Episodes

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 McStayEditor: Hugh McStaySubscribe 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 OwenGuest: Dr Sorcha Ní FhlainnEditor: 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 McStayGuests: Tony Black (Suicide by Sunlight) • Violet Hammond (Elysia) • Dee Molumby (V)Editor: Dan OwenFurther 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 McStayGuest: Robert ClarkEditor: Dan Owen"No vegetables, no dessert... that's the rules." -- Mary BradySubscribe 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 OwenGuest: Dr Sorcha Ní FhlainnEditor: 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 McStayGuest: Brendon ConnellyEditor: Dan Owen"They have destroyed my servant. They will be destroyed..." -- Count Dracula.Subscribe an...

[5x4] The cult indie Let's Scare Jessica to Death, directed by John Hancock, is up for discussion this week. This 1971 horror film concerns a recently institutionalized woman called Jessica (Zohra Lampert) who has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse...Our guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Mary MuñozEditor: Hugh McStay"I sit here and I can't believe that it happened. And yet I have to believe i...

[5x3] This ill-fated summer blockbuster from director Stephen Norrington is next in store; a big-budget adaptation of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, about a group of Victorian literary heroes - led by Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) - assembled to prevent a world war...And making an incredible sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, it's author and podcaster Tony Black...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Tony BlackEditor: Dan Owen"May th...

This week, we have Joe Begos's 2019 horror film Bliss, starring Dora Madison as a struggling Los Angeles artist who takes a hallucinogenic drug in order to reignite her creativity...

[5x1] Season V launches with John Badham's adaptation of Dracula, starring Frank Langella as the master vampire, the sole survivor of a Yorkshire shipwreck who starts seducing the local women to the chagrin of their partners and fathers...And joining us via our new sarpodphagus is a veteran guest, the film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Dee MolumbyEditor: Hugh McStay"Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blo...

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan are back for a pre-Season V special to celebrate a year of Vampire Videos, now that 40 full episodes (+ bonuses) have been released into the world. Fun stuff we have in store include:Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!Our Favourite Guests!Our Funniest Episode!Our Biggest Podcasting Surprise!Our Favourite "Familiar"!Our Favourite Podcasting Moments!The Most Popular Vampire Diary Entry!A Reminder of Which Films Were Staked Through the Heart!A Tease of Season V's 10...

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan return to chew over Season IV and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of everything covered over the last few months. They'll also quiz each other about every film for added fun!Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenEditor: Hugh McStaySubscribe 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 & Closing theme music: 'Tales from the Grav...

[4x10] Stephen Sommers' monster mash-up Van Helsing is our Season IV finale episode, which finds the eponymous monster hunter (Hugh Jackman) travelling to Transylvania to slay Count Dracula, The Wolfman, and Frankenstein's Monster, with the help of a local woman (Kate Beckinsale).And joining us to sharpen up some stakes is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Dee MolumbyEditor: Hugh McStay"This thing... man... whatever it is... evil may have created...

[4x9] Our penultimate Season IV episode is Travis Stevens' Shudder original Jakob's Wife, about a small-town pastor's spouse (Barbara Crampton) who gets bitten by a vampire and undergoes a physical and sexual transformation that makes her question her dull marriage...Helping us bite into the film is comic-book writer and colourist Wayne Talbot, creator of the WWII Nazferatu vampire comic...Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan OwenGuest: Wayne TalbotEditor: Hugh McStay"Life happens, I guess." - Anne ...

Ethan Hawke stars in The Spierig Brothers' 2009 sci-fi horror action film Daybreakers, as a vampire hematologist living in a near-future society where a plague transformed almost everyone into vampires...

[4x7] We're turning back the clock to the mid-1980s for Howard Storm's horror-comedy Once Bitten, starring a pre-fame Jim Carrey as a teenager bitten by a seductive vampire and torn between her and his less promiscuous girlfriend...And making his sixth appearance on Vampire Videos, helping us make sense of this '80s curio, is author and podcaster Tony Black...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Tony BlackEditor: Dan Owen"I don't want to be a vampire. I'm a day person.." - Mark KendallSu...

[4x6] A loose sequel to Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Rymer's Queen of the Damned finds the vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) becoming a successful rock star, outing his own kind in the process and awakening a powerful and ancient vampire queen called Akasha (Aaliya)...Making her first return to discuss this film is critic and journalist Kat Hughes...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Kat HughesEditor: Dan Owen"You're beautiful to me because you're human. Your frailty. Your ...

George Romero is best-known for his zombie films, but this week we're taking a look at his lesser-known but just as influential vampire drama Martin. It stars John Amplas as a man who believes he's a vampire...

[4x4] The Hammer falls once again, with the fourth instalment in the British horror studio's Dracula saga. Christopher Lee returns for Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, directed by Freddie Francis, which finds the Count resurrected after an exorcism and in pursuit of the clergyman who's banished him from his castle...This week, we have a vampire and monster academic to help us discuss this movie, in the shape of Madeline Potter...Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Madeline PotterEditor: D...

[4x3] The "Iranian vampire western" from writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is up for review this week. It concerns a lonely vampire (Sheila Vand) living in a ghost town, stalking its blissfully unaware citizens...Joining us to discuss this unique work is freelance writer Will Salmon, editor of GamesRadar / Newsarama, whose writing you may also have read in SFX magazine.Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStayGuest: Will SalmonEditor: Dan Owen"I'm bad." - The Girl...