Fang Club

Welcome to True Blood July! Leah and Bri will be discussing the TV show True Blood (2008-2014) for the rest of the month. It's hot outside, and we know you're thirsty.  This is the third episode of the series, although the episodes don't necessarily have to be listened to in order. We discuss a different group of characters in each episode; we don't going through the series season by season or discuss anything chronologically. In conjunction with our series, we're running a Best True Blood Character bracket on our social media accounts. Be sure to check that out and vote for your faves! 

In this episode, we revisit some of our previous discussions of True Blood's queerness to add some context, we talk about Pam, but mostly we talk about ERIC NORTHMAN. We also spend considerable time gushing over Alexander Skarsgård. 

The episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual. 

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

Welcome to True Blood July! Leah and Bri will be discussing the TV show True Blood (2008-2014) for the rest of the month. It's hot outside, and we know you're thirsty.  This is the second episode of the series, although the episodes don't necessarily have to be listened to in order. We will discuss a different group of characters in each episode; we aren't going through the series season by season or discussing anything chronologically. In conjunction with our series, we're running a Best True Blood Character bracket on our social media accounts. Be sure to check that out and vote for your faves!

In this episode, we discuss what makes True Blood vampires special, how much we love the gooey special effects in the early seasons of the show, why Vampire Bill is better as a normcore vampire, and why Jessica is our favorite baby vamp.  

The 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/) 

Welcome to True Blood July! Leah and Bri will be discussing the TV show True Blood (2008-2014) for the rest of the month. It's hot outside, and we know you're thirsty.  This is the first episode of the series, although the episodes don't necessarily have to be listened to in order. We will discuss a different group of characters in each episode; we aren't going through the series season by season or discussing anything chronologically. In conjunction with our series, we're running a Best True Blood Character bracket on our social media accounts. Be sure to check that out and vote for your faves!

In this episode, we discuss Sookie and Jason Stackhouse, as well as the employees of Merlotte's Bar and Grill. 

The episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs, as usual.

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 succumb to the memes. We're talking about Sony's disastrous attempt to replicate the freak box office success of Venom. Yep, we're talking about Morbius (2022, dir. Daniel Espinosa). The twist? Only Bri has seen the cursed film. Leah has to guess what actually happened in the film and what's crap Bri made up. The episode unfolds in quiz form, so you can play along with Leah! Share your scores. This episode is, honestly, probably more fun if you haven't actually seen Morbius. 

This 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/) 

Welcome to our series... "Dracula: Where Is He Now?" Leah and Bri are periodically releasing parts of this series, which focuses on Dracula's one hundred years of film stardom, over the first half of 2022. Each part will thematically group pre- and post-2000 Dracula films.

In "Part Three: Dracula Remixed," we’re covering four remixed versions of Dracula. Not all of them are strictly comedic, but they’re all playful twists on Dracula that speak to the different points in time in which they were made. For this part, we’ll be discussing Blacula (dir. William Crain, 1972), Dracula Dead and Loving It (dir. Mel Brooks, 1995), and Hotel Transylvania (dir. Genndy Tartakovsky, 2012). We also couldn’t resist talking about Peter’s all-puppet Dracula musical from Forgetting Sarah Marshall (dir. Nicholas Stoller, 2008). Part Three is only one episode! 

Show Notes:



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/) 

Bri and Leah discuss Priest (dir. Scott Stewart, 2011) for a little vampire-hunter action this week. 

As always, this episode is marked explicit for a few f-bombs. 

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/) 

We're back with some prime Underworld nonsense! It's our Underworld: Awakening (2012, dir. Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein) episode, in which Leah and Bri actually confess to missing having Scott Speedman in this franchise. (We know, we know.) As always when we're baffled by a bad film, there's more swearing than usual in this episode. 

**If you are mad we skipped Rise of the Lycans on the main pod, stay tuned to the Ko-fi. We're doing a bonus episode on 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/) 

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, Bri and Leah discuss Jakob's Wife (2021, dir. Travis Stevens), starring scream queen Barbara Crampton and independent filmmaker/actor Larry Fessenden. This episode is marked explicit for an f-bomb or two, 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 discuss writer/director Emily Harris's adaptation/reimagining of Carmilla (2019). 

Show Notes:

Here's a link to the piece on Alex Garland's Men  and "metaphorror" that Leah referenced in the episode: https://www.insidehook.com/article/movies/men-movie-review 

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, Bri and Leah invited pop culture writer Veronica Phillips onto the pod to talk about a show we're all obsessed with: What We Do in the Shadows (2019-present, 3 seasons on FX). Tune in to hear us chat about what makes the show a successful spin off, which episodes are our favorites, and why we love every single character.

You can find Veronica on Twitter at @vnickyy, and you can subscribe to her TinyLetter here: http://tinyletter.com/veronicaphillips 

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/)