Vampire Videos We Made This

3x7 - THE INVITATION (2022)

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 English aristocacy, blissfully unaware they're also vampires plotting to wed her to their handsome patriarch...

Hosts
Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest
Dee Molumby

Editor
Hugh McStay

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3x6 - WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014)

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 apeared in the Radio Times, SFX, Digital Spy, and Yahoo Movies, amongst others...

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Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest
Steve O'Brien

Editor
Hugh McStay

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.

3x5 - BYZANTIUM (2012)

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 Hughes

Editor
Dan Owen

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.

3x4 - DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966)

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 Owen

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3x3 - CRONOS (1993)

Guillermo del Toro's debut Cronos is under discussion this week; a Mexican hororr about an elderly antiques 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...

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Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest
Stewart Roche

Editor
Hugh McStay

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.

3x2 - THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM (1988)

Did you know Dracula creator Bram Stoker wrote another vampiric story? Ken Russell's horror-comedy The Lair of the White Worm concerns an archaelogist (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 us dig into this cult '80s favourite is author and podcaster Tony Black...

Hosts
Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest
Tony Black

Editor
Dan Owen

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Theme music: 'The Victim' by Mary Riddle via Epidemic Sound • Podcast Artwork designed by Dan Owen.