Oops All Monsters

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 that ever made a pun. 

In 2022, Rob Zombie attempts to recreate THE MUNSTERS, a whimsical but beloved sitcom centered around a goofy, disoriented, but well-intentioned Frankenstein's Monster known as HERMAN MUNSTER. 

We discuss the character of Herman, the style of the Rob Zombie film, and the significance of the Herman Munster character in his family, and in the larger culture.  Also, we talk about Sam Neill a lot. 

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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 Gotham, and bedeviled the dynamic duo.  A stand out DC villain, Clayface is equal parts shapeshifter and sympathetic victim of his own vanity. 

Content Warnings: 

Nine Inch Nails Corner

Ron Perlman

David Fincher's SEVEN

Harley Quinn & Batman

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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. 

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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 in.  

Also, Robert Picardo's performance as our feature monster SWAMP WITCH/HAG "Meg Mucklebones" is truly nightmarish. 

Be good for goodness sake!

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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 safe passage from your mortal life to the great beyond. Cultures across the globe and spanning millennia have their own agents of travel from Gaul to Greece, the Etruscans to Egypt, and from the Valkyries to the modern day Grim Reaper. 

We cover the broad category of psychopomps through some obscure examples, as well as hit on what makes the heart of the character of DEATH, as depicted in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, and the books and graphic novels that spawned the character and their mythology. 

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Mythology Celtic Etruscan Norse Psychopomps EgyptianMythology

NeilGaiman DCComics ImageComics DarkHorseComics

#Sandman #auroraborealis #theuberdriversoftheafterlife #KristinChenoweth

#Easter #Wednesday #AmericanGods #booksellers #

Banshee #Styx #comics #graphicnovels #goth

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!

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. 

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 and Rick Overton to extreme comic effect, as well as the two-headed Eborsisk, a fire-breathing faux-hydra of nightmarish aspect. He also details how the Eborsisk and other Willow miniatures damaged his young psyche AND testicles in a traumatic schoolyard tragedy-slash-layway-mishap.  Let's see Joe Rogan try to do THAT!

#ValKilmer #Willow #Fairies #LittlePeople #Fantasy #Willow

#DanaDelaney #MichaelBiehn

#WarwickDavis

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 his acting career, only to turn out one of the most efficiently written and enduring examples of American Comedy-Horror ever put to screen. Get your pants off, and pole vaunt to the next residual boulder, these godd@mn recrooms aren't going to break into themselves! 

RIP Fred Ward

#GaryNumanKenkuArtificer

#andlegsthatgoALLthewayup

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 to get clever and chase after the one and only Dennis Hopper you've hidden in the highest possible tower in Steeltown, The City on Three Rivers, the place with kind of a lot of bridges, the home of french-fries-on-your-salad, Pittsburgh-Pennsyl-f*#king-vania.