Vampire Videos

[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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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on two years of Vampire Videos and the 80 full episodes (+ bonuses) that have been released so far. The entertainment we have includes:

• Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!
• Our Top 6 Most Prolific Guests!
• All the Vampire Films That Are Coming Soon-ish... Maybe!

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Editor: Hugh McStay

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

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[8x10] Season VIII draws to a close with Dan Curtis's 1974 TV film Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Jack Palance as the famous vampire drawn to the reincarnation of his deceased lover after moving to England...

Making his debut on the show to talk about it is writer and filmmaker Chris Brosnahan...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Chris Brosnahan

Editor: Dan Owen

Watch Chris's films on YouTube!

"Mr Harker... now I go to England, and you... to Hell!" -- Count Dracula

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[8x9] Our penultimate Season VIII episode is on Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet's 2024 horror-comedy Abigail, about a gang of criminals who get more than they bargained for when they hold the young daughter of a wealthy man for ransom, only to realise she's a deadly vampire...

Film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby makes another return to the show to talk about it...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Dee Molumby

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Sammy, those are fuckin' onions." -- Frank

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[8x8] We return to Timur Bekmambetov's Russian fantasy duology, with the concluding half to Night Watch... it's Day Watch. A year has passed and Anton is accused of murder as he tries to find the real killer and an ancient object with the power to change destiny...

And making her return to the show is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editor: Dan Owen

"Imperfections are hidden in darkness, Yegor. And people always have their imperfections." -- Zavulon

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[8x7] We're back for Pablo Larrain's alternate history of Chilean dictator (and vampire?) General Pinochet; a black comedy horror film that mixes real-world politics with the supernatural. It's El Conde. Does anyone care for a liquidised heart?

Making another return to Vampire Videos to explore this fascinating film is author and podcaster Tony Black...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Tony Black

Editor: Dan Owen

"There's nothing more gruesome than seeing a man fall in love.." -- Margaret

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[8x6] We return to AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire for Season 2, where Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) try to escape the bad memories of Lestat (Sam Reid) by travelling to Europe during World War II, where they become embroiled with a theatre troupe of Parisian vampires...

This episode is a super-cut of the fortnightly discussions we originally made available to subscribers of our Bitten tier, all packaged together. So it's over three hours long!

To help you navigate and bookmark, here are some approximate timecodes:

• 2x1 - "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned" (00:00:30)
• 2x2 • 2x3 - "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" • "No Pain" (00:30:56)
• 2x4 • 2x5 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" • "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape" (01:07:26)
• 2x6 • 2x7 - "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light" • "I Could Not Prevent It" (01:44:00)
• 2x8 - "And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else" (02:26:03)

Returning to continue the discussion of IWTV after the first season is freelance writer Kim Morrison...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kim Morrison

Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

"If you want the insanity back. If you want an escape from the prison of empathy I've locked you away in, all you had to do was ask, Louis." -- Armand

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[8x5] We reach mid-Season VIII with Fright Night Part 2, Tommy Lee Wallace's 1988 sequel to the 1985 original, which finds Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) and Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) encountering the sister of the vampire they slayed last time...

And making another return to the show is Vampire Videos' favourite, film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Dee Molumby

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Forewarned is forearmed... to the unending task of conquering the forces of evil, wherever they might appear." -- Peter Vincent

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[8x4] We're continuing the vampires vs. werewolves franchise with Underworld: Evolution, which finds vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) discovering the true origins of her species...

To talk about this sequel, podcaster Lindsay Drysdale returns to the show...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Lindsay Drysdale

Editor: Dan Owen

"Ah. The predictable heart that never thaws. Pity it beats within such a fool. The eldest of the immortals, yet you have made no attempt to seize your destiny." -- Marcus

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[8x3] Christopher Lee makes his final bow as Count Dracula in Alan Gibson's Hammer horror sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which finds the master vampire trying to cause a global genocide...

And making a belated return to the show is Yahoo! writer and James Bond A-Z podcaster Tom Butler...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Tom Butler

Editor: Hugh McStay

"He'd want to bring down the whole universe with him. The ultimate revenge. Thousands dying of the plague, and like the shadow of death itself, one figure scything its way through the terror and anguish: Count Dracula. It's the Biblical prophecy of Armageddon.." -- Van Helsing

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