Monster Mash

11/03/2023

This week, one of the best science fiction films ever. Written by Richard Matheson (I am Legend) and directed by Jack Arnold (Creature from the Black Lagoon), comes The Incredible Shrinking Man!

This week we are talking about what I consider a top 5 science fiction films of all time with an ending that will blow your socks off: The Incredible Shrinking Man!

25/01/2023

This week we talk about perhaps not the best movie to watch with a first-time-pregnant wife (surprise, we are having a baby!. It's Village of the Damned!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/12119093-i-must-think-of-a-brick-wall-village-of-the-damned-1960.mp3?download=true

23/08/2022

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/11190665-klatu-berata-nicto-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951.mp3?download=true

Our yearly march toward Halloween officially begins! We start with a sci fi classic.

04/07/2022

Back to Hammer for a flawed but fun Mummy flick!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10904152-you-ever-learn-to-do-that-to-ragtime-we-ll-make-a-fortune-curse-of-the-mummy-s-tomb-1964.mp3?download=true

25/06/2022

We are back and talking about the final in Universal's Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-Man saga and the un-official end of the classic monster cycle: House of Dracula!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10852718-dream-a-thousand-dreams-die-a-thousand-deaths-house-of-dracula-1945.mp3?download=true

17/06/2022

This week we are back at Universal for their Mummy reboot which launched a series of sequels; the surprisingly funny The Mummy's Hand.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10790173-now-we-re-stuck-with-a-dame-the-mummy-s-hand-1940.mp3?download=true

07/06/2022

Episode 44, in which we return to Hammer for a personal favorite, Dracula: Prince of Darkness!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10748864-you-re-an-idiot-father-dracula-prince-of-darkness-1966.mp3?download=true

31/05/2022

We are back, and this time, we are talking Steve McQueen, a ridiculous opening song, and a gelatinous alien. It's 1958's The Blob!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10696142-it-creeps-and-leaps-and-glides-and-slides-the-blob-1958.mp3?download=true

04/04/2022

After a long hiatus, we are back with a different kind of episode. This week we break down our top ten spookiest moments out of the films we have watched so far. Let us know some of your favorite spooky movie moments!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/10378548-top-ten-so-far.mp3?download=true

03/02/2022

Episode 40 is in! A bonkers flick that features one of Christopher Lee's favorite characters he played for Hammer: The Devil Rides Out

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9965806-i-shall-not-be-back-but-something-will-the-devil-rides-out-1968.mp3?download=true

25/01/2022

This week, we continue our shamble through the Universal Frankenstein series with perhaps my favorite of the 40's era sequels. The infectiously fun House of Frankenstein!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9945668-why-have-you-freed-me-from-the-ice-that-imprisoned-the-beast-that-lives-within-me-house-of-frankenstein-1944.mp3?download=true

22/01/2022

After a long hiatus we are back! This week, we talk the last of Universal's solo Frankenstein films, 1942's Ghost of Frankenstein.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9902435-i-ygor-will-live-forever-the-ghost-of-frankenstein-1942.mp3?download=true

30/11/2021

Episode 36! An all-time great, this week we discuss Claude Raines' film debut, and what a debut it is!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9633751-he-s-mad-and-he-s-invisible-the-invisible-man-1935.mp3?download=true

29/11/2021

Christmas time means time to set up the world's greatest nativity set.

01/11/2021

This week we talk the atmospheric and stylish as hell White Zombie!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9473097-there-is-an-evil-spirit-man-that-is-called-murder-white-zombie-1932.mp3?download=true

28/10/2021

This week's episode: Only one of two times an actor in a horror movie has won best actor (the other being Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs). A well-deserved Oscar if you ask us.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9449415-champagne-ivy-is-my-name-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1932.mp3?download=true

20/10/2021

Episode 33 is here! Sorry for the delay (again), but we are back with a Hammer favorite!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9398865-you-look-like-a-teddy-bear-now-horror-of-dracula-1958.mp3?download=true

27/09/2021

This week's episode: The campy and better-than-the-title-suggests Taste the Blood of Dracula! Share with a friend!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9269997-blood-dracula-s-blood.mp3?download=true

20/09/2021

Newest episode all about that delightfully weird, fun and quintessentially Hammer flick: Kiss of the Vampire.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9227773-do-you-know-what-a-vampire-is.mp3?download=true

13/09/2021

This week's episode, in which we discuss Hammer's Phantom of the Opera

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9187670-they-like-a-good-tune.mp3?download=true

Also, I realized this one never finished uploading, so here is last week's episode in which we slam the 1992 mess of a film that had so much potential: Bram Stoker's Dracula.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9149128-i-have-crossed-oceans-of-time-to-find-you.mp3?download=true

30/08/2021

Episode 28! A movie I had never seen before. Enjoy, like, and subscribe!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9110007-how-to-catch-a-sea-beast.mp3?download=true

16/08/2021

Episode 26! The first film of our annual Monster Mash movie marathon; 1958's The Fly!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9037627-heeelp-meeee.mp3?download=true

09/08/2021

The triumphant return of Peter Cushing!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/9001043-they-ll-never-be-rid-of-me.mp3?download=true

02/08/2021

Also, realizing there are a couple episodes that were never posted on this page. Here is our special wedding episode with the incomparable Bride of Frankenstein!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8815034-we-belong-dead.mp3?download=true

02/08/2021

Here is the newest episode in which we talk Werewolf of London!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8962846-thanks-for-the-bullet.mp3?download=true

28/06/2021

Again, apologies for the week long hiatus, but your humble hosts were busy with wedding projects, but we are back! This week, one of our favorites, Karloff the Uncanny in The Mummy!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8778833-no-man-ever-suffered-as-i-did-for-you.mp3?download=true

09/06/2021

Better late than never, eh, monster fans? Apologies again for the lateness (wedding preparations!) but here is episode 20: The Black Cat!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8675832-supernatural-perhaps-baloney-perhaps-not.mp3?download=true

24/05/2021

Check out our newest episode where we give Bela Lugosi gets lots of much-deserved love!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8580973-you-are-saying-something-profound.mp3?download=true

17/05/2021

This one was extra fun since I am currently experiencing a reawakening of my love for Godzilla.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1604362/8537915-it-was-big-and-terrible.mp3?download=true