Vampire Videos (Film Stories)

[9x3] Hammer's Dracula saga comes to an end with The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) helping eight siblings reclaim their mountain village from seven powerful vampires and an army of the undead... And back to help us pick this final Dracula story apart, it's comic-book writer and podcaster Wayne Talbot... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Wayne Talbot Editor: Dan Owen "I need to walk this Earth again, free from these walls, free from this mausoleum. I will return to your temple, in your image, Kah. I will recall the 7 Golden Vampires, as my own host. Tools of my vengeance on mankind, I will take on your mentor.."---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

[BONUS] Season X draws to an official close with our Ranking episode, as Dan & Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the last 11 films and rate them in ascending order of quality. There's also the return of our regular quiz, which Hugh is currently winning 8-1, so can Dan pull things back a touch? Oh, and all of Season XI's planned episodes are also teased... 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

[8x5] We reach mid-Season VIII with Fright Night Part 2, Tommy Lee Wallace's 1988 sequel to the 1985 original, which finds Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) and Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) encountering the sister of the vampire they slayed last time... And making another return to the show is Vampire Videos' favourite, film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay "Forewarned is forearmed... to the unending task of conquering the forces of evil, wherever they might appear." -- Peter Vincent 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

[8x4] We're continuing the vampires vs. werewolves franchise with Underworld: Evolution, which finds vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) discovering the true origins of her species... To talk about this sequel, podcaster Lindsay Drysdale returns to the show... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Lindsay Drysdale Editor: Dan Owen "Ah. The predictable heart that never thaws. Pity it beats within such a fool. The eldest of the immortals, yet you have made no attempt to seize your destiny." -- Marcus 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

[9x10] The Season IX finale is here, with a review of Richard Wenk's 1986 horror comedy Vamp, where two college students drive to the big city to hire a stripper for a frat party, only to find one nightclub's employees are all vampires... And making a welcome return, so soon after the Halloween Special, is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: Dan Owen "Testy! You wanna know why I'm testy? I'll tell you why I'm testy. Today I was nearly hung, I got into a fight with a psychotic albino, I met a human pin cushion in the bathroom, I ate a cockroach, my best friend disappears and then I'm nearly assassinated by a runaway elevator! I'VE HAD A BAD DAY!” — Keith 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. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[11x4] We're excavating Tales From the Crypt for the anthology horror show's 1996 movie spin-off Bordello of Blood, from director Gilbert Adler, which finds a private investigator (Dennis Miller) trying to find a reporter's missing brother, only to discover he made the mistake of going to a local brothel full of vampires... And making his belated return to the show is writer Brendon Connelly... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Brendon Connelly Editor: Hugh McStay "I'd rather Crazy Glue my dick to the bullet train than fuck you." --- Rafe Guttman 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

[10x6] We take our first step into animation and Japanese film with 1985's Vampire Hunter D from director Toyoo Ashida, which adapts the famous novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi about a half-human/half-vampire ridding the world of the undead in a post-apocalyptic future where the Earth's been overrun with monsters and mutants... To help us, making his debut on the show is comic-book writer Jared Wayne Gifford... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Jared Wayne Gifford Editor: Dan Owen "I have lived in this world for 10,0000 years, and yet you lack the capacity to understand what that truly means. When years cease to have meaning, boredom is a mortal foe. It is a war for constant stimulation, and if that means debasing our line with humans, then so be it." -- Count Magnus Lee 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

[10x1] Season X launches with us rewinding the clock on Hammer to tackle non-Dracula strands of the famous production company's archive. And we begin with The Vampire Lovers from Roy Ward Baker, with Ingrid Pitt playing a female vampire preying on affluent women in 19th-century Germany... And completing her unintended recent trilogy of Vampire Videos guest appearances, it's copywriter and podcaster Mary Muñoz once again... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: Hugh McStay "You must die! Everybody must die!." -- Marcilla 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! Our 2024 Christmas Special takes a look at a British family vampire movie, Euro Lyn's The Radleys, based on the best-selling YA novel, about a family of abstaining vampires living in modern-day Whitby. And podcaster Frankie Pellatt is our very special seasonal guest, joining us inside the snowbound Vampire Villa to talk about the film... but also tell terrible Christmas crackers jokes and play three festive games we've each devised in secret... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Frankie Pellatt Editor: Hugh McStay "Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them." 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] It's that time again! Dan and Hugh are still convened around the vampire campfire, this time to reflect on Season VIII and reveal their combined Top 10 of everything discussed. As ever, they'll also quiz each other about each movie! And to finish, a tease of what listeners can expect from Season IX is a great way to end the show... 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. Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[10x3] It's been a long time coming, but we're finally watching 2010's 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, the direct-to-video sequel to the 2007 movie. The story picks up with Stella (Kiele Sanchez), the sole survivor of the attack on the Alaskan town of Barrow, giving seminars about the existence of vampires... which draws the attention of vampires and vampire hunters alike... A new guest is joining us too, in the shape of freelance journalist Becci Sayce from Fangoria, Dread Central, and Second Sight... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Becci Sayce Editor: Dan Owen "I never wanted a war. I just wanted people to know what happened here. 98 men, women, children. My husband. And yet no one believed. They rebuilt the town. Life went on. But I was already dead inside. I never wanted a war." --- Stella 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. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! 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

[11x2] We return to classic Universal horror with the lesser-known sequel to Tod Browning's Dracula - it's Dracula's Daughter, starring Gloria Holden as the offspring of the famous vampire, who shows up in England and arouses suspicion... And making a welcome return to the show is academic and writer Murray Leeder... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Murray Leeder Editor: Dan Owen "You think this night will be like all the others, don't you? Well, you're wrong. Dracula's destroyed. His body's in ashes. The spell is broken. I can live a normal life now, think normal things. Even play normal music again. Listen. A cradle song. A song my mother once sang to me long, long ago, rocking me to sleep as she sang in the twilight." --- Countess Marya Zaleska 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

[10x5] We're back in the Underworld franchise with the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from director Patrick Tatopoulos, which explains the origin of Lycan leader Lucian (Michael Sheen), set against the backdrop of his doomed romance with vampire Sonya (Rhona Mitra) and a Lycan rebellion... And returning to the show is Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Anthony Bowman Editor: Dan Owen "I have no wish to remove one shackle from around your necks, only to replace them with one of my own." -- Lucian 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

[9x1] Season IX begins with a movie many have been waiting for! It's Catherine Hardwicke's 2008 adaptation of author Stephenie Meyer's best-selling romantic fantasy novel Twilight, which concerns a teenage girl who moves to a remote forest town and falls in love with a handsome classmate she soon learns is a vampire... And we have fresh blood to start a new run of episodes, with journalist and podcaster Tom Beasley... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Tom Beasley Editor: Hugh McStay "I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore.." -- Edward Cullen 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

[9x2] We're heading to the skies for another Stephen King adaptation - it's Mark Pavia's 1997 adaptation of his short story The Night Flier, about a despicable tabloid reporter (Miguel Ferrer) investigating what seems to be a vampire flying into local airfields to drink the blood of whoever's unfortunate enough to cross his path... And returning for another appearance (and his second Stephen King film) is Creepy & Geeky podcaster Robert Clark... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Robert Clark Editor: Dan Owen "My wife Martha reads your paper. After she's done with it, I use it to line our kitty's toilet box. Soaks that cat piss real good." -- Ezra Hannon Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also donate 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

[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

[11x1] Season XI launches with Timur Bekmambetov's 2012 horror action film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, starring Benjamin Walker as the 16th President of the USA, who in this fictionalised telling of his life story was secretly trained to kill vampires... And making a welcome return in the podcasket is Labours of Hercule podcaster Frankie Pellatt... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Frankie Pellatt Editor: Dan Owen "History prefers legends to men. It prefers nobility to brutality, soaring speeches to quiet deeds. History remembers the battle, but forgets the blood." --- Abraham Lincoln 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

[9x9] Finally, it's time to head back to Salem's Lot for Gary Dauberman's long-delayed adaptation of Stephen King's classic horror story, where a best-selling author returns to his hometown to discover the community is being taken over by vampires... Helping us dissect the film is prolific Vampire Videos guest, film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby 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

[9x8] It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as an NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood... And making her belated return in the podcasket is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Dan Owen "To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”—Kathleen 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

[10x8] Over two years later, we finally get around to the US adaptation of Let the Right One In, retitled Let Me In, from director Matt Reeves. This again tells the story of a bullied boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) growing up in the early-1980s, who befriends a visiting vampire girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who's allied herself with a serial killer... And making her first return to the show is writer and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster Editor: Hugh McStay "Just so you know, I can't be your friend.." -- Abby 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

[10x7] We begin a new vampire franchise with Ted Nicolau's direct-to-video cult horror Subspecies, where three female American students arrive in Romania to study, only to become embroiled in the machinations between two vampire brothers, Radu (Anders Hove) and Stefan (Michael Watson)... And making her return to the show after a lengthy break is writer Kim Morrison... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kim Morrison 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

[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

[11x3] We return to the second instalment of Hammer's 'Karnstein Trilogy' with Jimmy Sangster's Lust for a Vampire, which finds a novelist pretending to be a teacher at a girl's finishing school which may be the hideout of a resurrected female vampire... And making her first return to the show is film critic Kim Pierce... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Kim Pierce Editor: Hugh McStay "What you said, sir, about the Karnsteins being dead is true. but they still have the power to reincarnate themselves. And now is the time for their return. I tell you, sir, this village lives in a state of terror." --- Landlord 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 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

[9x5] The mid-Season IX point arrives with director Park Chan-wook's 2013 "vampire film" Stoker, which concerns a sullen 18-year-old girl (Mia Wasikowska) who comes under the spell of her mysterious uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) following the death of her father... Making her long-awaited debut in the podcasket to talk about one of her favourite films is the film journalist and author Zoë Rose Smith... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Zoë Rose Smith Editor: Hugh McStay "He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse." -- India Stoker 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

[BONUS] Season IX has come to an end, which can mean only one thing: Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the recent episodes, rank the 11 films covered in order of merit, share interesting stats about the season, and tease what's to come next week with the launch of Season X... 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. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[BONUS] It's the spookiest time of the year, which means Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire for another Halloween Special. This time, reviewing the winner of the social media 'DRECKULA' poll, Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler as the famous vampire. But they'll also be sharing some real-life bloodcurdling ghost stories along the way... Joining the boys around the fire is the editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz, who has her own scary story to share too... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Mary Muñoz Editors: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen "You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine." -- 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 • "The Forgotten Rusty Carousel" Music + sound effects from Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[8x3] Christopher Lee makes his final bow as Count Dracula in Alan Gibson's Hammer horror sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which finds the master vampire trying to cause a global genocide... And making a belated return to the show is Yahoo! writer and James Bond A-Z podcaster Tom Butler... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Tom Butler Editor: Hugh McStay "He'd want to bring down the whole universe with him. The ultimate revenge. Thousands dying of the plague, and like the shadow of death itself, one figure scything its way through the terror and anguish: Count Dracula. It's the Biblical prophecy of Armageddon.." -- 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 by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[9x4] We rummage inside the direct-to-video bin for Scott Spiegel's 1999 horror crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, where a gang of criminals (led by Robert Patrick) are slowly transformed into vampires while trying to pull off a bank heist in Mexico... And a new guest is arriving by podcasket, in the shape of author and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster Editor: Dan Owen "El Coyote? What's that mean in American?." -- Ray Bob 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

[9x6] It's a clash of the titans in B-movie director Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, where the Prince of Darkness joins forces with a descendent of Dr Frankenstein to benefit from a serum to enable him to walk around in daylight. (It sounds better than it is...) The Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman makes his first return to the show to explain himself... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Anthony Bowman Editor: Hugh McStay "They have seen all the illusions in my creature emporium, but they have yet to face the greatest illusion: the illusion of reality."---Dr Durea Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also donate 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

[10x2] A remake of a Vampire Videos favourite is up for discussion this week, with Craig Gillespie's 2011 version of Fright Night, starring Anton Yelchin as a teenager who starts to suspect his new neighbour Jerry (Colin Farrell) might be a vampire... And we have a new guest making her debut via podcasket, too! It's film critic and videographer Sarah Williams... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Sarah Williams Editor: Dan Owen "Well security is a little lax since everybody got their throat torn out." -- Charley Brewster 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. Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fspn It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[9x7] An early "talkie" is up for discussion this week, in the form of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 Gothic horror film Vampyr, where a student of the paranormal stays overnight in a village inn apparently stalked by a blood-sucking creature... And making her belated third trip in the podcasket is university lecturer and horror expert Professor Stacey Abbott... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Prof. Stacey Abbott Editor: Hugh McStay "Why does the doctor always come at night?" -- Léone 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

[8x2] Will Smith is the last man alive in Francis Lawrence's 2007 retelling of the famous Richard Matheson story I Am Legend, set in a post-apocalyptic New Yorky City where infected people have become nocturnal creatures... And returning to the podcast is Ramblin Amblin podcaster and film critic Andrew Gaudion... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Andrew Gaudion Editor: Dan Owen "God didn't do this - we did!” -- Neville Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can donate 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

[10x4] We take to the skies for the Netflix action horror film Blood Red Sky, directed by Peter Thorwarth, which finds a terminally ill German woman travelling across the Atlantic for life-saving treatment with her son, only to find their flight taken over by terrorists. But, unfortunately for the hijackers, her symptoms include drinking human blood... And back to help us dissect this movie is Ghoulfriends podcaster Lindsay Drysdale... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Lindsay Drysdale 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

[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

[10x10] We did it! Vampire Videos has reached 100 episodes (ahem, +15 bonus specials), and it’s time to mark this impressive milestone with a super-sized special. Do you have ~4 hours to get through this episode in one sitting? If not, don't worry, there are approximate time stamps if you want to jump around a bit... (00:02:26) INTRODUCTION Dan and Hugh reflect on 31 months of making Vampire Videos together, including a funny insight into the Discord message that started the ball rolling in March 2022. We also read listener messages about reaching 100 episodes, with many more interspersed between the other segments. (00:28:57) NOSFERATU (2024) Our Bite Club time-limited exclusive from January 2025 is now available for everyone to listen to, so you can finally hear us discuss Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake with returning guest Chris Brosnahan. (01:51:27) GUEST ROUNDTABLE Dan and Hugh hosted a Zoom chat with our three most prolific guests - Mary Muñoz, Tony Black, and Dee Molumby. We discussed the show, spoke about our personal experiences being involved, shared a few memorable recording moments, reflected on some of the awful films we had to endure, gave our thoughts on modern vampire media in general, and… revealed our faces for the first time. That's right, Dan and Hugh finally clap eyes on each other after two years. (02:39:19) TOP 100 VAMPIRE FILMS We’ve been counting down the Top 100 films and TV shows we’ve covered on social media in the run-up to this episode. But now you can hear our thoughts on the scummy dreck that didn't even make the Top 100 chart... before we unveil our Top 20 Vampire Films.  (03:38:39) FANGED FUTURE  A short wrap-up with some amusing facts and stats about the show (like our “stake to live” ratio so far), and end with a tease of what the future holds for the next hundred episodes. That's if we make it that far! Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guests: Chris Brosnahan, Tony Black, Dee Molumby & Mary Muñoz. Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Thanks to every familiar who made the time to send us a message: Kathleen from Nova Scotia, Andrew Saturley, Paul Wood, Colin Woodward, Darren Gray, Chris Evans, Carmelita Valdez McKoy, Hayden Orr, James Duffy, Frankie Pellatt, Kat Hughes, Darren Mooney, Stacey Abbott & Count Caliban. Special thanks to viral TikTok star Tim Arnell as the voice of Count Orlok. Forever indebted to our kind and loyal Bite Club subscribers: Hayden Orr, James Duffy & Violet Hammond. You too can leave a donation at Ko-fi to show your appreciation for all the hard work over 100+ recordings. 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. Sound effects via Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[11x5] The middle of Season XI arrives with Italy's first horror film: Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri, which concerns a French journalist investigating murders across Paris that may be the work of a vampire... And making another return to the show is the horror expert and university lecturer Prof. Stacey Abbott... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Prof. Stacey Abbott Editor: Hugh McStay "You'll feel nothing. It's better this way." -- Prof. Julien du Grand. 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

[10x9] Our penultimate Season X episode looks at Adam Randall's Netflix original film Night Teeth, which follows a night in the life of a young Los Angeles chauffeur (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) who unwittingly picks up two young vampire ladies... And continuing her prolific appearances across nearly 100 episodes, it's podcaster and film critic Dee Molumby... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay "You wouldn't know a party if it fucked you in the face." -- Zoe 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

[0x0] PRIMER. Welcome! Introducing Vampire Videos, a horror podcast digging into 100 years of vampires on film and television to celebrate the centenary of Nosferatu (1922). In this short primer, Dan Owen and Hugh McStay explain the concept of the podcast, describe the first time they saw a vampire on screen, outline their tastes in horror, explain why vampires are so fascinating and keep such a grip on popular culture, and tease some of what's to come... 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

[1x1] Vampire Videos rises from the crypt with the film that arguably started it all - F.W Murnau's silent masterpiece Nosferatu. This creepy German tale, which infamously plagiarised Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, stars Max Schreck as the sinister Count Orlock. To discuss this iconic movie, its remarkable impact, and its enduring legacy, your hosts Dan Owen and Hugh McStay are joined by award-winning comic-book writer and film critic Andy Winter. Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Andy Winter 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: '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

[1x2] Vampire Videos continues with a look at Tomas Alfredson's Swedish romantic horror film Let the Right One In, which concerns a bullied 12-year-old boy who befriends a strange vampire girl in early-1980s Stockholm. To discuss this award-winning adaptation of author John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2004 novel, we're joined by film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby 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: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[1x3] Vampire Videos tackles David Slade's comic-book adaptation of 30 Days of Night, about a small Alaskan town under attack by vampires during a month when the sun disappears. To discuss this commercially successful but slightly forgotten film, we're joined by film critic and author Simon Bowie. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Simon Bowie 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: '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

[1x4] Vampire Videos returns for an appraisal of Park Chan-wook's 2009 horror drama Thirst, about a Catholic priest who becomes a vampire after participating in a drug trial to cure a deadly disease, then uses his newfound powers to woo the wife of his childhood friend. To discuss this Palme d'Or-winning Korean film, we're joined by podcaster Ian Buckley from Movieversaries. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Ian Buckley 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: '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

[1x5] Vampire Videos bites into our first Hammer horror, Terence Fisher's classic Dracula, which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) investigating the disappearance of a librarian who visited the castle home of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee). To discuss this Gothic horror favourite, we're joined again by film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby. Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Dee Molumby 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: '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

[1x6] Vampire Videos digs into Tobe Hooper's iconic two-part miniseries Salem's Lot from 1979, which adapted Stephen King's acclaimed novel, starring David Soul as a best-selling author who returns to his hometown only to discover a master vampire has recently moved in... To discuss this classic chiller, we're joined by two special guests: screenwriters Chris Lunt and Michael Walker from Sky Atlantic's Devils and Netflix's Young Wallander. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guests: Chris Lunt & Michael Walker 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: '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

[1x7] Vampire Videos unearths Wes Craven's 1995 horror-comedy Vampire in Brooklyn, starring Eddie Murphy as a Caribbean vampire who travels to New York City to find a half-breed woman to sustain his species. To discuss this notorious flop, we're joined by podcaster, author, and network chief Tony Black. Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tony Black 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: '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

[1x9] Vampire Videos heads to outer space for Tobe Hooper's 1985 sci-fi horror Lifeforce, starring Steve Railsback as an astronaut who unwittingly brings lethal extra-terrestrial vampires back to London after discovering three humanoids inside a ship hidden inside Halley's Comet. To discuss this cult gem of the '80s, we're joined once again by author and network chief Tony Black. Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tony Black 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: '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

[1x10] It's the Season I finale of Vampire Videos, so we bookend our premiere on Nosferatu (1922) with E. Elias Merhige's metafictional film Shadow of the Vampire. The film stars John Malkovich as silent film director F.W Murnau, who's trying to shoot Nosferatu with the help of a real-life vampire played by Willem Dafoe. To dig into this largely forgotten indie film from the turn of the millennium, we're joined by writer and podcaster Darren Mooney. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Darren Mooney 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: '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

[2x3] We return to Hammer for the second in the legendary British studio's Dracula saga, Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula. It again stars Peter Cushing as Van Helsing, this time confronting a dashing disciple of Dracula's called Baron Meinster (David Peel). And joining us to discuss this celebrated classic is horror novelist Stephen Laws, who has enviable personal connections to Hammer... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Stephen Laws Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also donate 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

[2x2] "Into every generation, a Slayer is born." And sometimes prematurely, as we take a stake to the 1992 incarnation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (written by Joss Whedon, directed by Fran Rubel Kazui), starring Kristy Swanson as a high school cheerleader chosen to defend mankind from the undead. In the podcasket this week, we're joined by Irish screenwriter Daragh Carville (Being Human, The Bay). Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Daragh Carville 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: '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

[2x1] Season II begins with a vintage offering from renowned director Tod Browning. It's Universal Pictures classic Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the Count and Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing. In the podcasket this week to discuss one of horror's most famous and influential films is author and podcaster Tony Black. Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tony Black 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: '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

[1x8] Vampire Videos brings things into the present day with a look at Netflix's recent Day Shift, directed by J.J Perry, starring Jamie Foxx as a working-class father and pool cleaner who moonlights as a vampire hunter... And joining us to discuss this film is Creepy & Geeky podcaster Robert Clark... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Robert Clark 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: '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

[2x4] We've unearthed an overlooked gem in Michael O'Shea's 2016 horror drama The Transfiguration, which concerns the psychological breakdown of a teenage boy called Milo who escapes his tough Brooklyn upbringing by believing he's a vampire. Joining us to discuss this tough but fascinating film is the founder of The London Horror Society, Chris Nials... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Chris Nials 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: '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] In this spooky episode, hosts Dan Owen and Hugh McStay convene around the vampire campfire to reflect on the first 10 films covered in season 1. They also rank and score each film individually to create an overall Top 10 for the podcast. Plus, a few extra doses of film trivia, a missing RIP segment, and some listener questions... 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: '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

[2x5] It's time to take a bite into Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Anne Rice's best-selling novel, Interview with the Vampire, which finds a 200-year-old vampire called Louis (Brad Pitt) telling his life story to a reporter, which begins in the 18th-century when he was created by the mysterious Lestat (Tom Cruise)... Helping us dissect this '90s classic is author Sarah Blair, co-host of The X Cast podcast... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Sarah Blair Editor: Dan Owen Get a free copy of Sarah's novel When Darkness Falls by clicking this link, and find out more via her website. 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

[2x6] Charlton Heston is the last man on earth in Boris Sagal's classic adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel about a global plague that's transformed some survivors into... vampires? It's The Omega Man! Joining us to talk about this post-apocalyptic action film is author and podcast network chief Tony Black, making his fourth appearance... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Tony Black 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: '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

[2x8] It's another celebrity special, as Canadian filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy (The Slumber Party Massacre) joins us to talk about Tony Scott's 1983 cult film The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve as a beautiful vampire preying on New Yorkers with the help of David Bowie as her cellist companion... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Danishka Esterhazy 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: '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

[2x10] There's a monster mash for our Season 2 finale, as Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and.... uh, Gill-Man...?... arrive in small-town '80s America where a group of kids have to prevent them from taking over the world. Joining us to chat about Fred Dekker's notorious box office flop The Monster Squad, which he co-wrote with best friend Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), is Andrew Gaudion of the Ramblin Amblin podcast... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Andrew Gaudion 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: '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

[2x9] Found-footage horror is on the agenda as we tackle the Canadian vampire film Afflicted from directors Derek Lee and Clif Prowse, who also star as two vloggers who travel to Italy, where one's bitten by a vampire and suffers a startling transformation caught on camera... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Graham Hughes Editor: Hugh McStay Stream Graham's movie Death of a Vlogger 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: '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] Seasons bleedings! It's our festive special, where regular guest Dee Molumby returns in a snowy podcasket to talk about a rarity in vampire cinema: a Christmassy movie! It's Red Snow, which concerns a struggling author spending the holiday in a remote cabin who unwittingly captures a handsome vampire... But that's not all we have in store! As this is a Christmas edition, we'll also be pulling some crackers, telling some hilarious(?) jokes, and playing a 'Guess the Vampire Movie' game along the way. It's lots of fun, so we hope you enjoy it! Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay Check out Dee's new TikTok too! 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 via Epidemic Sound • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[2x7] It's a celebrity special, as the multi-talented Josh Ruben (director of Werewolves Within, star of A Wounded Fawn) arrives to talk about Francis Ford Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula. This lavish production starred Gary Oldman as Count Dracula, who in this version is convinced Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) is the reincarnation of his long lost lover... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay  Guest: Josh Ruben Editor: Dan Owen Visit Josh's website and stream his films Scare Me and A Wounded Fawn on Shudder. 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 to reflect on Season II and rate each film individually, before combining their scores to create a Top 11 ranking. They'll also quiz each other about each movie for a few laughs along the way, and tease what's coming soon in Season III! Enjoy... 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. 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 Kesh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[3x1] Season III launches with a fang-favourite! It's Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, starring Jason Patric and Corey Haim as two brothers who move to Santa Clara with their mother (Dianne Wiest), only to discover a gang of vampires led by David (Kiefer Sutherland) is the reason their new home is referred to as "the murder capital of the world"... Arriving by podcasket to talk about this '80s classic, particularly its gay subtext, is The Telegraph's resident film critic Tim Robey... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tim Robey 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: '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

[3x3] Guillermo del Toro's debut Cronos is under discussion this week; a Mexican horror about an elderly antique dealer (Federico Luppi) who finds a mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life. Joining us in the podcasket is Irish playwright Stewart Roche... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Stewart Roche 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: '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

[3x2] Did you know Dracula author Bram Stoker wrote another vampiric story? Ken Russell's horror-comedy The Lair of the White Worm concerns an archaeologist (Peter Capaldi) unearthing evidence that a local legend of a predatory creature was real, and is soon joined by a local lord (Hugh Grant) to stop an ancient priestess (Amanda Donohoe) making a human sacrifice to a snake-god... And back to help us dig into this cult '80s favourite is author and podcaster Tony Black... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tony Black 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: '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

[3x4] It's Hammer time again! We venture back into the vault of the legendary British horror studio for Dracula: Prince of Darkness, starring Christopher Lee as the master vampire who's resurrected after four English travellers make the mistake of staying in his castle. And we have real expertise at hand this week, with Stacey Abbott, a professor of film and television and self-proclaimed vampire/horror/zombie scholar... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Professor Stacey Abbott 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: '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

[3x5] Neil Jordan's less famous vampire movie, after Interview with the Vampire, is up for discussion this week. It's Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as two vampires using their abilities to protect women and ease people's suffering, who've spent centuries on the run from a patriarchal vampire society upset at their existence... The Hollywood News' writer Kat Hughes joins us to delve into this overlooked gem of horror cinema... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kat Hughes 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: '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

[3x8] It's back to 1970 for Bob Kelljan's cult hit Count Yorga, Vampire, starring Robert Quarry as the eponymous bloodsucker posing as a Bulgarian mystic in Los Angeles, where he leads seances while secretly preying on his New Age clientele... Joining us to delve into this transitional vampire movie is university lecturer, author, and all-round vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn 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: '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

[3x6] We're heading Down Under to look at the cult Kiwi comedy What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, which is a mockumentary chronicling the lives of four dysfunctional vampires living in Wellington, New Zealand... Helping us this week is freelance writer Steve O'Brien, whose work has appeared in the Radio Times, SFX, Digital Spy, and Yahoo Movies, amongst others... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Steve O'Brien Editor: Hugh McStay Read Steve's Let the Right One In interview for SFX. 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

[3x9] This week we're tackling the neo-western horror film Near Dark from director Kathryn Bigelow, starring Adrian Pasdar as a small-town farmer's son who reluctantly joins a travelling group of vampires after getting bitten by a beautiful drifter... And making a return to discuss this '80s cult classic is horror scholar Prof Stacey Abbott... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Prof Stacey Abbott 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: '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

[4x1] Season IV of the show launches with Werner Herzog's remake of Nosferatu (1922), starring Bruno Ganz as an estate agent who travels to Transylvania to assist the unnerving Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) in buying a property. To help explore this beloved remake, writer and podcaster Darren Mooney makes his return to the show... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Darren Mooney Editor: Dan Owen "Time is an abyss... profound as a thousand nights... centuries come and go... to be unable to grow old is terrible... death is not the worst... can you imagine enduring centuries, experiencing each day the same futilities..." - 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

[3x7] Jessica M. Thompson's 2022 horror thriller The Invitation is our next bite. It concerns a young American woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) travelling to the UK after discovering she's related to the English aristocracy, blissfully unaware they're also vampires plotting to wed her to their handsome patriarch... And accepting the invite to join us is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dee Molumby 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: '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

[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 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

[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 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

[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 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

[3x10] Our Season III finale takes a rare look at a newly released vampire film! It's Chris McKay's horror-comedy Renfield, which finds the eponymous character (Nicholas Hoult) trying to leave the services of his tyrannical master, Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage)... And making her debut in the podcasket is Fangirlish writer and co-host of Podcast-616, Ashley Thomas... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Ashley Thomas Editor: Dan Owen "I am enough. I deserve happiness. And I take full charge of my life today!" - Renfield 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 return to mull over Season III 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, then tease what's coming soon in Season IV very soon! 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. 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

[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 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

[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 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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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