Film Episodes

[14x10] Our Season XIV finale finds us checking into the Grand Hôtel des Thermes for Harry Kümel’s 1971 cult classic, Daughters of Darkness. In this stylish, erotic cult classic, a glamorous vampire countess and her lover sed...

[14x9] Our penultimate Season XIV episode keeps the Dracula fanged fun coming, as we look at Luc Besson's 2025 version starring Caleb Landry Jones in the eponymous role as a romantic take on Bram Stoker's villainous character...

[14x8] In this episode, we’re sinking our teeth into the 1958 British cult classic Blood of the Vampire . Often mistaken for a Hammer Film—thanks to its lush production design and a script by the legendary Jimmy Sangster—this...

Another franchise is complete with the fifth entry in the action-horror series Underworld. It's Anna Foerster's 2016 instalment, Underworld: Blood Wars, where Selene (Kate Beckinsale) is now pursued by both Vampires and Lycans, so she teams up with allies and eventually seeking refuge with a Nordic…

He's back! Yes, Dracula, but also... Christopher Lee.! Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco made a more faithful version of Bram Stoker's story in Count Dracula from 1970, with the Hammer legend returning to the role with a distinguished moustache... And making his third appearance on the show is the Ass…

[14x4] It's time to complete another franchise, as we cover the final part of the Lost Boys trilogy, with direct-to-video instalment The Thirst from 2010, directed by Dario Piana. Here, Edgar Frog (Corey Feldman) is hired by ...

[14x3] Udo Kier plays Count Dracula in Paul Morrissey's 1974 version, Blood for Dracula , which finds the master vampire terminally ill and in desperate need of rejuvenating virgin blood... so a trip to Italy to choose an app...

It's the season of Dracula, as we turn our attention to a less common prospect - a direct sequel to Bram Stoker's story by author Joe Hill, where Professor Van Helsing (Titus Welliver) is now living in early-20th-century California with his wife Mina and two sons... it's Abraham's Boys from directo…

We're back! Season XIV begins with Dario Argento's take on Bram Stoker's famous story with Dracula 3D from 2012, which finds Thomas Kretschmann as the Count and Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing. And making her third trip via podcasket is videographer and film critic Sarah Williams...

[BONUS] Season's bleedings! It's that festive time of the year again, so we've invited two of our favourite guests to join is for a candlelit Christmas dinner in the Vampire Videos Villa... And the table talk will focus on An...

This week, we have a direct-to-video sequel continuing the story from Dracula 2000. Dracula II: Ascension finds a group of medical student experimenting on the vampire's corpse and getting more than they bargained for. .. And helping us wrap up the season is writer, broadcaster, and interviewer Kim…

[13x7] It's time for another return to Forks, Washington, for director David Slade's third instalment of romantic fantasy drama The Twilight Saga -- Eclipse . Here, Bella must decide between vampire Edward and werewolf Jacob ...

[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'...

[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...

[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 ...

It's the penultimate entry in the Underworld franchise, with Awakening from directors Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein. Selene (Kate Beckinsale) awakens in the near-future, where mankind is now aware that vampires and Lycans exist, having driven them both to near-extinction... and returning to the show i…

We're halfway through Season XII and cross the Irish Sea to tackle the low-budget horror comedy Let the Wrong One In, which finds two Dublin brothers having to contend with the fact one of them's been turned into a vampire... And introducing us to this indie film from her neck of the woods is podca…

Our Fright Night reviews come to an end with the last film in the franchise, Eduardo Rodriguez's straight-to-video sequel from 2013, Fright Night 2: New Blood, where Charley Brewster and his friends travel to Romania and encounter a sexy teacher who's really a vampire... And making his return to th…