[13x6] The second half of Season XIII gets underway with an away mission to outer space, for Mario Bava's seminal 1965 sci-fi horror Planet of the Vampires . In this film, a crew of astronauts land on an alien world and come ...
[BONUS] It's spooky season! This Halloween, on a dark and stormy night, Dan and Hugh have taken refuge inside a small tent beside the vampire campfire until the bad weather passes. Fortunately, three guests have been invited ...
[13x5] Radu! Radu! Radu! We reach mid-season with a return to the Subspecies universe, covering the first sequel Bloodstone: Subspecies II , which finds vampire Prince Radu (Anders Hove) resurrected and going after American s...
[13x4] It's a quick trip across the English Channel this week for Adrien Beau's 2023 period horror The Vourdalak , which finds a French aristocrat forced to stay with a rural family whose tyrannical patriarch has been transfo...
[13x3] It's time for another Hammer horror, and after completing the Karnstein trilogy we rewind the clock back to 1963 for Don Sharp's Kiss of the Vampire , which finds a newlywed couple encountering a vampire secret society...
[13x2] It's a rare trip to the east this week with the Hong Kong supernatural comedy Mr Vampire , directed by Ricky Lau, which finds a Taoist monk and his students facing off against a 'hopping vampire' after a village elder'...
We begin Season XIII with the BBC-Netflix three-part miniseries of Dracula, from the creators of Sherlock, which finds the Count (Claes Bang) being pursued across Europe in a post-modern twist on Bram Stoker's novel and the Hammer traditions...
Season XII if over, so it's that time again... as Dan and Hugh meet around the glowing vampire campfire to reflect on the season, rank the last 10 episodes in order of merit, talk about some recent vampire film and TV news, then tease what Season XIII has in store for listeners...
[12x10] We finish Season XII with another of our occasional "pseudo vampire" films, with Karyn Kusama's Jennifer's Body . Here, a popular high school girl (Megan Fox) is murdered by a touring rock band and accidentally resurr...
We're taking a look at the short-lived 1980s horror anthology series Nightmare Classics with the 1989 episode "Carmilla", which adapted the classic vampire story by Sheridan Le Fanu... And helping us tease it apart is a new guest - writer, editor, and content designer Ray Neman.
[12x8] It's been a long time coming, but we've finally grasped the nettle! This week, we're covering direct-to-DVD sequel The Lost Boys: The Tribe . Here, a brother and sister move to Santa Clara and soon realise a local surf...
[12x7] It's another Stephen King edition of the show, but very loosely. A Return to Salem's Lot is writer-director Larry Cohen's 1987 sequel, which finds an anthropologist and his estranged son arriving in the Maine town and ...