Vampire Videos

[9x8] It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as an NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood...

And making her belated return in the podcasket is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Editor: Dan Owen

"To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”—Kathleen

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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[9x7] An early "talkie" is up for discussion this week, in the form of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 Gothic horror film Vampyr, where a student of the paranormal stays overnight in a village inn apparently stalked by a blood-sucking creature...

And making her belated third trip in the podcasket is university lecturer and horror expert Professor Stacey Abbott...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Prof. Stacey Abbott

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Why does the doctor always come at night?" -- Léone

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[BONUS] It's the spookiest time of the year, which means Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire for another Halloween Special. This time, reviewing the winner of the social media 'DRECKULA' poll, Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler as the famous vampire. But they'll also be sharing some real-life bloodcurdling ghost stories along the way...

Joining the boys around the fire is the editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz, who has her own scary story to share too...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editors: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

"You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine." -- Dracula

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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • "The Forgotten Rusty Carousel" Music + sound effects from Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[9x6] It's a clash of the titans in B-movie director Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, where the Prince of Darkness joins forces with a descendent of Dr Frankenstein to benefit from a serum to enable him to walk around in daylight. (It sounds better than it is...)

The Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman makes his first return to the show to explain himself...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Anthony Bowman

Editor: Hugh McStay

"They have seen all the illusions in my creature emporium, but they have yet to face the greatest illusion: the illusion of reality."---Dr Durea

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[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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[9x4] We rummage inside the direct-to-video bin for Scott Spiegel's 1999 horror crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, where a gang of criminals (led by Robert Patrick) are slowly transformed into vampires while trying to pull off a bank heist in Mexico...

And a new guest is arriving by podcasket, in the shape of author and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster

Editor: Dan Owen

"El Coyote? What's that mean in American?." -- Ray Bob

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[9x3] Hammer's Dracula saga comes to an end with The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) helping eight siblings reclaim their mountain village from seven powerful vampires and an army of the undead...

And back to help us pick this final Dracula story apart, it's comic-book writer and podcaster Wayne Talbot...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Wayne Talbot

Editor: Dan Owen

"I need to walk this Earth again, free from these walls, free from this mausoleum. I will return to your temple, in your image, Kah. I will recall the 7 Golden Vampires, as my own host. Tools of my vengeance on mankind, I will take on your mentor.."---Count Dracula

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[9x2] We're heading to the skies for another Stephen King adaptation - it's Mark Pavia's 1997 adaptation of his short story The Night Flier, about a despicable tabloid reporter (Miguel Ferrer) investigating what seems to be a vampire flying into local airfields to drink the blood of whoever's unfortunate enough to cross his path...

And returning for another appearance (and his second Stephen King film) is Creepy & Geeky podcaster Robert Clark...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Robert Clark

Editor: Dan Owen

"My wife Martha reads your paper. After she's done with it, I use it to line our kitty's toilet box. Soaks that cat piss real good." -- Ezra Hannon

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[9x1] Season IX begins with a movie many have been waiting for! It's Catherine Hardwicke's 2008 adaptation of author Stephenie Meyer's best-selling romantic fantasy novel Twilight, which concerns a teenage girl who moves to a remote forest town and falls in love with a handsome classmate she soon learns is a vampire...

And we have fresh blood to start a new run of episodes, with journalist and podcaster Tom Beasley...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Tom Beasley

Editor: Hugh McStay

"I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.." -- Edward Cullen

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[BONUS] It's that time again! Dan and Hugh are still convened around the vampire campfire, this time to reflect on Season VIII and reveal their combined Top 10 of everything discussed.

As ever, they'll also quiz each other about each movie! And to finish, a tease of what listeners can expect from Season IX is a great way to end the show...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Editor: Hugh McStay

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