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[10x10] We did it! Vampire Videos has reached 100 episodes (ahem, +15 bonus specials), and it’s time to mark this impressive milestone with a super-sized special. Do you have ~4 hours to get through this episode in one sitting? If not, don't worry, there are approximate time stamps if you want to jump around a bit...
(00:02:26) INTRODUCTION
Dan and Hugh reflect on 31 months of making Vampire Videos together, including a funny insight into the Discord message that started the ball rolling in March 2022. We also read listener messages about reaching 100 episodes, with many more interspersed between the other segments.
(00:28:57) NOSFERATU (2024)
Our Bite Club time-limited exclusive from January 2025 is now available for everyone to listen to, so you can finally hear us discuss Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake with returning guest Chris Brosnahan.
(01:51:27) GUEST ROUNDTABLE
Dan and Hugh hosted a Zoom chat with our three most prolific guests - Mary Muñoz, Tony Black, and Dee Molumby. We discussed the show, spoke about our personal experiences being involved, shared a few memorable recording moments, reflected on some of the awful films we had to endure, gave our thoughts on modern vampire media in general, and… revealed our faces for the first time. That's right, Dan and Hugh finally clap eyes on each other after two years.
(02:39:19) TOP 100 VAMPIRE FILMS
We’ve been counting down the Top 100 films and TV shows we’ve covered on social media in the run-up to this episode. But now you can hear our thoughts on the scummy dreck that didn't even make the Top 100 chart... before we unveil our Top 20 Vampire Films.
(03:38:39) FANGED FUTURE
A short wrap-up with some amusing facts and stats about the show (like our “stake to live” ratio so far), and end with a tease of what the future holds for the next hundred episodes. That's if we make it that far!
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guests: Chris Brosnahan, Tony Black, Dee Molumby & Mary Muñoz.
Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Thanks to every familiar who made the time to send us a message: Kathleen from Nova Scotia, Andrew Saturley, Paul Wood, Colin Woodward, Darren Gray, Chris Evans, Carmelita Valdez McKoy, Hayden Orr, James Duffy, Frankie Pellatt, Kat Hughes, Darren Mooney, Stacey Abbott & Count Caliban.
Special thanks to viral TikTok star Tim Arnell as the voice of Count Orlok.
Forever indebted to our kind and loyal Bite Club subscribers: Hayden Orr, James Duffy & Violet Hammond. You too can leave a donation at Ko-fi to show your appreciation for all the hard work over 100+ recordings.
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[10x9] Our penultimate Season X episode looks at Adam Randall's Netflix original film Night Teeth, which follows a night in the life of a young Los Angeles chauffeur (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) who unwittingly picks up two young vampire ladies...
And continuing her prolific appearances across nearly 100 episodes, it's podcaster and film critic Dee Molumby...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Hugh McStay
"You wouldn't know a party if it fucked you in the face." -- Zoe
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[10x8] Over two years later, we finally get around to the US adaptation of Let the Right One In, retitled Let Me In, from director Matt Reeves. This again tells the story of a bullied boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) growing up in the early-1980s, who befriends a visiting vampire girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) who's allied herself with a serial killer...
And making her first return to the show is writer and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Just so you know, I can't be your friend.." -- Abby
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[10x7] We begin a new vampire franchise with Ted Nicolau's direct-to-video cult horror Subspecies, where three female American students arrive in Romania to study, only to become embroiled in the machinations between two vampire brothers, Radu (Anders Hove) and Stefan (Michael Watson)...
And making her return to the show after a lengthy break is writer Kim Morrison...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Morrison
Editor: Dan Owen
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[10x6] We take our first step into animation and Japanese film with 1985's Vampire Hunter D from director Toyoo Ashida, which adapts the famous novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi about a half-human/half-vampire ridding the world of the undead in a post-apocalyptic future where the Earth's been overrun with monsters and mutants...
To help us, making his debut on the show is comic-book writer Jared Wayne Gifford...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Jared Wayne Gifford
Editor: Dan Owen
"I have lived in this world for 10,0000 years, and yet you lack the capacity to understand what that truly means. When years cease to have meaning, boredom is a mortal foe. It is a war for constant stimulation, and if that means debasing our line with humans, then so be it." -- Count Magnus Lee
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[10x5] We're back in the Underworld franchise with the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from director Patrick Tatopoulos, which explains the origin of Lycan leader Lucian (Michael Sheen), set against the backdrop of his doomed romance with vampire Sonya (Rhona Mitra) and a Lycan rebellion...
And returning to the show is Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Anthony Bowman
Editor: Dan Owen
"I have no wish to remove one shackle from around your necks, only to replace them with one of my own." -- Lucian
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[10x4] We take to the skies for the Netflix action horror film Blood Red Sky, directed by Peter Thorwarth, which finds a terminally ill German woman travelling across the Atlantic for life-saving treatment with her son, only to find their flight taken over by terrorists. But, unfortunately for the hijackers, her symptoms include drinking human blood...
And back to help us dissect this movie is Ghoulfriends podcaster Lindsay Drysdale...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Lindsay Drysdale
Editor: Hugh McStay
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[10x3] It's been a long time coming, but we're finally watching 2010's 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, the direct-to-video sequel to the 2007 movie. The story picks up with Stella (Kiele Sanchez), the sole survivor of the attack on the Alaskan town of Barrow, giving seminars about the existence of vampires... which draws the attention of vampires and vampire hunters alike...
A new guest is joining us too, in the shape of freelance journalist Becci Sayce from Fangoria, Dread Central, and Second Sight...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Becci Sayce
Editor: Dan Owen
"I never wanted a war. I just wanted people to know what happened here. 98 men, women, children. My husband. And yet no one believed. They rebuilt the town. Life went on. But I was already dead inside. I never wanted a war." --- Stella
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[10x2] A remake of a Vampire Videos favourite is up for discussion this week, with Craig Gillespie's 2011 version of Fright Night, starring Anton Yelchin as a teenager who starts to suspect his new neighbour Jerry (Colin Farrell) might be a vampire...
And we have a new guest making her debut via podcasket, too! It's film critic and videographer Sarah Williams...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Sarah Williams
Editor: Dan Owen
"Well security is a little lax since everybody got their throat torn out." -- Charley Brewster
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[BONUS] Seasons bleedings! Our 2024 Christmas Special takes a look at a British family vampire movie, Euro Lyn's The Radleys, based on the best-selling YA novel, about a family of abstaining vampires living in modern-day Whitby.
And podcaster Frankie Pellatt is our very special seasonal guest, joining us inside the snowbound Vampire Villa to talk about the film... but also tell terrible Christmas crackers jokes and play three festive games we've each devised in secret...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Frankie Pellatt
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them."
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[10x1] Season X launches with us rewinding the clock on Hammer to tackle non-Dracula strands of the famous production company's archive. And we begin with The Vampire Lovers from Roy Ward Baker, with Ingrid Pitt playing a female vampire preying on affluent women in 19th-century Germany...
And completing her unintended recent trilogy of Vampire Videos guest appearances, it's copywriter and podcaster Mary Muñoz once again...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editor: Hugh McStay
"You must die! Everybody must die!." -- Marcilla
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[BONUS] Season IX has come to an end, which can mean only one thing: Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire to reflect on the recent episodes, rank the 11 films covered in order of merit, share interesting stats about the season, and tease what's to come next week with the launch of Season X...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Dan Owen
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[9x10] The Season IX finale is here, with a review of Richard Wenk's 1986 horror comedy Vamp, where two college students drive to the big city to hire a stripper for a frat party, only to find one nightclub's employees are all vampires...
And making a welcome return, so soon after the Halloween Special, is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editor: Dan Owen
"Testy! You wanna know why I'm testy? I'll tell you why I'm testy. Today I was nearly hung, I got into a fight with a psychotic albino, I met a human pin cushion in the bathroom, I ate a cockroach, my best friend disappears and then I'm nearly assassinated by a runaway elevator! I'VE HAD A BAD DAY!” — Keith
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[9x9] Finally, it's time to head back to Salem's Lot for Gary Dauberman's long-delayed adaptation of Stephen King's classic horror story, where a best-selling author returns to his hometown to discover the community is being taken over by vampires...
Helping us dissect the film is prolific Vampire Videos guest, film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Hugh McStay
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[9x8] It's mid-1990s arthouse cinema time with Abel Ferrara's vampire drugs allegory The Addiction, starring Lili Taylor as an NYU student who is bitten by a vampire one evening and finds herself addicted to drinking human blood...
And making her belated return in the podcasket is vampire expert and horror scholar Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Editor: Dan Owen
"To face what we are in the end, we stand before the light and our true nature is revealed. Self-revelation is annihilation of self.”—Kathleen
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[9x7] An early "talkie" is up for discussion this week, in the form of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 Gothic horror film Vampyr, where a student of the paranormal stays overnight in a village inn apparently stalked by a blood-sucking creature...
And making her belated third trip in the podcasket is university lecturer and horror expert Professor Stacey Abbott...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Prof. Stacey Abbott
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Why does the doctor always come at night?" -- Léone
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[BONUS] It's the spookiest time of the year, which means Dan and Hugh are back around the vampire campfire for another Halloween Special. This time, reviewing the winner of the social media 'DRECKULA' poll, Dracula 2000, starring Gerard Butler as the famous vampire. But they'll also be sharing some real-life bloodcurdling ghost stories along the way...
Joining the boys around the fire is the editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz, who has her own scary story to share too...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editors: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
"You made the world in your image. Now I make it in mine." -- Dracula
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[9x6] It's a clash of the titans in B-movie director Al Adamson's Dracula vs. Frankenstein, where the Prince of Darkness joins forces with a descendent of Dr Frankenstein to benefit from a serum to enable him to walk around in daylight. (It sounds better than it is...)
The Frankencast co-host Anthony Bowman makes his first return to the show to explain himself...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Anthony Bowman
Editor: Hugh McStay
"They have seen all the illusions in my creature emporium, but they have yet to face the greatest illusion: the illusion of reality."---Dr Durea
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[9x5] The mid-Season IX point arrives with director Park Chan-wook's 2013 "vampire film" Stoker, which concerns a sullen 18-year-old girl (Mia Wasikowska) who comes under the spell of her mysterious uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) following the death of her father...
Making her long-awaited debut in the podcasket to talk about one of her favourite films is the film journalist and author Zoë Rose Smith...
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Guest: Zoë Rose Smith
Editor: Hugh McStay
"He used to say, sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse." -- India Stoker
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[9x4] We rummage inside the direct-to-video bin for Scott Spiegel's 1999 horror crime thriller From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, where a gang of criminals (led by Robert Patrick) are slowly transformed into vampires while trying to pull off a bank heist in Mexico...
And a new guest is arriving by podcasket, in the shape of author and broadcaster Kim Taylor-Foster...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Taylor-Foster
Editor: Dan Owen
"El Coyote? What's that mean in American?." -- Ray Bob
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