How I Met Your Monster

To celebrate Halloween, and to kick off a brand new fiscal year (aka freakskull year, cuz we freaky), we're not just wrapping up another triple feature -- we're wrapping up an ENTIRE. FUCKING. YEAR of monsters. A freakskull year that started with friendship in our IN DA KLERB WE ALL MONSTERS triple feature to interstellar travel in SPACE: THE FINAL FRONT-FEAR. We've been around the block, we've me...

Back in 2022, we met Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN to celebrate the spooky season. This year, we're bringing back what became one of our personal favorite episodes. So carve your Jack-O-Lanterns, eat some candy corn (if you're a monster), and revisit this spooktacular episode of How I Met Your Monster! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commenta...

We kick off our SPACE: THE FINAL FRONT-FEAR triple feature with Kevin Yagher's land-locked space race to Hell. The Box has gone digital, the pain remains mythical, and in space, you can get your flesh flayed in just under 12 parsecs as we leap through time and space in a black hole of horror to meet the sadomasochistic Cenobites in HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE.   Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotif...

Danny's pick to wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature is the John Carpenter classic, THE FOG. In this episode, we meet the vengeful zombie pirate, Captain William Blake, and his undead crew of the Elizabeth Dane. We uncover all 10 monster reveals, chat John Carpenter's original vision and the reshoots that followed, compare Carpenter's storytelling with another horror master, sing Goo Goo Doll...

Casey picks Jan de Bont's The Haunting for the second movie in our Dead of Summer triple feature. In this episode, we meet Hugh Crain, along with Hill House itself. We trace the film's tangled path from a planned Spielberg/Stephen King collaboration (that eventually became King's Rose Red) through Jan de Bont taking the reins, and break down all 16 monster reveals hiding in Liam Neeson, Catherine...

We're kicking off our Dead of Summer triple feature with Poltergeist III (1988) , the divisive third entry in the Poltergeist franchise where Reverend Kane follows Carol Anne to a high-rise apartment building in Chicago. In this episode we break down all 13 monster reveals , dig into the film's ambitious in-camera mirror effects, and unpack the real-life tragedy behind star Heather O'Rourke's fina...

THE FRIGHTENERS is 30 years old this year, and to celebrate we're re-releasing over coverage of the Peter Jackson horror comedy from Episode 142!  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patreon Follow the show on Instagram , TikTok , and Facebook Want to support the show and save 20% on Fangoria? Visit Fangoria and enter PROMO CODE: HO...

We wrap up our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Peter Jackson's gooey gonzo gorefest. Moms are nitpicking, priests are ass-kicking, and one love-struck mama's boy just brought a lawnmower to a zombie fight as we visit the Wellington Zoo to meet its newest addition: a deadly Rat Zombie and its pustulating zombie horde in DEAD ALIVE. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus co...

We continue our "Too Hot to Rot" triple feature with Robert Eggers' 2024 Nosferatu, joined by returning guest Chris Cooney of Dead Noise Media. We dig into Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok (the voice training, the prosthetics, the hat debate) and compare this version to the 1922 original and Bram Stoker's Dracula.  In this episode: Why this Nosferatu shares so much DNA with Bram Stoker's Dracula, the...

Episode 158: Return of the Living Dead 3 — We're kicking off our "Too Hot to Rot" triple feature with Brian Yuzna's gory, surprisingly romantic zombie classic. Joined by special guest Steven from The Nightmare Trials podcast, we dig into the practical effects work of Steve Johnson, the franchise's tonal shift from satire to tragic love story, and why these unkillable, conscious zombies are some of...

We wrap up our IT'S VOODOO, BABY triple feature with Wes Craven’s voodoo-doomed descent into near-death delirium. Zombies are real, the dead still feel, and we're traveling to Haiti at the height of the regime-ending anti-Duvalier protests to meet the soul-snatching bokor Captain Peytraud in THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and comm...

In this Patreon-exclusive episode of How I Met Your Monster, where we’re switching things up by turning our attention from movie monsters, to TV terrors.  In today’s episode, we’ll be meeting the monster in the Boy Meets World season 5 episode, “And Then There Was Shawn,” a love letter to the genre, with a self-referential emphasis on teen slashers. The killer's a meanie, the first suspect is Feen...

Returning guest Don Campbell joins us as we meet Charles Lee Ray in episode 156, tackling Tom Holland's 1988 classic Child's Play as the second entry in the "It's Voodoo Baby" triple feature. We break down all eight of Chucky's major reveals, from the voodoo soul transfer that opens the film to the battery scene confrontation between Karen Barclay and the Good Guy doll, to the fiery finale in the...

IT'S VOODOO, BABY kicks off with Kate Hudson and Gena Rowlands as we dig into Ian Softley's The Skeleton Key (2005), one of the most slept-on horror films of the 2000s. We break down all five monster reveals, the Hoodoo vs. Voodoo distinction, and why Kate Hudson's Caroline belongs in the conversation for smartest horror protagonist ever. Plus: the film's touchy racial subtext, it's comparison to...

We wrap up our MINDF*CKS triple feature with David Lynch's surrealist sensory experience through celebrity success and self-destruction. Everybody wants to be somebody, every somebody is someone else, and the Hollywood elite are anything but sweet, as we follow our dreams to the outer limits of La-La land, to meet the mysterious Mr. Roque and his army of dreamers, schemers and doppelgangers in Mul...

We dive into the industrial hellscape of David Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead (1977), for the second film in our MINDF*CKS triple feature. In this episode: How Lynch's black-and-white nightmare was made over six years on a shoestring budget at the American Film Institute Why the film hits different with three distinct life perspectives: a father, someone who wants kids, and someone who doesn't...

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island is one of the most rewatchable psychological thrillers of the 2000s, and on this episode of How I Met Your Monster, we break down exactly why. Set in 1954 at Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Shutter Island follows U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) as he investigates the disappearance of a patient from a remote island asylum and slowly los...

The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature wraps up with Jean-Jacques Annaud’s medieval monk murder mystery. The friars are repressed, but their hairdos are blessed, and God help us, James Bond is giving Sherlock Holmes as we sin our way through a secret library labyrinth to meet a joy-hating holy man in THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and comment...

THE BRIDE! hits theaters this week, so we wanted to enjoy the original 1935 film THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in anticipation of the upcoming adaptation. Zach and Danny sit down to watch and yap (it's meaningful yapping, so it's ok) over James Whale's classic story of outsiders looking for acceptance in a cruel, cruel world. Enjoy this intro to our PATREON EXCLUSIVE commentary on THE BRIDE OF FRANKEN...

The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature continues with David Fincher’s rain-soaked race against a one-man judge, jury, and executioner. Sinners are being hunted, a perfect crime’s constructed, and we can’t help but ask “WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!” as we count down a septet of deadly sins to meet the serial killer, John Doe, in SE7EN. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and com...

The Exorcist III (1990) kicks off our Devils & Dicks triple feature! We dive into William Peter Blatty's underrated horror sequel that trades demonic possession for police procedural tension - well, mostly.  Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott) investigates a series of brutal murders that match the M.O. of the Gemini Killer, who died in the electric chair 15 years ago. His investigation leads hi...

In anticipation for SCREAM 7, Zach sits down with two SCREAM super fans (co-host Danny and special guest Laron Chapman) to discuss the original film and it's upcoming sequel. To hear new commentary episodes each month, check out Patreon and become a How I Met Your Monster MENACE for only $3! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patre...

We wrap up our SCARYTALES triple feature with Guillermo Del Toro’s war-torn journey through the horrors of fascism. The Pale Man sees you, but fantasy frees you, and it turns out that the real monsters are the fascist fuck-heads we met along the way as we travel back to Francoist Spain in 1944 to meet Captain Vidal and a fairy-filled forest in PAN’S LABYRINTH. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify...

Return to Oz might be marketed as a fantasy sequel—but rewatching it as adults reveals something far darker. From electroshock therapy and abandoned children to the Wheelers, Princess Mombi’s Hall of Heads, and the terrifying Nome King, this Disney film feels more like a full-blown horror movie than a family classic. In this episode of How I Met Your Monster , we continue our Scarytales triple fea...

In this episode of How I Met Your Monster , we kick off our Scary Tales triple feature by diving into Neil Jordan’s 1984 horror film The Company of Wolves . Inspired by Angela Carter’s reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, this surreal fairy-tale nightmare blends werewolves, dream logic, and body-horror transformations into one of the strangest films of the decade. We break down the film’s seven...