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…
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...
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…
[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...
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...
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.
[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...
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…
[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...
[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 ...
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...
[9x7] An early "talkie" is up for discussion this week, in the form of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 Gothic horror film Vampyr , where a student of the paranormal stays overnight in a village inn apparently stalked by a blood-su...
It's the spookiest time of the year, which means Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire for another Halloween Special. This time, they're reviewing the winner of the social media 'Dreckula' poll, Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler as the famous vampire. But they'll also be sharing bloo…
It's a clash of the titans in Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, where the Prince of Darkness joins forces with a descendent of Dr Frankenstein to benefit from a serum to enable him to walk around in daylight. (It sounds better than it is.)
[9x5] The mid-Season IX point arrives with director Park Chan-wook's 2013 "vampire film" Stoker , which concerns a sullen 18-year-old girl (Mia Wasikowska) who comes under the spell of her mysterious uncle Charlie (Matthew Go...
We head into the direct-to-video abyss for Scott Spiegel's 1999 horror-comedy crime film From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, where a gang of criminals (led by Robert Patrick) are gradually transformed into vampires while trying to pull off a bank heist in Mexico...
[9x3] Hammer's Dracula saga comes to an end with The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires , which finds Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) helping eight siblings reclaim their mountain village from seven powerful vampires and an army of ...
We're heading to the skies for another Stephen King adaptation - it's Mark Pavia's 1997 adaptation of his short story Night Flier, about a despicable tabloid reporter (Miguel Ferrer) investigating what seems to be a vampire flying into local airfields to drink the blood of whoever's unfortunate eno…
[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 ...
It's that time again! Dan and Hugh are still convened around the vampire campfire, this time to reflect on Season VIII and reveal their combined Top 10 of everything discussed. As ever, they'll also quiz each other about each movie! And to finish, a tease of what listeners can expect from Season IX…
Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on two years of Vampire Videos and the 80 full episodes (+ bonuses) that have been released so far. Includes 'Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires', 'Our Top 6 Most Prolific Guests', and 'All the Vampire Films That Are Coming Soon-ish... Maybe!'
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 wealt...
[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 ...