Monster Mash: Recent Episodes
Joe
Married couple Sarah and Joe dive deep into their favorite movies of all time: Classic Monsters. Here you will find Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and lots of love for Peter Cushing. Artwork by Dakota Browning.
This week we are talking about what I consider a top 5 science fiction films of all time with an ending that will blow your socks off: The Incredible Shrinking Man!
From the team that brought us The Lodger comes another taught, beautifully filmed and expertly acted thriller: Hangover Square!
We are back this week to talk about a great movie, though perhaps not the best one to watch with a pregnant wife (surprise, Sarah and Joe are having a baby!). It's Village of the Damned starring George Sanders and Hammer alums Barbara Shelley and Michael Gwynn!)
The yearly monster movie march toward Halloween begins! We start with an absolute classic science fiction film: The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Back to Hammer for a strange but fun Mummy flick with an interesting premise that doesn't quite stick the landing.
This week, we talk the final serious entry in the Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-Man saga, warts and all.
This week, we return to Universal for their Mummy reboot which launched a series of sequels, none as effective as this surprisingly funny flick. It's The Mummy's Hand!
Back to Hammer for the third in their Dracula series, a stylish vampire flick with some very poor decision making.
This week we talk about yet another film in the Criterion Collection, featuring a young Steve McQueen, and a very unusual opening song: 1958's The Blob!
This week we talk about the wonderfully disturbing Island of Lost Souls; our third episode featuring a movie in the Criterion Collection.
This week, instead of diving into a particular movie, we discuss our top ten most frightening moments of the films we have discussed so far. There is some overlap on our lists but not as much as I had thought.
This week we dive into a sci-fi classic. The cheaply made, but highly effective Cold War paranoid thriller: Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
We return to Hammer Studios this week to talk about a lesser-known but fantastic journey of a movie: 1968's The Devil Rides Out. Notable as Christopher Lee's favorite role he had at Hammer.
Not a perfect movie, but a real favorite that we like more every time we watch it. House of Frankenstein!
We are back with another entry in Universal's Frankenstein series. A bit silly, a few plot holes, but a whole lot of fun: The Ghost of Frankenstein!
An all-time great, and one that I always associate with the holidays for reasons explored in the episode. Claude Raines, great special effects and the immortal James Whale all get their fair share of adoration in this week's episode.
This week we talk Bela Lugosi's follow-up to Dracula (on some of the same sets), the creepy and stylish White Zombie!
This week, we shift away from Hammer and enter the black and white phase of our yearly Monster watch with an incredible movie and my favorite adaptation of this story: 1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Our last Hammer flick for a while, as we finally move into the Black and White phase of our Halloween movie marathon. But we leave Hammer with a good one: their original adaptation of Dracula!
We go a little extra campy with this week's episode: Taste the Blood of Dracula! A much better movie than the title suggests.
This week, we continue moving through the Hammer section of our movie marathon with their 1962 production, Phantom of the Opera, a remake of the 1943 film of the same name starring Claude Raines, which itself was a remake of the original from 1925.
We jump into more contemporary waters again this week with another movie that was made in our lifetime: Bram Stoker's Dracula. Boy, do we have some opinions about this one...
This week, we discuss a movie I had never seen before: It Came from Beneath the Sea! We also get a little meta and talk about the Monster Mash movie marathon as a whole.
This week, we continue our trip through 50's sci-fi with the best of the many adaptations of H.G Well's classic: The War of the Worlds!
This week, the 3rd annual Monster Mash begins; the monster movie marathon that birthed this podcast. We start early so we have a prayer of getting them all in before Halloween, and this year, we begin the proceedings with a classic: 1958's The Fly!
Peter Cushing returns! And so does Baron Frankenstein up to his nefarious ways in what I consider the high point of the Hammer Frankenstein series: Revenge of Frankenstein.
We break form this week and talk about a movie that was actually released during our lifetime: 1999's The Mummy!
In honor of our wedding last weekend, we celebrate perhaps the shortest and least successful cinematic marriage of all time: The Bride of Frankenstein!
This week, we talk Karloff the Uncanny in his follow-up to Frankenstein, and one of our favorites: The Mummy!
Perhaps the best of the Lugosi/Karloff movies, this week we talk about the vastly underrated Black Cat!
This week we give lots of love to Bela Lugosi as we dive through one of his most outrageously over-the-top performances in The Raven!
In celebration of a childhood love long dormant, but now very much awakened, we discuss...Godzilla! (Original Japanese version, not King of the Monsters)
This week, we travel to the mountains of Tibet with Hammer, Peter Cushing, and a vastly underrated film: The Abominable Snowman.
We're taking it way back this week to 1925, and the incredible Lon Chaney in perhaps his most famous role: The Phantom of the Opera.
This week we discuss perhaps the greatest Hammer vampire film ever: Bride's of Dracula! Also: the triumphant return of Peter Cushing!
An absolutely fabulous movie this week that, in our humble opinions, does not get enough recognition: The Lodger!
It's the first-ever monster cross-over! Before The Avengers, there was Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
Throw on your bellbottoms and don't forget the holy water, cause we are diving into that time-capsule of a movie, Dracula: A.D. 1972!
Keep watching the skies! This week we travel up to the frozen North and do battle with The Thing From Another World!
What a weird wonderful movie we have for you this week. From the mind of James Whale comes Old Dark House; on the surface a simple tale, but this film is anything but simple. Thanks to Seth Borgen for the recommendation!
This week we complete our "Children of Dracula" suite with Son of Dracula. Buckle up, because this movie is weird!
We've got ants! Giant, radioactive ants! This week we descend into the nest with the first and best giant bug flick from the 50's: Them!
This week it's the long-anticipated (by us) introduction to the brilliant Peter Cushing and his first big starring role with Hammer Films. It's 1957's Curse of Frankenstein!
This week we examine a vastly underrated Universal Monster: Dracula's Daughter! We try to unpack a movie that's full of surprises, with one scene in particular that still raises eyebrows today.
This week we crash head-first into the jungle in search of Kong, and discover some complicated feelings.
Put on your swim trunks and load up your harpoon gun, cause we are about to dive into the dark waters of the Black Lagoon! Sarah and Joe explore the depths with an all-time favorite, the Gill-Man himself.
This week it's Hammer time, werewolf style! We dive deep into Hammer's first and only foray into the werewolf genre: Curse of the Werewolf.
This week we dive in head first into one of our all time favs: The Wolf Man! We spend longer than we thought on the synopsis, but it's just too good not to not go into detail.
Our inaugural episode! This week we introduce ourselves and set the stage for what is to come. We discuss why we like these movies so much and why they have endured as long as they have.