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[9x8] It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as an NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood...
And making her belated return in the podcasket is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Editor: Dan Owen
"To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”—Kathleen
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[9x7] An early "talkie" is up for discussion this week, in the form of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 Gothic horror film Vampyr, where a student of the paranormal stays overnight in a village inn apparently stalked by a blood-sucking creature...
And making her belated third trip in the podcasket is university lecturer and horror expert Professor Stacey Abbott...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Prof. Stacey Abbott
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Why does the doctor always come at night?" -- Léone
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[BONUS] It's the spookiest time of the year, which means Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire for another Halloween Special. This time, reviewing the winner of the social media 'DRECKULA' poll, Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler as the famous vampire. But they'll also be sharing some real-life bloodcurdling ghost stories along the way...
Joining the boys around the fire is the editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz, who has her own scary story to share too...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editors: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
"You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine." -- Dracula
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[9x6] It's a clash of the titans in B-movie director Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, where the Prince of Darkness joins forces with a descendent of Dr Frankenstein to benefit from a serum to enable him to walk around in daylight. (It sounds better than it is...)
The Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman makes his first return to the show to explain himself...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Anthony Bowman
Editor: Hugh McStay
"They have seen all the illusions in my creature emporium, but they have yet to face the greatest illusion: the illusion of reality."---Dr Durea
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[9x5] The mid-Season IX point arrives with director Park Chan-wook's 2013 "vampire film" Stoker, which concerns a sullen 18-year-old girl (Mia Wasikowska) who comes under the spell of her mysterious uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) following the death of her father...
Making her long-awaited debut in the podcasket to talk about one of her favourite films is the film journalist and author Zoë Rose Smith...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Zoë Rose Smith
Editor: Hugh McStay
"He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse." -- India Stoker
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[9x4] We rummage inside the direct-to-video bin for Scott Spiegel's 1999 horror crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, where a gang of criminals (led by Robert Patrick) are slowly transformed into vampires while trying to pull off a bank heist in Mexico...
And a new guest is arriving by podcasket, in the shape of author and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster
Editor: Dan Owen
"El Coyote? What's that mean in American?." -- Ray Bob
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[9x3] Hammer's Dracula saga comes to an end with The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) helping eight siblings reclaim their mountain village from seven powerful vampires and an army of the undead...
And back to help us pick this final Dracula story apart, it's comic-book writer and podcaster Wayne Talbot...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Wayne Talbot
Editor: Dan Owen
"I need to walk this Earth again, free from these walls, free from this mausoleum. I will return to your temple, in your image, Kah. I will recall the 7 Golden Vampires, as my own host. Tools of my vengeance on mankind, I will take on your mentor.."---Count Dracula
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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
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"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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