Vampire Videos

[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 Dia...

[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 pr...

[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 Gue...

[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...

[4x8] Ethan Hawke stars in The Spierig Brothers' 2009 sci-fi horror action film Daybreakers, as a vampire haematologist living in a near-future society where a plague transformed almost everyone into vampires, meaning the vital human population's blood is running dangerously low... Joining us to delve into this high-concept movie is university lecturer, author, and vampire expert Dr Sorcha Ní Fhla...

[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:...

[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 Gue...

[4x5] 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, as he goes to stay with his devoutly religious elderly cousin in Pennsylvania... And joining us to talk about this '70s curios is author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher, who's worked...

[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,...

[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 m...

[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...

[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...

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan return to mull over Season III 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 in Season IV very soon! 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 K...

[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 Gu...

[3x9] 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 travelling group of vampires after getting bitten by a beautiful drifter... And making a return to discuss this '80s cult classic is horror scholar Prof Stacey Abbott... Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay Guest: Prof Stacey Abbot...

[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 Owe...

[3x7] Jessica M. Thompson's 2022 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 the English aristocracy, blissfully unaware they're also vampires plotting to wed her to their handsome patriarch... And accepting the invite to join us is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby... Hosts: Hug...

[3x6] 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 living in Wellington, New Zealand... Helping us this week is freelance writer Steve O'Brien, whose work has appeared in the Radio Times, SFX, Digital Spy, and Yahoo Movies, amongst others....

[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 t...

[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/...

[3x3] Guillermo del Toro's debut Cronos is under discussion this week; a Mexican horror about an elderly antique dealer (Federico Luppi) who finds a mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life. Joining us in the podcasket is Irish playwright Stewart Roche... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Guest: Stewart Roche Editor: Hugh McStay Subscribe and leave a rating or review to suppor...

[3x2] Did you know Dracula author Bram Stoker wrote another vampiric story? Ken Russell's horror-comedy The Lair of the White Worm concerns an archaeologist (Peter Capaldi) unearthing evidence that a local legend of a predatory creature was real, and is soon joined by a local lord (Hugh Grant) to stop an ancient priestess (Amanda Donohoe) making a human sacrifice to a snake-god... And back to help...

[3x1] Season III launches with a fang-favourite! It's Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys, starring Jason Patric and Corey Haim as two brothers who move to Santa Clara with their mother (Dianne Wiest), only to discover a gang of vampires led by David (Kiefer Sutherland) is the reason their new home is referred to as "the murder capital of the world"... Arriving by podcasket to talk about this '80s cla...

[BONUS] Hugh and Dan are back to reflect on Season II and rate each film individually, before combining their scores to create a Top 11 ranking. They'll also quiz each other about each movie for a few laughs along the way, and tease what's coming soon in Season III! Enjoy... Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen Editor: Dan Owen Subscribe and leave a rating or review to support the show. You can also leav...

[2x10] There's a monster mash for our Season 2 finale, as Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy and.... uh, Gill-Man...?... arrive in small-town '80s America where a group of kids have to prevent them from taking over the world. Joining us to chat about Fred Dekker's notorious box office flop The Monster Squad, which he co-wrote with best friend Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), is Andrew Gaudion of t...