, okay. But if we do get to summon up the big daddy with the horns and the tail, he gets to bring his own liquor, his own bird, and his own pot." -- Joe Mitcham
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[BONUS] In this surprise episode, Dan Owen & Hugh McStay leave the safety of the UK inside their wooden podcasket, travelling overseas to the remote wilderness of Transylvania, having been invited by a big fan of the podcast... an actual undead vampire, Count Antoniu Caliban.
What secrets can be discovered about real-life vampire lore and the mysteries of Count Caliban's millennia-long existence? And why does it involve Kevin McCloud? Listen to find out...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen.
Guest: Count Antoniu Caliban.
Editor: Dan Owen.
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[7x3] A modern low-budget indie is up for discourse this week. It's Jonathan Cuartas's 2020 horror drama My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To, starring Patrick Fugit as the brother of a chronically ill sibling who needs to drink fresh human blood to stay alive...
And making his long-awaited return is entertainment and lifestyle journalist Steve O'Brien...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Steve O'Brien
Editor: Dan Owen
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[7x2] We're back in the late-1970s for Stan Dragoti's vampire comedy Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula, who's evicted from his Transylvanian castle and flies to New York City to start a new life, only to fall in love with a fashion model...
And making his debut in the sarpodphagus is Canadian vampire scholar Murray Leeder...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Murray Leeder
Editor: Dan Owen
"I'm going out to get a bite to drink." -- Count Dracula.
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[7x1] We start our seventh season withGary Shore's action horror Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans as a 15th-century warrior who makes a deal with a vampire to be granted dark powers, in order to protect his people from invaders...
And returning to help us parse this movie is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Dan Owen
"My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster." -- Ingeras
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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh reconvene around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season 6 and reveal their combined Top 12 ranking of the films and TV shows they reviewed.
They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! The overall score is 5-1 in Hugh's favour, so can Dan pull things back?
Plus, we tease what's to come in Season VII and announce a special run of podcasts for Bitten subscribers!
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Dan Owen
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6x10 - JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (1998)
Our Season VI finale is on the neo-western action horror Vampires, directed by the legendary John Carpenter, starring James Woods as the leader of a Vatican-approved gang of vampire slayer who must stop the first vampire from acquiring a cross that will enable him to walk in daylight...
And making his debut on Vampire Videos is podcaster Anthony Bowman from the Frankencast show.
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
GuestAnthony BowmanEditor
Hugh McStay
"Let me just ask you one thing: after 600 years, how's that dick workin', pretty good?." -- Jack Crow
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6x9 - NIGHT WATCH (2004)
It's our first foray into Russian cinema with Timur Bekmambeov's 2004 supernatural urban thriller Night Watch, which finds the forces of Light and Dark enforcing a centuries-old truce on the streets of Moscow...
Back once again to help us discuss it is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby, who reveals an unexpected link to Russia...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Dee Molumby
Editor
Hugh McStay
"... And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true." -- Geser
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6x8 - THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (2023)
We're back with another Dracula adaptation, only this one focuses on a specific chapter in Bram Stoker's novel - it's André Øvredal's 2023 horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which finds Dracula boarding the titular ship on his way to England, only for the crew to realise they have a murderous stowaway aboard...
To help us take a bite out of this box office flop, making his return in the sarcophopod, it's the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Robert Clark
Editor
Dan Owen
"A boat without rats... such a thing is against nature." -- Joseph
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6x7 - DARK SHADOWS (2012)
Tim Burton's adaptation of the 1960s US soap opera Dark Shadows is up for discussion this week, in a film that finds 18th-century vampire Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp) reawakened in 1972, where he must restore the fortunes of his descendents whose business is under threat from the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him...
And making her return to the show is Read & Buried podcast co-host Frankie Pellatt...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Frankie Pellatt
Editor
Dan Owen
"I have already prepared my counter-proposal. It reads thusly: You may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!" -- Barnabus Collins
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6x6 - BIT (2019)
Brad Michael Elmore's teen vampire drama Bit, about an 18-year-old transgender girl (Nicole Maines) moving to L.A with her brother, only to find herself mixing with a group of feminist vampires led by Duke (Diana Hopper), is our film this week!
And making her debut in the sarpodphagus is Ghoulfriends co-host Lindsay Drysdale...
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest
Lindsay Drysdale
Editor
Hugh McStay
"What about my family?" -- Laurel
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Bonus - DOCTOR WHO - "State of Decay" (1980)
Surprise! To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the We Made This network, and Tom Baker's 90th birthday, we're teaming up for a special crossover with fellow WMT show The TARDIS Crew!
Making their debuts on Vampire Videos is TARDIS Crew co-hosts Baz and Ben Greenland, who are lending their expertise to discuss the 1980 Doctor Who serial "State of Decay" where the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters vampires suppressing a local population's technological advancement...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guests
Baz Greenland & Ben Greenland
Editor
Dan Owen
"You're wrong. The Doctor is not weaponless. He has the greatest weapon of all. Knowledge." -- Lady Camilla
You can pre-order Baz's book UNIT: The Legacy of Doctor Who here, and follow him on Amazon here.
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6x5 - BLADE II (2002)
We're back with our second Guillermo del Toro vampire film, Blade II, which finds Wesley Snipes returning as the super-cool vampire hunter and having to join forces with his enemies to defeat an even greater threat to mankind...
Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Wayne Talbot
Editor
Dan Owen
"There's an old saying: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer." -- Blade
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6x4 - SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)
We return to the well of Hammer horror for Scars of Dracula, directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Christopher Lee once again as the eponymous Count, this time being antagonised by two brothers at his castle home...
To talk about this film, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
GuestMary MuñozEditor
Hugh McStay
"What we shall be facing in a few hours' time is not a man. He is evil. He is the embodiment of all that is evil. He is the very Devil himself." -- The Priest.
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BONUS - COUNT MAGNUS (2022)
Seasons bleedings! For this year's Christmas Special we have Mark Gatiss's adaptation of M.R James' famous story, Count Magnus, as part of the BBC's annual A Ghost Story at Christmas tradition.
In this spooky tale, an English writer (Jason Watkins) visits Sweden and becomes intrigued by a mausoleum containing a tomb covered in heavy chains...
PLUS - we have some hilariously awful vampire jokes and a special quiz with our guest under the spotlight! And making another return for this festive edition of the podcast is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn....
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Editor
Hugh McStay
"Are you awake, Count Magnus? Are you asleep, Count Magnus?"
Why not buy Sorcha's books for Christmas? Postmodern Vampires and Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales.
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6x3 - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: SEASON ONE
This week, we're delving into the entire first season of AMC's vampire horror drama Interview with the Vampire from 2022, starring Jacob Anderson as an old vampire recounting his life's story to an ageing reporter, which involves how he was created by the enigmatic Lestat (Sam Reid)...
And making her return in the sarpodphagus is Ghouls magazine writer and social manager Kim Morrison...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Kim Morrison
Editor
Hugh McStay
"I have loved you with all myself." -- Lestat
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6x2 - UNDERWORLD (2003)
It's vampires vs. werwolves in Len Wiseman's 2003 action horror film Underworld, starring Kate Beckinsale as a vampire 'Death Dealer' tasked with protecting her own kind from vicious enemy Lycans...
And making his long overdue debut in the sarcophapod is writer and We Made This regular podcaster Craig McKenzie from Kneel Before Pod...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Craig McKenzie
Editor
Dan Owen
"We have a serious problem." -- Selene
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6x1 - FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996)
Season VI launches with Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime horror From Dusk Till Dawn, written by Quentin Tarantino, which finds two criminal brothers (Tarantino & George Clooney) fleeing across the US-Mexico border and finding themselves at a nightclub run by vampires...
And making her debut in the sarcophapod is writer and podcaster Iona Smith from Ghouls magazine...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Iona Smith
Editor
Dan Owen
"Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!" -- Seth Gecko
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BONUS - Season 5 Ranking
Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on Season 5 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything they saw. They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! Can Dan finally beat Hugh's four-win streak?
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor
Hugh McStay
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Opening & Closing theme music: 'Tales from the Grave' by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen & 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle, both via Epidemic Sound • Podcast artwork by Dan Owen.
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5x10 - BLADE (1998)
Season 5 draws to a close with our 50th episode (excluding bonuses) and we're tackling a favourite for many: Stephen Norrington's 1998 comic-book action film Blade, with Wesley Snipes as the eponymous half-vampire/half-human who stalks Los Angeles slaying vampires to keep the world safe...
And helping us explore this Marvel blockbuster is film critic and podcaster Darren Mooney, making his third appearance on the show...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Darren Mooney
Editor
Dan Owen
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill..." - Blade
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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast artwork by Dan Owen.
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5x9 - THE RETURN OF COUNT YORGA (1971)
Count Yorga is back for this fast-tracked sequel, again directed by Bob Kelljan, which finds the master vampire (Robert Quarry) resurrected to terrorise the staff of an orphanage...
Back for a fourth time to help discuss the film is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn....
Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Editor
Hugh McStay
"Dr Baldwin, this is Count Yorga. You are going to die. You are going to die a most horrible death! You've been a fool, doctor, and now you are to die! -- Count Yorga
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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast artwork by Dan Owen.
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BONUS - HALLOWEEN 2023
Hugh and Dan are back for another spooky special, this time focusing on three short films about vampires. And joining us around the vampire campfire is a triptych of VIP guests: author and podcaster Tony Black, film critic and broadcaster Dee Molumby, and easily the podcast's No.1 fan Violet Hammond...
Hosts
Dan Owen &Hugh McStay
GuestsTony Black (Suicide by Sunlight) • Violet Hammond (Elysia) • Dee Molumby (V) Editor
Dan Owen
Further listening: Tony and Hugh discuss In the Mouth of Madness At the Movies in the '90s.
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Opening theme music: 'Fright Night' by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. Closing theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle, both via Epidemic Sound • Podcast artwork by Dan Owen.
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5x8 - BLACK SUNDAY (a.k.a THE MASK OF SATAN) (1960)
A vampiric witch (Barbara Steele) returns from the grave to try and possess the body of her owns beautiful look-alike descendant in Mario Bava's influential horror classic Black Sunday.
And making her debut in the sarcophopod is Frankie Pellatt, co-host of the Read & Buried podcast...
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"You will never escape my vengeance, or of Satan's! My revenge will seek you out, and with the blood of your sons, and of their sons, and their sons, I will continue to live forever! They will restore me to life you now rob from me!" -- Princess Asa Vaja.
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5x7 - SLEEPWALKERS (1992)
The Master of Horror, Stephen King, wrote Sleepwalkers for Mick Garris to direct, which concerns two incestuous shape-shifting vampires trying to sustain the existence of their species by feeding on the energy of virginal women...
And making his belated return in the sarcophopod is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...
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"No vegetables, no dessert... that's the rules." -- Mary Brady
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5x6 - FRIGHT NIGHT (1985)
Tom Holland's classic Fright Night is our film this week, which concerns a teenage boy who becomes aware his next-door neighbour is a vampire responsible for a series of local murders, so in desperation enlists the help of an over-the-hill English actor famous for slaying the undead at the movies...
Back for a third time to help discuss the movie is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn....
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"Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!" - Evil Ed.
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5x5 - TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA (1970)
Christopher Lee returns once again as Count Dracula for Peter Sasdy's Hammer horror sequel Taste the Blood of Dracula, which concerns three gentlmen who decide to resurrect the master vampire as part of their desire to chase transgressive experiences...
Our guest this week is screen, stage, and radio writer Brendon Connelly...
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"They have destroyed my servant. They will be destroyed..." -- Count Dracula.
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5x4 - LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)
The cult indie Let's Scare Jessica to Death, directed by John Hancock, is up for discussion this week. This 1971 horror film concerns a recently institutionalized woman called Jessica (Zohra Lampert) who has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse...
Our guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
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"I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which." -- Jessica
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5x3 - THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (2003)
This ill-fated summer blockbuster from director Stephen Norrington is next in store; a big-budget adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, about a group of Victorian literary heroes - led by Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) - assembled to prevent a world war...
And making an incredible sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, it's author and podcaster Tony Black...
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"May this new century be yours, son, as the old one was mine." -- Allan Quatermain.
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5x2 - BLISS (2019)
This week, we have Joe Begos's 2019 horror film Bliss, starring Dora Madison as a struggling Los Angeles artist who takes a hallucinagenic drug in order to reignite her creativity... only to realise the substance has given her a dangerous thirst for blood...
And joining us via our new sarpodphagus (or is it sarcophopod?) is Ghouls magazine writer and social manager Kim Morrison...
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Kim Morrison
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"I started painting again. I don't know, something came over me and then it all just started pouring out of me... I don't even remember doing it." -- Dezzy
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5x1 - DRACULA (1979)
Season 5 launches with John Badham's adaptation of Dracula, starring Frank Langella as the master vampire, the sole survivor of a Yorkshire shipwreck who starts seducing the local women to the chagrin of their partners and fathers...
And joining us via our new sarpodphagus is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
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"Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You will cross land and sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need..." -- Count Dracula
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BONUS - 1st Fangiversary
Hugh and Dan are back for a pre-Season V special to celebrate a year of Vampire Videos, now that 40 full episodes (+ bonuses) have been released into the world. Fun stuff we have in store include:
* Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!
* Our Favourite Guests!
* Our Funniest Episode!
* Our Biggest Podcasting Surprise!
* Our Favourite "Familiar"!
* Our Favourite Podcasting Moments!
* The Most Popular Vampire Diary Entry!
* A Reminder of Which Films Were Staked Through the Heart!
* A Tease of Season V's 10 Episodes!
... and, perhaps most excitingly, our Top 10 Vampire Films We've Covered So Far...
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BONUS - Season 4 Ranking
Hugh and Dan return to chew over Season 4 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything covered over the last few months. They'll also quiz each other about every film for added fun, then tease what's coming soon in Season 5 very soon!
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4x10 - VAN HELSING (2004)
Stephen Sommers' monster mash-up Van Helsing is our Season 4 finale episode, which finds the eponymous monster hunter (Hugh Jackman) travelling to Transylvania to slay Count Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster, with the help of a local woman (Kate Beckinsale).
And joining us to sharpen up some stakes is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
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"This thing... man... whatever it is... evil may have created it, left its mark on it... but evil does not rule it." - Van Helsing
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4x9 - JAKOB'S WIFE (2021)
Our penultimate episode is Travis Stevens' Shudder original Jackob's Wife, about a small-town pastor's spouse (Barbara Crampton) who gets bitten by a vampire and undergoes a physical and sexual transformation that makes her question her dull marriage...
Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the WWII Nazferatu vampire comic...
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Wayne Talbot
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Hugh McStay
"Life happens, I guess." - Anne Fedder.
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4x8 - DAYBREAKERS (2009)
Ethan Hawke stars in The Spierig Brothers' 2009 sci-fi horror action film Daybreakers, as a vampire hematologist living in a near-future society where a plague transformed almost everyone into vampires, meaning the vital human population's blood is running dangerously low...
Joining us to delve into this high-concept movie is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn....
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Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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"Welcome back to humanity. Now you get to die." - Edward Dalton.
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4x7 - ONCE BITTEN (1985)
We're turning back the clock to the mid-1980s for Howard Storm's horror-comedy Once Bitten, starring a pre-fame Jim Carrey as a teenager bitten by a seductive vampire and torn between her and his less promiscuous girlfriend...
And making his sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, helping us make sense of this '80s curio, is author and podcaster Tony Black...
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Tony Black
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Dan Owen
"I don't want to be a vampire. I'm a day person.." - Mark Kendall
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4x6 - QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002)
A loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Rymer's Queen of the Damned finds the vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) becoming a successful rock star, outing his own kind in the process and awakening a powerful and ancient vampire queen called Akasha (Aaliya)...
Making her first return to discuss this film is critic and journalist Kat Hughes...
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Kat Hughes
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"You're beautiful to me because you're human. Your frailty. Your short years. Your heart. All that suddenly seems more precious than anything I've ever known." - Lestat
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4x5 - MARTIN (1977)
George Romero is best-known for his zombie films, but this week we're taking a look at his lesser-known but just as influential vampire drama Martin. It stars John Amplas as a man who believes he's a vampire, as he goes to stay with his devoutly religious elderly cousin in Pennsylvania...
And joining us to talk about this '70s curios is author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher, who's worked on several sci-fi and fantasy shows like Doctor Who, Bugs, and The Eleventh Hour...
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Stephen Gallagher
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"Now my revenge is complete." - Count Dracula
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4x4 - DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968)
The Hammer falls once again, with the fourth instalment in the British horror studio's Dracula saga. Christopher Lee returns for Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, directed by Freddie Francis, which finds the Count resurrected after an exorcism and in pursuit of the clergyman who's banished him from his castle...
This week, we have vampire and monster academic to help us discuss this movie, in the shape of Madeline Potter...
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Madeline Potter
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"Now my revenge is complete." - Count Dracula
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4x3 - A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014)
The "Iranian vampire western" from writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is up for review this week. It concerns a lonely vampire (Sheila Vand) living in a ghost town, stalking its blissfully unaware citizens...
Joining us to discuss this unique work is freelance writer Will Salmon, editor of GamesRadar / Newsarama, whose wriitng you may also have read in SFX magazine.
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Will Salmon
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Dan Owen
"I'm bad." - The Girl
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4x2 - VAMPIRE'S KISS (1988)
It's Nicolas Cage's finest hour in Robert Bierman's cult classic Vampire's Kiss, where he plays a literary agent who believes he's been bitten by a sexy vampire and is undergoing physiological changes... but is it all in his head? "Christ! The tortures of the damned!"
Joining us to tease apart this remarkable work is writer and podcaster Tom Butler...
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Tom Butler
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"Get outta here, you fucking pig. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE." - Peter Loew
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4x1 - NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979)
Season 4 of the show launches with Werner Herzog's remake of Nosferatu (1922), starring Bruno Ganz as an estate agent who travels to Transylavnia to assist the unnerving Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) in buying a property.
To help explore this beloved remake, writer and podcaster Darren Mooney makes his return to the show...
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Darren Mooney
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"Time is an abyss... profound as a thousand nights... centuries come and go... to be unable to grow old is terrible... death is not the worst... can you imagine enduring centuries, experiencing each day the same futilities..." - Count Dracula
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BONUS - Season 3 Ranking
Hugh and Dan return to mull over Season 3 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything covered over the last few months. They'll also quiz each other about every film for added fun, then tease what's coming soon in Season 4 very soon!
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Hugh McStay
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3x10 - RENFIELD (2023)
Our Season 3 finale takes a rare look at a newly-releasd vampire film! It's Chris McKay's horror-comedy Renfield, which finds the eponymous character (Nicholas Hoult) trying to leave the services of his tyrannical master, Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage)....
And making her debut in the podcasket is Fangirlish writer and co-host of Podcast-616, Ashley Thomas...
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Ashley Thomas
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Dan Owen
"I am enough. I deserve happiness. And I take full charge of my life today!" - Renfield
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3x9 - NEAR DARK (1987)
This week's we're tackling the neo-western horror film Near Dark from director Kathryn Bigelow, starring Adrian Pasdar as a small-town farmer's son who reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after getting bitten by a beautiful drifter...
And making a return to discuss this '80s cult classic is horror scholar Stacey Abbott...
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Professor Stacey Abbott
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Dan Owen
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3x8 - COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE (1970)
It's back to 1970 for Bob Kelljan's cult hit Count Yorga, Vampire, starring Robert Quarry as the eponymous bloodsucker posing as a Bulgarian mustic in Los Angeles, where he leads seances while secretly preying on his New Age clientelle...
Joining us to delve into this transitional vampire movie is university lecturer, author, and all-round vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn....
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Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
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Dan Owen
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3x7 - THE INVITATION (2022)
Jessica M. Thompson's 2022 horror thriller The Invitation is our next bite. It concerns a young American woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) travelling to the UK after discovering she's related to English aristocacy, blissfully unaware they're also vampires plotting to wed her to their handsome patriarch...
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Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
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Dee Molumby
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Hugh McStay
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3x6 - WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014)
We're heading Down Under to look at the cult Kiwi comedy What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Jeamine Clement & Taika Waitit, which is a mockumentary chronicling the lives of four dysfunctional vampires living in Wellington, New Zealand...
Helping us this week is freelance writer Steve O'Brien, whose work has apeared in the Radio Times, SFX, Digital Spy, and Yahoo Movies, amongst others...
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Steve O'Brien
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Hugh McStay
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3x5 - BYZANTIUM (2012)
Neil Jordan's less famous vampire movie, after Interview with the Vampire, is up for discussion this week. Its Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as two vampires using their abilities to protect women and ease people's suffering, who've spent centuries on the run from a patriarchal vampire society upset at their existence...
The Hollywood News' writer Kat Hughes joins us to delve into this overlooked gem of horror cinema...
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Kat Hughes
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Dan Owen
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3x4 - DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966)
It's Hammer time again! We venture back into the vault of the legendary British horror studio for Dracula: Prince of Darkness, starring Christopher Lee as the master vampire who's resurrected after four English travellers make the mistake of staying in his castle.
And we have real expertise at hand this week, with Stacey Abbott, a professor of film and television and self-proclaimed vampire/horror/zombie scholar...
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Professor Stacey Abbott
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Dan Owen
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3x3 - CRONOS (1993)
Guillermo del Toro's debut Cronos is under discussion this week; a Mexican hororr about an elderly antiques dealer (Federico Luppi) who finds a mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life.
Joining us in the podcasket is Irish playwright Stewart Roche...
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Stewart Roche
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Hugh McStay
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3x2 - LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)
Did you know Dracula creator Bram Stoker wrote another vampiric story? Ken Russell's horror-comedy The Lair of the White Worm concerns an archaelogist (Peter Capaldi) unearthing evidence that a local legend of a predatory creature was real, and is soon joined by a local lord (Hugh Grant) to stop an ancient priestess (Amanda Donohoe) making a human sacrifice to a snake-god...
And back to help us dig into this cult '80s favourite is author and podcaster Tony Black...
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Tony Black
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Dan Owen
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3x1 - THE LOST BOYS (1987)
Season 3 launches with a fang-favourite! It's Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, starring Jason Patric and Corey Haim as two brothers who move to Santa Clara with their mother (Dianne Wiest), only to discover a gang of vampires led by David (Kiefer Sutherland) is the reason their new home is referred to as "the murder capital of the world"...
Arriving by podcasket to talk about this '80s classic, particularly its gay subtext, is The Telegraph's resident film critic Tim Robey...
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Tim Robey
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BONUS - Season 2 Ranking
Hugh and Dan are back to reflect on Season 2 and rate each film individually, before combining their scores to create a Top 11 ranking. They'll also quiz each other about each movie for a few laughs along the way, and tease what's coming soon in Season 3! Enjoy...
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2x10 - THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987)
Theres a monster mash for our Season 2 finale, as Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and.... uh, Gill-Man...?... arrive in small-town '80s America where a group of kids have to prevent them from taking over the world.
Joining us to chat about Fred Dekker's notorious box office flop The Monster Squad, which he co-wrote with best-friend Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), is Andrew Gaudion of the Ramblin Amblin podcast...
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Andrew Gaudion
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2x9 - AFFLICTED (2013)
Found-footage horror is on the agenda as we tackle Canadian vampire film Afflicted from directors Derek Lee and Clif Prowe, who also star as two vloggers who travel to Italy, where one's bitten by a vampire and undergoes a startling transformation caught on camera...
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Graham Hughes
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2x8 - THE HUNGER (1983)
It's another celebrity special, as Canadian filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy (The Slumber Party Massacre) joins us to talk about Tony Scott's 1983 cult film The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve as a beautiful vampire preying on New Yorkers with the help of David Bowie as her cellist companion...
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Danishka Esterhazy
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Christmas Special 2022 - RED SNOW (2021)
Seasons bleedings! It's our festive special, where regular guest Dee Molumby returns in a snowy podcasket to talk about a rarity in vampire cinema: a Christmassy movie! It's Red Snow, which concerns a struggling author spending the holiday in a remote cabin who unwittingly captures a handsome vampire...
But that's not all we have in store! As this is a Christmas edition, we'll also be pulling some crackers, telling some hilarious(?) jokes, and playing a 'guess the vampire movie' game along the way. It's lots of fun, so we hope you enjoy it!
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Dee Molumby
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2x7 - BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992)
It's a celebrity special, as the multi-talented Josh Ruben (director of Werewolves Within, star of A Wounded Fawn) arrives to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula. This lavish production starred Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, who in this version is convinced Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) is the reincarnation of his long lost lover...
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Josh Ruben
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2x6 - THE OMEGA MAN (1971)
Charlton Heston is the last man on earth in Boris Sagal's classic adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel about a global plague that's transformed some survivors into... vampires?
Joining us to take aim at this post-apocalyptic action film is author and chief of the We Made This podcast network Tony Black, making his fourth appearance...
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Tony Black
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2x5 - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994)
It's time to take a bite into Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Anne Rice's best-selling novel, Interview with the Vampire, which finds a 200-year-old vampire called Louis (Brad Pitt) telling his life story to a reporter, which begins in the 18th-century when he was created by the mysterious Lestat (Tom Cruise)...
Helping us dissect this '90s classic is author Sarah Blair, co-host of The X Cast podcast...
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2x4 - THE TRANSFIGURATION (2016)
We've unearthed an overlooked gem in Michael O'Shea's 2016 horror drama The Transfiguration, which concerns the psychological breakdown of a teenage boy called Milo who escapes his tough Brooklyn upbringing by believing he's a vampire.
Joining us to discuss this tough but fascinating film is the founder of The London Horror Society, Chris Nials...
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Chris Nials
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2x3 - THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)
We return to Hammer for the second in the legendary British studio's Dracula saga, Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula. It again stars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, this time confronting a dashing disciple of Dracula's called Baron Meinster (David Peel).
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Stephen Laws
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2x2 - BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1992)
"Into every generation, a Slayer is born." And sometimes prematurely, as we take a stake to the 1992 incarnation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (written by Joss Whedon, directed by Fran Rubel Kazui), starring Kristy Swanson as a high school cheerleader chosen to defend mankind from the undead.
In the podcasket this week, we're joined by Irish screenwriter Daragh Carville (Being Human, The Bay).
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Daragh Carville
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2x1 - DRACULA (1931)
Season 2 begins with a vintage offering from renowned director Tod Browning. It's Universal Pictures classic Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the Count and Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing.
In the podcasket this week to discuss one of horror's most famous and influential films is author and podcaster Tony Black.
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SPECIAL - HALLOWEEN 2022
In this spooky bonus episode, hosts Dan Owen and Hugh McStay convene around the Vampire Campfire to reflect on the first 10 films covered in season 1. They also rank and score each film individually to create an overall Top 10 for the podcast. Plus, a few extra doses of film trivia, a missing RIP segment, and some listener questions...
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1x10 - SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000)
It's the Season 1 finale of Vampire Videos, so we bookend our premiere on Nosferatu (1922) with E. Elias Merhige's metafictional version Shadow of the Vampire. The film stars John Malkovich as silent film director F.W Murnau, who's trying to shoot Nosferatu with the help of a real life vampire played by Willem Dafoe.
To dig into this largely forgotten indie film from the turn of the millennium, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by writer and podcaster Darren Mooney.
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Darren Mooney
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1x9 - LIFEFORCE (1985)
Vampire Videos heads to outer space for Tobe Hooper's 1985 sci-fi horror Lifeforce, starring Steve Railsback as an astronaut who unwittingly brings lethal extra-terrestrial vampires back to London after discovering three humanoids inside a ship hidden inside Halley's Comet.
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1x8 - DAY SHIFT (2022)
Vampire Videos brings things into the present day with a look at Netflix's recent DAY SHIFT, directed by J.J Perry, starring Jamie Foxx as a working class father and pool cleaner who moonlights as a vampire hunter...
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Robert Clark
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Dan Owen
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1x7 - VAMPIRE IN BROOKYLN (1995)
Vampire Videos unearths Wes Craven's 1995 horror-comedy Vampire in Brooklyn, starring Eddie Murphy as a Caribbean vampire who travels to New York City to find a half-breed woman to sustain his species.
To discuss this notorious flop, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by podcaster, author, and We Made This network chief himself Tony Black.
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Tony Black
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1x6 - SALEM'S LOT (1979)
Vampire Videos digs into Tobe Hooper's iconic two-part miniseries Salem's Lot from 1979, which adapted Stephen King's acclaimed novel, starring David Soul as a best-selling author who returns to his hometown only to discover a master vampire has recently moved in...
To discuss this classic chiller, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by two special guests: screenwriters Chris Lunt and Michael Walker from Sky Atlantic's Devils and Netflix's Young Wallander.
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Chris Lunt & Michael Walker
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1x5 - DRACULA (1958)
Vampire Videos bites into our first Hammer horror, Terence Fisher's classic Dracula, which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) investigating the disappearance of a librarian who visited the castle home of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee).
To discuss this Gothic horror favourite, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined again by film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby.
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Dee Molumby
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Dan Owen
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1x4 - THIRST (2009)
Vampire Videos returns for an appraisal of Park Chan-wook's 2009 horror drama Thirst, about a Catholic priest who becomes a vampire after participating in a drug trial to cure a deadly disease, then uses his newfound powers to woo the wife of his childhood friend.
To discuss this Palme d'Or-winning Korean film, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by podcaster Ian Buckley from Movieversaries.
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Ian Buckley
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1x3 - 30 DAYS OF NIGHT (2007)
Vampire Videos tackles David Slade's comic-book adaptation of 30 Days of Night, about a small Alaskan town under attack by vampires during a month when the sun disappears.
To discuss this commercially successful but slightly forgotten film, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by film critic and author Simon Bowie.
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Simon Bowie
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1x2 - LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008)
Vampire Videos continues with a look at Tomas Alfredson's Swedish romantic horror film Let the Right One In, which concerns a bullied 12-year-old boy who befriends a strange vampire girl in early-1980s Stockholm.
To discuss this award-winning adaptation of author John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 novel, hosts Hugh McStay and Dan Owen are joined by film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby.
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Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest
Dee Molumby
Editor
Dan Owen
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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/) • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.
1x1 - NOSFERATU (1922)
Vampire Videos rises from the crypt with the film that arguably started it all - F.W Murnau's silent masterpiece Nosferatu. This creepy German tale, which infamously plagiarised Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, stars Max Schreck as the sinister Count Orlock.
To discuss this iconic movie, its remarkable impact, and enduring legacy, your hosts Dan Owen and Hugh McStay are joined award-winning comic-book writer and film critic Andy Winter.
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Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest
Andy Winter
Editor
Dan Owen
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You can also read Andy's excellent review of Nosferatu here: https://www.framerated.co.uk/nosferatu-1922/
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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/) • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.
0x0 - Primer
Welcome! Introducing VAMPIRE VIDEOS, a horror podcast digging into 100 years of vampires on film and television to celebrate the centenary of Nosferatu (1922).
In this short primer, Dan Owen and Hugh McStay explain the concept of the podcast, describe the first time they saw a vampire on screen, outline their personal tastes in horror, explain why vampires are so fascinating and keep such a grip on popular culture, and tease some of what's to come...
Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor
Dan Owen
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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/) • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.