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Oops All MonstersVideo Guide For Christian Families 03CLUE, COBRA, and COCOON
Keep watching this Bat Channel for our return to regularly formatted episodes after Gavin completes his move.
2023-07-2306 minOops All MonstersSummer Reading - CANDYMAN 2021 - 068In our ongoing Summer Reading Series Hess goes all solo professor style with an update on the CANDYMAN legacy to help you understand how Candyman relates to FREDDY KRUEGER, and perhaps also a 6 foot tall invisible bunny?
Pitter Patter
2023-07-1316 minOops All MonstersChristian Video Guide Vol 02 - The Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave BearThe Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave Bear
2023-07-0403 minOops All MonstersTHE RANCOR from STAR WARS - 067How many Mark Hammills can YOU eat?!
RETURN OF THE JEDI's voluminous pit nightmare is perhaps the ultimate in STAR WARS monstrosities, as well as one of its most enduring toys.
But is it bitchin' van art?
We also crack the nut on what all the STAR WARS media is secretly about...and hint...knobs are involved.
+++PS FANS: sorry about my mouse noise on this one, I'm gonna have that fixed by next episode+++
2023-06-161h 00Oops All MonstersThe Movie & Video Guide For Christian Families (1988) - Vol 1Big Trouble in Little China
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The Black Cauldron
2023-06-1403 minOops All MonstersMARTIN the teenage vampire? 1977 - 067One of George A. Romero's lesser known monster films explores whether MARTIN, as portrayed by John Amplas, is actually a cursed bloodsucker from the days or yore, or just a deranged teen alienated by cultish superstition and mental derangement.
This bleak, savage, but oddly poignant portrayal of alienation in the rust belt modernity of 1970s Pennsylvania explores issues of sanity, doubt, religion, and the fracturing of society.
CONTENT WARNINGS FOR DISCUSSIONS OF MURDER SCENES THAT FEEL LIKE SEXUAL VIOLENCE
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...2023-05-301h 18Oops All MonstersNOPE - 066Look to the skies with us this week as Gavin presents his take on Jordan Peele's UFO waking nightmare from 2022.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS EVERYWHERE!
If you haven't already watched the film, we strong recommend you do so before enjoying this episode.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a giant flying sand-dollar that sucks up horses into its multi-use sphincter.
You spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and YOU DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE...2023-05-061h 27Oops All MonstersThe Nazi Zombies of SHOCKWAVES & DEAD SNOW - 065Strap in your stepping geese and polish your Schmeisser submachine guns cuz it's pissed off nazi time! You thought the zombies in YOUR life were pissed, wait til you meet these undead European meanies. They're coming out of the ocean, they're coming out of the snow, and you better not have any of their gold or you're going to get what's coming to you.
Gavin and Hess explore the through-lines that unite these and other iterations of the nazi zombie phenomenon and place that firmly inside the larger category of "European zombies", which, we learn, are utterly dis...2023-04-181h 14Oops All MonstersWHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT2PixelLit Podcast - https://pixellitpod.com
Phil and Hess conclude their dive into all things THING by looking at what the authors of each version included (dogs) and sometimes excluded (mind-reading-Thing), as well as personal anecdotes, and a lot of love for the 2002 THE THING videogame.
2023-04-0359 minOops All MonstersWHO GOES THERE?/THE THING w Phil from Pixel Lit PT1Hess brings on friend of the show PHIL from PIXEL LIT to discuss all things THE THING! In this first installment of a two-part ride, Hess and Phil discuss the original 1938 Novella WHO GOES THERE? that inspired director Howard Hawks as well as John Carpenter in the creation of their vastly influential horror films.
This episode runs through the literary "other" in film, the Red Scare in the early 20th century, and how terrifying Rob Bottin's FX were when shown on the big 35mm screen.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
literary theory
pontificating
p...2023-03-221h 05Oops All MonstersPlay DUNGEON WORLD with Hess! SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTHess and Gavin are getting into professional Game Mastering!
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I’m giving listeners of this show a special opportunity to play Hess's first hosted sessions of DUNGEON WORLD: ESCAPE!
Currently there is scheduled an 18+ version at 630 on Thursday March 16 - 5 slots open
And a TEEN version at 2pm on Sat March 11, also up to five players.
Times are Eastern Standard Time USA (EST)
And if you’re not familiar with Dungeon World it’s a rules light, character focused fantasy take on games like Dungeons and Dragons, and in...2023-03-0804 minOops All MonstersCYBERPUNK’S Maelstrom Gang - 062In the revolutionary dystopian RPG originally published in 1988 by Mike Pondsmith and R Talsorian Games, CYBERPUNK (various, from TTRPG to anime to FPShooter) explores the edges of humanity, capitalism, and personal frailty amongst a neon backdrop of acid rain, body-altering cyberware, and techno-wizardry.
No characters personify the monstrous alienation of this world more deliciously than MAELSTROM, a gang of cyber-maniacs that take de-humanization and self mutilation not as eventual goal, but stepping-stone for entry into their bloody, maniacal cabal. Whether it's selling morbid "better-than-life" hallucination chips or dealing in zero-nutrition insect "food stuffs" through their ALL FOODS fr...2023-03-071h 08Oops All MonstersTHE BLOB! 1988 - 061Unbuckle your pants and load your bazookas, cuz it's blobbin' time! In 1988, exactly 30 years after the original film, Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith starred in a gruesome horror comedy full of over-the-top gore effects and middle-fingers to the man.
Whether you are currently, or on your way to being, a blobficianado, join us on our journey to answer the immortal question...can we blame the Russians for this one?
CONTENT WARNINGS:
briefly mentioned cinematic over-the-clothing sexual assault
fake mullets
verbal abuse of the american food pyramid
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G...2023-02-211h 20Oops All MonstersVAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt2 - 060Wax your lips and sharpen your lapels, because Gavin and Hess don't pull punches in the conclusion of their agonizingly deep take on the mid-90s roleplaying sensation, VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
adolescence/teenagers are discussed
The Columbine School shooting
Chris Kattan
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2023-02-061h 19Oops All MonstersVAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE pt 1of 2 - 059Lace up your leather jacket and polish your wine bottles full of precious bodily fluids, it's time to suck the life out of adolescence! NOT adolescents...adolescence! Leave the teens alone. Or help them? They need help, perhaps in the form of a wildly involved, super-system of roleplaying games built on a foundation of punk rock, goth music, shoe-gazing mental illness and reductive ethnic stereotyping that DEFINITELY ISN'T CARRIED INTO THE 21st century by its parent company.
BAT!!!
CONTENT WARNINGS:
the existence of teenagers
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Antonio Banderas...or sh...2023-01-211h 03Oops All MonstersHELLRAISER 2022’s Cenobites - 58NOT AN EPISODE FOR CHILDREN!!!
2022 brought us a nightmarish new vision of demonic bliss in the restart of the HELLRAISER series, so HAPPY FU*%ING NEW YEAR!
Seriously though, this one is a major point of enthusiasm for both of us, and we slammed out an old-school, double-thicc episode for y'all.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Genital Mutilation
Bill Burr as Pinhead
The total vivisection of your soul over the course of nine centuries
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C...2022-12-311h 29Oops All MonstersCLOVER from CLOVERFIELD - 057A nutsack kaiju emerges from the Hudson Bay to destroy millennials and they didn't give it an award, they just gave JJ Abrams a Ballz-load of money.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Actual Filmic Debate
Forgetting of Lizzy Kaplan
The acknowledgement of TJ Miller as a living human man
The pretentious definition of cinema language in the negative abstract
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2022-12-201h 08Oops All MonstersHIM from THE POWERPUFF GIRLS - 056Show Creator Greg Mcracken, when forced to change his devilish villain from a traditional tailed and horned goat man by the censors at CARTOON NETWORK, turned to camera and growled under his breath..."Not a problem...suck on THIS instead," and delivered this week's infernal topic...His Infernal Majesty, aka HIM.
CONTENT WARNING FOR: ONE TRULY UPSETTING DEMON
SERIOUSLY, IT'S LIKE PENNYWISE FOR KIDS
BUT WORSE
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and Sandman Books h...2022-12-0449 minOops All MonstersMEN IN BLACK’S The Edgar Suit Alien - 055There's a vicious space cockroach inside of Vincent D'Onofrio, and it needs you to give it sugar.
This wacky space-crime-on-earth action comedy about a secret intergalactic government agency that steals your thoughts in order to keep you ignorant about the magnitude of life's real dangers is HILARIOUS.
RIP Kevin Conroy
https://www.cbr.com/kevin-conroy-dc-pride-batman/
2022-11-221h 07Oops All MonstersThe Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - 054Hess examines the impact of Jack Arnold's cinematic sci-fi masterpiece, connecting the Creature (aka Gill-Man) to Michael Myers, and understanding the film (originally conceived as an adaptation of Beauty & The Beast through the very heavy presence of the male gaze.
Also:
Extensive Guillermo Del Toro
Jeff Goldblum covering COMMON PEOPLE by Pulp
One mandatory Star Wars Rant
and only one trashing of JJ Abrams
2022-11-061h 25Oops All MonstersHerman Munster 2022 - 053In the mid-1960s, kids could climb right up in front of their black and white TVs and watch not one but TWO families filled with wacky monsters caper around their dusty old Victorian mansions, to the delight of every Dad that ever made a pun.
In 2022, Rob Zombie attempts to recreate THE MUNSTERS, a whimsical but beloved sitcom centered around a goofy, disoriented, but well-intentioned Frankenstein's Monster known as HERMAN MUNSTER.
We discuss the character of Herman, the style of the Rob Zombie film, and the significance of the Herman Munster character in his fa...2022-10-241h 08Oops All MonstersClayface - 052BAH-NANANANA NANA NANA - CLAYFACE!!
Hess delivers a delirious take on Gotham's gooshiest mudman, the thirsty thespian, the post-human theatre-troupe himself, CLAY-FACE!
Dating back to the early days of Detective Comics, various iterations of this chimerical curmudgeon have cursed the streets of Gotham, and bedeviled the dynamic duo. A stand out DC villain, Clayface is equal parts shapeshifter and sympathetic victim of his own vanity.
Content Warnings:
Nine Inch Nails Corner
Ron Perlman
David Fincher's SEVEN
Harley Quinn & Batman
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Get all our...2022-10-111h 21Oops All MonstersCreature - 051Gavin presents this low-budget, Proto-ALIENS, zombie-fying, space-thing in an episode that ends up being less about the movie, and more about why actors are forced to work with Klaus Kinski, and why toy companies are so bad at making Xenomorphs.
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2022-10-021h 01Oops All MonstersMeg Mucklebones & LEGEND (1985) - 050YEAR TWO BEGINS!
What do you get when you mix Director Ridley Scott, some very attractive people, nasty goblins, unicorns, and a band of elves and faeries?
An Epic Trapper-Keeper Fantasy adventure so hot it burned down the studio they shot it in.
Also, Robert Picardo's performance as our feature monster SWAMP WITCH/HAG "Meg Mucklebones" is truly nightmarish.
Be good for goodness sake!
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and Sandm...2022-09-071h 35Oops All MonstersSANDMAN SPECIAL: Death & Psychopomps with Heidi LangeOn this special pre-SANDMAN show release episode, I am joined by fun and informative guest HEIDI LANGE of Sandmanbooks.com (link below) to wrap our collective heads around psychopomps!
Pyschopomps are an oddly specific yet universal category: Neutral Ferryworkers that guarantee your safe passage from your mortal life to the great beyond. Cultures across the globe and spanning millennia have their own agents of travel from Gaul to Greece, the Etruscans to Egypt, and from the Valkyries to the modern day Grim Reaper.
We cover the broad category of psychopomps through some obscure examples, as we...2022-08-0458 minOops All MonstersWe’re Preparing Year 2Sorry for the radio silence friends!
We are coming back at you very shortly. Like a cyborg from the future or Pennsylvania toll payments, we're a bitch to get rid of!
2022-07-3101 minOops All MonstersThe Filipino Manananggal w Claire Biz - 048Friend of the show Claire comes on to wrangle these two white Dungeon Masters around the topic of the bizarre, vampiric, torso-dividing, bat-winged, organ-sucking monstrosity, the Killa from Manilla, the lady that puts the Ass in Aswang, the Manananggal.
2022-06-241h 07Oops All MonstersWillow’s Brownies & Eborsisk (1988) - 047In 1988 colossal nerdlingers Ron Howard and George Lucas smashed their massive domes into each other like two rutting ram studs, until spilled forth one of the 80s most successful high fantasy epics.
Gavin details the Brownies, portrayed by Kevin Pollack and Rick Overton to extreme comic effect, as well as the two-headed Eborsisk, a fire-breathing faux-hydra of nightmarish aspect. He also details how the Eborsisk and other Willow miniatures damaged his young psyche AND testicles in a traumatic schoolyard tragedy-slash-layway-mishap. Let's see Joe Rogan try to do THAT!
#ValKilmer #Willow #Fairies #LittlePeople #Fantasy #Willow
...2022-06-141h 06Oops All MonstersThe Graboids from TREMORS (1990) - 046Oil your harmonica and $hit-kick your boots, the Graboids are coming to Perfection, Nevada! This classic 1980's script literally dirty-talked its way into the 90s, and made Kevin Bacon reel with horror at what he saw as the nadir of his acting career, only to turn out one of the most efficiently written and enduring examples of American Comedy-Horror ever put to screen. Get your pants off, and pole vaunt to the next residual boulder, these godd@mn recrooms aren't going to break into themselves!
RIP Fred Ward
#GaryNumanKenkuArtificer
#andlegsthatgoALLthewayup
2022-05-241h 23Oops All MonstersBig Daddy Zombie from Land of the Dead (PT1) - 045After they came to get you, Barbara, they stalked Ken Foree and his giant head around the Monroeville mall, then they dragged Rhodes' guts out of his miserable rotten body in the underground bunker, and now they have the nerve to get clever and chase after the one and only Dennis Hopper you've hidden in the highest possible tower in Steeltown, The City on Three Rivers, the place with kind of a lot of bridges, the home of french-fries-on-your-salad, Pittsburgh-Pennsyl-f*#king-vania.
2022-05-1745 minOops All MonstersThe Impostors of AMONG US - 044In 2018 Innersloth games unleashed an innocuous-looking cooperative Hidden Role game that took the combative elements of the party games Werewolf & Mafia and wrapped them up in cute little spacemen being infiltrated by mysterious alien "Impostors".
Thanks to a hurricane combination of good design, cross-platform social play on mobile, kids being trapped at home, and an essential understanding of classic horror film paranoia, AMONG US exploded in international popularity, leading a revolution of "sus" language overtaking the elementary and middle schools of America and beyond.
Swipe your ident card, divert the power, and get ready to vo...2022-05-101h 09Oops All MonstersDeath Knights - 043Undead? Check. Extremely Violent and Dangerous? Check. Rides a flaming nightmare horse? Check. Carries their soul in a flaming green enchanted sword? check.
This bitchin' van practically paints itself.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
#GaryNumanKenkuArtificer
#Metal
mentions of phylacteries and their uses
mentions of the existence of right wing politics
2022-05-031h 16Oops All MonstersDungeon World - 042This Chocolate bar is KRONCHY, folks! Hess & Gavin delve into the dank depths of fiction forward role-playing game DUNGEON WORLD and investigate some of the essential aspects of monster-gaming. If you're SUPER not into the dork-fests and game discussions, this may not be the episode for you, as we go light on the monsters, heavy on the Nat20s.
But you're all Nat 20s to us, Dear Readers.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Battletech
Initiative Systems
Shadowrun
ElonMusk
#goblinmode
PoweredByTheApocalypse
2022-04-261h 01Oops All MonstersEddie from The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 041Meatloaf Aday defined the iconic role of the reconstructed American rocker Frankenstein in Richard O'Brien's subversive masterpiece The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We take a look at Meatloaf, at Eddie himself, the world into which he is brought, and why Frankenstein media is so flow-pirate-shirt-friendly.
Content Warnings:
Penny Dreadful
Stabbing Westward
Cyrano De Timmy Cappello
I Would Do Anything For Love
Adam Lambert
#TheTimeWarp
2022-04-191h 13Oops All MonstersEdison’s Frankenstein (1910) - 040In 1910 at his third movie studio, Edison's Bronx cinema team created the first monster movie. The film was lost for most of the 20th century until a copy was shockingly unearthed in the late 70s and restored. We discuss the film, its situation within Frankenstein and film media, and sad bastard gothic artificial men and their lovely makeup jobs.
2022-04-121h 17Oops All MonstersF#$K Sharknado - 039Gavin drags in the paramount abortion of The Asylum, a film company known primarily for trolling inattentive stoners with their knock-offs of real movies.
But DO watch Black Summer.
Also, there's some Tucker & Dale vs Evil in there to cleanse your filthy filthy palette.
2022-04-051h 10Oops All MonstersHess Reads NINJA GAIDEN on Pixel Lit 2 of 2The thrilling conclusion to the Scholastic book based on the hit Nintendo game that teaches us,
If you're a thirteen year old ninja you CAN save ancient relics from a demon that lives in the amazon jungle as long as you have the powers of pyrokinesis and chronomancy. Maybe our politicians could learn a thing or two from this book.
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2022-03-2759 minOops All MonstersLeprechaun 1993I'M THE LEPRECHAAAUUUUN!!!
2022-03-211h 13
Pixel LitNinja Gaiden Part 2 ft. Hess from Oops All Monsters!We continue our journey through Ninja Gaiden! Part 2 With Hess!
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PixelLit is the video game-literary nerd’s dream come true. It’s a podcast where we read and discuss video game novelizations, and the games they’re based on. This is a podcast for the former kid who read their instru...2022-03-1658 minOops All MonstersHess Reads NINJA GAIDEN w Pixel Lit - PT 1 - BONUSHey There Dear Readers, I had an incredible time recently guesting on the hilarious show PIXEL LIT my friends Kevin and Phil do where they read and discuss the novelizations of famous video game properties.
We read the novelization of NES classic NINJA GAIDEN published by Scholastic books, and man was it a doozy. With no reservation I would say this is a hilarious conversation. Also, since this is BONUS, expect another regular OOPS episode coming at you hot ON St Patrick's Day as we celebrate it here in the US.
If you enjoyed this ep, p...2022-03-1445 minPixel LitNinja Gaiden Part 1 ft. Hess from Oops All Monsters!We are back touring the Worlds of Power and this time it's journeying to the far off land of The Amazon with master ninja Ryu Hayabusa! Join us and Hess from Oops All Monsters while we enjoy a tale of revenge, best served cold. Or with a ninja star.
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PixelLit...2022-03-0944 minOops All MonstersVigo from Ghostbusters II - 037Vigo haunted this episode. Check for yourself at minute 54.
Vigo the Carpathian Vigo the Cruel Vigo the Torturer Vigo the Despised
Vigo the Unholy Vigo the Butch Scourge of Carpathia Sorrow of Moldovia
Prince Vigo
OH COMMAND ME LORD!
Content Warnings:
References to Dom Deluise. Minor Key John Denver. Sorcery.
Everything you are doing is bad. I just want you to know this.
2022-03-081h 24Oops All MonstersThe Frighteners’ Freaky Ghosts (1996) - 036What happens when you take Marty McFly, Gomez Adams, Cujo's Mom, and the FX house that would later bring you Lord of the Rings and shake liberally?
TOO MANY CONFUSING SIGHT GAGS! Or EXACTLY the right amount of digital sight gags, if Gavin is to be listened to.
CONTENT WARNINGS:
Jake Busey
Post-Mortem Sterotypes
Pharoah-f*cking
2022-02-281h 14Oops All MonstersMONSTER MASH S1 PART 2 w Kevin from Pixel Lit - 035Check out Kevin and Phil's awesome show where they read and review the novelizations of video games:
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The thrilling conclusion to our head to head bracket!! The conclusion to the ultimate monster battle 24 weeks in the making, we resolve who will rain supreme in season one between:
The Stuff from The Stuff!
Mermaids from...fiction!
Trap-Jaw from Master of the Universe!
The Deathclaw from Fallout!
Place your bet...2022-02-211h 48Oops All MonstersGiant Rats! - 034Winston Smith. Princess Buttercup and Wesley. Vincent Price. What do they all have in common? Torment at the razor-sharp fangs of the true citizens of London and New York City, the entrails digging varmint that could, the very real red-eyed menace, THE RAT!
film, gaming, literature have all turned their anxious eyes to the dark shadows shifting in the corner of the room to access a fear based in something real and very, very hungry. We jump to a potpourri of topics related to rats both giant and medium edition to get a sense of WHY they ju...2022-02-141h 10Oops All MonstersCritters Vol 1 - 033Steal a face from the television and extend your phallic assault cannons, it's time to blast our way through the delightfully voracious fuzzbeasts of the VHS era, they're not gremlins, they're not communists, THEY'RE CRITTERS!!!
CONTAINS:
Excessive John Cena, Easter Sunday Sheriff Murder, Gratuitous Lack of Irony
note: This episode had a brief audio issue - FIXED!
2022-02-091h 34Oops All MonstersBlanka - 032Rip your jeans into cutoffs and plug your private parts into the wall socket, because it's time to bite our way out of Brazil, Dear Readers! STREET FIGHTER'S og monstrosity, the chlorophyll-colored Capoeira conundrum, somehow also just a guy-named-Jimmy, he's mean, he's green, he's BLANKA!!!!!!
(insert shout-barking noise & electrical discharge effect)
CONTENT WARNINGS:
actual references to CAPCOM's racist concept art
Jean Claude Van Damme
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2022-01-301h 12Oops All MonstersHollow Knight & Nosk - 031This episode is tiny, just like The Knight!
HOLLOW KNIGHT - One of 2017's top rated games of any genre, is an immersive, mind-bending dive into a cute-yet-terrifying underground world of bugs, grubs, spirits and supernatural warfare waged with broken nails.
We discuss the world of Hollow Knight, our own observations about its style and gameplay, and perhaps its most iconic Boss Monster - NOSK!
Music Producer Alex Moukala reacts to the Soundtrack
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I'm So Sorry...Neckst Up by Daddy Long Neck and Wide Neck2022-01-2357 minOops All MonstersDnD’s The Rust Monster - 030CONTENT WARNING:
Dungeons
Dragons
Aubrey Plaza
Gary Gygax
2022-01-171h 25Oops All MonstersNight of the Creeps - NY Spectacular PT2 - 029Fire up your Dick Millers, and lubricate your space slugs, it's time for the thrilling conclusion to 2022's kickstart - NIGHT OF THE CREEPS.
Also: Aubrey Plaza is a hot lady goblin.
Fred Dekker, Tom Atkins, Zombie Space Slugs, Horror, Comedy, Badassery
"It's Miller Time!"
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2022-01-091h 15Oops All MonstersNight of the Creeps - NEW YEAR SPECTACULAR - PT1 - 028Load your 12 gauges and Aquanet your hair, because these drunk slugs are here to fuck.
We explore what MIGHT be Hess's FAVORITE horror flick. Perhaps the ultimate smart-movie-disguised-as-a-dumb-movie, it's got zombies, it's got exploding heads filled with slugs, it's got Tom-fucking-Atkins, it's got fascists tripping cripples, it's got a suicidal Detective who says "THRILL ME" way more than is reasonable. Joe Bobs says check it out!
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2022-01-0348 minOops All MonstersSCROOGED’s Ghost of Xmas Future - 027Bill Murray kicks your emotional teeth in in 1988's carousel of Christmas-time cheer, chain-clinking ghosts, and class-warfare, it's SCROOGED.
Visited by four ghosts, each more disorienting than the next, Murray portrays misunderstood job creator Frank Cross, who attempts to inject some work ethic into the cowardly social justice warriors all around him, until he is brainwashed by a punk rock demon, a jewish faerie, and corporate media itself into believing that helping others has validity, and is not an egregious front to everything Ayn Rand stood for.
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2021-12-261h 28Oops All MonstersRoboCain from ROBOCOP 2 - 026What happens when you take a Reagan-era drug cult messiah, acorporate-dystopian Detroit on the brink of private-sector takeover, and automatic policing? 2021! JK - You get Robocop 2, and with it, the Robocop universe's most menacing of charismatic cultists, refitted as a chrome-plated killing machine; none other than ROBOCAIN.
Grab your Sunblock 5000 and your cassette full of Nuke injectors, it's time to strap in and fast forward to 2028. I'd buy that for a dollar!
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2021-12-191h 29Oops All MonstersLittle Monsters - 025Fred Savage & Daniel Stern destroy the fabric of time and space in this juvenile, piss-swilling, child-stealing, punk rock nightmare. You know...for kids!
Also featuring Tom Hardy's dumpy Myspace photo, Gremlin abuse, excessive Culkinism, and The Burbs' The Klopek family.
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2021-12-121h 28Oops All MonstersTentacles (1977) - 024Toss on your sailor's cap, and dust off your penicillin, because this week we dive into the deep end with TENTACLES, the surprisingly ambitious, unflinching ripoff of Jaws that takes more left turns than a UPS truck in San Francisco.
If you're not afraid of giant octopodes, perhaps you will be by the end of this film but if not, I can guarantee you'll be afraid of fat Italian producers and killer whale-wrangling rednecks. An all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Shelley Winters, John Huston and Bo Hopkins delivers as best they can manage alongside the transformative soundtrack of...2021-12-061h 23Oops All MonstersSplit Second (1992) - 023Gavin bursts out of the brackish London floodwaters with this week's haphazard, but fully-loaded assault on screenwriting, the 1992 Rutger-Hauer vehicle SPLIT SECOND.
Starring Rutger Hauer, Alastair Duncan and Kim Katrall, Hauer plays Detective Harley Stone, who hunts down the mysterious serial killer who murdered his partner. Unfortunately, a late screenwriting decision turned the killer into a half-assed Spirit Halloween version of the Xenomorph from Aliens, OR a Costco brand Venom, but don't overthink it, the filmmakers definitely didn't.
Also discussed: 2012's Dredd with Karl Urban, and Tom Hardy as a young drunk
https://link...2021-11-271h 31Oops All MonstersSPECIAL - The Crimson Ghost w Special Guest FUZZ - 022The Rubber masked that launched a billion t-shirts!
We break format for this time for a fun-sized discussion that's a hangover from Spooky Season, wherein we bring on our friend Fuzz to discuss the 1940s serial spookstar and Modern Age horror punk icon THE CRIMSON GHOST.
So strap on your boots, polish your studs, and grease down your devil locks, because it's time get both very goth, AND very masculine somehow, with the early 20th century's least consensual Scoobie Doo bad guy...no not Glenn Danzig, The Crimson Ghost. Don't worry, you don't have to go...2021-11-2335 minOops All MonstersThe Armus from Star Trek TNG - 021The sludgy embodiment of The Dave Matthew's Band's 800 pound excrement deluge, The Armus has the ignominious title of first Star Trek: The Next Generation monster to end the life of a main cast character, making it even more odd that it turns out to be a petty, vindictive little jagoff.
Hess breaks down this sentient sludge-pool in our first take on the Trek-o-verse, and examines where it works, where it don't, and how sometimes manipulative feces monsters are also annoying dudes you meet at punk parties. Or vice versa? Don't overthink it. That's our job.
http...2021-11-081h 24Oops All MonstersHALLOWEEN SPECIAL - Skeletons! - 020One final dose of spooky season delivered to rattle your bones, Gavin & Hess team up in this zero seriousness, potpourri, grab bag of an episode exploring various aspects of the often-exploited, under-appreciated, expensively-replicated momento mori that lives within all of us -
SKELETONS!!!
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2021-11-021h 27Oops All MonstersFright Night 1985 - 019Chris Sarandon acts the tits right off your face in this 1985 classic creature feature co-starring Roddy-effing-Mcdowall, Amanda Bearse's luminous skin and delightful acting, and Herman from Herman's Head.
Are you ready to get 80s, because it's getting 80s. What's the secret message underneath the original two Fright Night films? Hint, it has to do with the sex toys under Tim Kono's bed. Also: Nicholas Cage, Girl Talk, Vampire The Masquerade, Dog Day Afternoon, and why Bronson Pinchot won't stop screaming in The Langoliers. Don't listen to this episode if you're a coward.
https://linktr.ee/oopsa...2021-10-251h 53Oops All MonstersMummies PT1 - 018You're not appreciating Brendan Frasier enough. Gavin unwinds this tale of ancient origins and hollywood nightmares ranging from before Napoleon's men started the mummy-theft craze to Boris Karloff's iconic 1932 film, into the 21st century.
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Content Warning: references to a real life sexual molestation & accidental hanging
2021-10-171h 38Oops All MonstersBody Snatchers PT 2 of 2 - 017Hess closes out the generational trauma of humanity's vague, greasy replacements, sorting out the final implications of the cold war's REAL anxiety, and laying the blame where it really belongs.
We learn about Invasion 78 with Donald Sutherland, 1999's only weirdo millennials and drugs can save us popcorn flick The Faculty, and sleepy Nicole Kidman vehicle The Invasion (2007).
Also Jeff Goldblum, and Spooky Scary Skeletons.
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2021-10-091h 27Oops All MonstersHeadless Horsemen - 016IT'S SPOOKY SEASON WITCHES!
Gavin reveals the devilish through-line between ancient Gaelic faeries that punish their prey with deadly spine-whips, colonial America's pumpkin-wielding Hessian, Marvel's flame-faced Ghost Rider, and Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, the mercenary classic by the death-obsessed-bard Warren Zevon.
You could try to do it this good, but you'd fail.
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2021-10-021h 26Oops All MonstersBody Snatchers PT1 - 015Hess brings a heavy-hitter from American classic sci-fi this week, those eerie and illusive outer-space pod-people. The chillest communal colonialists out of Norcal are on the prowl, so hide your kids, hide your wife, they snatchin' everybody up in here.
Gavin & Hess intro this super thicc topic by delving into the original 1954 novel by Jack Finney, its themes and significance, and compare and contrast it with the 1956 film directed by George Siegel starring Kevin McCarthy.
There's also too much discussion of the film "Innerspace", and probably the best Jeffrey Dean Morgan you're going to get thi...2021-09-231h 32Oops All MonstersThe Martians from Mars Attacks! - 014Originating in the twisted mind of EC Comics artist Wally Woods, these gleeful interplanetary colonists began their life on a series of sadomasochistic children's trading cards so vile and deranged the courts had their production stopped in 1962.
Gavin walks us the unlikely tale of atomic age sci-fi culture, ported into 1990s satire by Tim Burton, which continues to this day in curious comic book mashups. If you've never seen the Burton 90s film, it is more than worth a watch,to see Jack Nicholson vaporized by Martians not once, but twice, and Sarah Jessica Parker play the q...2021-09-161h 23Oops All MonstersTHE SLIDE ROCK BOLTER - 013Our FIRST cryptid episode! Can you dig it!?
In 1910 William T Cox's FEARSOME CREATURES OF THE LUMBERWOODS was published, a fantasy field guide of the bizarre monsters and aberrations of the mountain west, plains, and beyond.
Perhaps the most infamous of which is the Slide Rock Bolter, a colossal land-leviathan that swallows unwitting tourists and lumberjacks unlucky enough to cross its path.
Are you from Colorado and have been eaten by the Slide Rock Bolter? If you get cell service from inside that massive beast, let us know what it's like in there.
...2021-09-091h 06Oops All MonstersThe ISZ from THE MAXX - 012https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters
Gavin unleashes MTV's cutest cannibalistic trauma baubles, the impish minions of Mr Gone. They're relentless, they're multitudinous, they're unscrupulous, they are: THE ISZ.
In the mid-90s illustrator and comic artist Sam Keith scraped together the chance to create a graphic novel of singular personal vision. In THE MAXX he depicted a twisted, grim-dark America populated by nightmarish creatures lurking in every shadow, and sensitive souls trying to navigate deadly villains, as well as the hallucinatory invasions of their own trauma and mental illness.
Gavin posits his theories as to...2021-09-031h 20Oops All MonstersMONSTER MASH S1 PART 1 w/ PIXEL LIT - 011https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters
We have a special treat for you, Dear Readers! This is the first in a new set of Special Features we are going to run from time to time to help expand the show and bring in new voices.
Friend of the show Kevin @thearcadologist joins us to help referee our first MONSTER MASH episode, where we put the monsters that we have been presenting into a bracket (like sports!), and use a rudimentary dice system to determine WHICH IS THE STRONGEST MONSTER OF THEM ALL!!!!
This game is a...2021-08-271h 18Oops All MonstersThe Kurgan - 010Hess delivers this kickass, testosterone-fueled, 1980s rooftop sword-fight of a topic, chock full of MTV lightning, pedestrian-running-down, and the most confusing accents this side of Schwarzenegger. Clancy Brown (Mr Crabs from Spongebob) portrays 1985's most vicious barbarian, the stud from the Russian Steppe, the sonafabitch with the segmented sword, he is: THE KURGAN.
What else does this episode have? Queen music, Sting wearing a hood ornament bikini, and impressions of Sean Connery as Raoul Duke from Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and MORE SWORDS. Don't get greedy.
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2021-08-191h 49Oops All MonstersThe Interloper - 009Gavin delves deep into the holotapes under West Virginia and mines the unknowable eldritch horror that haunts Bethesda's nightmares. Is it a tree? Is it a squid? Is it going to rise into the sky and pulverize all of Ayn-Randian Philosophy in its terrifying deterministic maw?
Spoiler Alert...
Yes. Yes it is.
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2021-08-121h 07Oops All MonstersThe Chimera - 008Hess comes in hot with the fire-breathing triple-threat of antiquity, that luminous lady from Lycia; the Chimera!
Our hosts discuss the ancient lineage of this bronze age battle-beast, her symbolism, and then of course David Cronenberg, The Thing, and GIJOE because what show did you think you were listening to anyway?
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2021-07-311h 21Oops All MonstersTrap-Jaw - 007https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters
Hess delivers our first single-topic episode about Masters of the Universe's malicious metal mouthed maniac - TRAP-JAW!
Learn how Trap-Jaw is built ad-hoc from the disparate parts of Ian Fleming's 007 stories, the James Bond villain Jaws, a lost-to-history Mattel Toy line, is recycled into his true form in 1982, mangled in the Filmmation cartoon series, crippled in a graphic novel, and perhaps strangely signifies 21st century humanity's struggles to integrate with technology? Yes? YES!
2021-07-231h 50Oops All MonstersLeviathan & Signs - 006Hess brings the 1989 underwater flop starring Peter Weller and Stan's Winston's worst #fishmonsterman hangover, and Gavin discusses whether the devout Pennsylvania family in Signs are really battling a menace from outer space, or their own inner demons.
Also an introduction to describing Benicio Del Toro
2021-07-152h 00Oops All MonstersCandyman & Aquateen Hunger Force - 005In preparation for the upcoming reimagining of the 1992 horror classic, Hess slices up what's most terrifying about Chicago's surliest bee-keeper, and Gavin disorients us with the exhaustive menagerie of surly monsters, aliens and robots that harass Adult Swim's absurd junk food heroes.
2021-07-052h 10Oops All MonstersFimir & Deathclaw - 004Hess details the oddly complex origins of these #MysticalLizards from Heroquest & Games Workshop, and Gavin pounces into our hit-box like a blind, radioactive T-Rex with Fallout's most menacing man-munching monsters; the Deathclaw.
2021-06-281h 52Oops All MonstersGrimlocks & Mermaids - 003Hess explains the literary origins of these classic DnD Underdark cannibals, and Gavin dives deep into his hatred of fish (or something like that). Also - Darryl Hannah.
2021-06-281h 47Oops All MonstersTooms & The Fog - 002In the sequel, Hess brings in Baltimorean mutant serial killer Eugene Tooms from the X-Files Season 1, and Gavin delves into the nightmarish implications of John's drowned ocean zombies - their leper gold - and everyone is glad this episode has cleavage.
2021-06-281h 54Oops All MonstersThe Stuff & Imps - 001In our very first episode, Hess discusses director Larry Cohen's fluffy white attack on 80s consumerism, and Gavin discusses the lowest ranked demon of them all, and how imps are really the interns of the netherworld.
Contains: horror, film, HORR FILM!, gaming, literature, cryptids,
TheStuff, Garrett Morris, Danny Aiello, 28 Days Later, The Real Ghostbusters, Magic The Gathering, Doom,
2021-06-281h 37Oops All MonstersWelcome to Oops All MonstersIt's the trailer for show! So people know what we sound like, and that we make jokes. You know, jokes, those things you made before your hope died.
2021-06-2501 min