Big Dumb Monsters

We're celebrating a big milestone this week with episode 250! We're pulling out a banger for this episode as Nick and Chris are joined by Thor and Shannon from the BGM show to watch Train to Busan! Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https://l...

We're taking a leisurely stroll down Elm Street this week as Nick and Chris are watching A Nightmare on Elm St. 3: Dream Warriors. The crown jewel of the Freddy franchise which originally dropped in 1987. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https:...

Let's take a Big Dumb Monsters Family Trip to Sea World! This week Nick and Chris are hitting the water for a yet another sub-par Jaws sequel as they watch 1983's Jaws 3D. Starring Dennis Quaid and Bess Armstrong. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Lin...

Today's episode is like a trip to the beach! Just without the fun, enjoyment, or swimming. Nick and Chris are watching 2001's The Mummy Returns. Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, directed by Stephen Sommers. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their L...

It's back to the black and white days this week as Nick and Chris are checking off the next box on their original Universal Frankenstein movie list with 1944's House of Frankenstein. Will this monster crossover live up to the hype??? Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cul...

This week Nick and Chris are returning to the Predator franchise with the latest entry in the series, 2025's Predator: Badlands. The tale of Dek of the Yautja, starring Elle Fanning. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https://linktr.ee/eclecticcu...

It's all you can eat crab night at the Shibuya Sizzler location as Nick and Chris are getting back into the kaiju game this week with Godzilla vs Destoroyah, the oxygen destroyer powered baddie who probably tastes great with some drawn butter and lemon. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available f...

Nick and Chris are wrapping up the 28 Days of February with the latest incredibly intense installment of the series 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Directed by up an coming superstar horror director Nia DaCosta, with Ralph Fiennes giving an incredible performance. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows ava...

Nick and Chris are continuing their tour through post apocalypse Scotland this week with 2025's 28 Years Later. With Danny Boyle returning to the franchisee he created and Ralph Fiennes putting a stellar performance. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree...

This week the march through February continues as Nick and Chris examine 28 Weeks Later, the 2007 follow-up to Danny Boyle's 2002 groundbreaking zombie flick, 28 Days Later. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https://linktr.ee/eclecticcultmedia F...

We're kicking off a theme month this week and what better way to honor the 28 days of February than by working our way through the 28 Days Later series. First up, Nick and Chris are taking a look at the groundbreaking first film in the franchise with 2002's 28 Days Later. Directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree:...

It's a swords and sandals week as Nick and Chris are taking a look at one of the cornerstones of their movie watching childhood with 1982's The Beastmaster. Starring Mark Singer and directed by Don Coscarelli. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktre...

The Nile and the Rio Grande intersect this week as Nick and Chris are taking a look at the 2002 Mummy in a nursing home horror flick Bubba Ho-Tep! Starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree:...

It's back to the world of Hammer this week as Nick and Chris are talking 1960's The Brides of Dracula starring the legendary Peter Cushing. Will Hammer Horror's perfect track record on the show hold up?!?! Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktre...

We're retreating to the sewers this week and there's nary a Ninja Turtle in sight as Nick and Chris are talking 1984's C.H.U.D., starring John Heard and Daniel Stern. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https://linktr.ee/eclecticcultmedia...

We're kicking off 2026 on an animated note, as Nick and Chris take a look at the brutal, bloody, R-rated, 2025 anthology film, Predator: Killer of Killers. We waited until you got here to do this episode. It's true. We didn't want to start the New Year with Yautja! Bad-dum tssss.... I'll show myself out. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://lin...

There's no movie this week as Nick and Chris are talking a look back at the movies that we watched in 2025 and pick our respective top 3. It was a good year to be a monster movie fan and the fight for the #1 spot won't be an easy choice. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic...

The week Nick and Chris get into the holiday spirit by watching a movie with witches, creepy crawly bugs, crazy homeless guys, and absolutely nothing to do with Christmas at all! Listen as we discuss 1990's Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from E...

The week Nick and Chris are joined by returning guest, comedian and podcaster, Ken Reid to talk up one of the 80's most famous slasher franchises. The group dissects 1984's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter and infamous movie monster Jason Voorhees. Spoilers - It is not in fact the final chapter of the franchise. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://l...

It may never rain in Southern California, but the dead sure do rise a lot! This week Nick and Chris head out west for a little fun out of the sun as the watch 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Kristy Swanson. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Link...

This week Nick and Chris are examining the horrors of a weekend with the boys in the woods in the 2017 Nordic tale of terror, The Ritual! Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: https://linktr.ee/eclecticcultmedia Feel like watching instead? Then subscrib...

We're being exposed to another dose of the Troma-verse this week and one of us certainly isn't happy about it. Chris and guest host Art are talking the 2006 horror/musical/comedy Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at the...

We're checking in with an often overlooked horror gem from the 90's. This week Nick and Chris are talking Peter Jackson's 1996 horror/comedy The Frighteners. Starring Michael J. Fox and Jeffrey Combs. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available from Eclectic Cult Media at their Linktree: ht...

When there's no more room in the most hellish prisons on Earth... we'll just send 'em to space! This week we dive back in the Xenomorph universe with the divisive third entry in the franchise: Alien 3. Directed by David Fincher and starring Sigourney Weaver. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmonsters Check out all the other shows available...

Someone must've found a genie and wished for our favorite director to take on one of our favorite characters because this week, at long last, we are finally getting our eyes on Guillermo Del Toro's 2025 adaptation of Frankenstein. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz, and Mia Goth. Like and subscribe on your favorite platform through our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bigdumbmo...