Fist fights! Bullying! Pranks! Crisp 7-Up! Mad science! A Teenage Werewolf eating a Playboy Playmate! The Monstie Men are joined by author Tyler Mattis (100 Years of Universal Monster Movies & Disney's Live-Action Movie Bombs, 1979-2019) to continue Werewolf WInter with the 1957 classic I Was A Teenage Werewolf.

And yes, Highway to Heaven's Michael Landon does kill a Playboy Playmate in this one.

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Sometimes, the consensus is that the sequel is actually better than the movie (see The Empire Strikes Back, Godfather Part II, For A Few Dollars More, The Winter Soldier, Evil Dead 2, Wrath of Khan, or Paddington 2 for examples), and now that we're in the back half of Werewolf Winter, let's find out how the Jason Bateman-led Teen Wolf Too stacks up against the original. Surely, they wouldn't just try to cash in on a *monster* hit, would they?

Behold, the greatest scene in any film ever. One might say it's RAD.

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Tolerator of the podcast & Gay's better half, Debbie Mastriano, joins the Monstie Men to talk about the first movie that the lovebirds ever watched together: the 1985 Michael J Fox classic Teen Wolf! Everybody's in the studio together & the energy is high in this one.

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What if a man...but a wolf? What if a wolf...but a man?

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Werewolf Winter kicks off with Steven C. Miller's 2024 action-horror film Werewolves! In a world where the Supermoon turns anybody bathed in its light into a werewolf, Frank Grillo & Lou Diamond Phillips team up to science humanity to safety. Unfortunately, it all goes wrong (naturally). This one's a little contentious between the Monstie Men!

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Awooooooooo & welcome to Werewolf Winter! It's the winter, and we're talking about werewolves, ya Lil Monsties! In this episode, we talk about the cult classic Dog Soldiers, where the premise is as simple & wonderful as "what if soldiers fought werewolves?" Sometimes genius doesn't have to be convoluted.

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The Monstie Men start 2025 by wrapping up their Nosferatu retrospective with Robert Eggers's take on Count Orlok! Has there ever been a vampire movie with this much spit or this many O-faces? Is this one a low-key comedy? Or is it an erotic gothic romance? There's a lot to say about this one, and we definitely talk about the mustache of it all.

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Okay, Mr Cook, we accept your surrender. That's right, Lil Monsties: after all this time, you can finally (re)listen to our original episode where the original trio (Gary, James, & Mike) talk about the OG Universal Monster: Dracula! It's a Christmas miracle!

We hope you are enjoying the holiday season, we hope you enjoyed the episode, and we can't wait for you to hear what we have in store for next year.

Note: the audio is rough, the format is still forming, but this is where it all began. You may ask yourself "why does it say remastered?" Astute catch there, Monstie. This is a cleaned up version of the original stream-of-conscious episode to make it a bit more enticing for your aural pleasure... plus we had to get rid of a couple of edits that perhaps maybe had licensed music...

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Well, everyone knows Max Shreck wasn't an actual vampire when they filmed Nosferatu. What this movie presupposes is... maybe he was? The Monstie Men talk about 2000's Shadow of the Vampire, a movie about the filming of the original Nosferatu set in a world where Count Orlock is a real vampire that FW Murnau hired under the guise of stage actor Max Shreck. Not only is it a wild one, but Willem Dafoe & John Malkovich are firing on all cylinders in this one.

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Gobble gobble, Lil Monsties! For this Thanksgiving (one of Gary's Top 5 Holidays), the Monstie Men are here to bring you a full meal of an episode, and here's a spoiler alert: this movie certainly isn't a turkey. We talk about Werner Herzog's retelling of the silent film classic with a modern (well...for the time) twist. And this time? This time they can legally call him Dracula .

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