October 13, 2025 • 74 mins
[13x4] It's a quick trip across the English Channel this week for Adrien Beau's 2023 period horror The Vourdalak, which finds a French aristocrat forced to stay with a rural family whose tyrannical patriarch has been transformed into an undead creature...
And joining us the person who brought this film to our attention, writer and podcaster Mary Muñoz...
Hosts: Dan Owen & Hugh McStay
Guest: Mary Muñoz
Editor: Dan Owen
"Wait six days for me. If, after those six days, I have not returned, say a prayer in memory of me, for I shall have been killed in battle. But if ever, and may God preserve you, I were to return after six days have passed, I enjoin you to forget that I was your father and to refuse me entry whatever I may say or do – for then I shall be no more than an accursed vourdalak." -- Gorcha
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Theme music by Nela Ruiz • Episode art by Dan Owen. Podcast art by Keshav. Sound FX from Epidemic Sound.
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