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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 director Natasha Kermani...

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 XIII is sadly over, so Dan and Hugh return to the warm vampire campfire to reminisce about the season's many offerings, rank the 14 titles in order of merit, quiz each other on their content, and tease what Season XIV has in store for listeners!Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayEditor: Dan Owen⁠Help Us Grow the Show!If you enjoy what we do, please take a moment to: Subscribe and leave a positive review! Your feedback and ratings are vital for bringing you more great episodes.Wan...

[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 Anders Banke's 2006 horror-comedy Frostbiten, about a mother and daughter embroiled in a vampire uprising in a small Swedish town experiencing a month-long polar night...We'll also be telling some terrible cracker jokes, while playing three different party games along the w...

[13x10] The Season XIII finale offers a return to Anne Rice's Immortal Universe on AMC, with the first season of Talamasca: The Secret Order. Here, a young mindreader called Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton) joins an arcane organisation sworn to protect humanity from supernatural creatures, including vampires...And we have our Interview with the Vampire regular Kim Morrison back to help us assess the third TV series set in this world...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Kim MorrisonEditor...

[13:9] Our penultimate Season XIII episode finds us worshipping Netflix miniseries Midnight Mass, from writer-director Mike Flanagan, which finds a mysterious new priest (Hamish Linklater) arriving on an impoverished remote island. But the miracles he brings are revealed to have a high price... in blood...And taking a pew with us is comic-book writer, podcaster, and atheist Wayne Talbot...1. THE GATHERING.Priests: Father McStay & Bishop OwenCongregant: Monsignor Wayne TalbotHoly Editor: F...

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 Taylor-Foster...

[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 before her graduation, as a spate or strange murders strike Seattle...And returning from our recent Halloween Special, it's writer and podcaster Lindsay Drysdale...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Lindsay DrysdaleEditor: Hugh McStay" I'm from a different era. Things...

[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 under the eerie influence of its ancient inhabitants...And making his debut on Vampire Videos is an author and the man behind many podcasts, including Writers on Film, it's John Bleasdale...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: John BleasdaleEditor: Dan Owen⁠"A captain.....

[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 along to talk about a particular entry of a horror anthology...[00:00:34] MONSTERS - "The Waiting Game"Writer Brendon Connelly talks to us about a third season instalment of this 1980s US horror anthology series, involving nuclear war and the terror beyond an underground...

[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 student Michelle, who's been bitten and is slowly turning into a vampire herself...And making another return to the show to talk about it is cultural essayist and film critic Kim Pierce...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Kim PierceEditor: Hugh McStay"Forgive me broth...

[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 transformed into an undead creature...And joining us the person who brought this film to our attention, writer and podcaster Mary Muñoz...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Mary MuñozEditor: Dan Owen⁠"Wait six days for me. If, after those six days, I have not returned, say a...

[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 while on their honeymoon...And we have a new guest arriving by podcasket to help us bite into this classic, in the shape of film critic Kristin Battestella...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Kristin BattestellaEditor: Hugh McStay"When the devil attacks a man or wom...

[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's corpse is reinterred...And making her debut on the show is film journalist and critic Katie Smith-Wong...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Katie Smith-WongEditor: Dan Owen⁠Enjoying what you hear? Please subscribe, leave a rating, or write a review to help us keep b...

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 resurrected as a man-eating succubus demon (vampire?) creature...Back for more ghoulish delight is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Mary MuñozEditor: Hugh McStay"Hell is a teenage girl." -- Needy LesnickyEnjoying what you hear? Please su...

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 surfer gang are actually vampires...And making a welcome return to the show is film critic and podcaster Kat Hughes...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Kat HughesEditor: Dan Owen⁠"Build a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of...

[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 discovering the community are all vampires...And making her own return, to Vampire Videos, is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Dr Sorcha Ní FhlainnEditor: Hugh McStay⁠"I'm not a Nazi hunter. I'm a Nazi killer...

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 is writer and horror fanatic Kim Morrison...

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 podcaster and film critic Dee Molumby...

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 the show is ⁠Frankencast⁠ co-host Anthony Bowman...

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...