Episodes

[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 Owen Guest: Mary Muñoz Editor: 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 McStay Guest: Tony Black Editor: 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 Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: 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 Owen 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 & 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 Owen Guest: Dee Molumby Editor: 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 Owen Guest: Wayne Talbot Editor: 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 McStay Guest: Tony Black Editor: Dan Owen "I don't want to be a vampire. I'm a day person.." - Mark Kendall Su...

[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 McStay Guest: Kat Hughes Editor: 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 McStay Guest: Madeline Potter Editor: 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 McStay Guest: Will Salmon Editor: Dan Owen "I'm bad." - The Girl ...

[4x2] It's Nicolas Cage's finest hour in Robert Bierman's cult classic Vampire's Kiss, where he plays a literary agent who believes he's been bitten by a sexy vampire and is undergoing physiological changes... but is it all in his head? "Christ! The tortures of the damned!" Joining us to tease apart this remarkable work is writer and The James Bond A-Z co-host Tom Butler... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Tom Butler Editor: Dan Owen "Get outta here, you fucking pig. LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALON...

[4x1] Season IV of the show launches with Werner Herzog's remake of Nosferatu (1922), starring Bruno Ganz as an estate agent who travels to Transylvania to assist the unnerving Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) in buying a property. To help explore this beloved remake, writer and podcaster Darren Mooney makes his return to the show... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Darren Mooney Editor: Dan Owen "Time is an abyss... profound as a thousand nights... centuries come and go... to be unable to gr...

Hugh and Dan return to mull over Season II 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, then tease what's coming soon...

[3x10] Our Season III finale takes a rare look at a newly released vampire film! It's Chris McKay's horror-comedy Renfield, which finds the eponymous character (Nicholas Hoult) trying to leave the services of his tyrannical master, Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage)... And making her debut in the podcasket is Fangirlish writer and co-host of Podcast-616, Ashley Thomas... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Ashley Thomas Editor: Dan Owen "I am enough. I deserve happiness. And I take full charge of ...

This week we're tackling the neo-western horror film Near Dark from director Kathryn Bigelow, starring Adrian Pasdar as a small-town farmer's son who reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires...

[3x8] It's back to 1970 for Bob Kelljan's cult hit Count Yorga, Vampire, starring Robert Quarry as the eponymous bloodsucker posing as a Bulgarian mystic in Los Angeles, where he leads seances while secretly preying on his New Age clientele... Joining us to delve into this transitional vampire movie is university lecturer, author, and all-round vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or revi...

Jessica M. Thompson's horror thriller The Invitation is our next bite. It concerns a young American woman (Nathalie Emmanuel) travelling to the UK after discovering she's related to English aristocracy....

We're heading Down Under to look at the cult Kiwi comedy What We Do in the Shadows, directed by Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, which is a mockumentary chronicling the lives of four dysfunctional vampires...

[3x5] Neil Jordan's less famous vampire movie, after Interview with the Vampire, is up for discussion this week. It's Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as two vampires using their abilities to protect women and ease people's suffering, who've spent centuries on the run from a patriarchal vampire society upset at their existence... The Hollywood News' writer Kat Hughes joins us to delve into this overlooked gem of horror cinema... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Kat Hugh...

[3x4] It's Hammer time again! We venture back into the vault of the legendary British horror studio for Dracula: Prince of Darkness, starring Christopher Lee as the master vampire who's resurrected after four English travellers make the mistake of staying in his castle. And we have real expertise at hand this week, with Stacey Abbott, a professor of film and television and self-proclaimed vampire/horror/zombie scholar... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Professor Stacey Abbott Editor: Dan ...