Oops All Monsters

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What's Oops All Monsters about?

A deadly unserious show about monsters, creatures & cryptids from mythology, pop culture & gaming hosted by two weirdos from wild & wonderful West Virginia!

Hosts Gavin & Hess take turns researching and discussing movie monsters, video game villains, and mythological beasts.

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Oops All Monsters episodes:

07.23.2023
Video Guide For Christian Families 03
CLUE, COBRA, and COCOON Keep watching this Bat Channel for our return to regularly formatted episodes after Gavin completes his move.
07.12.2023
Summer Reading - CANDYMAN 2021 - 068
In our ongoing Summer Reading Series Hess goes all solo professor style with an update on the CANDYMAN legacy to help you understand how Candyman relates to FREDDY KRUEGER, and perhaps also a 6 foot tall invisible bunny? Pitter Patter
07.04.2023
Christian Video Guide Vol 02 - The Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave Bear
The Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave Bear
06.16.2023
THE RANCOR from STAR WARS - 067
How many Mark Hammills can YOU eat?! RETURN OF THE JEDI's voluminous pit nightmare is perhaps the ultimate in STAR WARS monstrosities, as well as one of its most enduring toys. But is it bitchin' van art? We also crack the nut on...
06.14.2023
The Movie & Video Guide For Christian Families (1988) - Vol 1
Big Trouble in Little China & The Black Cauldron
05.30.2023
MARTIN the teenage vampire? 1977 - 067
One of George A. Romero's lesser known monster films explores whether MARTIN, as portrayed by John Amplas, is actually a cursed bloodsucker from the days or yore, or just a deranged teen alienated by cultish superstition and mental derangement. This bleak,...
05.06.2023
NOPE - 066
Look to the skies with us this week as Gavin presents his take on Jordan Peele's UFO waking nightmare from 2022. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! If you haven't already watched the film, we strong recommend you do so before enjoying this episode. Is...
04.17.2023
The Nazi Zombies of SHOCKWAVES & DEAD SNOW - 065
Strap in your stepping geese and polish your Schmeisser submachine guns cuz it's pissed off nazi time! You thought the zombies in YOUR life were pissed, wait til you meet these undead European meanies. They're coming out of the ocean,...
04.02.2023
WHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT2
PixelLit Podcast - https://pixellitpod.com Phil and Hess conclude their dive into all things THING by looking at what the authors of each version included (dogs) and sometimes excluded (mind-reading-Thing), as well as personal anecdotes, and a lot of love for the...
03.22.2023
WHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT1
Hess brings on friend of the show PHIL from PIXEL LIT to discuss all things THE THING! In this first installment of a two-part ride, Hess and Phil discuss the original 1938 Novella WHO GOES THERE? that inspired director Howard...
03.08.2023
Play DUNGEON WORLD with Hess! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Hess and Gavin are getting into professional Game Mastering! *** I’m giving listeners of this show a special opportunity to play Hess's first hosted sessions of DUNGEON WORLD: ESCAPE! Currently there is scheduled an 18+ version at 630 on Thursday March 16 -...
03.07.2023
CYBERPUNK’S Maelstrom Gang - 062
In the revolutionary dystopian RPG originally published in 1988 by Mike Pondsmith and R Talsorian Games, CYBERPUNK (various, from TTRPG to anime to FPShooter) explores the edges of humanity, capitalism, and personal frailty amongst a neon backdrop of acid rain,...
02.20.2023
THE BLOB! 1988 - 061
Unbuckle your pants and load your bazookas, cuz it's blobbin' time! In 1988, exactly 30 years after the original film, Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith starred in a gruesome horror comedy full of over-the-top gore effects and middle-fingers to the...
02.05.2023
VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt2 - 060
Wax your lips and sharpen your lapels, because Gavin and Hess don't pull punches in the conclusion of their agonizingly deep take on the mid-90s roleplaying sensation, VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE. CONTENT WARNINGS: adolescence/teenagers are discussed The Columbine School shooting Chris Kattan *** Get all our stuff...
01.21.2023
VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt 1of 2 - 059
Lace up your leather jacket and polish your wine bottles full of precious bodily fluids, it's time to suck the life out of adolescence! NOT adolescents...adolescence! Leave the teens alone. Or help them? They need help, perhaps in the form...
12.31.2022
HELLRAISER 2022’s Cenobites - 58
NOT AN EPISODE FOR CHILDREN!!! 2022 brought us a nightmarish new vision of demonic bliss in the restart of the HELLRAISER series, so HAPPY FU*%ING NEW YEAR! Seriously though, this one is a major point of enthusiasm for both of us, and...
12.20.2022
CLOVER from CLOVERFIELD - 057
A nutsack kaiju emerges from the Hudson Bay to destroy millennials and they didn't give it an award, they just gave JJ Abrams a Ballz-load of money. CONTENT WARNINGS: Actual Filmic Debate Forgetting of Lizzy Kaplan The acknowledgement of TJ Miller as a living...
12.04.2022
HIM from THE POWERPUFF GIRLS - 056
Show Creator Greg Mcracken, when forced to change his devilish villain from a traditional tailed and horned goat man by the censors at CARTOON NETWORK, turned to camera and growled under his breath..."Not a problem...suck on THIS instead," and delivered...
11.22.2022
MEN IN BLACK’S The Edgar Suit Alien - 055
There's a vicious space cockroach inside of Vincent D'Onofrio, and it needs you to give it sugar. This wacky space-crime-on-earth action comedy about a secret intergalactic government agency that steals your thoughts in order to keep you ignorant about the magnitude...
11.06.2022
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - 054
Hess examines the impact of Jack Arnold's cinematic sci-fi masterpiece, connecting the Creature (aka Gill-Man) to Michael Myers, and understanding the film (originally conceived as an adaptation of Beauty & The Beast through the very heavy presence of the male...
10.24.2022
Herman Munster 2022 - 053
In the mid-1960s, kids could climb right up in front of their black and white TVs and watch not one but TWO families filled with wacky monsters caper around their dusty old Victorian mansions, to the delight of every Dad...
10.11.2022
Clayface - 052
BAH-NANANANA NANA NANA - CLAYFACE!! Hess delivers a delirious take on Gotham's gooshiest mudman, the thirsty thespian, the post-human theatre-troupe himself, CLAY-FACE! Dating back to the early days of Detective Comics, various iterations of this chimerical curmudgeon have cursed the streets of...
10.02.2022
Creature - 051
Gavin presents this low-budget, Proto-ALIENS, zombie-fying, space-thing in an episode that ends up being less about the movie, and more about why actors are forced to work with Klaus Kinski, and why toy companies are so bad at making Xenomorphs. ********* Get...
09.07.2022
Meg Mucklebones & LEGEND (1985) - 050
YEAR TWO BEGINS! What do you get when you mix Director Ridley Scott, some very attractive people, nasty goblins, unicorns, and a band of elves and faeries? An Epic Trapper-Keeper Fantasy adventure so hot it burned down the studio they shot it...
08.04.2022
SANDMAN SPECIAL: Death & Psychopomps with Heidi Lange
On this special pre-SANDMAN show release episode, I am joined by fun and informative guest HEIDI LANGE of Sandmanbooks.com (link below) to wrap our collective heads around psychopomps! Pyschopomps are an oddly specific yet universal category: Neutral Ferryworkers that guarantee your...
07.31.2022
We’re Preparing Year 2
Sorry for the radio silence friends! We are coming back at you very shortly. Like a cyborg from the future or Pennsylvania toll payments, we're a bitch to get rid of!
06.24.2022
The Filipino Manananggal w Claire Biz - 048
Friend of the show Claire comes on to wrangle these two white Dungeon Masters around the topic of the bizarre, vampiric, torso-dividing, bat-winged, organ-sucking monstrosity, the Killa from Manilla, the lady that puts the Ass in Aswang, the Manananggal.
06.14.2022
Willow’s Brownies & Eborsisk (1988) - 047
In 1988 colossal nerdlingers Ron Howard and George Lucas smashed their massive domes into each other like two rutting ram studs, until spilled forth one of the 80s most successful high fantasy epics. Gavin details the Brownies, portrayed by Kevin Pollack...
05.24.2022
The Graboids from TREMORS (1990) - 046
Oil your harmonica and $hit-kick your boots, the Graboids are coming to Perfection, Nevada! This classic 1980's script literally dirty-talked its way into the 90s, and made Kevin Bacon reel with horror at what he saw as the nadir of...
05.16.2022
Big Daddy Zombie from Land of the Dead (PT1) - 045
After they came to get you, Barbara, they stalked Ken Foree and his giant head around the Monroeville mall, then they dragged Rhodes' guts out of his miserable rotten body in the underground bunker, and now they have the nerve...
05.10.2022
The Impostors of AMONG US - 044
In 2018 Innersloth games unleashed an innocuous-looking cooperative Hidden Role game that took the combative elements of the party games Werewolf & Mafia and wrapped them up in cute little spacemen being infiltrated by mysterious alien "Impostors". Thanks to a hurricane...
05.03.2022
Death Knights - 043
Undead? Check. Extremely Violent and Dangerous? Check. Rides a flaming nightmare horse? Check. Carries their soul in a flaming green enchanted sword? check. This bitchin' van practically paints itself. CONTENT WARNINGS: #GaryNumanKenkuArtificer #Metal mentions of phylacteries and their uses mentions of the existence of right wing...
04.26.2022
Dungeon World - 042
This Chocolate bar is KRONCHY, folks! Hess & Gavin delve into the dank depths of fiction forward role-playing game DUNGEON WORLD and investigate some of the essential aspects of monster-gaming. If you're SUPER not into the dork-fests and game discussions,...
04.19.2022
Eddie from The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 041
Meatloaf Aday defined the iconic role of the reconstructed American rocker Frankenstein in Richard O'Brien's subversive masterpiece The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We take a look at Meatloaf, at Eddie himself, the world into which he is brought, and why...
04.11.2022
Edison’s Frankenstein (1910) - 040
In 1910 at his third movie studio, Edison's Bronx cinema team created the first monster movie. The film was lost for most of the 20th century until a copy was shockingly unearthed in the late 70s and restored. We discuss...
04.04.2022
F#$K Sharknado - 039
Gavin drags in the paramount abortion of The Asylum, a film company known primarily for trolling inattentive stoners with their knock-offs of real movies. But DO watch Black Summer. Also, there's some Tucker & Dale vs Evil in there to cleanse your...
03.27.2022
Hess Reads NINJA GAIDEN on Pixel Lit 2 of 2
The thrilling conclusion to the Scholastic book based on the hit Nintendo game that teaches us, If you're a thirteen year old ninja you CAN save ancient relics from a demon that lives in the amazon jungle as long as you...
03.21.2022
Leprechaun 1993
I'M THE LEPRECHAAAUUUUN!!!
03.14.2022
Hess Reads NINJA GAIDEN w Pixel Lit - PT 1 - BONUS
Hey There Dear Readers, I had an incredible time recently guesting on the hilarious show PIXEL LIT my friends Kevin and Phil do where they read and discuss the novelizations of famous video game properties. We read the novelization of NES...
03.08.2022
Vigo from Ghostbusters II - 037
Vigo haunted this episode. Check for yourself at minute 54. Vigo the Carpathian Vigo the Cruel Vigo the Torturer Vigo the Despised Vigo the Unholy Vigo the Butch Scourge of Carpathia Sorrow of Moldovia Prince Vigo OH COMMAND ME LORD! Content Warnings: References to Dom Deluise. ...
02.27.2022
The Frighteners’ Freaky Ghosts (1996) - 036
What happens when you take Marty McFly, Gomez Adams, Cujo's Mom, and the FX house that would later bring you Lord of the Rings and shake liberally? TOO MANY CONFUSING SIGHT GAGS! Or EXACTLY the right amount of digital sight gags,...
02.21.2022
MONSTER MASH S1 PART 2 w Kevin from Pixel Lit - 035
Check out Kevin and Phil's awesome show where they read and review the novelizations of video games: https://www.pixellitpod.com/ And everything Oops All Monsters related: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters The thrilling conclusion to our head to head bracket!! The conclusion to the ultimate monster battle 24 weeks in...
02.14.2022
Giant Rats! - 034
Winston Smith. Princess Buttercup and Wesley. Vincent Price. What do they all have in common? Torment at the razor-sharp fangs of the true citizens of London and New York City, the entrails digging varmint that could, the very real red-eyed...
02.08.2022
Critters Vol 1 - 033
Steal a face from the television and extend your phallic assault cannons, it's time to blast our way through the delightfully voracious fuzzbeasts of the VHS era, they're not gremlins, they're not communists, THEY'RE CRITTERS!!! CONTAINS: Excessive John Cena, Easter Sunday Sheriff...
01.30.2022
Blanka - 032
Rip your jeans into cutoffs and plug your private parts into the wall socket, because it's time to bite our way out of Brazil, Dear Readers! STREET FIGHTER'S og monstrosity, the chlorophyll-colored Capoeira conundrum, somehow also just a guy-named-Jimmy, he's...
01.23.2022
Hollow Knight & Nosk - 031
This episode is tiny, just like The Knight! HOLLOW KNIGHT - One of 2017's top rated games of any genre, is an immersive, mind-bending dive into a cute-yet-terrifying underground world of bugs, grubs, spirits and supernatural warfare waged with broken nails. We...
01.17.2022
DnD’s The Rust Monster - 030
CONTENT WARNING: Dungeons Dragons Aubrey Plaza Gary Gygax
01.09.2022
Night of the Creeps - NY Spectacular PT2 - 029
Fire up your Dick Millers, and lubricate your space slugs, it's time for the thrilling conclusion to 2022's kickstart - NIGHT OF THE CREEPS. Also: Aubrey Plaza is a hot lady goblin. Fred Dekker, Tom Atkins, Zombie Space Slugs, Horror, Comedy, Badassery "It's...
01.03.2022
Night of the Creeps - NEW YEAR SPECTACULAR - PT1 - 028
Load your 12 gauges and Aquanet your hair, because these drunk slugs are here to fuck. We explore what MIGHT be Hess's FAVORITE horror flick. Perhaps the ultimate smart-movie-disguised-as-a-dumb-movie, it's got zombies, it's got exploding heads filled with slugs, it's got...
12.26.2021
SCROOGED’s Ghost of Xmas Future - 027
Bill Murray kicks your emotional teeth in in 1988's carousel of Christmas-time cheer, chain-clinking ghosts, and class-warfare, it's SCROOGED. Visited by four ghosts, each more disorienting than the next, Murray portrays misunderstood job creator Frank Cross, who attempts to inject some...

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Oops All Monsters episodes:

Video Guide For Christian Families 03

Summer Reading - CANDYMAN 2021 - 068

Christian Video Guide Vol 02 - The Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave Bear

THE RANCOR from STAR WARS - 067

The Movie & Video Guide For Christian Families (1988) - Vol 1

MARTIN the teenage vampire? 1977 - 067

NOPE - 066

The Nazi Zombies of SHOCKWAVES & DEAD SNOW - 065

WHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT2

WHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT1

Play DUNGEON WORLD with Hess! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

CYBERPUNK’S Maelstrom Gang - 062

THE BLOB! 1988 - 061

VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt2 - 060

VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt 1of 2 - 059

HELLRAISER 2022’s Cenobites - 58

CLOVER from CLOVERFIELD - 057

HIM from THE POWERPUFF GIRLS - 056

MEN IN BLACK’S The Edgar Suit Alien - 055

The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - 054

Herman Munster 2022 - 053

Clayface - 052

Creature - 051

Meg Mucklebones & LEGEND (1985) - 050

SANDMAN SPECIAL: Death & Psychopomps with Heidi Lange

We’re Preparing Year 2

The Filipino Manananggal w Claire Biz - 048

Willow’s Brownies & Eborsisk (1988) - 047

The Graboids from TREMORS (1990) - 046

Big Daddy Zombie from Land of the Dead (PT1) - 045

The Impostors of AMONG US - 044

Death Knights - 043

Dungeon World - 042

Eddie from The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 041

Edison’s Frankenstein (1910) - 040

F#$K Sharknado - 039

Hess Reads NINJA GAIDEN on Pixel Lit 2 of 2

Leprechaun 1993

Hess Reads NINJA GAIDEN w Pixel Lit - PT 1 - BONUS

Vigo from Ghostbusters II - 037

The Frighteners’ Freaky Ghosts (1996) - 036

MONSTER MASH S1 PART 2 w Kevin from Pixel Lit - 035

Giant Rats! - 034

Critters Vol 1 - 033

Blanka - 032

Hollow Knight & Nosk - 031

DnD’s The Rust Monster - 030

Night of the Creeps - NY Spectacular PT2 - 029

Night of the Creeps - NEW YEAR SPECTACULAR - PT1 - 028

SCROOGED’s Ghost of Xmas Future - 027