Episodes
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[9x2] We're heading to the skies for another Stephen King adaptation - it's Mark Pavia's 1997 adaptation of his short story The Night Flier, about a despicable tabloid reporter (Miguel Ferrer) investigating what seems to be a vampire flying into local airfields to drink the blood of whoever's unfortunate enough to cross his path...
And returning for another appearance (and his second Stephen King film) is Creepy & Geeky podcaster Robert Clark...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Robert Clark
Editor: Dan Owen
"My wife Martha reads your paper. After she's done with it, I use it to line our kitty's toilet box. Soaks that cat piss real good." -- Ezra Hannon
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[9x1] Season IX begins with a movie many have been waiting for! It's Catherine Hardwicke's 2008 adaptation of author Stephenie Meyer's best-selling romantic fantasy novel Twilight, which concerns a teenage girl who moves to a remote forest town and falls in love with a handsome classmate she soon learns is a vampire...
And we have fresh blood to start a new run of episodes, with journalist and podcaster Tom Beasley...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Tom Beasley
Editor: Hugh McStay
"I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.." -- Edward Cullen
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[BONUS] It's that time again! Dan and Hugh are still convened around the vampire campfire, this time to reflect on Season VIII and reveal their combined Top 10 of everything discussed.
As ever, they'll also quiz each other about each movie! And to finish, a tease of what listeners can expect from Season IX is a great way to end the show...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Editor: Hugh McStay
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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on two years of Vampire Videos and the 80 full episodes (+ bonuses) that have been released so far. The entertainment we have includes:
Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!
Our Top 6 Most Prolific Guests!
All the Vampire Films That Are Coming Soon-ish... Maybe!
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Hugh McStay
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[8x10] Season VIII draws to a close with Dan Curtis's 1974 TV film Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Jack Palance as the famous vampire drawn to the reincarnation of his deceased lover after moving to England...
Making his debut on the show to talk about it is writer and filmmaker Chris Brosnahan...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Chris Brosnahan
Editor: Dan Owen
Watch Chris's films on YouTube!
"Mr Harker... now I go to England, and you... to Hell!" -- Count Dracula
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[8x9] Our penultimate Season VIII episode is on Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet's 2024 horror-comedy Abigail, about a gang of criminals who get more than they bargained for when they hold the young daughter of a wealthy man for ransom, only to realise she's a deadly vampire...
Film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby makes another return to the show to talk about it...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Sammy, those are fuckin' onions." -- Frank
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[8x8] We return to Timur Bekmambetov's Russian fantasy duology, with the concluding half to Night Watch... it's Day Watch. A year has passed and Anton is accused of murder as he tries to find the real killer and an ancient object with the power to change destiny...
And making her return to the show is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editor: Dan Owen
"Imperfections are hidden in darkness, Yegor. And people always have their imperfections." -- Zavulon
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[8x7] We're back for Pablo Larrain's alternate history of Chilean dictator (and vampire?) General Pinochet; a black comedy horror film that mixes real-world politics with the supernatural. It's El Conde. Does anyone care for a liquidised heart?Making another return to Vampire Videos to explore this fascinating film is author and podcaster Tony Black...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Tony BlackEditor: Dan Owen"There's nothing more gruesome than seeing a man fall in love.." -- MargaretSubscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network.Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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[8x6] We return to AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire for Season 2, where Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) try to escape the bad memories of Lestat (Sam Reid) by travelling to Europe during World War II, where they become embroiled with a theatre troupe of Parisian vampires...
This episode is a super-cut of the fortnightly discussions we originally made available to subscribers of our Bitten tier, all packaged together. So it's over three hours long!
To help you navigate and bookmark, here are some approximate timecodes:
2x1 - "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned" (00:00:30)
2x2 • 2x3 - "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" • "No Pain" (00:30:56)
2x4 • 2x5 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" • "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape" (01:07:26)
2x6 • 2x7 - "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light" • "I Could Not Prevent It" (01:44:00)
2x8 - "And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else" (02:26:03)
Returning to continue the discussion of IWTV after the first season is freelance writer Kim Morrison...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Morrison
Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
"If you want the insanity back. If you want an escape from the prison of empathy I've locked you away in, all you had to do was ask, Louis." -- Armand
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[8x5] We reach mid-Season VIII with Fright Night Part 2, Tommy Lee Wallace's 1988 sequel to the 1985 original, which finds Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) and Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) encountering the sister of the vampire they slayed last time...
And making another return to the show is Vampire Videos' favourite, film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Forewarned is forearmed... to the unending task of conquering the forces of evil, wherever they might appear." -- Peter Vincent
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[8x4] We're continuing the vampires vs. werewolves franchise with Underworld: Evolution, which finds vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) discovering the true origins of her species...
To talk about this sequel, podcaster Lindsay Drysdale returns to the show...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Lindsay Drysdale
Editor: Dan Owen
"Ah. The predictable heart that never thaws. Pity it beats within such a fool. The eldest of the immortals, yet you have made no attempt to seize your destiny." -- Marcus
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[8x3] Christopher Lee makes his final bow as Count Dracula in Alan Gibson's Hammer horror sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which finds the master vampire trying to cause a global genocide...
And making a belated return to the show is Yahoo! writer and James Bond A-Z podcaster Tom Butler...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Tom Butler
Editor: Hugh McStay
"He'd want to bring down the whole universe with him. The ultimate revenge. Thousands dying of the plague, and like the shadow of death itself, one figure scything its way through the terror and anguish: Count Dracula. It's the Biblical prophecy of Armageddon.." -- Van Helsing
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[8x2] Will Smith is the last man alive in Francis Lawrence's 2007 retelling of the famous Richard Matheson story I Am Legend, set in a post-apocalyptic New Yorky City where infected people have become nocturnal creatures...
And returning to the podcast is Ramblin Amblin podcaster and film critic Andrew Gaudion...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Andrew Gaudion
Editor: Dan Owen
"God didn't do this - we did!” -- Neville
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[8x1] Season VIII begins with Mel Brooks' 1995 spoof comedy Dracula: Dead & Loving It, starring Leslie Nielsen as the eponymous vampire, in a spoof retelling of Bram Stoker's famous story...
And making her return to the show is the Labours of Hercule podcaster and self-styled 'queen of puns', Frankie Pellatt.
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Frankie Pellatt
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Would an enema help?." -- Dr Seward
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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh once again gather around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season 7 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of the films they reviewed.
As usual, they'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! And a tease of what's to come in Season VIII is always a great way to end the show...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Dan Owen
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[7x10] Our Season VII climax brings us to Jim Mickle's 2010 post-apocalyptic vampire movie Stake Land, about a young orphaned man taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known only as 'Mister'...
And making his debut on the show is podcaster Brad Hanson...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Brad Hanson
Editor: Dan Owen
"Months passed in a blur of days and nights. We travelled east and west, but always north. Away from death." -- Martin
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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 American 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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[7x8] 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 Jessica 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...
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 hourglass or something." -- Adam
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