Fun Box Monster Podcast

Sure you've seen a Piranha movie. But Spawning? That's something you're only gonna get in Piranha 2: The Spawning. Matt and Tristan talk about James Cameraman's most successful film ever. 

When you sit down to watch a movie called "THE MUTLATOR" with that cover, you pretty much know what you're in for. Late 70's sitcom music. And lots of it. Also, a token amount of mutilating. This week Matt and Tristan watch the classic indy-slasher, The Mutilator. 

College. The one place where you can get class credit for being tortured by a madman and his brute henchman. Where getting into a tub in your skimpy underwear and projecting your inner most fears onto a CRT television is taken as par for the course. If you like green lights, goopy aliens, and Brian Thompson being incredibly Brian Thompson-y, you may enjoy Nightwish. 

I know. You're sick of hearing about yet another huge Hollywood blockbuster about a skateboarding rock star who reenacts the legend of Orpheus in a possibly post-apocalyptic Seattle made of shipping containers. But I promise, this one is different. Matt and Tristan talk, Shredder Orpheus. 

Hey...talk about your wooden performances? Huh? Eh. What do you want. The Podcast's ad-free. Anyway, Matt and Tristan talk about Pinocchio's Revenge. 

If you took the Freaks, The X-Men, and Cats and mixed them up in a big bowl, you would get a big goopy mess not dissimilar to the movie Nightbreed. The studio totally screwed it over, it's an incomprehensible mess in places, but I still love it. Matt and Tristan go to Midian where the monsters live for Nightbreed. 

Somewhere between genius and absolute idiocy lies Skinned Deep. What a weird movie. I love it, you should watch this nonsense. Matt and Tristan talk Skinned Deep. 

     Did you know that inside this amazing lenticular VHS box is an actual movie? It's true!      When a truck of "Genetic Material" hits a truck carrying notorious serial killer "Jack Frost" in the sleepy little town of Snowmanton, an immortal killer snowman is born, and orgy of Christmas themed mayhem is set off.      (Also, this was great for the video store prank where you'd swap all the Micha...

This eye opening documentary show the true dangers inherent in running an independent bakery. If it's not rats and shady business men, it's a murderous Gary Busey turned into cookie golem by black magic. Matt and Tristan talk Gingerdead Man!

One of the standout characters of the muck-man invasion of the seventies, Swamp Thing has been many things to many people over the years. He was a monster, an environmental activist, but most importantly a plant. Watching him punch monsters, punch goons, and punch scientists, I couldn't help but think to myself...what incredibly plant-like behavior. Matt and Tristan answer the eternal question, is...

The year is 2025. The only entertainment is Endgame. It's like the Running Man, but boring. Plus, you can just take off half way through and nobody says anything about it. Matt and Tristan enjoy the dirt-bike and machine-gun-fight delivery vehicle known as, Endgame. 

We check in on what new shenanigans our old buddy the shape gets up to this time. This week Matt and Tristan pick up every stitch for the Samhain masterpiece, Halloween III. 

Would I say that Newlydeads has a modern sensibility that really speaks to an enlightened audience? Not really. Would I say that it has several exposed breasts and someone running neck first into a two person wood saw? Yes. Matt and Tristan talk about the movie with the least GLAD nominations for 1988, Newlydeads. 

Severed ties was originally called "Army". Which is the kind of pun that works way better once you've already seen the movie. So Severed Ties it became. The specific ties being severed are limbs. They then grow back with a magic serum. Plus, they're evil and kill people. Matt and Tristan talk about one of 1992's best killer limb movie, Severed Ties. 

Virus is a movie directed by an FX legend. Directing...maybe not so much. Matt and Tristan talk Virus. 

When it comes to weird Christian themed monster movies featuring Billy Zane and a guy from Wings, it just doesn't get much better than this. Matt and Tristan talk Demon Knight. 

Sometimes you see a movie that is so close to being a classic that it makes you sad. This is one of those movies. There's so much to love in this movie, but somehow it just never reaches its potential. Just like me. Matt and Tristan talk about the 1989 zombie sex-comedy-zombie-horror, Night Life. 

Based on the Stevie Wonder song of the same name, Superstition fills in all the parts of the song where nobody was getting cut in half by sentient window frames. Matt and Tristan talk about the surprisingly fun 1982 haunted pond movie, Superstition. 

Do you like puns in a bad German accent? Well, tough. Revenge of the Red Baron is ostensibly a kids movie, but has a massive body count and the teen protagonist is a sociopath, but he is played by Toby McGuire, so he's a charming sociopath. Matt and Tristan talk about the kids(?) horror movie,  Revenge of the Red Baron. 

You think you have problems...this family has to live with Alan Thicke! If that isn't bad enough, all the good comics about Trepopkins are $500. Matt and Tristan talk about Stepmonster,  the best movie that Amy Dolenz made that year. Probably. 

In the third installment of the Poltergeist series, we're going to double down on the mistakes made in the second one and make them even bigger and more confusing. Are there moments of magical brilliance? Totally. Are there big swaths of walking up stairways and calling out someone's name like a lesser 70's Hammer movie? You betcha.  Matt and Tristan talk Poltergeist 3.

In the original Poltergeist a happy likable family, through no fault of their own, become the victims of a malevolent spectral force. In part two, the spectral force is there, but the happy likable family...is not quite as happy or likable. By adding too much Amityville and Shining to the mix, plus a tiny dash of xenophobia it misses the mark a bit. But there's still a lot to like about it. Matt a...

There's like a troll or something? I guess his name is Grim or maybe not. There's some caves. People walk a whole bunch. I guess there's a talisman that does something, but they lose it. Sometimes people's eyes go red.  Matt and Tristan talk about it for some reason. 

My toxic trait is that I would totally sign up for the lot 6 tests, even after that dude clawed his eyes out.  Join Matt and Tristan for the closest thing we got to an X-Men movie in the eighties, Firestarter. 

Ok. Big old trigger warning. If there's a thing that bothers you to hear discussed even in less than graphic detail (SA, animal deaths) this might not be the one for you. This is a pretty mean movie in places, and pretty incomprehensible in places so be forewarned. That said, on the good side it's a very impressive low budget movie that did a whole lot with not much. On the bad side, some of the n...