TOP 10 VAMPIRES STAYING UP ALL NIGHT

During last night's call-in discussions on Radio Five' Live's (or should that be Radio Five Undead's?) Up All Night, I sat formulating my own top-ten vampire movies. You can hear the programme, for the next week at least, at BBC IPlayer here. The film segment begins about 1:35 in, and runs for 90 minutes.

With the proviso that I was up all night--which reminded me of how much fun it was to be ten years old and babysitting my siblings, which meant I could try and stay awake through Chiller Theatre on TV-- and have now had only a few hours sleep (not in my soil from my native land) here's the top 10 I was jotting down as callers told Dotun, Adam and me their own favourites:

1. Cronos
2. Dracula (1931)
3. Nosferatu (1922)
4. Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary
5. Shadow Of A Vampire
6. Thirst
7. Let The Right One In
8. Rabid
9. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
10. Near Dark, or
Addiction, or 30 Days Of Night, or Capt. Kronos Vampire Hunter, or Salem's Lot (TV 1979) or Dracula's Daughter (1936), or Irma Vep or John Carpenter's Vampires

STAYING UP ALL NIGHT TONIGHT? LISTEN IN...

I'll be guesting on Dotun Adebayo's Up All Night tonight, Radio 5 at about 0230 Saturday night/Sunday morning. Likely topics include Vampire movies (including the new Korean film Thirst), Sergio Leone, and maybe Werner Herzog's remake of Abel Ferarra's Bad Lieutenant.
Beats sleeping! Those of you outside Britain can probably listen on your computers, at bbc.co.uk...

UP ALL NIGHT WITH THE GRAN TORINO

I'll be guesting on the BBC Radio Five show Up All Night tonight, talking about Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino with host Dotun Adebayo. I assume if you're not an insomniac you can probably grab a listen via bbc.co.uk the next day. Meantime, you can see my review of the film here.

Update: you can find the programme link here. The film discussion begins about 1:35 into the show, and continues until 3:00 in (that was 0230 ayem until o400!).