How I Met Your Monster

Kicking off our SEASON’S CREEPINGS triple feature, we’re stocking up on Black Friday deals, death, and denial with special guest Brooke Surgener to meet the vengeful plastic-masked John Carver in Eli Roth’s THANKSGIVING, starring Patrick Dempsey, Nell Verlaque, Gina Gershon, Rick Hoffman, Gabriel Davenport, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Karen Cliche, and Tim Dillon. Brooke Surgener: linktr.ee/brookesurgene...

Wrapping up our MASKED UP triple feature, we’re trading in chilling chase scenes for savage strolls to meet the monster known only as Johnny in Chris Nash’s IN A VIOLENT NATURE, starring Ryan Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Lauren-Marie Taylor, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, and Charlotte Creaghan. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check ou...

Over the past year, we’ve been meeting monsters. Now… it’s time to rank ‘em. We’ve collected the data, synthesized insights, and conducted hours of analysis. By that, we of course mean we ranked all the monsters we’ve met since *last* Halloween. If you’re more of a visual person, it’s kinda like we took our three individual lists, put them through the shunting process from Society, and created one...

In this episode of How I Met Your Monster, we continue our Masked Up triple feature with Mike Flanagan’s 2016 horror thriller Hush, starring Kate Siegel. As horror fans, we couldn’t resist sinking our teeth into this tension-packed thriller, where silence plays just as big a role as the masked killer. But don’t worry, we’re here to lighten the mood with plenty of roasts and off-the-wall humor. We...

Kicking off our MASKED UP triple feature, we’re seeking bloody revenge on creative exploitation and musical sanitation as we look to the neon theater rafters to meet the tragic antihero in Brian De Palma’s PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, starring William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, and George Memmoli. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and comm...

Wrapping up our DOG DAYS OF SUMMER triple feature, we’re strolling through the foggy woods of a nondescript European village with Chris Cooney from DEAD NOISE to meet the creature formerly known as Larry Talbot in George Waggner’s THE WOLF MAN, starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Bela Lugosi. Find DEAD NOISE at https://deadnoise.substack.com/ Follow DEAD NO...

Continuing our DOG DAYS OF SUMMER triple feature, we’re ignoring the warnings to stick to the road and keep off the moors — all so we can meet a naked balloon thief-turned-werewolf in John Landis’ AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, David Schofield, Lila Kaye, and Brian Glover. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For...

Kicking off our DOG DAYS OF SUMMER triple feature is Stephen King’s SILVER BULLET. This 1985 werewolf coming-of-age tale, based on “Cycle of the Werewolf”,  was directed by Daniel Attias and stars Corey Haim and Gary Busey. 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 suppo...

Wrapping up our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re putting our telepathic bug detective murder-solving superpowers to good use as we meet a malformed, maladjusted serial murderer in Dario Argento’s PHENOMENA, starring Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasance, Daria Nicoldi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Federica Mastroianni, and Patrick Bauchau. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content...

Continuing our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re getting lost inside an abandoned Lower East Side subway tunnel to meet giant, genetically-engineered cockroaches in Guillermo Del Toro’s MIMIC, starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Josh Brolin, Alix Koromzay, Alexander Goodwin, and F. Murray Abraham. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bon...

Celebrating SHARK WEEK the best way we know how - with genetically-enhanced super sharks in DEEP BLUE SEA. Joining us to chat about killer sharks with massive frontal lobes is Mark J. Parker, host of the RELEASE DATE REWIND podcast! Is Deep Blue Sea the best shark movie? How does it stack up against Jaws? Does Samuel L. Jackson reprise his role as Zeus from Die Hard With a Vengeance? Find out in t...

Kicking off our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re going on a wilderness retreat into blood-sucking, bug-boiling bedlam as we meet a horde of giant, hallucinogenic ticks in Tony Randel’s TICKS, starring Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro, Virginya Keehne, Clint Howard, Peter Scolari, and Rosalind Allen. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our P...

Wrapping up our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re taking a weekend getaway into madness, monsters, and the unhinged nature of creative chaos that gave us Frankenstein, Dracula, and more in Ken Russell’s GOTHIC, starring Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands, Timothy Spall, and Myriam Cyr. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out...

Continuing our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re seeing how long we can last through a ​​mind-melting exercise in fear, faith, and five-star hotels as we meet an evil hotel room in Mikael Håfström’s adaptation of Stephen King's 1408, starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, and Tony Shaloub. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus c...

In this special BONUS episode, Zach and Danny journey beyond the nightclubs of Shanghai, over the Himalayans, and past the village of Mayapore to meet Mola Ram and his Thuggee cult in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, and Roy Chiao. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube F...

Kicking off our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re taking a mind-altering road trip through alternate dimensions to meet Sutter Cane and his army of cosmic monsters in John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Frances Bay, John Glover, and David Warner. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check...

Wrapping up off our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re lighting the black flame candle on hallowed ground to meet the Sanderson Sisters in Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw, Thora Birch, and Doug Jones. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patreon Fo...

Continuing our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re hitting up an All Hallow’s Eve after party with Art the Clown in Damien Leone’s TERRIFIER, starring David Howard Thornton, Samantha Scaffidi, Jenna Kanell, and Catherine Corcoran. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patreon Follow the show on Instagram , TikTok , and Facebook...

Kicking off our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re playing ding dong ditch on Death’s doorstep and coming face-to-face with the ghosts of our past in Joel Schumacher’s FLATLINERS, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kimberly Scott, and Hope Davis. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check...

Wrapping up our “Under the Influence” triple feature, we’re going viral — in the most demonic sense imaginable — with Danny and Michael Philippou’s (aka RackaRacka’s) TALK TO ME, starring Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Zoe Terakes, and Miranda Otto. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patreon Follow the show on Instagram...

Continuing our “Under the Influence” triple feature, we’re getting wiiiicked daaaahhhhk with floating demonic doppelgangers, the trials and turmoil of caregiving, and Lipstickgate in Bryan Bertino’s THE DARK AND THE WICKED, starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone, and Xander Berkeley. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries...

"Angela is having a party. Jason and Freddy are too scared to come. But you'll have a hell of a time." Angela must have known that we are celebrating our 100th episode because she threw us an awesome party! It's got the three things that every 80's Halloween party should have - beer, music, and demonic possession. We're kicking off our Under the Influence triple feature (that focuses on the posses...

Released just two months before Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and showcasing just as much shock value, 1960's "Peeping Tom" explores fear, voyeurism, and the shame that society puts on our basic human needs. In this episode, we meet our monster MARK LEWIS in London and discuss his upbringing, the appropriate age to enjoy a glass of milk, and the ignorant destruction of Michael Powell's career. Subsc...

Join us in 1980s NYC for some dinner, drinks, and murder as we attempt to tackle the psyche of an AMERICAN PSYCHO. In the second feature of our SILVER SCREEN SLASHERS triple feature, we're meeting Patrick Bateman - a yuppie with good taste in music but bad taste in life choices - played wonderfully by Christian Bale in Mary Harron's 2000 dark comedy classic. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify ,...

To kick off our “Silver Screen Slashers” triple feature, we’re testing the limits of an R-rating with Lars von Trier’s twisted serial killer odyssey, THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, starring Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, and Riley Keough. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and commentaries, check out our Patreon Follow the s...