Fang Club

'80s Vamps #3 

For this October's theme, Leah and Bri are covering some 1980's vampire classics! This week, we're chatting about Kathryn Bigelow's vampire-Western Near Dark (1987). This episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual.

Show Notes/Supplemental Reading:

Sarah Welch-Larsen for Bright Wall/Dark Room on how the film engages with the myth of individualism and the history of settler colonialism in the American West: https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2022/08/03/youre-gonna-give-me-back-my-spur/

Scott Tobias on Near Dark for his former column "The New Cult Canon" over at the old AV Club: https://www.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-near-dark-1798215134

John Squires for Bloody Disgusting, writing about Bill Paxton's indelible performance in Near Dark on the occasion of the actor's death: https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3426304/near-dark-highlighted-everything-special-bill-paxton/

And a brand new one! Eric Hehr for Aquarium Drunkard's Videodrome column, on how Near Dark handles exposition: https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/10/19/videodrome-near-dark-1987/ 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

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“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

'80s Vamps #2 

For this October's theme, Leah and Bri are covering some 1980's vampire classics! This week, we're coving a film that might not count as a classic, but has nonetheless been reclaimed: Lifeforce (1985, dir. Tobe Hooper). We invited friend of the pod Terry Waldher back to chat about this wild film with us.

This episode is marked explicit because Lifeforce is gleefully NSFW, and, in the spirit of the movie, so is our discussion of it. 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

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“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

'80s Vamps #1

For this October's theme, Leah and Bri are covering some 1980's vampire classics! We had to start with The Lost Boys (1987, dir. Joel Schumacher), one of Bri's favorite movies of all time. Join us as we discuss the film that basically invented the teen vampire genre. This episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual. 

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Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Bri and Leah are joined by Mariana Delgado to discuss the recently wrapped season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows. (If you want a discussion of the previous three seasons, check out Episode 33 with Veronica Phillips!) We discuss each character's season four arc in detail. This episode is marked explicit for some f-bombs, as usual.

Find Mariana on Twitter @spiceymemory, and follow Screen Speck @ScreenSpeck. (No, really, if you listen to this episode and don't check out Mariana's site and support her writers, we will find you.) 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

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Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Bri and Leah are joined by Leah's friend Nick to discuss Blade (1998, dir. Stephen Norrington). We chat about how Blade influenced almost a decade's worth of vampire action movies, whether or not Blade has a social security number, and why bananas late '90s CGI rules, actually. This episode is marked explicit for some f-bombs, as usual. (Because Blade is f'in COOL.) 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

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Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Bri and Leah try to spin straw into gold. We got 45 minutes of discussion out of Bloodsucking Bastards (2015, dir. Brian O'Connell), but only about 20 of those are on topic. Come for the movie talk, stay for the extended Horny Corner chat about our king Pedro Pascal. We kept the thirsting PG-13, but the episode is marked explicit for some f-bombs, as usual. 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

Support the show

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Leah and Bri chat about a new(ish) release: The Invitation (2022, dir. Jessica M. Thompson). This episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual. 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

Support the show

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Leah and Bri unpack their feelings about the indie horror comedy Summer of Blood (2014, dir. Onur Tukel). This episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual. 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

Support the show

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Leah and Bri chat about the Shudder exclusive Blood Vessel (dir. Justin Dix, 2020), a Nazi vampire film that really doesn't have many Nazis in it. This episode is marked explicit for some swearing and some *speculation* about how Daddy bat-vampire pleasures his lady vamp. 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

Support the show

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

This week, Leah and Bri discuss the TV show First Kill (2022, 1 season on Netflix). 

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/) 

Support the show

Sound effects credits: 

“Creaking door.wav” by visualasylum of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/322377/) 

"Door, Wooden, Close, A (H1).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org (https://freesound.org/s/411791/)