Tristan Gallagher

Fun Box Monster Podcast

Comedy EN ↓ 267 episodes

Matt and Tristan dissect schlocky eighties horrors with love and try to make sense of films that may have dropped a few plot threads due to time and budgetary constraints.

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Tristan Gallagher

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Comedy

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Latest episode

Jul 2, 2026

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Episodes

Fun Box Monster Podcast #65 Witchboard 2 : The Devil's Doorway (1993) 07.05.2020

After a Ouija board (or for copyright reasons, "Witchboard") falls out of the closet of her new loft apartment, accountant and aspiring artist Paige becomes obsessed with solving the murder of a woman who's spirit is stuck in her building because she might have been murdered there. That's cool and all, but I guess all you really need to know about this movie is that there's a scene in which a wrec...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #64 Witchboard (1986) 30.04.2020

When stereotypical frat douche Brandon whips out his ouija board at a fancy dress party, no surprise, it brings the festivities to a screeching halt faster than if he'd started playing that one Everlast song on an acoustic guitar. In addition to killing the party's vibe, he also summons a dead axe murdering psycho who used to live in the house, all while emasculating Tawny Kitaen's new boyfriend b...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #63 Dr. Giggles (1992) Social Distancing Zoom Edition! 22.04.2020

When the residents of a small Oregon town Freddy Krueger the local doctor for harvesting hearts to repair his dead wife, lil baby Dr Giggles escapes the murder mob by hiding inside the corpse of his dead mother. He gets caught at age 7 and put into a mental institution where he gets his doctorate in giggology. Eventually he escapes and returns to his home town to punish random people who had nothi...

Fun Box Monster Podcast Special Self-Isolation Episode : Freeway Maniac (1989) 24.03.2020

Traumatized by seeing his mother having sex with a low rent Andrew Dice Clay, Arthur goes bonkers and kills them both. Thanks to a combination high protein asylum food, and regular exercise, Arthur grows up to be a huge pro-wrestler sized spree killer. He kills a ton of people, but gets obsessed with the one that got away. She happens to be an actress shooting a sci-fi movie in the desert, which a...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #62 : Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) 12.03.2020

Sorority Babes is an example of a movie. Join Matt, Tristan, and special guest Brandon Kawashima for a podcast which discusses it. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #61 Night of the Comet (1984) 05.03.2020

     Have you ever seen Omega Man and wished it was full of Valley Girls? I may have a film for you.      On the night of the return of the comet that killed the dinosaurs, our hero Reggie is too busy playing Tempest and getting busy to go out and watch. This, combined with the steel shielding in the building saved her from a fate of becoming either a pile of dust, or one of what seems like maybe...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #60 Ghoulies 3 : Ghoulies go to College (1991) 20.02.2020

If you like Richard Kind making ADR poop jokes, I've got a movie for you. If you like your kids movies peppered with murder and nudity, I have a movie for you. If you like a movie that starts in the toilet and never really leaves, I've got a movie for you. So, put on your yanking crown, fill your squirt gun with goofy glue, and join Matt and Tristan as they shove their heads into the demonic toile...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #59 The Initiation (1984) 06.02.2020

In the final entry in our Mall Madness Month here at the Fun Box Monster Podcast, we take a trip to The Fairchild Building for a sorority prank gone wrong epic. Kelly is a troubled young lady pledging an upscale sorority. For Hell Week she and her fellow pledges are tasked with stealing the clothes off a security guard in her father's store, which is 20 stories tall, and approximately 50 square mi...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #58 Chopping Mall (1986) 31.01.2020

With a name like Chopping Mall I expect one thing. Savings. Rock bottom pricing on name brands. And we get it. Plus, some scenes of robots murdering sexy teens. But mostly savings. So break up your furniture store sex party, set fire to your gas cans, and steer clear of that paint store, because that thing's a death trap...and join Matt and Tristan for Chopping Mall. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #57 Phantom of the Mall : Eric's Revenge (1989) 23.01.2020

When hunky acrobat Eric's family refuses to sell their house to greedy land developers, they hire that guy from Hack O' Lantern to burn it to the ground with his family in it. His girlfriend survives and tries to go on with her life by taking a job on the grounds where her boyfriend burned to death. She starts noticing on-the-nose gifts appearing around her and starts to suspect that Eric isn't as...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #56 Hide & Go Shriek (1988) 16.01.2020

When you're a sexed up teen graduating high school in mere days, there's only one place to go. THE FURNITURE STORE!!! Though our teens try as hard as they can to delay sex by setting up an elaborate game of hide and seek, eventually some does happen. Unfortunately for our teens, the forward thinking owner of Fine Furniture has taken the nontraditional step of letting an ex-con set up an apartment...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #55 09.01.2020

This lantern is hacked! (I'm trying out catch phrases. You know, for the kids) When the creepy Satanist grandpa known as "grandpa" brings his son/grandson (eew) Michael a pumpkin on Halloween, he also gives him a magic satan coin, redeemable at any coven for powers beyond imagining. He eventually grows up to be a sullen twenty-something living in his mom's basement, lifting weights, worshiping sat...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #54 Blood Salvage (1990) 03.01.2020

Now it can be told. Blood Salvage is the shocking true story of the auto salvage industry. Jake is a well meaning junkyard owner who just wants to help people by sharing their organs with needy people and make a small profit on the side. Cruel beauty pageant contestant April proceeds to murder his whole family and never even pay for the repairs that Jake did on her camper. So, sharpen up some knit...

Fun Box Monster Podcast Special Episode : Black Christmas / Haunt w/ Damian Maffei 20.12.2019

This week, Matt is off doing Christmas stuff... So horror icon and Black Christmas super-fan Damian Maffei is filling in to talk about Black Christmas and Haunt in a loose, free-form version of the podcast. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #53 Christmas Evil (1980) 13.12.2019

Ho, ho, holy crap. Back in a long ago era where America actually had manufacturing jobs, Harry is a worker at the Jolly Dreams toy factory. As a youth, Harry experienced a real life version of the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," and like the protagonist of the song, Harry's experience left him only a few steps from deranged. Those few steps happened as his co-workers took advantage of him,...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #52 Silent Night Deadly Night 5 (1991) 06.12.2019

Here's the problem with Christmas. Everybody's so worried about Grinches and Bumbles and whatever, that they forget to look out for the more prosaic horrors, like cyborg children built by an alcoholic Mickey Rooney who build boobytrapped toys to kill kids and get adopted by their moms. Especially, when it turns out that your dad is accidentally killed, and he turns out to not be your real dad, and...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #51 Dead Heat (1988) 28.11.2019

When I think Dead Heat, I think of two things. Buff Joe Piscopo and The Asphyxiation Room. Clearly we have zombie cops fighting zombie monsters. Sure. But more importantly, there's a room that does nothing but asphyxiate stuff. No child lock. No warning signs. No emergency exit. It asphyxiates you, and you can just stumble in there when you're looking for the bathroom. It's controlled by some sort...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #50 Society (1989) 21.11.2019

Rich people are weird, right? Like, they're just gooier than the rest of us. Knowing just how gooey they are, it should be of no surprise to any of us when they start raising lower class people in their giant mansions, giving them everything they could ever want, then suck out their life force in a ritualistic orgy where they all just kinda blend into a giant ambrosia salad of skin and organs. If...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #49 Pledge Night (1990) 14.11.2019

If you watched Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, and thought..."Gee...this movie's great and all, but I wish there was more butt-stuff." We have the movie for you.  Acid Sid is the ghost of a murdered frat pledge who has returned from the grave to kill off the new pledges at a fraternity who's name sounds like peen. After a bunch of ass paddling, and other ass games, we get down to some serious murder....

Fun Box Monster Podcast #48 Night of the Demons 2 (1994) 07.11.2019

Angela's back and she's having a party. I mean...not actually a party. And she's not having the party. It's actually a dance at a Catholic school. And the people involved don't actually go to the party. They go to Hull house to play a mean spirited prank that goes nowhere and isn't even slightly funny. Then they leave. But things really get going once Angela takes her sister away from the Catholic...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #47 The Pit (1981) 24.10.2019

     Instead of developing coping mechanisms that might help him with the daily worries and disappointments that the average child faces, Jamie tends to solve all his problems by throwing them into a pit filled with prehistoric carnivores. This combined with him being a weird little perv, makes him a pretty unpopular kid.      Jamie is a great example of why the mental health field has never opted...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #46 Black Roses (1988) 17.10.2019

The citizens of Mill Basin are up in arms that middle-of-the-road hair metal band Black Roses have a four night engagement at the gym of the local high school. In a real spit in the eye of your typical Footloose style movie, it turns out that the concerned church-types are right. This band has sold their souls to the devil and now has the power to hypnotize kids into killing their parents. Things...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #45 Rocktober Blood (1984) 10.10.2019

Billy's back from the dead, with a message from Hell! That message is, "Don't forget to mention that you have an identical twin brother when you're on trial for murder." Billy Eye is a hot-shot rock and roller, who spends all his time belittling women, banging groupies, and writing songs with names that predict crucial events in his life. When he decides to go on a killing spree, it takes everyone...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #44 Children of the Night (1991) 03.10.2019

This film is constructed like a Swiss digital watch that's linked to the Geneva laser grid. You think this is just another vampire movie? Think again! It's a vampire movie where the vampires sleep with their lungs outside their bodies. Why? Well...because. Breathing is...umm... Shut up. That's why. So put on your fruit hat, grab your golf club, and drive your crazy person Jesus van to join Matt an...

Fun Box Monster Podcast #43 Maximum Overdrive (1986) 26.09.2019

Maximum Overdrive is the story of a huge semi-truck...full of cocaine that pulled up outside Stephen King's house. After snorting a metric ton of it, he wrote this nutso movie. And thank god he did. This is the movie that's so beautifully stupid that nobody else would have dared to make it. I wake up every day thanking my lucky stars that Stephen King hadn't hit rock bottom before he got to make t...

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