Video Monsters

By Video Monsters

In-depth movie analysis podcast with hosts Nathan, Eric, and Dan where we take movies seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously. Sponsored by Chattanooga Film Festival, and Central Cinema (Knox... more

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March 11, 2020 Castle Freak (1995)
In preparation for the world premiere of Fangoria's remake of Castle Freak at the Chattanooga Film Festival (April 16-19), today's episode is about the original Castle Freak from 1995, directed by Stuart Gordon and staring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jessica Dollarhide, and Jonathan Fuller as the title character (the castle freak, that is). Castle Freak is drastically different in tone from some of Gordon's more well known films (such as Re-Animator and From Beyond), but it is still just as memorable! Rather than fun, over the top, campy gore, Castle Freak is more of a family drama that focuses on themes such as addiction, isolation, grief, and despair....that just so happens to also have a disfigured monster of a man terrorizing the inhabitants of a castle. And like any great horror movie, the monster is representative of something much deeper and serves as the personification of other underlying fears (but, there are still enough scenes of gore to make the monster terrifying on its own...even without the deeper meaning). Regardless of whether you have seen Castle Freak before or not...with the world premiere of the remake right around the corner, this is a perfect time to revisit this 90s gem!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! Tickets can be purchased (or, donations given) at chattfilmfest.org. And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
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1h 17min
March 06, 2020 History of Cinema: 1920s
Continuing our year-long theme covering the history of cinema, today's episode covers films from the 1920s! As a reminder, these History of Cinema episodes will not be a comprehensive coverage of every single movie that was released that decade. It isn't even necessarily going to be the "top" movies from the decade. Instead, it will be more of a broad discussion of some of the advancements, themes, and highlights from each decade, with the various movies that we watched as examples. This series is also serving as an opportunity for us to fill in some gaps in our own personal film viewings (this series was also inspired, in part, by our Horror Movie Blindspots series we did last year). Due to illness, our first couple of episodes were delayed quite a bit, but we hope to get back on track to where each month covers the corresponding decade (e.g. February is the 1920s, March is the 1930s, etc.). We hope that you enjoy our coverage and that you join us in our cinematic journey through history, continuing with the 1920s!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! Tickets can be purchased (or, donations given) at chattfilmfest.org. And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
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1h 48min
March 04, 2020 History of Cinema: 1880s - 1919
If you've been listening to the podcast for a little while, you've realized that we generally like to do themed months. This year, along with the themed months, we will also be doing a year-long theme covering the history of cinema. We will be covering a decade a month, starting with the early days of cinema (ok, so this first episode is a bit more than a decade...) and going right up to present day. These episodes will not be a comprehensive coverage of every single movie that was released that decade. It isn't even necessarily going to be the "top" movies from the decade. Instead, it will be more of a broad discussion of some of the advancements, themes, and highlights from each decade, with the various movies that we watched as examples. This series is also serving as an opportunity for us to fill in some gaps in our own personal film viewings (this series was also inspired, in part, by our Horror Movie Blindspots series we did last year). Due to illness, our first couple of episodes were delayed quite a bit, but we hope to get back on track to where each month covers the corresponding decade (e.g. February is the 1920s, March is the 1930s, etc.). We hope that you enjoy our coverage and that you join us in our cinematic journey through history, starting with the early days of cinema (1880s-1919)!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! Tickets can be purchased (or, donations given) at chattfilmfest.org. And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
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1h 47min
February 26, 2020 Warm Bodies (2013) - Love and Monsters
Closing out our series of Love and Monsters (which we did in honor of both After Midnight and Sadistic Intentions being released on Valentine's Day) is Warm Bodies! After covering such amazing films as Spring and The Shape of Water, Warm Bodies might seem like a bit of an odd choice. But, despite the fact that the marketing of the movie has gotten it lumped into the likes of Twilight, Warm Bodies is a genuinely good movie that blends indie romance tropes and zombie symbolism of loss of humanity (albeit a bit to on the nose at times), with a dash of classic literature...not to mention a solid soundtrack, some dry humor, and just enough social commentary to keep the movie still relevant today (even though each of these things are, again, a bit on the nose sometimes).
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! Tickets can be purchased (or, donations given) at chattfilmfest.org. And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
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1h 11min
February 20, 2020 The Shape of Water (2017) - Love and Monsters
Continuing our series of Love and Monsters (in honor of both After Midnight and Sadistic Intentions being released on Valentine's Day) is The Shape of Water! Even though this movie is only a few years old, it is among our all time favorite movies here at Video Monsters. And when we first discussed the idea of doing a Love and Monsters series, we both instantly knew that The Shape of Water was definitely going to be covered. From the attention to detail in production design, to the acting, to the social commentary, to the blending of cinematic styles and genres, to the sheer beauty of this film...we absolutely adore The Shape of Water in just about every facet that a movie can be appreciated!! So, it should be no surprise that the majority of this episode is enthusiastically singing its praises! If you are wondering whey the ENTIRE episode isn't singing the praises of The Shape of Water, it is because we start things out by singing the praises of the Chattanooga Film Festival and discussing the first wave of announcements that were released this week. There is no shortage of love for CFF here at Video Monsters, and with the films, events, and venue (this year, CFF will be at Songbirds on the south side of Chattanooga) that were announced (include a literal once in a lifetime opportunity of seeing a film that will only be screened once....ever), we are already super stoked and cannot wait to see what else is in store for CFF 2020!!!! Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! Tickets can be purchased (or, donations given) at chattfilmfest.org. And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
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2h 36min
February 13, 2020 Spring (2014) - Love and Monsters
In honor of both After Midnight and Sadistic Intentions being released on Valentine's Day, our series for February is Love and Monsters. The focus of this series is going to be movies that are primarily driven by a romance story line, but that also have monsters (rather than monster movies that have a romance subplot)... so, we are super excited to be kicking off this series with Spring (2014), by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead!! Not only is this a very solid, character driven romance story with a very interesting incorporation of the monster, but the tagline for the movie is literally "love is a monster." Plus, Spring serves as a perfect intro to this series because of the connections with After Midnight and Sadistic Intentions (Benson and Moorhead are producers of After Midnight, and Jeremy Gardner is in all three movies). We both loved Spring and absolutely recommend it!! But, if you have not yet seen Spring and want to go into the movie with absolutely no spoilers, be warned that towards the end of this episode we do heavily discuss the ending of the movie, the implications of the ending, and whether or not we agree on if it is how the movie should have ended (but, we do give a spoiler warning in the episode before diving into the ending). With that being said, we hope that you enjoy tonight's episode! And if you enjoy a dash of monster in your love stories, we absolutely recommend checking out Spring!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
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1h 43min
January 26, 2020 RoboCop (2014) - Newer Isn't Always Better
Closing out our "Newer Isn't Always Better" series is the 2014 remake of the Paul Verhoeven masterpiece, RoboCop. As a reminder, even though part of the reason for the title of this series is to poke fun at ourselves (with our "official" relaunch of the podcast) - and even though each movie that we discussed in this series does not live up to its predecessor - there are a few important things that we want to mention. First of all, the originals of the movies that we discussed (The Evil Dead, The Fog, The Thing, and RoboCop) are all incredible movies and it would almost be impossible for any movie to live up to the reputation. And this leads into the second point...just because "newer isn't always better" does not inherently mean that newer is bad. And finally, we do not want this series to come across as just bashing remakes. We will be providing our honest opinions (good and bad), but we will not be hating on a movie just to hate on a movie. And in tonight's episode, we actually do have a lot of love. Make no mistake, there are definitely some shortcomings and missed opportunities that keep this movie from being great. But, in general, it made very smart decisions in how to approach the remake, in terms of focusing on the purpose of social commentary rather than focusing on remaking the action. We hope that you enjoy finding out in tonight's episode exactly where we stand on our thoughts of RoboCop (2014)!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
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1h 32min
January 20, 2020 The Fog (2005) & The Thing (2011) - Newer Isn't Always Better
Next up in our "Newer Isn't Always Better" series is a John Carpenter remake double-feature with The Fog & The Thing. As a reminder, even though part of the reason for the title of this series is to poke fun at ourselves (with our "official" relaunch of the podcast) - and even though each movie that we will be discussing in this series does not live up to its predecessor - there are a few important things that we want to mention. First of all, the originals of the movies that we will be discussing (The Evil Dead, The Fog, The Thing, and RoboCop) are all incredible movies and it would almost be impossible for any movie to live up to the reputation. And this leads into the second point...just because "newer isn't always better" does not inherently mean that newer is bad. And finally, we do not want this series to come across as just bashing remakes. We will be providing our honest opinions (good and bad), but we will not be hating on a movie just to hate on a movie. This is especially true in tonight's episode, as we both had pretty strong negative reactions to The Fog remake. Here at Video Monsters, we view John Carpenter as a master of horror and pretty much love every movie that he has made. And while Carpenter was involved with The Fog (2005) as a producer, it is sadly an empty shell of a genuinely great ghost story. So, even though we do our best to not hate on a movie just to hate on a movie, we do give our honest opinions of the shortcomings of this film. This episode does also include our review of The Thing (2011), but not as much time is spent on this movie as it follows the notes of the original so closely that even though it is technically a prequel, it is a pretty blatant remake. But, with all that being said, we hope that you enjoy our reviews of two remakes of a master of horror!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com
Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com
music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
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1h 32min
January 09, 2020 Evil Dead (2013) - Newer Isn't Always Better
It's a new year, a new decade, and the "official" relaunch of the podcast (complete with finished logo and new intro music)...so we are kicking things off with our series "Newer Isn't Always Better." And since we take movies seriously at Video Monsters, but not ourselves, we are totally on board with the irony of using this series as the official relaunch of the podcast. Even though part of the reason for the title of this series is to poke fun at ourselves - and even though each movie that we will be discussing in this series does not live up to its predecessor - there are a few important things that we want to mention. First of all, the originals of the movies that we will be discussing (The Evil Dead, The Fog, and RoboCop) are all incredible movies and it would almost be impossible for any movie to live up to the reputation. And this leads into the second point...just because "newer isn't always better" does not inherently mean that newer is bad. Sure, it is hard for them to stack up to the originals, but two of the movies in this series are fine in their own right (and tonight's movie, The Evil Dead, does have some incredibly great aspects). And finally, we do not want this series to come across as just bashing remakes. We will be providing our honest opinions (good and bad), but we will not be hating on a movie just to hate on a movie. So, with all of that in mind, we hope that you enjoy the start of a new year at Video Monsters with our series "Newer Isn't Always Better" and tonight's episode, Evil Dead (2013)!!

Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com

Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.

Chattanooga Film Festival 2020 will be April 16-19, so start planning your trip now!! And submissions for Knoxville Horror Film Festival 2020 are currently open, so submit your films at FilmFreeway.com

music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
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1h 28min
December 25, 2019 Christmas Spectadequate - Santa Slasher Countdown with Mark Christopher Covino and Andrew Austin
It's time, once again, for the annual Video Monsters Christmas Spectadequate (it's not spectacular, but it's at least spect...y'know...adequate)!! This year's Christmas Spectadequate was born out of our Frightening Ass Film Fest coverage in which Mark Christopher Covino talked about how he tries to watch a Santa slasher movie each day in December. So, on tonight's episode, Mark Christopher Covino and Andrew Austin join us once again as we discuss some amazing (or, just silly and fun) movies in the Christmas horror subgenre of Santa slashers. So grab your milk and cookies and join us as we countdown the top 10 Santa slasher flicks as voted on by you, the listener!

Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com

Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.

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2h 10min

FAQs about Video Monsters:

How many episodes does Video Monsters have?

The podcast currently has 455 episodes available.