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[8x3] Christopher Lee makes his final bow as Count Dracula in Alan Gibson's Hammer horror sequel The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which finds the master vampire trying to cause a global genocide...
And making a belated return to the show is Yahoo! writer and James Bond A-Z podcaster Tom Butler...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Tom Butler
Editor: Hugh McStay
"He'd want to bring down the whole universe with him. The ultimate revenge. Thousands dying of the plague, and like the shadow of death itself, one figure scything its way through the terror and anguish: Count Dracula. It's the Biblical prophecy of Armageddon.." -- Van Helsing
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[8x2] Will Smith is the last man alive in Francis Lawrence's 2007 retelling of the famous Richard Matheson story I Am Legend, set in a post-apocalyptic New Yorky City where infected people have become nocturnal creatures...
And returning to the podcast is Ramblin Amblin podcaster and film critic Andrew Gaudion...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Andrew Gaudion
Editor: Dan Owen
"God didn't do this - we did!” -- Neville
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[8x1] Season VIII begins with Mel Brooks' 1995 spoof comedy Dracula: Dead & Loving It, starring Leslie Nielsen as the eponymous vampire, in a spoof retelling of Bram Stoker's famous story...
And making her return to the show is the Labours of Hercule podcaster and self-styled 'queen of puns', Frankie Pellatt.
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Frankie Pellatt
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Would an enema help?." -- Dr Seward
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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh once again gather around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season 7 and reveal their combined Top 10 ranking of the films they reviewed.
As usual, they'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! And a tease of what's to come in Season VIII is always a great way to end the show...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Dan Owen
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[7x10] Our Season VII climax brings us to Jim Mickle's 2010 post-apocalyptic vampire movie Stake Land, about a young orphaned man taken under the wing of a vampire hunter known only as 'Mister'...
And making his debut on the show is podcaster Brad Hanson...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Brad Hanson
Editor: Dan Owen
"Months passed in a blur of days and nights. We travelled east and west, but always north. Away from death." -- Martin
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[7x9] Our penultimate episode of Season VII takes us to millennial horror with J.S Cardone's vampire road trip movie The Forsaken, starring Kerr Smith as a budding filmmaker who agrees to deliver a car to Florida, only to get entangled with a vampire hunting hitchhiker...
And back for her third appearance on the show is film critic and podcaster Kat Hughes...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kat Hughes
Editor: Dan Owen
"We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great American Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since." -- Nick
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[7x8] We finish the Blade trilogy with David S. Goyer's Blade: Trinity, starring Wesley Snipes as the eponymous vampire slayer, now joined by two human companions (played by Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel), who must contend with a resurrected Dracula...
Returning to the show, helping us go over the film, is writer and podcaster Tony Black...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Tony Black
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Movies are just a comforting fairy tale compared to the real deal. Bram Stoker, he wrote a good yarn. But the events that he described back in 1897, God, that was just a tiny piece of the mosaic." -- Hannibal King
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[7x7] We're delving into early Hollywood cinema for Robert Siodmak's horror sequel from 1943, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as 'Count Alucard', a European nobleman who's invited to the American South to marry a plantation owner's daughter obsessed with the occult...
Making her debut on the show is Trashwire podcaster and Geek Girl Authority film writer Kim Pierce...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Kim Pierce
Editor: Dan Owen
"The angel of death hovers over a great house. I see it in ruins... weeds, vines growing over it, bats flying in and out the broken windows." -- Madame Zimba
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[7x6] Season VII resumes with Jim Jarmusch's drama Only Lovers Left Alive, starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as two vampire lovers coping with immortality, whose relationship is tested by the unexpected arrival of a family member...
And back via the sarpodphagus, to help us delve into this acclaimed indie film is the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Robert Clark
Editor: Hugh McStay
"I just feel like all the sand is at the bottom of the hourglass or something." -- Adam
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[7x5] It's arthouse horror with Philip Ridley's 1990 drama The Reflecting Skin, which concerns an eight-year-old boy growing up in the 1950s American prairie, who starts to believe his quiet English neighbour (Lindsay Duncan) is a vampire killing his friends...
To talk about this unusual and divisive movie, our returning guest this week is editor and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Have you been exploding frogs again?" -- Ruth Dove
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[7x4] It's our seventh Hammer film with Count Dracula, as Christopher Lee's fanged fiend is resurrected by a young disciple in 1970s London, where he must face the descendent of his greatest adversary, Van Helsing (Peter Cushing). It's Dracula A.D 1972...
And joining us on the show is returning guest Wayne Talbot, comic-book writer, colourist, and creator of the World War II Nazferatu vampire comic...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Wayne Talbot
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Okay, okay. But if we do get to summon up the big daddy with the horns and the tail, he gets to bring his own liquor, his own bird, and his own pot." -- Joe Mitcham
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[BONUS] In this surprise episode, Dan Owen & Hugh McStay leave the safety of the UK inside their wooden podcasket, travelling overseas to the remote wilderness of Transylvania, having been invited by a big fan of the podcast... an actual undead vampire, Count Antoniu Caliban.
What secrets can be discovered about real-life vampire lore and the mysteries of Count Caliban's millennia-long existence? And why does it involve Kevin McCloud? Listen to find out...
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Count Antoniu Caliban
Editor: Dan Owen
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[7x3] A modern low-budget indie is up for discourse this week. It's Jonathan Cuartas's 2020 horror drama My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To, starring Patrick Fugit as the brother of a chronically ill sibling who needs to drink fresh human blood to stay alive...
And making his long-awaited return is entertainment and lifestyle journalist Steve O'Brien...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Steve O'Brien
Editor: Dan Owen
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[7x2] We're back in the late-1970s for Stan Dragoti's vampire comedy Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula, who's evicted from his Transylvanian castle and flies to New York City to start a new life, only to fall in love with a fashion model...
And making his debut in the sarpodphagus is Canadian vampire scholar Murray Leeder...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Murray Leeder
Editor: Dan Owen
"I'm going out to get a bite to drink." -- Count Dracula
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[7x1] We start Season VII with Gary Shore's action horror Dracula Untold, starring Luke Evans as a 15th-century warrior who makes a deal with a vampire to be granted dark powers, to protect his people from invaders...
Returning to help us parse this movie is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Dan Owen
"My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster." -- Ingeras
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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh reconvene around the vampire campfire to reflect on Season VI and reveal their combined Top 12 ranking of the films and TV shows they reviewed.
They'll also quiz each other about each film for added fun! The overall score is 5-1 in Hugh's favour, so can Dan pull things back?
PLUS - we tease what's to come in Season VII and announce a special run of podcasts for Bitten subscribers!
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Editor: Dan Owen
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[6x10] Our Season VI finale is on the neo-western action horror Vampires, directed by the legendary John Carpenter, starring James Woods as the leader of a Vatican-approved gang of vampire slayers who must stop the first vampire from acquiring a cross that will enable him to walk in daylight...
And making his debut on Vampire Videos is podcaster Anthony Bowman from the Frankencast show.
Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen
Guest: Anthony Bowman
Editor: Hugh McStay
"Let me just ask you one thing: after 600 years, how's that dick workin', pretty good?" -- Jack Crow
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[6x9] It's our first foray into Russian cinema with Timur Bekmambetov's 2004 supernatural urban thriller Night Watch, which finds the forces of Light and Dark enforcing a centuries-old truce on the streets of Moscow...
Back once again to help us discuss it is film critic and podcaster Dee Molumby, who reveals an unexpected link to Russia...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Dee Molumby
Editor: Hugh McStay
"... And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true." -- Geser
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[6x8] We're back with another Dracula adaptation, only this one focuses on a specific chapter in Bram Stoker's novel - it's André Øvredal's 2023 horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which finds Dracula boarding the titular ship on his way to England, only for the crew to realise they have a murderous stowaway aboard...
To help us take a bite out of this box office flop, making his return in the sarcophopod, it's the host of the Creepy & Geeky podcast, Robert Clark...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Robert Clark
Editor: Dan Owen
"A boat without rats... such a thing is against nature." -- Joseph
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[6x7] Tim Burton's adaptation of the 1960s US soap opera Dark Shadows is up for discussion this week, in a film that finds 18th-century vampire Barnabus Collins (Johnny Depp) reawakened in 1972, where he must restore the fortunes of his descendants whose business is under threat from the witch (Eva Green) who cursed him...
And making her return to the show is Read & Buried podcast co-host Frankie Pellatt...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Frankie Pellatt
Editor: Dan Owen
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