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  • reporting live from my apartment in Los Angeles, California.

  • I'm your man, Nathaniel.

  • And this is the weekly watch list.

  • Yeah.

  • Welcome back to the weekly watch list where we count down what to stream right now on Amazon Prime Video.

  • Now, I just want to start this episode off by saying thank you for all the amazing support you guys showed for Episode one.

  • But unfortunately, Amazon's recommendation algorithm is getting stronger and more sophisticated each and every day.

  • Once it turned on, it can't be shut off.

  • So in order for me to keep this job, please, I'm begging you guys, Go ahead and comment.

  • We stand a human king Nathaniel.

  • Now, this week, we're streaming vampire content.

  • Vampires of the true undead I p with the first vampire movie Nosferatu coming out all the way back in 1922.

  • Vampires have come a long way, but check it out for yourself.

  • With the best vampire content streaming right now on Amazon Prime video, First on our list is the sparkly white elephant in the room.

  • It's all five movies of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Cuadrilla Gee, that's right, I'm talking Twilight New Moon Eclipse Breaking Dawn part one Breaking Dawn.

  • Part two.

  • Waning gibbous.

  • What of those aren't if you don't know by now, Twilight follows Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, a newly arrived transplant in Forks, Washington, where she meets Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson.

  • Dreamy vampire boy at her high school.

  • But apparently nobody here is good enough for him like I care, you know.

  • So yeah, seriously like, don't waste your time.

  • He wasn't planning on it.

  • As the to fall in love, Bella finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into Edward's sexy, dangerous vampire world.

  • You brought a snack?

  • No, no human girl is with us.

  • I think it best if you leave way have Taylor Lautner's Edwards romantic rival slash Hot Werewolf Boy from another school.

  • Jacob the Sam's trying to help the whole flame.

  • But if you want somebody to blame people don't filthy bloodsuckers You love color and Anna Kendrick as Bella's fake friend, Jessica.

  • Hey, you're from Arizona, right?

  • Yeah.

  • Aren't people from Arizona supposed to like really tan?

  • Now that we're past peak, Twilight is a thing.

  • I think the movies were definitely worth revisiting.

  • I mean, vampire baseball, where do I sign up?

  • But if I had to bring up one detail that really took me out of the movie.

  • Everyone's way to ripped.

  • These guys were like 1000 years old, and they never skipped a leg day.

  • I think I speak for everyone when I say it's time for Hollywood to give us the representation we deserve.

  • Dumpy dad bod Vampires Coming in at Number two, We have Neil Jordan's adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, the 1994 Gothic horror movie Interview With the Vampire.

  • Available to rent or buy on prime video, The film follows Brad Pitt as Louis, a vampire from 18th century New Orleans, giving a wide ranging interview about his life story to journalists.

  • Christians later.

  • So what do you do?

  • I'm a vampire, Louis describes his transformation at the hands of vampire Tom Cruise will get used to kill it.

  • Just forget about that mortal coil turning 10 year old Kirsten Dunce into a vampire for company.

  • That's enough.

  • Show you you must stop before the heart stops.

  • I want some more.

  • Well, I know, meeting vampire Antonio Banderas.

  • They had for gotten the first lesson that we must be powerful, beautiful and without regret and other experiences that have made Louis a hot, immortal, sad boy, I thought, Falls of things I've done couldn't do along for one second piece.

  • So sad but so hot.

  • The film features great performances from Kirsten Dunst's as a creepy decades old vampire trapped in the UN aging body of a 10 year old girl.

  • Which one of you made me the way I am?

  • What you are of Empire Gone Insane pollutes its own bed.

  • Tom Cruise is the world's fanciest vampire Lestat, giving a really solid, unhinged nineties cruise performance.

  • It's your coffin, my love.

  • Enjoy it.

  • Most of us never get to know what it feels like.

  • What do you do this?

  • I'd like to do it.

  • I enjoy it.

  • Take your rest seats.

  • Taste pure things.

  • Kill them, scruffy, if you will.

  • But do it for Do not doubt you are a killer, Louis.

  • Also, can we talk about how expensive movies used to be?

  • I mean, look at all the stuff they built for old New Orleans.

  • Just the cravat budget alone must have been staggering.

  • If interview with the vampire is being adapted now, it would cost nothing, and it would be called podcast with the vampire?

  • Yeah.

  • Do you still What does what?

  • Have you tasted it?

  • Enough?

  • Damn nineties.

  • Tom Cruise taking a big old bite out of nineties Brad Pitt.

  • Yes, please.

  • E think Brad Pitt actually starts to enjoy it like halfway through before he gets blue necked brb gonna go bang out some vampire Tom Cruise, Ex Brad Pitt.

  • Au fanfic coming in at number three.

  • Check out the action packed vampires versus werewolf.

  • Siri's underworld underworld stars.

  • Kate Beckinsale is Selene, a vampire death dealer in the middle of a secret, centuries long war between vampires and werewolves, which this movie calls likens world.

  • No.

  • When Selene begins to fall in love with a human that's been bitten Scott Speed Hman, she decides to go against her plan to protect him from both the vampires and werewolves.

  • Get down, come from and uncover the truth behind the ancient vampire werewolf conflict.

  • Yeah, Okay.

  • There are times is a filmmaker.

  • When you have a vision that's so clear that it's 100% transmitted to the audience watching this movie, I could tell that the vision was clearly the Matrix plus vampires.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah.

  • Are these the slowest werewolves ever didn't even make it to the end of the hallway.

  • She should have just taken the elevator with that guy.

  • If I'm being honest coming in at number four, we have the show that launched 1000 CW Siri's I'm Talking About Buffy the Fricking Vampire Slayer.

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar is Buffy Summers, a nineties high school girl just trying to fit in Buffy.

  • Maintaining a normal social life is a slayer.

  • It is problematic at best.

  • This is the nineties, the 19 nineties.

  • In point of fact, I can do both.

  • Except she's also this generation's chosen slayer, which means she basically has superpowers and has to cut class to fight the vampires, demons and other forces of darkness that threaten humanity.

  • E Oh, you killed my Date show has a really great ensemble caps, including high school classmates Willow and Xander.

  • Bad vampires turned good guys, Angel and Spike on Buffy's watcher, Giles, a British guy that poses as the school librarian and tells Buffy and her friends what to do monsters.

  • Air used Maura's metaphors for universal teen problems like parental pressure, dating, living up to others expectations, except in this world.

  • Teens can punch their problems in the face.

  • Take that back knee, take that mile run.

  • But in all seriousness, this show is basically the Sopranos of high school vampire shows.

  • A strongly recommended to everybody.

  • Good.

  • Ted, I may be dead, but I'm still pretty.

  • It's just more than I can save for you.

  • You were destined to die.

  • It was written.

  • What can I say?

  • I flunked through it.

  • Oh, where your giants now?

  • Yeah, you laugh when my hell is on Earth.

  • You're that amped about hell.

  • Go there.

  • Oh, right.

  • I may be dead, but I'm still pretty, which is more than I can say for you The meanness of a teen girl is actually the most powerful weapon in the universe.

  • Now, astute viewers might notice this quick insert shot in the world of screen writing.

  • This is known as Chekhov's conveniently placed pointy would thing.

  • The idea that it conveniently placed pointy wooden thing in the first act, we'll have a vampire inevitably fall to his death on it by the third act.

  • Coming in at number five is Tom Holland, 1985 Film Fright Night.

  • Ah, horror comedy that begs the question.

  • Where boomers, the real vampires all along Fright Night follows teenage horror lover Charley Brewster, who becomes convinced that his next door neighbor, Jerry, is a vampire, mostly because Jerry keeps doing sketchy stuff right in front of his wide open windows.

  • When Charlie confronts Jerry about being a vampire, Jerry threatens to seduce Charlie's girlfriend and his mom, right?

  • I'd never come over without being invited first.

  • Of course, now that I've been made welcome, I'll probably drop by quite a bit.

  • In fact, any time I feel like it brutal, Charlie has no choice but to hire TV horror presenters slash vampire expert Peter Vincent.

  • But Mr Vincent, you have to believe me.

  • I'm telling the truth.

  • Coin.

  • You just said You believe in vampires.

  • I on the to set off to try and kill the vampire before he transforms everyone Charlie knows into a monster.

  • This movie uses vampires as a metaphor for male anxiety over sexual inadequacy, which is obviously something that I could never relate to and I've never heard of.

  • I really love how cartoonishly violent it is.

  • The special effects are all eighties gross out practical stuff, and they actually use some effects from Ghostbusters that were deemed too gruesome for that movie.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Oh, right.

  • Okay.

  • On there you have it, guys.

  • Five of the best vampire movies to stream right now on Amazon Prime Video.

  • Keep it spooky.

  • And let me know what you want to see next in the comments or tell me how much of an idiot I am for leaving out your favorite vampire movie.

  • I could take it until next time.

  • Don't blink.

  • Always be streaming.

reporting live from my apartment in Los Angeles, California.

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