Vampire Videos

[8x6] We return to AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire for Season 2, where Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) try to escape the bad memories of Lestat (Sam Reid) by travelling to Europe during World War II, where they become embroiled with a theatre troupe of Parisian vampires...

This episode is a super-cut of the fortnightly discussions we originally made available to subscribers of our Bitten tier, all packaged together. So it's over three hours long!

To help you navigate and bookmark, here are some approximate timecodes:

• 2x1 - "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned" (00:00:30)
• 2x2 • 2x3 - "Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death" • "No Pain" (00:30:56)
• 2x4 • 2x5 - "I Want You More Than Anything in the World" • "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape" (01:07:26)
• 2x6 • 2x7 - "Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light" • "I Could Not Prevent It" (01:44:00)
• 2x8 - "And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else" (02:26:03)

Returning to continue the discussion of IWTV after the first season is freelance writer Kim Morrison...

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Guest: Kim Morrison

Editors: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

"If you want the insanity back. If you want an escape from the prison of empathy I've locked you away in, all you had to do was ask, Louis." -- Armand

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[BONUS] Dan and Hugh return to the vampire campfire to reflect on two years of Vampire Videos and the 80 full episodes (+ bonuses) that have been released so far. The entertainment we have includes:

• Dan & Hugh's Top 10 Vampires!
• Our Top 6 Most Prolific Guests!
• All the Vampire Films That Are Coming Soon-ish... Maybe!

Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay

Editor: Hugh McStay

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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav.

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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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[11x7] Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror Sinners is our next serving, concerning twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their hometown in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, only to discover a great evil is now lurking there...

And making another welcome return to the show is editor, film critic, and podcaster Mary Muñoz...

Hosts: Hugh McStay & Dan Owen

Guest: Mary Muñoz

Editor: Hugh McStay

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"You keep dancing with the devil... one day he's gonna follow you home." -- Jedidiah

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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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