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[BONUS] Hugh and Dan return to chew over Season IV and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything covered over the last few months. They'll also quiz each other about every film for added fun!

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Editor: Hugh McStay

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Opening & Closing theme music: 'Tales from the Grave' by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen & 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle, both via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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[4x10] Stephen Sommers' monster mash-up Van Helsing is our Season IV finale episode, which finds the eponymous monster hunter (Hugh Jackman) travelling to Transylvania to slay Count Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster, with the help of a local woman (Kate Beckinsale).

And joining us to sharpen up some stakes is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Dee Molumby

Editor: Hugh McStay

"This thing... man... whatever it is... evil may have created it, left its mark on it... but evil does not rule it." - Van Helsing

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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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[4x9] Our penultimate Season IV episode is Travis Stevens' Shudder original Jakob's Wife, about a small-town pastor's spouse (Barbara Crampton) who gets bitten by a vampire and undergoes a physical and sexual transformation that makes her question her dull marriage...

Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the WWII Nazferatu vampire comic...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Wayne Talbot

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Life happens, I guess." - Anne Fedder

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[4x8] Ethan Hawke stars in The Spierig Brothers' 2009 sci-fi horror action film Daybreakers, as a vampire haematologist living in a near-future society where a plague transformed almost everyone into vampires, meaning the vital human population's blood is running dangerously low...

Joining us to delve into this high-concept 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

"Welcome back to humanity. Now you get to die." - Edward Dalton.

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[4x7] We're turning back the clock to the mid-1980s for Howard Storm's horror-comedy Once Bitten, starring a pre-fame Jim Carrey as a teenager bitten by a seductive vampire and torn between her and his less promiscuous girlfriend...

And making his sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, helping us make sense of this '80s curio, is author and podcaster Tony Black...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Tony Black

Editor: Dan Owen

"I don't want to be a vampire. I'm a day person.." - Mark Kendall

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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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[4x6] A loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Rymer's Queen of the Damned finds the vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) becoming a successful rock star, outing his own kind in the process and awakening a powerful and ancient vampire queen called Akasha (Aaliya)...

Making her first return to discuss this film is critic and journalist Kat Hughes...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kat Hughes

Editor: Dan Owen

"You're beautiful to me because you're human. Your frailty. Your short years. Your heart. All that suddenly seems more precious than anything I've ever known." - Lestat

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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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[4x5] George Romero is best known for his zombie films, but this week we're taking a look at his lesser-known but just as influential vampire drama Martin. It stars John Amplas as a man who believes he's a vampire, as he goes to stay with his devoutly religious elderly cousin in Pennsylvania...

And joining us to talk about this '70s curios is author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher, who's worked on several sci-fi and fantasy shows like Doctor Who, Bugs, and The Eleventh Hour...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Stephen Gallagher

Editor: Dan Owen

"Things only seem to be magic. There is no real magic. There's no real magic ever." - Martin

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[4x4] The Hammer falls once again, with the fourth instalment in the British horror studio's Dracula saga. Christopher Lee returns for Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, directed by Freddie Francis, which finds the Count resurrected after an exorcism and in pursuit of the clergyman who's banished him from his castle...

This week, we have a vampire and monster academic to help us discuss this movie, in the shape of Madeline Potter...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Madeline Potter

Editor: Dan Owen

"Now my revenge is complete." - 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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[4x3] The "Iranian vampire western" from writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is up for review this week. It concerns a lonely vampire (Sheila Vand) living in a ghost town, stalking its blissfully unaware citizens...

Joining us to discuss this unique work is freelance writer Will Salmon, editor of GamesRadar / Newsarama, whose writing you may also have read in SFX magazine.

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Will Salmon

Editor: Dan Owen

"I'm bad." - The Girl

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[4x2] It's Nicolas Cage's finest hour in Robert Bierman's cult classic Vampire's Kiss, where he plays a literary agent who believes he's been bitten by a sexy vampire and is undergoing physiological changes... but is it all in his head? "Christ! The tortures of the damned!"

Joining us to tease apart this remarkable work is writer and The James Bond A-Z co-host Tom Butler...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Tom Butler

Editor: Dan Owen

"Get outta here, you fucking pig. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE." - Peter Loew

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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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