I Love This, You Should Too

This episode was originally released on October 16, 2023

We are looking at the favourite of many 90s teen goths, Interview With The Vampire, including the performances, casting choices, Brad Pitt’s body odor, annoying mimes, and burning down all of your problems.

Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American gothic horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel of the same name, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. It focuses on Lestat (Cruise) and Louis (Pitt), beginning with Louis's transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791. The film chronicles their time together, and their turning of ten-year-old Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) into a vampire. The narrative is framed by a present-day interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter (Christian Slater). The supporting cast features Antonio Banderas and Stephen Rea.

Interview With the Vampire Trailer:

Our vampire film of the week is the 1992 movie that launched one of our favourite shows, Buffy The Vampire Slayer! Of course we have to talk about the TV show a bit, but we mostly stick to the movies including; goblin-eared vampires, bully slayers, reincarnation, 

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American comedy horror vampire film directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui and written by Joss Whedon. It stars Kristy Swanson as the eponymous Buffy Summers, a Valley Girl cheerleader who learns it is her fate to hunt vampires. Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer and Luke Perry appear in supporting roles; the film also features Hilary Swank in her debut role as one of Buffy's friends.

We’re covering Dracula, again! This time it’s the 1992 version full of werebats, sexual liberation, head cages, fantastic costumes, questionable accents, wig work, bowie knives, surprising camp, piles-O-rats, ruffs, and so much more! 

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

The vampire marathon continues with a favourite of 80’s kids everywhere: The Lost Boys! Join us for a conversation about childhood reminiscing, hot, flying vampires, Mr. Gilmore, haircuts, Coreys, scene stealing villains, dogs saving the day, dating tips, crane shots, and more!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Western motifs, pushing, boot knives, smelly vans, child vampires, Alien casts, and much more in this week’s vampire movie: Near Dark!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Vampire season continues with this week’s movie: the 1983 erotic horror thriller The Hunger! Our discussion of this artsy vampire movie featuring Susan Sarandon, Catherine Deneuve, and David Bowie goes exactly where you think it would; NYC real estate values, body switching, Bauhaus, husband upgrades, goths, wine preferences, phonebooth youth, monkey murder, and so much more! 

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

The Hunger is a 1983 erotic horror film directed by Tony Scott in his directorial debut, starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. An international co-production of the United States and the United Kingdom,[2] the film is a loose adaptation of the 1981 novel of the same name by Whitley Strieber, with a screenplay by Ivan Davis and Michael Thomas. Its plot concerns a vampire (Deneuve) who bestows immortality and apparently eternal youth on her lovers. However, the latter proves unreliable, and her lover at the beginning of the film (Bowie) undergoes rapid ageing, leading her to take a new lover, a doctor who specialises in sleep and ageing research (Sarandon). The film's special effects were handled by make-up effects artist Dick Smith.

We’re discussing the blaxploitation classic Blacula, including sweet outfits, production troubles, slavery parallels, barrel throwing, tragic love, and so much more!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

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In 1780, African prince Mamuwalde goes to Transylvania to seek the help of Count Dracula in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses, however, and insults Mamuwalde by making a pass at his wife, Luva. After a scuffle with Dracula's minions, Mamuwalde is bitten by Dracula and transformed into a vampire while dead. Dracula then curses him with the name "Blacula" and imprisons him in a sealed coffin in a crypt hidden beneath his castle while leaving Luva with Mamuwalde to die in the chamber.

The vampire suite continues with the hugely influential 1931 Dracula. Our meandering conversation takes us through the work of Bela Lugosi, the trouble with early talkies, iconic accents, vampires becoming sexy, the ephemeral nature of early film, the flavours of armadillos, and other such nonsense.

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Journey with us into the land of thieves and phantoms as we discuss the landmark horror film Nosferatu, including if and how we would want to be a vampire, plagues, werewolves, hyenas, regret, independent women, maps, the lore and lawsuits behind the movie, anti-semetism, expressionism, inflation, & more!

Watch Nosferatu here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCT1YUtNOA8&ab_channel=BestClassics

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.

Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized and unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although these changes are often represented as a defense against copyright infringement,[3] the original German intertitles acknowledged Dracula as the source. Film historian David Kalat states in his commentary track that since the film was "a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences...setting it in Germany with German-named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for German-speaking viewers".

Indy takes you on a quick journey through the influential and prophetic works of H.G. Wells, Samantha reviews Boy From the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey by Luke Evans, and we get ready for our deep dive into the world of vampire movies!