In A Quiet Place (2018), two negligent parents kind of sort of try to keep their children alive in the midst of a monster apocalypse. Ethan loves this movie, but Mom is a hater. Plus: Ethan endorses nuclear weapons! 

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) is the recut, redubbed, overall Americanized version of the original Japanese Gojira we covered last week. Look how they massacred my boy! We discuss what this version gets right, what it's missing, and how surprisingly gay it is. 

The original Japanese Gojira (1954) is a sad movie. Godzilla's first outing, directed by Honda Ishirō, sees the giant kaiju at his most wrathful, an avatar of war punishing humanity for unleashing nuclear weapons upon the world. Despite how campy the series would swiftly become, the original is a grim, violent movie concerned with the human propensity for self-destruction. It's honestly pretty great. 

Anaconda (1997) features Jon Voight's strangest performance. Like, I haven't seen all his movies, but this has got to be the weirdest. I dunno, fight me. Anyway, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and podcast favorite Kari Wuhrer go up-river to die horribly in the coils of giant anacondas. It's great. 

In what is nearly but not quite the nadir of the series, 1987's Jaws: The Revenge (aka Jaws IV) sees an unlikely cast of talented actors face off against the second great white to declare la vendetta against the Brody family. Will Ellen Brody, her dumbass son, and the friendly local drug smuggler escape piscine vengeance? Or will the ghost of Jaws I finally be able to rest in peace knowing its killers have been punished? 

We confront our fears with Eight Legged Freaks (2002), in which giant spiders run amok through a small Arizona town.  Starring a young Scarlett Johansson, Kari Wuhrer, and the ghost of David Arquette's career, we once again see plucky weirdos assailed by bugs in the desert. Will Oswald's gun be enough to fend off the octopedal horde? 

A US government experiment with a hunger for flesh runs amok in a small town in the 1988 remake of The Blob. Will the townsfolk make the tragic mistake of trusting shady authority figures, or will they be saved by local activism and self-organization? Plus: we recorded a whole episode with a guest without the audio crapping out on us! 

Matthew McConaughey's arms fight every dragon in the world in Reign of Fire (2002). In another movie that's Actually Good, survivors of a dragon apocalypse must contend with their ash-eating oppressors. Will dragonkind's magnificently stupid breeding strategy give humanity enough of an edge to prevail? 

In Komodo (1999), we see yet another chapter in the endless battle between nature and evil oil companies. Unfortunately, a traumatized and profoundly annoying boy is stuck in the middle of it all. Plus: we delve into the darkness lurking in Mom's mind. 

In Them! (1954), hardworking sugar merchants face ants of unusual size. Spawned by humankind's nuclear folly, these ants will stop at nothing to propagate their species and ensure that insect civilization, not human, dominates this world now and always!