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This week, Bri and Leah discuss The Transfiguration (2017, dir. Michael O'Shea). We talk about how this film positions itself in the lineage of "realistic" vampire movies like Martin and Let the Right One In. 

**CORRECTION: The Transfiguration did get a limited theatrical release in the U.S. after its North American festival debut at SXSW in 2017.**

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If you love listening to Bri and Leah talk about vampires... would you like to join us for a new podcast project? The Fang Club co-hosts will be recapping the first season of NBC's Hannibal week by week, in honor of the show's 10th anniversary. Bri and Leah are huge fans of the show, and we invite you to rewatch the brilliant first season with us. 

We thought we'd give our Fang Club listeners a little taste of our new show! We will not be dropping future episodes on the Fang Club feed. We hope you enjoy! 

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This week, Leah and Bri take a look at the Australian, microbudget, queer, transgender vampire film So Vam (2022, dir. Alice Maio Mackay). 

We did look into the research on Bram Stoker's sexuality, and here's a good primer on why it's more than likely that Stoker was a closeted gay man:

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/30/dracula-queer-horror-bram-stoker/ 

(This isn't the most academic of articles, but it's well-sourced, dishy, and not behind a paywall!) 

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This week, it's Guillermo del Toro time! We're talking about Blade II (2002). This episode is marked explicit for some swearing and, uh, blood cocaine. 

CORRECTION: Leah incorrectly states that the three films GDT made before Blade II were not in English. Del Toro's second film was, in fact, in English; he made Mimic (1997) for Miramax's Dimension Films. Del Toro has publicly talked about how much he hated the experience of making this film, so maybe Leah just erased it from her memory in subconscious solidarity. 

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This week, Bri and Leah do something a little different: we're talking about cannibals! But these cannibals could definitely pass as vampires if they wanted to. We're looking at Ravenous (1999, dir. Antonia Bird) and Bones and All (2022, dir. Luca Guadagnino). While these films might seem like a weird double feature... hear us out!

The articles Leah promises at the end of the episode:

David Ehrlich for Rolling Stone on why Ravenous is the greatest cannibal Western ever made: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/to-serve-man-why-ravenous-is-the-greatest-cannibal-western-ever-43674/

Walter Chaw on Ravenous for Decider (he sees the Bones and All connection, too!): https://decider.com/2022/09/20/walter-chaw-ravenous/

And, maybe my favorite (which compares Ravenous and Hannibal), from Samantha McLaren for Gayly Dreadful: https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/pride-2021-its-lonely-being-a-cannibal-hungry-homoerotic-friendship-in-ravenous-and-hannibal

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This week, Bri and Leah chat about the recent Irish horror-comedy Let the Wrong One In (2022, dir. Conor McMahon). Surprising no one, we reveal that our favorite man on Buffy is Giles. This episode is marked explicit for some f-bombs, as usual.

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This week, Bri and Leah discuss the absolute worst vampire film of the 21st century: Uwe Boll's BloodRayne (2005). It's... something. We hated it, profoundly. This episode is marked explicit for some f-bombs, as usual. 

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Welcome to our series... "Dracula: Where Is He Now?" which focuses on Dracula's one hundred years of film stardom. Leah and Bri have periodically released the parts of this series over the last year; this is the final installment! Each part thematically groups pre- and post-2000 Dracula films.

"Part Four: Romantic Dracula" highlights two adaptations that turn Stoker's story into a romance: Dracula (1979, dir. John Badham) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola). Then we revisit The Invitation (2022, dir. Jessica M. Thompson) and talk about how the romantic vampire took over the culture in the subgenre in the first two decades of the 21st century. Part Four is TWO episodes! This is the second episode; go back to episode 64 for the beginning of our conversation. 

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Welcome to our series... "Dracula: Where Is He Now?" which focuses on Dracula's one hundred years of film stardom. Leah and Bri have periodically released the parts of this series over the last year; this is the final installment! Each part thematically groups pre- and post-2000 Dracula films.

"Part Four: Romantic Dracula" highlights two adaptations that turn Stoker's story into a romance: Dracula (1979, dir. John Badham) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola). Then we revisit The Invitation (2022, dir. Jessica M. Thompson) and talk about how the romantic vampire took over the culture in the subgenre in the first two decades of the 21st century. Part Four is TWO episodes! This is the first episode; the second will release next week. 

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This week, Bri and Leah chat about the Netflix original action-comedy Day Shift (2022, dir. J. J. Perry). The main theme of this episode? How much we hate Dave Franco. As usual, this episode is marked explicit for a handful of f-bombs. 

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