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May 19, 2025

108. Twilight: New Moon (2009) with Sarah Williams

[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 ...

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May 12, 2025

107. Sinners (2025) with Mary Muñoz

[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...

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May 5, 2025

106. From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999) with Becci …

[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...

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April 21, 2025

105. I Vampiri (1957) with Prof. Stacey Abbott

[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...

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April 14, 2025

104. Bordello of Blood (1996) with Brendon Connelly

[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 ...

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April 7, 2025

103. Lust for a Vampire (1971) with Kim Pierce

[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...

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March 31, 2025

102. Dracula's Daughter (1936) with Murray Leeder

[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...

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March 24, 2025

101. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) with Frankie Pellatt

[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...

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March 17, 2025

Bonus: Season X Ranking

Season X draws to an official close with our Ranking episode, as Dan & Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the last 11 films and rate them in ascending order of quality. There's also the return of our regular quiz, which Hugh is currently winning 9-1, so can Dan pull things back…

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March 10, 2025

100. Centenary Special including Nosferatu (2024) with Chris Brosnahan

We did it! Vampire Videos has reached 100 episodes (ahem, +15 bonus specials), and it’s time to mark this impressive milestone with a super-sized special. Do you have ~4 hours to get through this episode in one sitting? If not, don't worry, we've added approximate time stamps if you want to jump ar…

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March 3, 2025

99. Night Teeth (2021) with Dee Molumby

[10x9] Our penultimate Season X episode looks at Adam Randall's Netflix original film Night Teeth , which follows a night in the life of a young Los Angeles chauffeur (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) who unwittingly picks up two young v...

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Feb. 24, 2025

98. Let Me in (2010) with Kim Taylor-Foster

Over two years later, we finally get around to the US adaptation of Let the Right One In, retired Let Me In, from director Matt Reeves. This again tells the story of a bullied boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) growing up in the early-1980s, who befriends a visiting vampire girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who's alli…

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Feb. 17, 2025

97. Subspecies (1991) with Kim Morrison

[10x7] We begin a new vampire franchise with Ted Nicolau's direct-to-video cult horror Subspecies , where three female American students arrive in Romania to study, only to become embroiled in the machinations between two vam...

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Feb. 10, 2025

96. Vampire Hunter D (1985) with Jared Wayne Gifford

We take out first step into animation and Japanese film with 1985's Vampire Hunter D from director Toyoo Ashida, which adapts the famous novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi about a half-human/half-vampire ridding the world of the undead in post-apocalyptic future where the Earth's been overrun with monsters…

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Feb. 3, 2025

95. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) with Anthony Bowman

We're back in the Underworld franchise with the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from director Patrick Tatopolous, which explains the origin of Lycan leader Lucian (Martin Sheen), set against the backdrop of his doomed romance with vampire Sonya (Rhona Mitra) and a Lycan rebellion...

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Jan. 13, 2025

94. Blood Red Sky (2021) with Lindsay Drysdale

We take to the skies for the Netflix action horror film Blood Red Sky, directed by Peter Thorwarth, which finds a terminally ill German woman travelling across the Atlantic for life-saving treatment with her son, only to find their flight taken over by terrorists. But, unfortunately for the hijacke…

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Jan. 6, 2025

93. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010) with Becci Sayce

[10x3] It's been a long time coming, but we're finally watching 2010's 30 Days of Night: Dark Days , the direct-to-video sequel to the 2007 movie. The story picks up with Stella (Kiele Sanchez), the sole survivor of the attac...

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Dec. 30, 2024

92. Fright Night (2011) with Sarah Williams

A remake of a Vampire Videos favourite is up for discussion this week, with Craig Gillespie's 2011 version of Fright Night, starring Anton Yelchin as a teenage boy who starts to suspect his next-door neighbour Jerry (Colin Farrell) might be a murderous vampire...

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Dec. 23, 2024

Bonus: Christmas Special 2024 - The Radleys (2024) with Frankie Pella…

Seasons bleedings! Our 2024 Christmas Special takes a look at a recent family vampire movie from the UK, Euro Lyn's The Radleys, based on the best-selling YA novel, about a family of abstaining vampires living in modern-day Whitby.

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Dec. 16, 2024

91. The Vampire Lovers (1970) with Mary Muñoz

[10x1] Season X launches with us rewinding the clock on Hammer to tackle non-Dracula strands of the famous production company's archive. And we begin with The Vampire Lovers from Roy Ward Baker, with Ingrid Pitt playing a fe...

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Dec. 9, 2024

Bonus: Season IX Ranking

Season IX has come to an end, which can mean only one thing: Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the recent episodes, rank the 11 films covered in order of quality, share some interesting stats about Season IX, and tease what's to come next week with the launch of Season…

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Nov. 25, 2024

90. Vamp (1986) with Mary Muñoz

[9x10] The Season IX finale is here, with a review of Richard Wenk's 1986 horror comedy Vamp , where two college students drive to the big city to hire a stripper for a frat party, only to find one nightclub's employees are a...

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Nov. 18, 2024

89. Salem's Lot (2024) with Dee Molumby

[9x9] Finally, it's time to head back to Salem's Lot for Gary Dauberman's long-delayed adaptation of Stephen King's classic horror story, where a best-selling author returns to his hometown to discover the community is being ...

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Nov. 11, 2024

88. The Addiction (1995) with Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as a NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood...

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