[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on two years of Vampire Videos and the 80 full episodes (+ bonuses) that have been released so far. The entertainment we have includes: Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires! Our Top 6 Most Prolific Guests! All the Vampire Films That Are Coming Soon-ish... Maybe! Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Editor: Hugh McStay Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x10] Season VIII draws to a close with Dan Curtis's 1974 TV film Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Jack Palance as the famous vampire drawn to the reincarnation of his deceased lover after moving to England... Making his debut on the show to talk about it is writer and filmmaker Chris Brosnahan... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Chris Brosnahan Editor: Dan Owen Watch Chris's films on YouTube! "Mr Harker... now I go to England, and you... to Hell!" -- Count Dracula Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] In this surprise episode, Dan Owen & Hugh McStay leave the safety of the UK inside their wooden podcasket, travelling overseas to the remote wilderness of Transylvania, having been invited by a big fan of the podcast... an actual undead vampire, Count Antoniu Caliban. What secrets can be discovered about real-life vampire lore and the mysteries of Count Caliban's millennia-long existence? And why does it involve Kevin McCloud? Listen to find out... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Count Antoniu Caliban Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x9] Our penultimate Season VIII episode is on Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet's 2024 horror-comedy Abigail, about a gang of criminals who get more than they bargained for when they hold the young daughter of a wealthy man for ransom, only to realise she's a deadly vampire... Film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby makes another return to the show to talk about it... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay "Sammy, those are fuckin' onions." -- Frank Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[7x3] A modern low-budget indie is up for discourse this week. It's Jonathan Cuartas's 2020 horror drama My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To, starring Patrick Fugit as the brother of a chronically ill sibling who needs to drink fresh human blood to stay alive... And making his long-awaited return is entertainment and lifestyle journalist Steve O'Brien... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Steve O'Brien Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[7x2] We're back in the late-1970s for Stan Dragoti's vampire comedy Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula, who's evicted from his Transylvanian castle and flies to New York City to start a new life, only to fall in love with a fashion model... And making his debut in the sarpodphagus is Canadian vampire scholar Murray Leeder... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Murray Leeder Editor: Dan Owen "I'm going out to get a bite to drink." -- Count Dracula Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[7x1] We start Season VII with Gary Shore's action horror Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans as a 15th-century warrior who makes a deal with a vampire to be granted dark powers, to protect his people from invaders... Returning to help us parse this movie is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Dan Owen "My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster." -- Ingeras Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] Dan and Hugh reconvene around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season VI and reveal their combined Top 12 ranking of the films and TV shows they reviewed. They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! The overall score is 5-1 in Hugh's favour, so can Dan pull things back? PLUS - we tease what's to come in Season VII and announce a special run of podcasts for Bitten subscribers! Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x10] Our Season VI finale is on the neo-western action horror Vampires, directed by the legendary John Carpenter, starring James Woods as the leader of a Vatican-approved gang of vampire slayers who must stop the first vampire from acquiring a cross that will enable him to walk in daylight... And making his debut on Vampire Videos is podcaster Anthony Bowman from the Frankencast show. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Anthony Bowman Editor: Hugh McStay "Let me just ask you one thing: after 600 years, how's that dick workin', pretty good?" -- Jack Crow Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x9] It's our first foray into Russian cinema with Timur Bekmambetov's 2004 supernatural urban thriller Night Watch, which finds the forces of Light and Dark enforcing a centuries-old truce on the streets of Moscow... Back once again to help us discuss it is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby, who reveals an unexpected link to Russia... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay "... And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true." -- Geser Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x8] We're back with another Dracula adaptation, only this one focuses on a specific chapter in Bram Stoker's novel - it's André Øvredal's 2023 horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which finds Dracula boarding the titular ship on his way to England, only for the crew to realise they have a murderous stowaway aboard... To help us take a bite out of this box office flop, making his return in the sarcophopod, it's the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Robert Clark Editor: Dan Owen "A boat without rats... such a thing is against nature." -- Joseph Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x7] Tim Burton's adaptation of the 1960s US soap opera Dark Shadows is up for discussion this week, in a film that finds 18th-century vampire Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp) reawakened in 1972, where he must restore the fortunes of his descendants whose business is under threat from the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him... And making her return to the show is Read & Buried podcast co-host Frankie Pellatt... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Frankie Pellatt Editor: Dan Owen 7 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x6] Brad Michael Elmore's teen vampire drama Bit is about an 18-year-old transgender girl (Nicole Maines) moving to Los Angeles with her brother, only to find herself mixing with a group of feminist vampires led by Duke (Diana Hopper), and it's our film this week! And making her debut in the sarpodphagus is Ghoulfriends co-host Lindsay Drysdale... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Lindsay Drysdale Editor: Hugh McStay "What about my family?" -- Laurel Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] Surprise! To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the We Made This network, and Tom Baker's 90th birthday, we're teaming up for a special crossover with fellow WMT show The TARDIS Crew! Making their debuts on Vampire Videos are TARDIS Crew co-hosts Baz and Ben Greenland, who are lending their expertise to discuss the 1980 Doctor Who serial "State of Decay" where the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters vampires suppressing a local population's technological advancement... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guests: Baz Greenland & Ben Greenland Editor: Dan Owen "You're wrong. The Doctor is not weaponless. He has the greatest weapon of all. Knowledge." -- Lady Camilla You can pre-order Baz's book UNIT: The Legacy of Doctor Who here, and follow him on Amazon here. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x8] We return to Timur Bekmambetov's Russian fantasy duology, with the concluding half to Night Watch... it's Day Watch. A year has passed and Anton is accused of murder as he tries to find the real killer and an ancient object with the power to change destiny... And making her return to the show is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: Dan Owen "Imperfections are hidden in darkness, Yegor. And people always have their imperfections." -- Zavulon Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x5] We're back with our second Guillermo del Toro vampire film, Blade II, which finds Wesley Snipes returning as the super-cool vampire hunter and having to join forces with his enemies to defeat an even greater threat to mankind... Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Wayne Talbot Editor: Dan Owen "There's an old saying: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer." -- Blade Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x4] We return to the well of Hammer horror for Scars of Dracula, directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Christopher Lee once again as the eponymous Count, this time being antagonised by two brothers at his castle home... To talk about this film, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: Hugh McStay "What we shall be facing in a few hours' time is not a man. He is evil. He is the embodiment of all that is evil. He is the very Devil himself." -- The Priest Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] Seasons bleedings! For this year's Christmas Special, we have Mark Gatiss's adaptation of M.R James' famous story, Count Magnus, as part of the BBC's annual A Ghost Story at Christmas tradition. In this spooky tale, an English writer (Jason Watkins) visits Sweden and becomes intrigued by a mausoleum containing a tomb covered in heavy chains... PLUS - we have some hilariously awful vampire jokes and a special quiz with our guest under the spotlight! And making another return for this festive edition of the podcast is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn.... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Hugh McStay "Are you awake, Count Magnus? Are you asleep, Count Magnus?" Why not buy Sorcha's books for Christmas? Postmodern Vampires and Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x3] This week, we're delving into the entire first season of AMC's vampire horror drama Interview with the Vampire from 2022, starring Jacob Anderson as an old vampire recounting his life's story to an ageing reporter, which involves how he was created by the enigmatic Lestat (Sam Reid)... And making her return in the sarpodphagus is Ghouls magazine writer and social manager Kim Morrison... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kim Morrison Editor: Hugh McStay "I have loved you with all myself." -- Lestat Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x2] It's vampires vs. werewolves in Len Wiseman's 2003 action horror film Underworld, starring Kate Beckinsale as a vampire 'Death Dealer' tasked with protecting her kind from vicious enemy Lycans... And making his long overdue debut in the sarcophapod is writer and podcaster Craig McKenzie from Kneel Before Pod... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Craig McKenzie Editor: Dan Owen "We have a serious problem." -- Selene Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[6x1 ] Season VI launches with Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime horror From Dusk Till Dawn, written by Quentin Tarantino, which finds two criminal brothers (Tarantino & George Clooney) fleeing across the US-Mexico border and finding themselves at a nightclub run by vampires... And making her debut in the sarcophapod is writer and podcaster Iona Smith from Ghouls magazine... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Iona Smith Editor: Dan Owen "Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!" -- Seth Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on Season V and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything they saw. They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! Can Dan finally beat Hugh's four-win streak? Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Editor: Hugh McStay Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[5x10] Season V draws to a close with our 50th episode (excluding bonuses) and we're tackling a favourite for many: Stephen Norrington's 1998 comic-book action film Blade, with Wesley Snipes as the eponymous half-vampire/half-human who stalks Los Angeles slaying vampires to keep the world safe... And helping us explore this Marvel blockbuster is film critic and podcaster Darren Mooney, making his third appearance on the show... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Darren Mooney Editor: Dan Owen "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill..." -- Blade Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[5x9] Count Yorga is back for this fast-tracked sequel, again directed by Bob Kelljan, which finds the master vampire (Robert Quarry) resurrected to terrorise the staff of an orphanage... Back for a fourth time to help discuss the film is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Hugh McStay "Dr Baldwin, this is Count Yorga. You are going to die. You are going to die a most horrible death! You've been a fool, doctor, and now you are to die! -- Count Yorga Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x7] We're back for Pablo Larrain's alternate history of Chilean dictator (and vampire?) General Pinochet; a black comedy horror film that mixes real-world politics with the supernatural. It's El Conde. Does anyone care for a liquidised heart? Making another return to Vampire Videos to explore this fascinating film is author and podcaster Tony Black... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tony Black Editor: Dan Owen "There's nothing more gruesome than seeing a man fall in love.." -- Margaret Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x6] We return to AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire for Season 2, where Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) try to escape the bad memories of Lestat (Sam Reid) by travelling to Europe during World War II, where they become embroiled with a theatre troupe of Parisian vampires... This episode is a super-cut of the fortnightly discussions we originally made available to subscribers of our Bitten tier, all packaged together. So it's over three hours long! To help you navigate and bookmark, here are some approximate timecodes: 2x1 - "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned" (00:00:30) 2x2 • 2x3 - "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" • "No Pain" (00:30:56) 2x4 • 2x5 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" • "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape" (01:07:26) 2x6 • 2x7 - "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light" • "I Could Not Prevent It" (01:44:00) 2x8 - "And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else" (02:26:03) Returning to continue the discussion of IWTV after the first season is freelance writer Kim Morrison... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kim Morrison Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay "If you want the insanity back. If you want an escape from the prison of empathy I've locked you away in, all you had to do was ask, Louis." -- Armand Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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. Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[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 Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices