Vampire Videos

[8x2] Will Smith is the last man alive in Francis Lawrence's 2007 retelling of the famous Richard Matheson story I Am Legend, set in a post-apocalyptic New Yorky City where infected people have become nocturnal creatures...

And returning to the podcast is Ramblin Amblin podcaster and film critic Andrew Gaudion...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Andrew Gaudion

Editor: Dan Owen

"God didn't do this - we did!” -- Neville

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[8x1] Season VIII begins with Mel Brooks' 1995 spoof comedy Dracula: Dead & Loving It, starring Leslie Nielsen as the eponymous vampire, in a spoof retelling of Bram Stoker's famous story...

And making her return to the show is the Labours of Hercule podcaster and self-styled 'queen of puns', Frankie Pellatt.

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Frankie Pellatt

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Would an enema help?." -- Dr Seward

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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh once again gather around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season 7 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of the films they reviewed.

As usual, they'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! And a tease of what's to come in Season VIII is always a great way to end the show...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Editor: Dan Owen

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[7x10] Our Season VII climax brings us to Jim Mickle's 2010 post-apocalyptic vampire movie Stake Land, about a young orphaned man taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known only as 'Mister'...

And making his debut on the show is podcaster Brad Hanson...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Brad Hanson

Editor: Dan Owen

"Months passed in a blur of days and nights. We travelled east and west, but always north. Away from death." -- Martin

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[7x9] Our penultimate episode of Season VII takes us to millennial horror with J.S Cardone's vampire road trip movie The Forsaken, starring Kerr Smith as a budding filmmaker who agrees to deliver a car to Florida, only to get entangled with a vampire hunting hitchhiker...

And back for her third appearance on the show is film critic and podcaster Kat Hughes...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kat Hughes

Editor: Dan Owen

"We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great American Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since." -- Nick

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[7x8] We finish the Blade trilogy with David S. Goyer's Blade: Trinity, starring Wesley Snipes as the eponymous vampire slayer, now joined by two human companions (played by Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel), who must contend with a resurrected Dracula...

Returning to the show, helping us go over the film, is writer and podcaster Tony Black...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Tony Black

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Movies are just a comforting fairy tale compared to the real deal. Bram Stoker, he wrote a good yarn. But the events that he described back in 1897, God, that was just a tiny piece of the mosaic." -- Hannibal King

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[7x7] We're delving into early Hollywood cinema for Robert Siodmak's horror sequel from 1943, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as 'Count Alucard', a European nobleman who's invited to the American South to marry a plantation owner's daughter obsessed with the occult...

Making her debut on the show is Trashwire podcaster and Geek Girl Authority film writer Kim Pierce...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kim Pierce

Editor: Dan Owen

"The angel of death hovers over a great house. I see it in ruins... weeds, vines growing over it, bats flying in and out the broken windows." -- Madame Zimba

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[7x6] Season VII resumes with Jim Jarmusch's drama Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as two vampire lovers coping with immortality, whose relationship is tested by the unexpected arrival of a family member... 

And back via the sarpodphagus, to help us delve into this acclaimed indie film is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Robert Clark

Editor: Hugh McStay

"I just feel like all the sand is at the bottom of the hourglass or something." -- Adam

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[7x5] It's arthouse horror with Philip Ridley's 1990 drama The Reflecting Skin, which concerns an eight-year-old boy growing up in the 1950s American prairie, who starts to believe his quiet English neighbour (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire killing his friends...

To talk about this unusual and divisive movie, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Have you been exploding frogs again?" -- Ruth Dove

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[7x4] It's our seventh Hammer film with Count Dracula, as Christopher Lee's fanged fiend is resurrected by a young disciple in 1970s London, where he must face the descendent of his greatest adversary, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). It's Dracula A.D 1972...

And joining us on the show is returning guest Wayne Talbot, comic-book writer, colourist, and creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Wayne Talbot

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Okay, okay. But if we do get to summon up the big daddy with the horns and the tail, he gets to bring his own liquor, his own bird, and his own pot." -- Joe Mitcham

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