Film Episodes

[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 conquer...

Kate Beckinsale's back in this action horror sequel, which sheds new light on her kind's vampire origins...

Christopher Lee returns for the final time as Count Dracula in this '70s Hammer horror sequel...

Will Smith stars in this modern retelling of the famous Richard Matheson post-apocalyptic story.

Mel Brooks' vampire comedy is up for discussion, starring spoof legend Leslie Nielsen as Count Dracula.

[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 th...

[7x9] Our penultimate episode of Season VII takes us to millennial horror with J.S Cardone's vampire road trip movie The Forsaken , starring Kerr Smith as a budding filmmaker who agrees to deliver a car to Florida, only to get entangled with a vampire hunting hitchhiker... And back for her third appearance on the show is film critic and podcaster Kat Hughes ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Kat Hughes Editor : Dan Owen "We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch...

[7x8] We finish the Blade trilogy with David S. Goyer's Blade: Trinity , starring Wesley Snipes as the eponymous vampire slayer, now joined by two human companions (played by Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel), who must contend with a resurrected Dracula... Returning to the show, helping us go over the film, is writer and podcaster Tony Black ... Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Tony Black Editor : Hugh McStay "Movies are just a comforting fairy tale compared to the real deal. Bram Stoker, he...

[7x7] We're delving into early Hollywood cinema for Robert Siodmak's horror sequel from 1943, Son of Dracula , starring Lon Chaney Jr. as 'Count Alucard', a European nobleman who's invited to the American South to marry a plantation owner's daughter obsessed with the occult... Making her debut on the show is Trashwire podcaster and Geek Girl Authority film writer Kim Pierce ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Kim Pierce Editor : Dan Owen "The angel of death hovers over a great house. I se...

[7x6] Season VII resumes with Jim Jarmusch's drama Only Lovers Left Alive , starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as two vampire lovers coping with immortality, whose relationship is tested by the unexpected arrival of a family member... And back via the sarpodphagus, to help us delve into this acclaimed indie film is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark ... Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Robert Clark Editor : Hugh McStay "I just feel like all the sand is at the botto...

[7x5] It's arthouse horror with Philip Ridley's 1990 drama The Reflecting Skin , which concerns an eight-year-old boy growing up in the 1950s American prairie, who starts to believe his quiet English neighbour (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire killing his friends... To talk about this unusual and divisive movie, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz ... Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Mary Muñoz Editor : Hugh McStay "Have you been exploding frogs again?" -- Ruth Dov...

[7x4] It's our seventh Hammer film with Count Dracula, as Christopher Lee's fanged fiend is resurrected by a young disciple in 1970s London, where he must face the descendent of his greatest adversary, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). It's Dracula A.D 1972 ... And joining us on the show is returning guest Wayne Talbot , comic-book writer, colourist, and creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic... Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Wayne Talbot Editor : Hugh McStay "Okay, okay. But if ...

[7x3] A modern low-budget indie is up for discourse this week. It's Jonathan Cuartas's 2020 horror drama My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To , starring Patrick Fugit as the brother of a chronically ill sibling who needs to drink fresh human blood to stay alive... And making his long-awaited return is entertainment and lifestyle journalist Steve O'Brien ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Steve O'Brien Editor : Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You ...

[7x2] We're back in the late-1970s for Stan Dragoti's vampire comedy Love at First Bite , starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula, who's evicted from his Transylvanian castle and flies to New York City to start a new life, only to fall in love with a fashion model... And making his debut in the sarpodphagus is Canadian vampire scholar Murray Leeder ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Murray Leeder Editor : Dan Owen "I'm going out to get a bite to drink." -- Count Dracula Subscribe and l...

[7x1] We start Season VII with Gary Shore's action horror Dracula Untold , starring Luke Evans as a 15th-century warrior who makes a deal with a vampire to be granted dark powers, to protect his people from invaders... Returning to help us parse this movie is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Dee Molumby Editor : Dan Owen "My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a ...

[6x10] Our Season VI finale is on the neo-western action horror Vampires , directed by the legendary John Carpenter, starring James Woods as the leader of a Vatican-approved gang of vampire slayers who must stop the first vampire from acquiring a cross that will enable him to walk in daylight... And making his debut on Vampire Videos is podcaster Anthony Bowman from the Frankencast show. Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Anthony Bowman Editor : Hugh McStay "Let me just ask you one thing: af...

[6x9] It's our first foray into Russian cinema with Timur Bekmambetov's 2004 supernatural urban thriller Night Watch , which finds the forces of Light and Dark enforcing a centuries-old truce on the streets of Moscow... Back once again to help us discuss it is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby , who reveals an unexpected link to Russia... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Dee Molumby Editor : Hugh McStay "... And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. A...

[6x8] We're back with another Dracula adaptation, only this one focuses on a specific chapter in Bram Stoker's novel - it's André Øvredal's 2023 horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter , which finds Dracula boarding the titular ship on his way to England, only for the crew to realise they have a murderous stowaway aboard... To help us take a bite out of this box office flop, making his return in the sarcophopod, it's the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark ... Hosts : Dan Owen & ...

[6x7] Tim Burton's adaptation of the 1960s US soap opera Dark Shadows is up for discussion this week, in a film that finds 18th-century vampire Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp) reawakened in 1972, where he must restore the fortunes of his descendants whose business is under threat from the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him... And making her return to the show is Read & Buried podcast co-host Frankie Pellatt ... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Frankie Pellatt Editor : Dan Owen 7 Subscribe and...

Brad Michael Elmore's teen vampire drama Bit, about an 18-year-old transgender girl (Nicole Maines) moving to L.A with her brother, only to find herself mixing with a group of feminist vampires led by Duke (Diana Hopper)...

[6x5] We're back with our second Guillermo del Toro vampire film, Blade II , which finds Wesley Snipes returning as the super-cool vampire hunter and having to join forces with his enemies to defeat an even greater threat to mankind... Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot , creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic... Hosts : Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest : Wayne Talbot Editor : Dan Owen "There's an old saying: Keep your friends close, keep your ...

[6x4] We return to the well of Hammer horror for Scars of Dracula , directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Christopher Lee once again as the eponymous Count, this time being antagonised by two brothers at his castle home... To talk about this film, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz ... Hosts : Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest : Mary Muñoz Editor : Hugh McStay "What we shall be facing in a few hours' time is not a man. He is evil. He is the embodiment of all that is evil....

It's vampires vs. werwolves in Len Wiseman's 2003 action horror film Underworld, starring Kate Beckinsale as a vampire 'Death Dealer' tasked with protecting her own kind from vicious enemy Lycans...

Stephen Norrington's 1998 comic-book action film Blade is next, with Wesley Snipes as the eponymous half-vampire/half-human who stalks Los Angeles slaying vampires...