Fun Box Monster Podcast
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
Matt and Tristan dissect schlocky eighties horrors with love and try to make sense of films that may have dropped a few plot threads due to time and budgetary constraints.
Episodes
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #263 Shredder Orpheus (1990)
The Fun Box Monster Podcast episode #263 features Matt and Tristan discussing the 1990 film Shredder Orpheus. The movie is described as a Hollywood blockbuster about a skateboarding rock star reenacting the legend of Orpheus in a post-apoc…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #262 Pinocchio's Revenge (19960
On episode 262 of the Fun Box Monster Podcast, hosts Matt and Tristan discuss the 1996 film Pinocchio's Revenge.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #261 Nightbreed (1990)
In episode #261 of the Fun Box Monster Podcast, hosts Matt and Tristan discuss the 1990 film Nightbreed. They describe the movie as a mixture of concepts like Freaks, The X-Men, and Cats, noting that despite studio interference and narrati…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #260 Skinned Deep (2004)
In episode #260 of the Fun Box Monster Podcast, hosts Matt and Tristan discuss the 2004 film Skinned Deep, noting its peculiar nature and calling it nonsensical.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #259 Jack Frost (1997)
In episode 259 of the Fun Box Monster Podcast, hosts Matt and Tristan discuss the 1997 film Jack Frost. The movie follows the creation of a killer snowman after a serial killer's genetic material merges with snow.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #258 : Gingerdead Man (2005)
This eye opening documentary show the true dangers inherent in running an independent bakery. If it's not rats and shady business men, it's a murderous Gary Busey turned into cookie golem by black magic. Matt and Tristan talk Gingerdead Ma…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #257 Return Of Swamp Thing (1989)
One of the standout characters of the muck-man invasion of the seventies, Swamp Thing has been many things to many people over the years. He was a monster, an environmental activist, but most importantly a plant. Watching him punch monster…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #256 - Endgame (1983)
The year is 2025. The only entertainment is Endgame. It's like the Running Man, but boring. Plus, you can just take off half way through and nobody says anything about it. Matt and Tristan enjoy the dirt-bike and machine-gun-fight delivery…
- Halloween III: Season of The Witch (1982)
We check in on what new shenanigans our old buddy the shape gets up to this time. This week Matt and Tristan pick up every stitch for the Samhain masterpiece, Halloween III.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #254 : Newlydeads (1988)
Would I say that Newlydeads has a modern sensibility that really speaks to an enlightened audience? Not really. Would I say that it has several exposed breasts and someone running neck first into a two person wood saw? Yes. Matt and Trista…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #253 Severed Ties (1992)
Severed ties was originally called "Army". Which is the kind of pun that works way better once you've already seen the movie. So Severed Ties it became. The specific ties being severed are limbs. They then grow back with a magic serum. Plu…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #252 Virus (1999)
Virus is a movie directed by an FX legend. Directing...maybe not so much. Matt and Tristan talk Virus.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #251 Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995)
When it comes to weird Christian themed monster movies featuring Billy Zane and a guy from Wings, it just doesn't get much better than this. Matt and Tristan talk Demon Knight.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #250 Night Life aka Grave Misdemeanors (1989)
Sometimes you see a movie that is so close to being a classic that it makes you sad. This is one of those movies. There's so much to love in this movie, but somehow it just never reaches its potential. Just like me. Matt and Tristan talk a…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #249 Superstition (1982)
Based on the Stevie Wonder song of the same name, Superstition fills in all the parts of the song where nobody was getting cut in half by sentient window frames. Matt and Tristan talk about the surprisingly fun 1982 haunted pond movie, Sup…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #248 Revenge of the Red Baron (1994)
Do you like puns in a bad German accent? Well, tough. Revenge of the Red Baron is ostensibly a kids movie, but has a massive body count and the teen protagonist is a sociopath, but he is played by Toby McGuire, so he's a charming sociopath…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #247 Stepmonster (1993)
You think you have problems...this family has to live with Alan Thicke! If that isn't bad enough, all the good comics about Trepopkins are $500. Matt and Tristan talk about Stepmonster, the best movie that Amy Dolenz made that year. Probab…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #246 : Poltergeist III (1988)
In the third installment of the Poltergeist series, we're going to double down on the mistakes made in the second one and make them even bigger and more confusing. Are there moments of magical brilliance? Totally. Are there big swaths of w…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #245 Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
In the original Poltergeist a happy likable family, through no fault of their own, become the victims of a malevolent spectral force. In part two, the spectral force is there, but the happy likable family...is not quite as happy or likable…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #244 Grim (2005)
There's like a troll or something? I guess his name is Grim or maybe not. There's some caves. People walk a whole bunch. I guess there's a talisman that does something, but they lose it. Sometimes people's eyes go red. Matt and Tristan tal…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #243 Firestarter (1984)
My toxic trait is that I would totally sign up for the lot 6 tests, even after that dude clawed his eyes out. Join Matt and Tristan for the closest thing we got to an X-Men movie in the eighties, Firestarter.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #242 The Carrier (1988)
Ok. Big old trigger warning. If there's a thing that bothers you to hear discussed even in less than graphic detail (SA, animal deaths) this might not be the one for you. This is a pretty mean movie in places, and pretty incomprehensible i…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #241 : Exorcist 2 : The Heretic (1977)
Without a doubt, this is the best movie ever to feature James Earl Jones wearing a Locust mascot costume.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #241 Highway To Hell (1991)
This movie is a case study in how a generic title combined with a bad poster can sink even the best of movies into obscurity. How this thing isn't talked about CONSTANTLY is a downright tragedy.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #240 Curse 2 : The Bite (1989)
Turns out that the real Curse was the movie we all watched together.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #239 My Bloody Valentine (1981)
A special Valentine's Day episode!
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #238 976-Evil (1988)
Remember telephones? Well, if you do, there were these numbers you could call for psychics, sex talk, or drunken Santas. As it turns out, like the majority of capitalist enterprises, they were run by the devil. Join Matt and Tristan for th…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #237 : Cobra (1986)
Crime is the disease, he's the cure. He's going to inoculate society with a vaccine made of bullets. He's putting a cast on society's broken leg. A cast of punching. He's going to treat society's plantar fasciitis by pouring gas on it and…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #236 The Lawnmower Man (1992)
In a town where lawnmowers are outlawed, one outlaw rises to cut lawns to a uniform height. Matt and Tristan talk about Lawnmower man.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #235 Graveyard Shift
In this Stephen King classic, several terrible Maine accents battle for supremacy in a mill full of rats.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #234 Head Hunter (1988)
Evil Dead wind travels from Africa to Florida (Actually still Africa) to pop the heads off some folks who are just trying to enjoy their Voodoo in peace. Also, a guy is going through a divorce. Surprisingly more is said about that than the…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #233 The Laughing Dead (1989)
Not to crib a more successful podcast's thing, but I honestly can't figure out how this got made. I don't hate it, but it is so deeply weird, and I believe there are no more than 2 actual professional actors in it. Also it has better SFX t…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #232 Ghoulies 4 (1994)
I only have one major problem with Ghoulies 4. There aren't even four Ghoulies. Haters will say there aren't even two Ghoulies, and that two actors in halloween masks don't count as little rubber monsters, but that isn't for me to say. Mat…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #231 Troll (1986)
Everybody wants to see Phil Fondacaro turned into a Ghoulie, and there's no other movie where you can see it.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #230 : Halloween 5 (1989)
Everybody shut up. Tina is a treasure. How dare you all. Matt and Tristan talk about the best/worst entry in the Halloween franchise.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #229 Sleepwalkers (1992)
The story of a Were-cat and her son, and nothing else super creepy or off-putting.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #228 Rumplestiltskin (1995)
The classic story of a cursed item shop where the proprietor doesn't want to sell items, shouldn't sell items, and does anyway, then gets mad that you bought them. It's probably a metaphor for capitalism somehow, but I haven't quite figure…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #227 The Funhouse (1981)
There's definitely a house. As to fun...We leave that up to you.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #226 - Children of the Corn III : Urban Harvest (1995)
He who walks behind the rows has gotten a hip 90's makeover. Oaklies, Bugle Boys, the whole deal. Three times the corn...three times the terror. Or something.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast : The Unnamable (1988)
More like...Unwatchable...amirite? Yeah. The episode is at about that level too. Sorry. I'm on vacation next week, and really phoned it in. Also, this movie is kinda rough.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #224 : Dracula 2000
In the tradition of 2001 A Space Odyssey, 2,000 BC, and 2000 Flushes toilet cleaner, comes Dracula 2000. The story of several regrettable haircuts, and some sort of vampire or something.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #223 Hellraiser IV : Bloodline (1996)
The king will be praised. Hell will be raised. Suckers will try to phase him. But Pinhead won't be phased. (In space)
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #222 Child's Play (1988)
We thought we deserved a little treat, so this week we talk about one of our all time faves, Child's Play.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #221 The Wraith (1986)
The second best revenge story involving a Wraith.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #220 Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)
Of all the adaptations of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, this one was the most confusing.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #219 Phenomena (1985)
If you need a film to teach someone a lesson about the dangers of arming chimps with straight razors, this one will do it.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #218 Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
You're never gonna guess what happens in this one.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #217 Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Nightmare Weekend is one of the most inscrutable movies I’ve ever seen. The only part I really get is where a hand puppet from a church basement religious show is killing people with little grey balls. Everything after that got really weir…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #216 The Running Man (1987)
Boy, he sure does run.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #215 Shadow Creature (1995)
One thing I can say about this movie with absolute certainty is that it was shot in Buffalo. As a bonus, the creature clearly cast a shadow when exposed to a light source. Truth in advertising indeed.