Here we go with the vampire wrap up! It's been a bloody first season at the Desire of Horror podcast, and that's how we like it! Blood has always had a central place in the History of Religions. Almost every form of sacrifice, pact, and praise ...

We are in heaven with this little slice of hell. Charla loves the "pure evil" of the criminally insane. And I love the interior design and clothing choices of the late 1970's. But why does Michael Myers do it? He doesn't ever seem to be satisfi...

We had the great pleasure of welcoming Charla's daughter Michelle on this one.  She brought a lot of great insights into this instant classic. Music is a hellava drug. In the last film Queen of the Damned it woke up the ...

This Vampire's origins go all the way back in the Ancient Mesopotamia City of Uruk. And Akasha (Aaliyah) like Lestat (Stuart Townsend) loves music. Lestat had decided the world was too boring to live in any longer, so he laid in a tomb to see i...

What is more real than real? Why it's the "Hyper-Real" of the cinema. Jean Baudrillard formulated his theory of the Hyper-Real, which is actually the death of "the Real" by simulacrum, in part from a quote from Clockwork Orange, in whi...

Are these f**king things vampires or infected? Around this time in the early aughts there was a slue of horror movies that straddled the line with science fiction because the monsters no longer had supernatural origins but virological ones.

In the small oil town of Barrow in the northern-most region of Alaska there are thirty days of night in the middle of winter. Sounds like a vampire's dream vacation. All the cellphones have mysteriously gone missing, all the dogs have been merc...

Both the 1931 Bela Lugosi version of Dracula and the 1970 Christoper Lee version claim to be sticking to Bram Stoker's original vision. When most of us think of Dracula, we either think of Lugosi or Lee, or their images switch back and forth in...

A late 70s miniseries has many features to recommend it. They are normally full of odd bowl haircuts, unnecessarily long establishing shots, and sweat, but this one also includes multiple commercial-break, freeze-frame cuts, long, meaningful st...

This was a difficult but rewarding episode to do. Some less brave, or possible less foolhardy, commentators might've stayed away from the Swedish, modern-day classic Let the Right One In and its American remake, Let Me In, 

One of Charla's top five of all time! We got to lighten up and have a little fun on this one. It's got the two Coreys, a town split between punks and deadbeat hippies, and lots of pastel shirts with shoulder pads! Come and reminisce the 80's wi...

One of my favorites of all time! Coppola's over the top extravagance at its best. Charla likes it okay. Join us as we discuss Coppola's lush depiction of vampiric desire.

Louis doesn't know how to be a vampire, so he goes to Paris to find out. What can we learn about the desire of the vampire from Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire? Anne Rice portrayed the difficulty of being a vampire as the all too ...

Nosferatu 1922 originally came into being because Bram Stoker wouldn't come off the rights to Dracula. Dracula's aristocratic suavity was transmuted into Count Orlok's impish vulgarity to avoid a lawsuit. But the desire of both were fo...