The Frankencast

KARLOFF'S BACK, BABY! And this time, it's personal. Join us as we make excuses for SO many missing people, ominously threaten our best friend, and throw away eyeballs like they grow on trees.  Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future installments. Join us on Patreon at patreon.com/thefrankencast . Follow us on Twitter or Instagram @thefranke...

We've been threatening to talk about a Pinocchio movie for a while now, because Pinocchio is TOTALLY a Frankenstein story. And what better one to start with than the new one created by Frankenstein super-fan and die-hard Monster Kid GDT? Join us as we discuss the glaring absence of Disney songs, get all Weird Al in the face of fascism, and then get super-emotional about a dead bug in a hollow log....

Merry Christmas, fiends! We're concluding Decem-Burton with a movie not actually directed by Tim Burton, but which he still had a big hand in. It's a goth Christmas classic that spawned a whole industry of Hot Topic merch. And we are HERE for it. Join us as we sing our feelings, poison our creator, and ultimately get exposed as just a bag of bugs all along.  Please rate, review, and tell your...

This week we're continuing Decem-Burton by gazing longingly out of our snowglobe-esque window and putting on our best grandparent voices to tell the tale of the little robot boy who became a neighborhood celebrity in spite of, or because of, his scissor hands. Join us as we get new wave hairdos, rob our own houses, and get trashed on lemonade!  Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And b...

It's time for Decem-Burton! We're kicking things off with a more recent film from Burton's catalog: the 2012 full-length stop-motion remake of his 1984 short film Frankenweenie. Join us as we go to a particularly upsetting school board meeting, join baseball to make our dad happy (relatable content), and face off against Rodan, Gamera, Sea Monkey Gremlins, and a were-flappy cat(?).  Please ra...

We're headed to Japan once again with an absolutely wild movie that made for one of our most fun and fascinating conversations to date. We're joined by our friend and resident Japan expert Alex Heichelbech and we're looking at what happens when a Frankensteinian mad scientist has a run-in with a famous 90s Japanese death cult. Turns out, hilarity ensues? Join us as we meet the only Spanish hunchba...

We're back with another lovely author chat! This week we are chatting with Refe Tuma, the thoughtful and entertaining writer of Frances and the Monster. This is a delightful book, safe to be enjoyed by people of all ages and it is packed with overt and subtle references to Frankenstein and plenty of surprising twists and turns along the way. We had a lovely time talking with Refe, and highly recom...

Well, there was a Wanted poster in dodgy French that told us that Van Helsing is Wanted, and we were happy to provide. If you're not happy about it, blame The Generic Order of the Regular Knights of Totally Not the Templars. Join us as we meet human action figure Steampunk Frankenstein, pop SO many Bat-Babies, and say goodbye in the most Mufasa-ass way possible. And then ride off into the non-sequ...

We've still got a little bit more Monster Mashing today. This time, with an animated feature from a way-past-its-prime DIC Entertainment. This hour-long special boasts an incredibly rare showdown between classic creature-feature era monsters and modern day slasher monsters. Join us as we ride a skeleton roller coaster, get turned into a remote controlled toy, and slurp up all of Freddy's spaghetti...

The guests included Wolf Man, Dracula, and his... wife? Join us as we get stuck in a storm and trapped in a spooky old house with a bunch of freaks who seem to be vaguely remaking the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Join us as we're verbally abused by the King of Halloween Music, aggressively flirted at by vampires of heterosexually appropriate genders, and comfort a hunchbacked assistant played by the...

This week the Frankencast is going back to high school and we're enjoying it way more than we did the first time around. Maybe because of all the monsters. We were both pleasantly surprised by how much we enjoyed this film and we think you'll feel the same. Join us as we overshare about where all our parts came from, dabble in witchcraft in the bathroom, and pull the ultimate Reverse Teen Wolf.&nb...

In today's Very Special Episode, we are joined by the delightful Addie Tsai, author of the new novel Unwieldy Creatures. It's a brilliant meta retelling of Frankenstein through a queer and biracial/bicultural lens. The book is fun and fascinating, and so is its author. We had an absolute blast talking with Addie and we think you'll enjoy listening in on our conversation. And we truly cannot recomm...

This week we're continuing our streak of foreign remakes of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. This week we're headed to Egypt to watch this wacky comedy also known as Have Mercy. Join us as we fail the Bechdel Test harder than ever when we meet a completely nameless female main character, bring glue to a knife fight, and fat shame a shadow. We did our best.  Please rate, review, and te...

All October, we're celebrating our one-year anniversary. So this week we're looking back to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein by watching this Mexican remake of the film. Join us as the voices in our heads tell us to play jokes, solve the case with our comically large magnifying glass and rubber gun, and drink lots of sangrita with Count Suck-Suck.  Please rate, review, and tell your fien...

It's finally here, fiends! We've been talking about this movie for months and watching Munsters films for weeks to prepare ourselves. Last week we did our first watch commentary, but what do we think about Rob Zombie's The Munsters after we've had a week to think about it and watched it again? Join us as we show you all our photos of rats, watch The Creature From the Black Lagoon WITH the Creature...

Well, fiends, we did it. You monsters have stuck with us through a full year of this nonsense. We'll hopefully have many more years to come, but first, let's celebrate this milestone. To do so, we dug back as far as we can go to watch the oldest Frankenstein movie possible, the 1910 short made by Thomas Edison's film production company. Join us as we melt in reverse out of a cauldron and then disa...

"Hello, and welcome once again to the Frankencast. I'm the Mad Scientist Anthony Bowman, my pronouns are he/him and I'm joined as always by..."  Hey fiends, tomorrow night we'll be releasing our One Year Anniversary Spectacular, but first here's a silly little gift for you all.  Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss future installments. Fol...

It's the Munsters Day we've all been waiting for, fiends! We've obviously been leading up to this for a while, so you know we were going to have to do something special for this release.  Here's the first part of our multi-part celebration. Join us as we watch the new Munsters film for the first time and react accordingly. We'll count you in if you want to press play and watch along with us....

Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein is such a unique and exciting film and we've been waiting to discuss it since we started the show. And now we're proud to also present this fascinating conversation with director Tim Kirk! It was an absolute dream come true to get to talk with him about his films and Frankenstein in general. We had so much fun, and we think you will too! You can find T...

This week, we're Frankensteining a Frankenstein film in the interest of a wild behind-the-scenes murder mystery. Join us as we barricade ourselves in the recording studio, sell bootleg t-shirts at an execution, and bury ourselves in the ominous Immersion Set. Don't miss this fascinating experiment that explores the contentious relationship between the artist and the audience, between truth and fic...

It's a podcast mashup as your favorite Horror Hosts are joined by Hayden Orr and John Howle (aka 2/3s of The Last Book on the Shelf podcast) to discuss the most faithful adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel we've watched so far. Come along on our speedrun through the book, as we completely forget about Justine, jump-cut from the Frankenstein estate to the Ice Cave of Confrontation, and foreshadowing...

It's time for one last hurrah with (most of) the original Munsters cast! We'll go to a creepy wax museum full of crime robots, meet the dreadfully annoying Cousin Phantom of the Opera, revel in the absolute joy of Herman destroying an entire police station, and hit on the mysteriously caked-up waitress that look suspiciously like a familiar 8-foot-tall Frankenstein that we all know and love. Pleas...

It's Munsters Month part 3, and we're moving on to the most modern version of the Munsters we've seen so far. And the least familiar. Herman's not exactly a Frankenstein, Grandpa is sometimes a weird bat monster, and Marilyn is actually kind of terrifying. And EVERYONE is very sexy. Join us as we cleverly use lycanthropy and puberty as metaphors for each other, play with our food, and turn Crypt K...

We're continuing Munsters Month by going to the 90s in this prequel story of how our favorite family of monsters made their way from Transylvania to LA. Join us as we get entangled in some unexpected political intrigue, meet the Drunk Housewives of Mockingbird Lane, and um, respectively appreciate Lily's gothletic wear. Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don...

It's Munsters Month, baby! Join America's favorite monster family as they take a cruise to England. Listen in as we get mixed up in an aristocratic rivalry, call for Car 54 to help stop the mysterious Gryphon, and try to get to the bottom of the absurd inconsistencies in Grandpa's animal shapeshifting abilities. Please rate, review, and tell your fiends. And be sure to subscribe so you don't miss...