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[BONUS] Season XIII is sadly over, so Dan and Hugh return to the warm vampire campfire to reminisce about the season's many offerings, rank the 14 titles in order of merit, quiz each other on their content, and tease what Season XIV has in store for listeners!

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Editor: Dan Owen⁠

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Episode artwork: Dan Owen⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠Keshav⁠

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

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[BONUS] Season's bleedings! It's that festive time of the year again, so we've invited two of our favourite guests to join us for a candlelit Christmas dinner in the Vampire Videos Villa...

And the table talk will focus on Anders Banke's 2006 horror-comedy Frostbiten, about a mother and daughter embroiled in a vampire uprising in a small Swedish town experiencing a month-long polar night...

We'll also be telling some terrible cracker jokes, while playing three different party games along the way!

And the guests joining us for this feast of fun is podcaster and film critic Dee Molumby and writer and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Dinner Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Party Guests: Dee Molumby & Mary Muñoz

Elvish Editor: Dan Owen⁠

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Episode artwork: Dan Owen⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠Keshav⁠

Music & Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

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[13x10] The Season XIII finale offers a return to Anne Rice's Immortal Universe on AMC, with the first season of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Here, a young mindreader called Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton) joins an arcane organisation sworn to protect humanity from supernatural creatures, including vampires...

And we have our Interview with the Vampire regular Kim Morrison back to help us assess the third TV series set in this world...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kim Morrison

Editor: Dan Owen⁠

"We watch. And we are always there." -- Helen

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Episode artwork: Dan Owen⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠Keshav⁠

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

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[13:9] Our penultimate Season XIII episode finds us worshipping Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass, from writer-director Mike Flanagan, which finds a mysterious new priest (Hamish Linklater) arriving on an impoverished remote island. But the miracles he brings are revealed to have a high price... in blood...

And taking a pew with us is comic-book writer, podcaster, and atheist Wayne Talbot...

1. THE GATHERING.

Priests: Father McStay & Bishop Owen

Congregant: Monsignor Wayne Talbot

Holy Editor: Father Hugh

"That's what it means to have faith. That in the darkness, in the worst of it, in the absence of light and hope, we sing." --- Father Paul

2. ORDER OF SERVICE

[ 00:00:00 ] Book I-II: "Genesis", "Psalms" & "Proverbs"

[ 01:04:42 ] Book IV-V: "Lamentations" & "Gospel"

[ 01:50:08 ] Book VI-VII - "Acts of the Apostles" & "Revelation"

3. GIVING COMMUNION

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4. PRAISE BE

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5. FINAL BLESSINGS

Opening music: ⁠Nela Ruiz⁠

Episode artwork: Dan Owen⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠Keshav⁠

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

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[13x8] This week, we have a direct-to-video sequel continuing the story from Dracula 2000. Dracula II: Ascension finds a group of medical students experimenting on the vampire's corpse and getting more than they bargained for. ..

And helping us dig into this one is film writer and co-host of the podcast Kim 'n' Em vs EVIL, Kim Taylor-Foster...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Don't you wonder, Priest, ever since you stared into the abyss and saw nothing?" -- Dracula II

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Episode artwork: ⁠Dan Owen⁠⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠⁠Keshav⁠⁠

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[13x7] It's time for another return to Forks, Washington, for director David Slade's third instalment of romantic fantasy drama The Twilight Saga -- Eclipse. Here, Bella must decide between vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob before her graduation, as a spate or strange murders strike Seattle...

And returning from our recent Halloween Special, it's writer and podcaster Lindsay Drysdale...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Lindsay Drysdale

Editor: Hugh McStay

" I'm from a different era. Things were a lot less complicated." --- Edward

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Podcast artwork: ⁠⁠Keshav⁠⁠

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[13x6] The second half of Season XIII gets underway with an away mission to outer space, for Mario Bava's seminal 1965 sci-fi horror Planet of the Vampires. In this film, a crew of astronauts land on an alien world and come under the eerie influence of its ancient inhabitants...

And making his debut on Vampire Videos is an author and the man behind many podcasts, including Writers on Film, it's John Bleasdale...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: John Bleasdale

Editor: Dan Owen⁠

"A captain... should not be afraid... I confess now... that today, now, I... am experiencing fear." -- Captain Mark Makary

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Episode artwork: Dan Owen⁠

Podcast artwork: ⁠Keshav⁠

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

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[BONUS] It's spooky season! This Halloween, on a dark and stormy night, Dan and Hugh have taken refuge inside a small tent beside the vampire campfire until the bad weather passes.

Fortunately, three guests have been invited along to talk about a particular entry of a horror anthology...

[00:00:34] MONSTERS - "The Waiting Game"

Writer Brendon Connelly talks to us about a third season instalment of this 1980s US horror anthology series, involving nuclear war and the terror beyond an underground bunker...

[00:32:46] INSIDE NO.9 - "The Stakeout"

Then, writer and podcaster Tony Black is back to talk about the fifth series finale of this British anthology comedy-drama, involving two policemen on a literal graveyard shift...

[01:09:26] V/H/S/94 - "Terror"

And finally, writer and podcaster Lindsay Drysdale talks about the final segment of this horror anthology film sequel, involving a found-footage tale of terrorism and white supremacy... with vampire rabbits?

And that's not all! As each guest will also be regaling us with a personal tale of terror; a real life ghost story guaranteed to make your blood run cold...

Hosts & Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

If you'd like to see Lindsay's freaky ghost photo (and other supplemental material for all our ghost stories), be sure to check out this week's Bloodletter. And subscribe for easy delivery straight to your inbox.

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[13x5] Radu! Radu! Radu! We reach mid-season with a return to the Subspecies universe, covering the first sequel Bloodstone: Subspecies II, which finds vampire Prince Radu (Anders Hove) resurrected and going after American student Michelle, who's been bitten and is slowly turning into a vampire herself...

And making another return to the show to talk about it is cultural essayist and film critic Kim Pierce...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Kim Pierce

Editor: Hugh McStay

"Forgive me brother! But the bloodstone is mine!" --- Prince Radu

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[13x4] It's a quick trip across the English Channel this week for Adrien Beau's 2023 period horror The Vourdalak, which finds a French aristocrat forced to stay with a rural family whose tyrannical patriarch has been transformed into an undead creature...

And joining us the person who brought this film to our attention, writer and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editor: Dan Owen⁠

"Wait six days for me. If, after those six days, I have not returned, say a prayer in memory of me, for I shall have been killed in battle. But if ever, and may God preserve you, I were to return after six days have passed, I enjoin you to forget that I was your father and to refuse me entry whatever I may say or do – for then I shall be no more than an accursed vourdalak." -- Gorcha

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