Episodes

[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 to drink fresh human blood to stay alive... And making his long-awaited return is entertainment and lifestyle journalist Steve O'Brien... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Steve O'Brien Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You ca...

[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, only to fall in love with a fashion model... And making his debut in the sarpodphagus is Canadian vampire scholar Murray Leeder... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Murray Leeder Editor: Dan Owen "I'm going out to get a bite to drink." -- Count Dracula Subscribe and lea...

[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... Returning to help us parse this movie is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Dan Owen "My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a mo...

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!

[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 vampire from acquiring a cross that will enable him to walk in daylight... And making his debut on Vampire Videos is podcaster Anthony Bowman from the Frankencast show. Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Anthony Bowman Editor: Hugh McStay "Let me just ask you one thing: aft...

[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 once again to help us discuss it is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby, who reveals an unexpected link to Russia... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: Hugh McStay "... And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And...

[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 titular ship on his way to England, only for the crew to realise they have a murderous stowaway aboard... To help us take a bite out of this box office flop, making his return in the sarcophopod, it's the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark... Hosts: Dan Owen & H...

[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 fortunes of his descendants whose business is under threat from the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him... And making her return to the show is Read & Buried podcast co-host Frankie Pellatt... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Frankie Pellatt Editor: Dan Owen 7 Subscribe and ...

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)...

[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 Videos are TARDIS Crew co-hosts Baz and Ben Greenland, who are lending their expertise to discuss the 1980 Doctor Who serial "State of Decay" where the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters vampires suppressing a local population's technological advancement... Hosts: Dan Owen ...

[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 mankind... Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Wayne Talbot Editor: Dan Owen "There's an old saying: Keep your friends close, keep your en...

[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 talk about this film, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: Hugh McStay "What we shall be facing in a few hours' time is not a man. He is evil. He is the embodiment of all that is evil. H...

[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, an English writer (Jason Watkins) visits Sweden and becomes intrigued by a mausoleum containing a tomb covered in heavy chains... PLUS - we have some hilariously awful vampire jokes and a special quiz with our guest under the spotlight! And making another return for this fe...

[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, which involves how he was created by the enigmatic Lestat (Sam Reid)... And making her return in the sarpodphagus is Ghouls magazine writer and social manager Kim Morrison... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kim Morrison Editor: Hugh McStay "I have loved you with all myse...

It's vampires vs. werwolves in Len Wiseman's 2003 action horror film Underworld, starring Kate Beckinsale as a vampire 'Death Dealer' tasked with protecting her own kind from vicious enemy Lycans...

Season VI launches with Robert Rodriguez's 1996 crime horror From Dusk Till Dawn, written by Quentin Tarantino, which finds two criminal brothers (Tarantino & George Clooney) fleeing across the US-Mexico border...

[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on Season V and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything they saw. They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! Can Dan finally beat Hugh's four-win streak? Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Editor: Hugh McStay Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leave a donation at Ko-fi and follow us on social media platforms here. A proud part of the Film Stories podcast network. Opening...

Stephen Norrington's 1998 comic-book action film Blade is next, with Wesley Snipes as the eponymous half-vampire/half-human who stalks Los Angeles slaying vampires...

[5x9] Count Yorga is back for this fast-tracked sequel, again directed by Bob Kelljan, which finds the master vampire (Robert Quarry) resurrected to terrorise the staff of an orphanage... Back for a fourth time to help discuss the film is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Hugh McStay "Dr Baldwin, this is Count Yorga. You are going to die. You are going to die a most horrible death! You've b...

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan are back for another spooky special, this time focusing on three short films about vampires. And joining us around the vampire campfire is a triptych of VIP guests: author and podcaster Tony Black, film critic and broadcaster Dee Molumby, and easily the podcast's No.1 fan Violet Hammond... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guests: Tony Black (Suicide by Sunlight) • Violet Hammond (Elysia) • Dee Molumby (V) Editor: Dan Owen Further listening: Tony and Hugh discuss In the Mouth...

A vampiric witch (Barbara Steele) returns from the grave to try and possess the body of her owns beautiful look-alike descendant in Mario Bava's influential horror classic Black Sunday...

[5x7] The Master of Horror, Stephen King, wrote Sleepwalkers for Mick Garris to direct, which concerns two incestuous shape-shifting vampires trying to sustain the existence of their species by feeding on the energy of virginal women... And making his belated return in the sarcophopod is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Robert Clark Editor: Dan Owen "No vegetables, no dessert... that's the rules." -- Mary Brady Subscribe and leave a ...

[5x6] Tom Holland's classic Fright Night is our film this week, which concerns a teenage boy who becomes aware his next-door neighbour is a vampire responsible for a series of local murders, so in desperation enlists the help of an over-the-hill English actor famous for slaying the undead at the movies... Back for a third time to help discuss the movie is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Hu...

[5x5] Christopher Lee returns once again as Count Dracula for Peter Sasdy's Hammer horror sequel Taste the Blood of Dracula, which concerns three gentlemen who decide to resurrect the master vampire as part of their desire to chase transgressive experiences... Our guest this week is screen, stage, and radio writer Brendon Connelly... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Brendon Connelly Editor: Dan Owen "They have destroyed my servant. They will be destroyed..." -- Count Dracula. Subscribe an...