Join your hosts, Dan Owen and Hugh McStay, as they embark on a thrilling journey through a century of vampires on film, one bite at a time...
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156: The Nude Vampire (1970) with Siân Pearce
[16x6] We resume Season XVI with Jean Rollin's surreal 1970 French cult classic The Nude Vampire / La Vampire Nue, where a young man uncovers a shadowy secret society holding an enigmatic, mute vampire captive for sinister experiments...
And joining us to discuss this atmospheric euro-horror effort is horror researchers and writer Siân Pearce....
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Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 4 with Maria Latilla
[BONUS] We’re concluding our four-part bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where a year of escalating tension culminates in a massive showdown, a venomous arrow leaves a beloved character clinging to life, a desperate act of sacrifice forces Buffy to cross a dark moral line, and a sidelined student body must unite to stop a demonic ascension from turning their high school graduation into a literal bloodbath...
And joining us to cover these final few epis…
Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 3 with Lauren McAllister & Sarah Williams
We resume our bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where Faith leads Buffy down a dangerous path of rebellion, the accidental killing of a human sends Faith spiralling into a dark cover-up, a twisted plot to steal Angel's soul tests ultimate loyalties, and heartbreak looms just as a pack of vicious Hellhounds threatens to ruin the senior prom... And joining us to cover these four episodes is podcaster Lauren McAllister from 10/10 Would Watch Again, and film …
Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 2 with Sophie Cadden & James Duffy
[BONUS] We resume our bonus coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... where an accidental wish plunges the town into a dystopian alternate reality, an ancient evil torments Angel on Christmas Eve, a betrayal by Giles leaves a powerless Buffy to face a psychotic vampire alone, and a sidelined Xander must quietly find his own inner strength to stop an explosive zombie plot...
And we have two guests to help us explore these four episodes: literary writer Sophie Cadden …
Bonus: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Part 1 with Lindsay Drysdale & Will Salmon
[BONUS] It's time to kick off our coverage of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's third season... tracking the messy, emotional fallout of Buffy’s flight from Sunnydale, her tense homecoming, and the arrival of some dangerous new faces...
And joining us to discuss these episodes is writer and podcaster Lindsay Drysdale, and journalist and podcaster Will Salmon...
🎯 The Agenda
~ [ 00:01:30 ] "Anne" with Lindsay Drysdale
Living under an alias in L.A., a lonely …
Bonus: Tales From The Crypt - "The Secret" (1990) with Robert Turnbull
[BONUS] Podcasting worlds collide! It's Vampire Videos x Recrypted: A Tales From The Crypt Podcast, as we present an expanded version of this week's discussion on Recrypted (the other show we do), of Season 2 finale "The Secret".
If you've heard that Recrypted discussion (together with "My Brother's Keeper"), this version has a few extra ingredients to give it extra bite!
In this episode, a young orphan is placed with a wealthy family, …
155. Ultraviolet (2006) with Murray Leeder
We reach mid-season with Kurt Wimmer's 2006 sci-fi thriller Ultraviolet... where a rogue vampire named Violet Song Jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich) fights to protect a mysterious boy from a totalitarian regime led by Vice-Cardinal Daxus (Nick Chindlund)... And joining us is horror academic and author Murray Leeder...
154. Rabid (1977) with Kristin Battestella
We are delving into David Cronenberg's early film Rabid... where a pioneering skin-graft surgery plunges a young woman (Marilyn Chambers) into a situation where she starts to spread an epidemic through drinking people's blood... And joining is returning guest, writer and podcaster Kristin Battestella...
153. The Return of Dracula (1958) with Christopher Page
[16x3] Forget crumbling European castles and foggy mountains. In The Return of Dracula, the Count trades Transylvania for the manicured lawns and white picket fences of small-town mid-1950s America.
Christopher Page of the Time Shifters podcast return to help us break down Francis Lederer’s strikingly suave, low-key performance, discuss the film's surprising use of a single, sudden splash of colour, and debate whether this suburban thriller paved the way for some modern vampire …
152. Countess Dracula (1971) with Emma Arneil
We resume our coverage of Hammer Horror with Peter Sasdy's Countess Dracula... where recently widowed aristocrat Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy (Ingrid Pitt) discovers she can appear youthful again with the application of fresh human blood... And making a return to Vampire Videos is the host of The Horror & Her podcast, Emma Arneil..
151. Scream Blacula Scream (1973) with Richard Newby
The Black Prince of Shadows stalks the Earth again! Season XVI begins with us dusting off the vinyl, lighting the voodoo candles, and sinking our fangs into the blaxploitation horror classic, Scream Blacula Scream. And making his debut on the show is journalist and author Richard Newby...
Bonus: The Vampire Lestat (2026): Side B with Lauren McAllister & Kim Morrison
We conclude our coverage of AMC’s The Vampire Lestat (Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire), tracing Lestat’s erratic trajectory across North America as his rockstar tour, supernatural feuds, and haunting past collide head-on. And returning for various legs of our own tour is horror writer Kim Morrison and podcaster Lauren McAllister...