Join Dan Owen and Hugh McStay as they bite into 100 years of vampirism on film and TV. From silent classics and vintage B-movies to modern blockbusters and comedies, no stone is left unturnedâand no coffin unopened.
Featuring insights from horror experts and special guests, we dissect the cinematic history of the undead... one bite at a time.
Visit www.vampirevideos.co.uk for our complete archive.Â
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[BONUS] We resume our bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where Buffy is led down a dangerous path of rebellion, the accidental killing of a human sends Faith spiralling into a dark cover-up, a twisted plot to steal Angel's soul tests ultimate loyalties, and heartbreak looms just as a pack of vicious Hellhounds threatens to ruin the senior prom...
And joining us to cover these four episodes is podcaster Lauren McAllister from 10/10 Would Watch Again, and film critic Sarah Williams...
đŻ The Agenda
~ [ 00:00:20 ] "Bad Girls" with Lauren McAllister
Buffy and Faith embrace their wild sides under the influence of a new Watcher, but a carefree night of slaying takes a tragic and irreversible turn.
~ [ 00:47:00 ] "Consequences" with Lauren McAllister
As the Scooby Gang investigates the death of the Deputy Mayor, Faith attempts to shift the blame to Buffy, forcing a confrontation that alters the Slayers' relationship forever.
~ [ 01:32:00 ] "Enemies" with Sarah Williams
Faith and the Mayor team up to strip Angel of his soul, leading to a high-stakes game of deception where true allegiances are finally unmasked.
~ [ 02:16:30 ] "The Prom" with Sarah Williams
Even amidst devastating heartbreak and a pack of hellhounds trained to attack formal wear, Buffy fights to ensure her classmates have a perfect, safe nightâand receives an unexpected honour.
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â â Hugh McStayâ & â â Dan Owenâ â â â â â â
Guests: Lauren McAllister & Sarah Williams
Editors: â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
"You guys are gonna have a prom... the kind of prom that everyone should have... I'm gonna give you all a nice, fun, normal evening if I have to kill every single person on the face of the Earth to do it."â Buffy
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Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 2 with Sophie Cadden & James Duffy
[BONUS] We resume our bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where an accidental wish plunges the town into a dystopian alternate reality, an ancient evil torments Angel on Christmas Eve, a betrayal by Giles leaves a powerless Buffy to face a psychotic vampire alone, and a sidelined Xander must quietly find his own inner strength to stop an explosive zombie plot...
And we have two guests to help us explore these four episodes: literary writer Sophie Cadden and Bite Club member and Buffy super-fan James Duffy...
đŻ The Agenda
~ [ 00:00:20 ] "The Wish" with Sophie Cadden
A heartbroken Cordelia wishes that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale. The vengeance demon Anya grants the wish, plunging the town into a dystopian alternate reality where The Master rules, the Hellmouth is wide open, and Willow and Xander are sadistic vampires.
~ [ 00:50:00 ] "Amends" with Sophie Cadden
It's Christmas time in Sunnydale, but a tormented Angel is haunted by visions of his past victimsâincluding Jenny Calendarâdriven by the manipulative First Evil to kill Buffy. As he chooses to end his life via the upcoming sunrise, an unexpected miracle brings snow to California.
~ [ 01:30:30 ] "Helpless" with James Duffy
On the eve of her 18th birthday, Buffy suddenly loses her Slayer powers due to a secret, drug-induced test administered by Giles and the Watchers' Council. Deprived of her strength, she must rely entirely on her wits to save her mother from a psychotic, escaped vampire named Zachary Kralik.
~ [ 02:25:30 ]Â "The Zeppo" with James Duffy
Feeling excluded and dismissed as the useless "Zeppo" of the gang, Xander accidentally falls in with a group of dangerous, bomb-building zombies. While the rest of his friends fight off a literal apocalypse in the background, Xander must quietly find his own inner confidence to stop Sunnydale High from being blown to pieces.
đïž The Lineup
Hosts & Editors: â â â â â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
Guests: Sophie Cadden & James Murray
"Oh, please. 'Integral part' of the group? Xander, you're the-the useless part of the group. You're the Zeppo. 'Cool.' Look it up. It's something that a sub-literate that's repeated twelfth grade three times has and you don't."â Cordelia
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Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 1 with Lindsay Drysdale & Will Salmon
[BONUS] It's time to kick off our coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... tracking the messy, emotional fallout of Buffyâs flight from Sunnydale, her tense homecoming, and the arrival of some dangerous new faces...
And joining us to discuss these episodes is writer and podcaster Lindsay Drysdale, and journalist and podcaster Will Salmon...
đŻ The Agenda
~ [ 00:01:30 ] "Anne" with Lindsay DrysdaleÂ
Living under an alias in L.A., a lonely Buffy struggles to escape her past before a demonic threat forces her hand.Â
~ [ 00:56:45 ] "Dead Man's Party" with Lindsay DrysdaleÂ
Then, Buffy's return to Sunnydale hits a major wall as friends and family struggle to process her sudden reappearance.
~ [ 01:37:48 ] "Faith, Hope & Trick" with Will Salmon
The gang meets Faithâthe energetic new Slayer in townâjust as a pair of sophisticated vampires arrive with a vendetta.Â
~ [ 02:18:00 ]Â "Homecoming" with Will Salmon
Then, a fierce competition for Homecoming Queen turns into a literal fight for survival when Buffy and Cordelia are targeted by a deadly gauntlet.
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
Guests: Lindsay Drysdale & Will Salmon
Editor: â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
"You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm dirty. I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays... Oh, I just suck at undercover."Â â Buffy
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Bonus: Tales From The Crypt - "The Secret" (1990) with Robert Turnbull
[BONUS] Podcasting worlds collide! It's Vampire Videos x Recrypted: A Tales From The Crypt Podcast, as we present an expanded version of this week's discussion on Recrypted (the other show we do), of Season 2 finale "The Secret".
If you've heard that Recrypted discussion (together with "My Brother's Keeper"), this version has a few extra ingredients to give it extra bite!
In this episode, a young orphan is placed with a wealthy family, but unsettling truths emerge around the estate, placing his survival and identity under escalating threat.
And joining us is the co-host of You Have Been Watching: A British Sitcom Podcast, Robert Turnbull...
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Hugh McStayâ & â Dan Owenâ â â â â â â
Guest: Robert Turnbull.
Editor: â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
Joey: What's the difference between boogers and broccoli?
Theodore: I don't know.
Joey: Kids don't eat broccoli.
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[16x5] We reach mid-season with Kurt Wimmer's 2006 sci-fi thriller Ultraviolet... where a rogue vampire named Violet Song Jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich) fights to protect a mysterious boy from a totalitarian regime led by Vice-Cardinal Daxus (Nick Chindlund)...
And joining us is horror academic and author Murray Leeder...
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
Guest: Murray Leeder
Editor: â Dan Owenâ â â â â â
"Haven't you been paying attention? Killing is what I do. It's what I'm good at. I am a titan. A monolith. Nothing can stop me."â Violet
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[16x4] We are delving into one of horror maestro David Cronenberg's earlier films, Rabid... where a pioneering skin-graft surgery plunges a young woman (Marilyn Chambers) into a situation where she starts spreading an epidemic by drinking men's blood...
And joining us is returning guest, writer and podcaster Kristin Battestella...
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Hugh McStayâ & Dan Owenâ â â â â â â
Guest: Kristin Battestella
Editor: â â Hugh McStayâ
"That's OK. It's the last time I'll eat at that greasy spoon. We'll get some soup or something next stop."â Smooth Eddy
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153. The Return of Dracula (1958) with Christopher Page
[16x3] Forget crumbling European castles and foggy mountains. In The Return of Dracula, the Count trades Transylvania for the manicured lawns and white picket fences of small-town mid-1950s America.
Christopher Page of the Time Shifters podcast return to help us break down Francis Ledererâs strikingly suave, low-key performance, discuss the film's surprising use of a single, sudden splash of colour, and debate whether this suburban thriller paved the way for some modern vampire tropes.
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â Dan Owen & â Hugh McStayâ
Guest: Christopher Page.
Editor: Dan Owen
"There is only one reality, Rachel: Death. I have come to bring you Death." â Bellac Gordal / Count Dracula
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[16x2] We resume our coverage of Hammer Horror with Peter Sasdy's Countess Dracula... where recently widowed aristocrat Countess Elisabeth NĂĄdasdy (Ingrid Pitt) discovers she can appear youthful again with the application of fresh human blood...
And making a return to Vampire Videos is the host of The Horror & Her podcast, Emma Arneil..
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Hugh McStayâ & Dan Owenâ â â â â â â
Guests: Emma Arneil
Editor: â Hugh McStayâ
"Don't you want to see me young and happy again?"â Countess Elisabeth
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151. Scream Blacula Scream (1973) with Richard Newby
[16x1] The Black Prince of Shadows stalks the Earth again! Season XVI begins with us dusting off the vinyl, lighting the voodoo candles, and sinking our fangs into the blaxploitation horror classic, Scream Blacula Scream.
And making his debut on the show is journalist and author Richard Newby...
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â Dan Owenâ & â â â â Hugh McStayâ â
Guest: â Richard Newbyâ .
Editor: â Dan Owenâ
"I have gathered you all here to issue a warning. You all know Lisa Fortier. She is under my protection. Not one of you shall harm her. This is a commandment! And if one of you disobeys... you will never imagine the pain I offer. Unendurable, everlasting agony. Now leave me. You are foul. Your faces sicken even me. Good night." â Mamuwalde
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Bonus: The Vampire Lestat (2026): Side B with Lauren McAllister & Kim Morrison
[BONUS] We conclude our coverage of AMCâs The Vampire Lestat (Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire), tracing Lestatâs erratic trajectory across North America as his rockstar tour, supernatural feuds, and haunting past collide head-on.
And returning for various legs of our own tour is horror writer Kim Morrison and podcaster Lauren McAllister...
đŻÂ The Agenda
~Â [ 00:00:40 ] "The Devil's Road"Â with Lauren McAllister
Lestat spirals in Albany after Gabriella vanishes yet again, stirring up memories of their travels after Paris. Meanwhile, Armandâs ill-received âapology tourâ faces Danielâs unbridled fury, and Louis makes a deeply disturbing arrangement with a Claudia lookalike in Brooklyn.
~Â [ 00:43:00 ] "New York"Â with Lauren McAllister
The tour hits the Big Apple as the background murmur of a vampire uprising turns into a roar. Louis' unhealthy obsession with Regina deepens, Armand continues to play both sides, and Lestatâs public stage provocations push the coven networks to the edge.
~Â [ 01:19:10 ] "Montreal"Â with Kim Morrison & Lauren McAllister
Crossing the border into Canada, deep secrets about Lestatâs maker and lineage resurface, as both Louis and Lestat decide to get some closure with Claudia thanks to a witch and a seance....
~Â [ 02:05:25 ] "The Failures"Â with Kim Morrison
In the season finale, Lestat is stripped of his rockstar bravado and forced to face the internal workings of his mindâconfronting the wounded child he was before turning. Meanwhile, Louis suffers an intense interrogation...
đïž The Lineup
Hosts: â â â â â Hugh McStayâ & Hugh McStayâ â
Guests: Kim Morrisonâ & Lauren McAllisterâ
Editor: â Dan Owenâ â â â â â & â Hugh McStayâ
"Because, Louis, I'm a monster"â Lestat
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