Vampires 4: Vampire Movies!

About this episode

Grady Hendrix explores the influence of three key vampire movies on 20th-century vampire culture.

We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold vampin' with Vampyr. Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his history of vampirism and to make his argument he throws in plain talk about syphilis, sexually insatiable women, hideous war wounds, gas attacks, super-clean underwear, and poetry. (Note: This episode is...

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Host: Grady Hendrix

Topics covered

• vampires
• vampire movies
• film history
• Nosferatu
• Dracula
• Vampyr

Keywords

• vampires
• Nosferatu
• Dracula
• Vampyr
• film history
• glampires
• syphilis
• war wounds

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Nosferatu, Dracula, Vampyr

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