[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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