Film Episodes

[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'...

Season VIII draws to a close with Dan Curtis' 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...

[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...

[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." -- ...

We're back for Pablo Larrain's alternate history of Chilean dictator (and vampire?) General Pinochet, in a bizarre movie that mixes real-world politics with the supernatural. It's El Conde. Does anyone care for a liquidised heart?

[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...

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 the ...

[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 o...

[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 w...

[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 see ...

[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 bottom ...

[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 Dove ...

[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 we...

[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 ca...

[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 lea...

[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 mo...

[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: aft...

[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. And...

[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 & H...

[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 ...