Episodes

June 10, 2024

71. Dracula: Dead & Loving It (1995) with Frankie Pellatt

Mel Brooks' vampire comedy is up for discussion, starring spoof legend Leslie Nielsen as Count Dracula.

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June 3, 2024

Bonus: Season VII Ranking

Dan & Hugh rank last season's offerings, quiz each other on them, and tease what's coming soon...

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May 20, 2024

70. Stake Land (2010) with Brad Hanson

[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...

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May 12, 2024

69. The Forsaken (2001) with Kat Hughes

[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 ge...

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May 6, 2024

68. Blade: Trinity (2004) with Tony Black

[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 ...

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April 29, 2024

67. Son of Dracula (1943) with Kim Pierce

[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 pla...

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April 22, 2024

66. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) with Robert Clark

[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 ...

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April 8, 2024

65. The Reflecting Skin (1990) with Mary Muñoz

[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...

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April 1, 2024

64. Dracula A.D 1972 (1972) with Wayne Talbot

[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 Cush...

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April 1, 2024

Bonus: Interview with a REAL Vampire

In this surprise episode, Dan & Hugh leave the safety of the UK inside their wooden podcasket, travelling overseas to the remote wilderness of Transylvania, having been invited by a big fan of the podcast...

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March 25, 2024

63. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020) with Steve O'Bri…

[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...

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March 18, 2024

62. Love at First Bite (1979) with Murray Leeder

[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, ...

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March 11, 2024

61. Dracula Untold (2014) with Dee Molumby

[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... Return...

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March 4, 2024

Bonus: Season VI Ranking

Dan and Hugh reconvene around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season VI and reveal their combined Top 12 ranking of the films and TV shows they reviewed. They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun!

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Feb. 19, 2024

60. John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) with Anthony Bowman

[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 vam...

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Feb. 12, 2024

59. Night Watch (2004) with Dee Molumby

[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 ...

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Feb. 5, 2024

58. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) with Robert Clark

[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 ti...

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Jan. 29, 2024

57. Dark Shadows (2012) with Frankie Pellatt

[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 fort...

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Jan. 22, 2024

56. Bit (2019) with Lindsay Drysdale

Brad Michael Elmore's teen vampire drama Bit, about an 18-year-old transgender girl (Nicole Maines) moving to L.A with her brother, only to find herself mixing with a group of feminist vampires led by Duke (Diana Hopper)...

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Jan. 20, 2024

Bonus - Doctor Who's "State of Decay" (1980) with The TARDIS Crew

[BONUS] Surprise! To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the We Made This network, and Tom Baker's 90th birthday, we're teaming up for a special crossover with fellow WMT show The TARDIS Crew ! Making their debuts on Vampire V...

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Jan. 8, 2024

55. Blade II (2002) with Wayne Talbot

[6x5] We're back with our second Guillermo del Toro vampire film, Blade II , which finds Wesley Snipes returning as the super-cool vampire hunter and having to join forces with his enemies to defeat an even greater threat to ...

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Jan. 1, 2024

54. Scars of Dracula (1970) with Mary Muñoz

[6x4] We return to the well of Hammer horror for Scars of Dracula , directed by Roy Ward Baker, starring Christopher Lee once again as the eponymous Count, this time being antagonised by two brothers at his castle home... To ...

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Dec. 23, 2023

Christmas Special 2023: Count Magnus (2022) with Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

[BONUS] Seasons bleedings! For this year's Christmas Special, we have Mark Gatiss's adaptation of M.R James' famous story, Count Magnus , as part of the BBC's annual A Ghost Story at Christmas tradition. In this spooky tale, ...

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Dec. 18, 2023

53. Interview with the Vampire: Season One (2022) with Kim Morrison

[6x3] This week, we're delving into the entire first season of AMC's vampire horror drama Interview with the Vampire from 2022, starring Jacob Anderson as an old vampire recounting his life's story to an ageing reporter, whic...

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