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VYS0052 | Goddamn Shit-sucking Vampires - Halloween 2025: The Lost Boys - Vayse to Face with Sorcha Ní Fhlain - Show Notes
"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die." - Sounds exhausting. This is not how Hine and Buckley do Halloween anymore. So, instead of re-living their twenties, or the Lost Decade, as they call it, they talk to Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn about the greatest horror movie of the 1980s, or the Lost Boys, as they call it.
Sorcha is a film critic, a writer, an academic - a Reader in Film Studies with a specialism in American Film at Manchester Metropolitan University specialising in Gothic Studies and Horror Cinema, with a particular focus on Vampires - and an all-round legend who helps Hine and Buckley get their teeth stuck deep into Joel Schumacher's 1987 masterpiece without getting lost in the gory details (but never over-looking the Corey details).
The Lost Boys stands up well to scrutiny (well, mostly...kind of...) and Sorcha leads a discussion ranging from the transplanting of vampiric folklore from dark-ages Europe to MTV-era USA, the history of the vampire as a metaphor in literature and cinema, the way in which the Lost Boys and contemporary 1980s vampire movies, Near Dark and Fright Night contributed to queer horror, exactly what it is that makes the Lost Boys one of the greatest movies of all time... and what's the deal with the greased up, pumped up, beach-party thrusting sax-player and why is it that he's brilliant? (recorded 6 October 2025)
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Sorcha's Website
Sorcha's Instagram
Sorcha's Twitter
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Blood-sucking Tales, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Xavier Aldana Reyes - Good Reads
Clive Barker: Dark imaginer, Edited by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films, Edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
The Lost Boys
Lost Boys Trailer - YouTube
Lost Boys - Wikipedia
Back to the Future Trailer - YouTube
Back to the Future - Wikipedia
Kiefer Sutherland - Wikipedia
Lost Boys - Michael Super Cut
Jason Patric - Wikipedia
Corey Feldman - Wikipedia
Corey Haim - Wikipedia
Alex Winter - Wikipedia
Vampire - Wikipedia
Clive Barker - Wikipedia
The X-Files Trailer - YouTube
The X-Files - Wikipedia
Fright Night Trailer - YouTube
Fright Night - Wikipedia
Interview With the Vampire Trailer - YouTube
Interview With the Vampire - Wikipedia
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Near Dark Trailer - YouTube
Near Dark - Wikipedia
Twilight Trailer - YouTube
Twlight - Wikipedia
True Blood - Trailer
True Blood - Wikipedia
Thomas Ligotti - Wikipedia
Dracula - Wikipedia
Zombie - Wikipedia
John William Polidori - Wikipedia
The Vampyre - Wikipedia
Lord Byron - Wikipedia
Frankenstein - Wikipedia
Mary Shelley
Nosferatu - Wikipedia
F. W. Murnau - Wikipedia
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - Wikipedia
Dracula (1931) Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger Trailer - YouTube
The Hunger - Wikipedia
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
Michael Chapman (cinematographer) - Wikipedia
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) - Wikipedia
Joel Schumacher - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire (film) - Wikipedia
St. Elmo's Fire Trailer - YouTube
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film) - Wikipedia
Bram Stoker's Dracula Trailer - YouTube
Dianne Wiest
Tim Cappello - Wikipedia
I Still Believe by Tim Cappello
"30 Years Ago, The Lost Boys Introduced Me to Queer Cinema" by Alcy Leyva - Bright Wall/Dark Room
"The Night Has its Price: The Queer Fangs of ‘Near Dark’" by Brant Lewis - Dread Central
"THE BOYS NEXT DOOR: The Homoeroticism of Fright Night and how it saved my life" by Glenn McQuaid - Gayly Dreadful
Family Ties - Wikipedia
Sorcha's Recommendations
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Let the Right One In Trailer - YouTube
Let the Right One In (film) - Wikipedia
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn - Good Reads
Our Vampires, Ourselves by Nina Auerbach
Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World by Stacey Abbott - Good Reads
Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator by Heather O. Petrocelli - University of Wales Press
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