Episodes

[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 ...

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…

It's another Hammer moment, with the final part of the studio's 'Karnstein Trilogy', with John Hough's Twins of Evil, which finds twin sisters going to stay with their puritan uncle (Peter Cushing), only to realise a local aristocrat has resurrected a dangerous vampire...

Something unusual this week, in the British vampire romance drama Rose: A Love Story from 2021, directed by Jennifer Sheridan. Here, a couple live in seclusion until their relationship is tested by the arrival of a stranger... And making another return to the show is university lecturer and horror …

To begin a new season we have a cult classic from the heyday of blaxploitation, it's William Crain's Blacula from 1972, starring William Marshall as an 18th-century African prince who's turned into a vampire by Dracula. And making her debut on the show is freelance film critic and writer Kelechi Eh…

Season XI draws to an end with our Ranking episode, as Dan & Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the last 10 films and rate them in ascending order of quality. Can you guess what's top and bottom? There's also our devious quiz, which Hugh is currently winning 10-1, but Dan is th…

[11x10] We're finally reviewing a Mike Flanagan horror movie, in the shape of his 2019 sequel to The Shining ; it's the three-hour Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep . In this adaptation of Stephen King's novel, a grown-up Danny ...

[11x9] From the studio behind the Underworld and Resident Evil films, we're tackling 2011's Priest , with Paul Bettany as the titular cleric, who goes after a gang of vampires after they kidnap his niece... And making his deb...

[11x8] We're back in rainy Forks, Washington, for The Twilight Saga: New Moon from director Chris Weitz. In this 2009 sequel, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire boyfriend Edward (Robert Pattinson) split up, opening the door ...

[11x7] Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror Sinners is our next serving, concerning twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, only to discover a great evil is now lurking t...

[11x6] We complete the From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy with P.J Pesce's straight-to-video sequel The Hangman's Daughter , which reveals the origin story of Santanico Pandemonium in the Old West as a ragtag group consisting of a f...

[11x5] The middle of Season XI arrives with Italy's first horror film: Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri , which concerns a French journalist investigating murders across Paris that may be the work of a vampire... And making another...

[11x4] We're excavating Tales From the Crypt for the anthology horror show's 1996 movie spin-off Bordello of Blood , from director Gilbert Adler, which finds a private investigator (Dennis Miller) trying to find a reporter's ...

[11x3] We return to the second instalment of Hammer's 'Karnstein Trilogy' with Jimmy Sangster's Lust for a Vampire , which finds a novelist pretending to be a teacher at a girl's finishing school which may be the hideout of a...

[11x2] We return to classic Universal horror with the lesser-known sequel to Tod Browning's Dracula - it's Dracula's Daughter , starring Gloria Holden as the offspring of the famous vampire, who shows up in England and arouse...

[11x1] Season XI launches with Timur Bekmambetov's 2012 horror action film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , starring Benjamin Walker as the 16th President of the USA, who in this fictionalised telling of his life story was s...