Episodes

[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 create...

[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." - Ann...

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...

[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 :...

[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 Gi...

[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 A...

[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...