How I Met Your Monster

By Zach Wincik, Danny Salemme, Casey Brewer

How I Met Your Monster is the horror-comedy podcast that explores the introductions of your favorite movie monsters! Join Zach, Danny, and Casey as they break down how iconic monsters — from Fred... more

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August 17, 2026Reverend Kane in Gary Sherman's POLTERGEIST III
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 final performance and the film's reshot ending.
In this episode we cover:
Director Gary Sherman and co-writer Brian Taggart's approach to the Poltergeist mythology

How the practical, on-set mirror and reflection effects were actually filmed

Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Zelda Rubinstein's performances

The confusing family dynamics that replaced the original Freeling cast

Heather O'Rourke's death, the misdiagnosis, and how the ending was reshot

Comparisons to the Insidious franchise's mythology
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2h 9min
August 03, 2026 The Grim Reaper in Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS (Re-Release)
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!
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1h 50min
July 20, 2026 Flesh-eating Zombies in Peter Jackson's DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD)
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.
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1h 49min
July 06, 2026Count Orlok in Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU (w/ Chris Cooney)
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 1922 original, and Shadow of the Vampire

Robert Eggers' practical-effects obsession: 2,000 real trained rats, real wolves, and potato-flakes for snow

Bill Skarsgård's transformation into Count Orlok: an opera coach, a lowered vocal register, and 4-6 hours in prosthetics designed by David White

The mustache and hat debate: why Orlok looks so different from past versions

The Lost Boys on Broadway
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1h 30min
June 22, 2026 Zombie Julie in Brian Yuzna's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (w/ The Nightmare Trials)
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 the most genuinely unsettling in the genre.
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1h 58min
June 08, 2026 Captain Peytraud in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW
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.
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2h 9min
June 01, 2026 TV TERRORS - Boy Meets World "AND THEN THERE WAS SHAWN" (Patreon Preview)
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 Feeny, and we're getting ourselves stuck in detention with Cory, Shawn, and Topanga to meet the John Adams High slasher in…
A SCARY SPECIAL EPISODE presents: “And Then There Was Shawn”
Enjoy the preview of this Patreon-exclusive episode! Want to hear the whole thing? Check out our Patreon page (https://patreon.com/howimetyourmonster) and become a member for only $3/month!
You'll get access to our first 50 episodes, as well as monthly bonus episodes including feature-length commentaries, new monsters, and TV episodes like this one!
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May 25, 2026 Chucky in Tom Holland's CHILD'S PLAY (w/ Don Campbell)
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 apartment. Along the way we explore Don Mancini's original "Blood Buddy" script, the Cabbage Patch doll craze that inspired the film, the raised soundstage set and practical puppet work that brought Chucky to life, and why Catherine Hicks' performance makes Child's Play as much a story about a struggling single mother as it is a slasher.
The episode closes with our favorite reveals ranking, real monsters, and a round of "would you survive Chucky?"
Next up: Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow closes out the triple feature.
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2h 5min
May 11, 2026 Mama Cecile and Papa Justify in Iain Softley's THE SKELETON KEY
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 Get Out, and the ending that had us shook.
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1h 45min
April 27, 2026 The Hollywood Machine in David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE
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 Mulholland Drive.
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2h 8min

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