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Extra Credit 033 - Vampire Movie Fever (Patreon)

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2025-03-28 13:40:19
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2025-03-28 15:33:32
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We're fanging out and chatting about some new (to us) vampire movies!

The Vourdalak

Byzantium

Nosferatu (2024)

Abigail

Renfield

Blood Vessel

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Andy Warhol's Dracula

Dan Curtis' Dracula

Slay

Stake Land

Doctor Odyssey

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Rob Valentine

The Family of the Vourdelak is a favourite of mine. Maybe one for a future March Is For Draculas?

Jennifer DeFord

I suspect that like a lot of Gen X people, I have a lingering fear of Jack Palance--he was inexplicably terrifying as the host of Ripley's Believe It or Not, even when the topic wasn't especially spooky. I did enjoy his Dracula, though.

Mark Simmons

So glad you enjoyed the Vourdalak! The original story is one of my all-time faves, and although the movie added and changed a lot of things, I love it too. Now there are two awesome Vourdalak stories! One of which features folkloric shroud-chewing (shudder). I always wondered whether the name of the hapless hero, the Marquis d'Urfé, is supposed to evoke "Orpheus." But it's not actually spelled like that in French, so I'm probably overthinking it.

Ann Knight

I can't believe Vourdalackey hasn't seen The VVitch. It's one of the best horror movies of this century (so far) in my opinion. The Mario Bava version of the Vourdalak in Black Sabbath is definitely worth a watch as well. Boris Karloff's line "I'm hungry" always gives me the creeps. Somehow Werner Herzog's 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre is missed by a lot of folks. It's definitely worth a watch; beautifully filmed as you would expect, well-acted, and I have to say I prefer its ending over the 2024 Nosferatu. I'll just call it "suitably bleak and fitting."

Stacy Schumacher

I really enjoyed The Vourdalak. I had no idea what i was going to see but it was a fun and refreshing take on a dracula. More of those folk draculas, please. Also, I can't remember, did you ever watch or talk about the 1977 BBC version of Dracula with Louis Jourdan as Dracula? I really enjoyed that version and i think available on YouTube.

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

Had a very similar experience with Nosferatu. The story is, of course, very familiar and there were some great, very freaky moments. I did focus a bit on the design of Nosferatu, which I made a point not to see before watching. I thought it was interesting that they blended Dracula (stache, big stache!), the inhuman, ghostly visage like the original Nosferatu, and the decay and ghoulishness of Eastern European revenant. (Bleeding eyes, sooo many bleeding eyes!)

Richard Upton Sinclair Lewis Pickman

This does also make me wonder if you’ve considered Mr. Cannyharme? I did recently just get ahold of a copy of the Copping Squid collection that I managed to find for less than like $100, but that is definitely on my list and I’m very curious.

Trace

Pale Blood with Wings Hauser is worth finding as an oddity in the genre. Released to video in the earliest of the 90s it existed in the wild until MGM consolidated it's library for streaming, which may mean their print is better. The premise is solid and it doesn't waste time. An actual vampire has come to LA to find and eliminate a killer who may be an actual vampire, or is a person just imitating one. His sidekick is a plucky local detective with a coincidental obsession with vampire pop culture. The story proceeds in a predictable direction without making the act of watching it pointless. It stands out in that it is a film clearly astride the aesthetic of both decades. It wants to be a gritty detective story with erotic elements, but anchors itself to the main character's Victorian demeanor. It engages with the embryonic self aware media culture of the 90s, but can't avoid some of the 4th wall breaking bombast of 80s horror. I'm not claiming it's good, or that anyone will derive the same value I have from it as an artifact, but it will compel you to ask what the frak is actually happening, and vampires are guaranteed.

It's a Ghost.

I enjoyed the new Nosferatu and loved Byzantium and The Vourdalak!

S Jayne Bradley

You should do an episode on the vampire movies you have seen, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Vampire in Brooklyn with Eddie Murphy

MR ZEEL

Hiya thanks for recommending Byzantium. I will give it a try. Sorry to correct , but much of it was filmed in Hastings East Sussex, England, for it's out of season seaside atmosphere.

Robert Taylor

Wait, have Chris and Chad still not seen "Midnight Mass"? It's literally a Dracula set in March! What more could they want?

John Corell

I watched most of Blood for Dracula some years ago, but I think Chris really undersold the Marxism/Class critique in the film. It's crass and cheesy but it ends with the representative of the working class viciously murdering the upper class parasite. Oh, it's not good... but it felt bad in that crass way my limited understanding of Warhol always seemed. Lazy satire? I think it was shot because they had some leftover budget from Flesh for Frankenstein and pulled a Roger Corman doubledown.

Eric Sroka

I did not care for Renfield or Last Voyage of the Demeter, for basically the same reason: excellent premise that devolved into a CGI action movie. I thought Abigail was okay, same with Blood Vessel. Haven’t watched the Vourdalak yet, but I will do so. Byzantium too!

It's a Ghost.

Thinking about The Vourdalak some more, especially after listening to this episode, I find it interesting that the younger siblings that love differently or behave non-traditionally both seem to understand that they shouldn't welcome their father back. They know he's a vourdalak, or, at the very least, that something is very much off about him. However, it's the older, more traditional sibling that repeatedly welcomes the father/vourdalak back, seemingly blinded by a combination of love, duty, and tradition. If the older sibling had returned a day later or had died in combat with the Turks, the nontraditional younger siblings likely wouldn’t have welcomed the vourdalak at all, because they would have simply seen it for what it was.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

When you mentioned "Blood Vessel" I at first thought it was "Last Voyage of the Demeter," as "Blood Vessel" is the name of the episode treating that voyage in the 2020 Netflix three-part adaptation by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss (the "Sherlock" guys). That miniseries is kind of cheesy, and the creators make some odd decisions, but Klaes Bang's Drac is great, and their version of Van Helsing is a vengeful nun. "no one looks like Udo Kier": By chance, two weeks ago I went to a karaoke night run by a DJ who looked like the love child of Udo Kier and Peter Murphy in fabulous gay-club attire. He let down the look a bit by singing Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Tara Murphy

I just scrolled through my podcast feed and totaled everything up, and by my count you are up to 928 episodes (which includes a few ads, one lying Vincent Price, two songs, etc.) What are your plans for #1000?

Robby H.

There's a joke about the way to protect yourself from the Soucouyant is to "get hard" the entire night that I'm too mature to make... (not really though). I think Abigial would have been 100% better if the trailers hid the fact that she was a vampire and we found that out along with the characters. I watched Nosferatu on 2 days after Christmas, after driving 7 hours from my grandmother's house. I was dozing off because of the long drive. I liked what I remember seeing though. I wanted to like The Last Voyage of the Demeter. I was so hyped for it. I think if that movie leaned into being more atmospheric, than I think I would have liked it more.

Avlin Starfall

I watched Nosferatu the weekend after Christmas. I liked it a lot for how it didn't go for romance angle, at least from Nosferatu's point of view he says he is obsessed with her, but you can see it isn't in a loving away. And because it is Nosferatu instead of Dracula itself any freedoms they take with the story are fine. They also gave him the mustache, which was great. I watched Abigail last year during my 31 days of horror movies for each day of October. I liked it a lot as a fun movie, it isn't great, but it's fun and sometimes that's all you need. The Last Voyage of the Demeter I watched this one last October as well. I was looking forward to this one so much and the longer it went on the more I disliked it. The whole thing with the Demeter is so short in the book, which does let them have lots of freedom to add to what is there, but they couldn't even follow the little that is written in the book for the voyage or what Dacula looks like after leaving the boat! So awful and disappointing.

Corey Wittig

I remember being a kid, going to the video store (this would be mid-90s) with my Dad and sisters, and we decided on Andy Warhol’s Dracula! My Dad was like “Warhol was from Pittsburgh!” (where we were all from but not living at the time). My dad was a horror fan and already traumatized me by watching Freddy and Hellraiser and all kinds of gnarly stuff any time of day no matter who was around. We all assumed this would just be a bit of an artsy fartsy take on Dracula, but were shocked by the softcore porn nature of it! My recollection is we gave it about half an hour and that was enough even for my Dad. Suffice it to say, the movie did have some effect upon me, but not the one I had expected it to have. (I have a recollection of Dracula’s servant soaking up blood from a carriage accident in the street using a loaf of bread and then giving that to Drac? Kind of clever…)

CarcharodonMegs

I almost crashed my car from laughing so hard at "They invade your house with Jesus". Truly horrific. And I wanted to mention the S5E12 of The X-Files 'Bad Blood' which I think was one that David Duchovny directed and it was more of a comedy episode but there is an OCD vampire in it. Represent 😆

Podcast by Night

hey guys, love the March is for Draculas! look forward to it every year. Great topic also for extra credit. Hearing you guys talk about the vampire movies. You’re into. Reminded me of when I worked at Blockbuster video. I devoured the vampire movies in the horror section, all of them. and also reminded me of a little known independent, vampire film. I was lucky enough to find one called jugular wine. https://letterboxd.com/film/jugular-wine-a-vampire-odyssey/ . I highly recommend it you want that indie flair and lots of schlock.

Jason Thompson

You should do a month of blobs! And for a blob story you should read P. Schuyler Miller’s awesome 1930s alien fest “Spawn” (not the MacFarlane comic)

Pearce Duncan

Late to this because I spend a month travelling. Aw man I loved Blood for Dracula and its companion movie, the much more obviously comedic Flesh for Frankenstein. I thought Udo Kier was hilarious and the movie knew exactly what it was doing. The writer/director was Paul Morrissey, a longtime associate of the Warhol Factory; Warhol's name was attached by the US distributor which infuriated Morrissey. Maybe the satire in these movies is more obvious if you've watched a lot of European horror and arthouse of the period. Frankenstein specifically mocks Last Tango In Paris in one scene, for example, and the head of the household in Dracula is played by then-famous Italian director Vittorio De Sica.

Daniel Weber

I enjoyed hearing about all these movies. There are a couple I will have to check out. Vampires and vampire stories aren't usually my preferred kind of horror, but I just finished Christopher Buehlman's book 'The Lesser Dead' and really enjoyed it. Gritty, grimy, creepy, occasionally-brutal, gross-but-still-weirdly-sympathetic vampires living in tunnels underneath Manhattan in 1978. I recommend checking it out if that sounds like your kind of thing. Thanks!

Grackles

Cage was FANTASTIC as Dracula! He was born for that! I’d love to see him in a serious Dracula movie.

Andew

The horror anthology Black Sabbath 1963, has a segment called the The Wurdulak based off the same short story by Tolstoy that the the recent film The Vourdalak is based off.