Vampire Videos

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan are back for another spooky special, this time focusing on three short films about vampires. And joining us around the vampire campfire is a triptych of VIP guests: author and podcaster Tony Black, film critic and broadcaster Dee Molumby, and easily the podcast's No.1 fan Violet Hammond...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guests: Tony Black (Suicide by Sunlight) • Violet Hammond (Elysia) • Dee Molumby (V)

Editor: Dan Owen

Further listening: Tony and Hugh discuss In the Mouth of Madness At the Movies in the '90s.

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Opening theme music: 'Fright Night' by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen. Closing theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle, both via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x8] A vampiric witch (Barbara Steele) returns from the grave to try and possess the body of her beautiful look-alike descendant in Mario Bava's influential horror classic Black Sunday.

And making her debut in the sarcophopod is Frankie Pellatt, co-host of the Read & Buried podcast...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Frankie Pellatt

Editor: Dan Owen

"You will never escape my vengeance, or of Satan's! My revenge will seek you out, and with the blood of your sons, and of their sons, and their sons, I will continue to live forever! They will restore me to life you now rob from me!" -- Princess Asa Vaja.

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x7] The Master of Horror, Stephen King, wrote Sleepwalkers for Mick Garris to direct, which concerns two incestuous shape-shifting vampires trying to sustain the existence of their species by feeding on the energy of virginal women...

And making his belated return in the sarcophopod is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Robert Clark

Editor: Dan Owen

"No vegetables, no dessert... that's the rules." -- Mary Brady

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x6] Tom Holland's classic Fright Night is our film this week, which concerns a teenage boy who becomes aware his next-door neighbour is a vampire responsible for a series of local murders, so in desperation enlists the help of an over-the-hill English actor famous for slaying the undead at the movies...

Back for a third time to help discuss the movie is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!" - Evil Ed.

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x5] Christopher Lee returns once again as Count Dracula for Peter Sasdy's Hammer horror sequel Taste the Blood of Dracula, which concerns three gentlemen who decide to resurrect the master vampire as part of their desire to chase transgressive experiences...

Our guest this week is screen, stage, and radio writer Brendon Connelly...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Brendon Connelly

Editor: Dan Owen

"They have destroyed my servant. They will be destroyed..." -- Count Dracula.

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x4] The cult indie Let's Scare Jessica to Death, directed by John Hancock, is up for discussion this week. This 1971 horror film concerns a recently institutionalized woman called Jessica (Zohra Lampert) who has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse...

Our guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editor: Hugh McStay

"I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe it. Dreams or nightmares? Madness or sanity? I don't know which is which." -- Jessica

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x3] This ill-fated summer blockbuster from director Stephen Norrington is next in store; a big-budget adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, about a group of Victorian literary heroes - led by Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) - assembled to prevent a world war...

And making an incredible sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, it's author and podcaster Tony Black...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Tony Black

Editor: Dan Owen

"May this new century be yours, son, as the old one was mine." -- Allan Quatermain.

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x2] This week, we have Joe Begos's 2019 horror film Bliss, starring Dora Madison as a struggling Los Angeles artist who takes a hallucinogenic drug to reignite her creativity... only to realise the substance has given her a dangerous thirst for blood...

And joining us via our new sarpodphagus (or is it sarcophopod?) is Ghouls magazine writer and social manager Kim Morrison...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Kim Morrison

Editor: Hugh McStay

"I started painting again. I don't know, something came over me and then it all just started pouring out of me... I don't even remember doing it." -- Dezzy

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[5x1] Season V launches with John Badham's adaptation of Dracula, starring Frank Langella as the master vampire, the sole survivor of a Yorkshire shipwreck who starts seducing the local women to the chagrin of their partners and fathers...

And joining us via our new sarpodphagus is a veteran guest, the film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Dee Molumby

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You will cross land and sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need..." -- Count Dracula

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[BONUS] Hugh and Dan are back for a pre-Season V special to celebrate a year of Vampire Videos, now that 40 full episodes (+ bonuses) have been released into the world. Fun stuff we have in store include:

• Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!
• Our Favourite Guests!
• Our Funniest Episode!
• Our Biggest Podcasting Surprise!
• Our Favourite "Familiar"!
• Our Favourite Podcasting Moments!
• The Most Popular Vampire Diary Entry!
• A Reminder of Which Films Were Staked Through the Heart!
• A Tease of Season V's 10 Episodes!

... and, perhaps most excitingly, our Top 10 Vampire Films We've Covered So Far...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Editor: Dan Owen

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Theme music: 'Composition Drama'. End theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle, both via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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