About this podcast
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
The newest 20 of 273 episodes
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #272 : Halloween Resurrection (2002) · 1 h 47 min · Episode 275Do you like a little "tainment" with your danger? Well, you're in luck. Busta Rhymes is here to sate your needs for Kung Fu, Danger, Tainment, and F bombs. Matt and Tristan talk…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #271 Near Dark W/ Special Guest DJ Foxy! · 1 h 43 min · Episode 274A listener and friend of the podcast, DJ Foxy heard that we had never seen Near Dark, and dragged us kicking and screaming into the metaphorical daylight of this 80's classic.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #270 Hellhound: Hellraiser 2 (1988) · 1 h 52 min · Episode 273You're probably thinking that this is going to be one of those episodes where we talk smack about a really good movie that we actually like. Well...yeah. Kinda. But we both…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #269 Sleepaway Camp (1983) · 1 h 29 min · Episode 272Man. The world is against Angela. Luckily she has an impressive set of coping skills. Matt and Tristan talk Sleepaway Camp.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #268 - Hellraiser 3 : Hell on Earth (1992) · 1 h 46 min · Episode 271Well, I guess Cenobites are just whatever their job on earth was now. In a better world there would have been one dude who worked at a pizzeria and shot evil pizzas at people…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #267 Syngenor (1990) · 1 h 49 min · Episode 270This movie has at least three times more Syngenor than any other movie I can think of. Matt and Tristan talk about the 1990 movie Syngenor.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #266 Piranha II: The Spawning (1982) · 1 h 41 min · Episode 269Sure you've seen a Piranha movie. But Spawning? That's something you're only gonna get in Piranha 2: The Spawning. Matt and Tristan talk about James Cameraman's most successful…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #265 The Mutilator (1983) FIXED! · 1 h 27 min · Episode 268When you sit down to watch a movie called "THE MUTLATOR" with that cover, you pretty much know what you're in for. Late 70's sitcom music. And lots of it. Also, a token amount of…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #264 Nightwish (1989) · 1 h 36 min · Episode 266College. The one place where you can get class credit for being tortured by a madman and his brute henchman. Where getting into a tub in your skimpy underwear and projecting your…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #263 Shredder Orpheus (1990) · 1 h 44 min · Episode 265I know. You're sick of hearing about yet another huge Hollywood blockbuster about a skateboarding rock star who reenacts the legend of Orpheus in a possibly post-apocalyptic…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #262 Pinocchio's Revenge (19960 · 1 h 36 min · Episode 264Hey...talk about your wooden performances? Huh? Eh. What do you want. The Podcast's ad-free. Anyway, Matt and Tristan talk about Pinocchio's Revenge.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #261 Nightbreed (1990) · 1 h 58 min · Episode 263If you took the Freaks, The X-Men, and Cats and mixed them up in a big bowl, you would get a big goopy mess not dissimilar to the movie Nightbreed. The studio totally screwed it…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #260 Skinned Deep (2004) · 1 h 28 min · Episode 262Somewhere between genius and absolute idiocy lies Skinned Deep. What a weird movie. I love it, you should watch this nonsense. Matt and Tristan talk Skinned Deep.
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #259 Jack Frost (1997) · 1 h 23 min · Episode 261Did you know that inside this amazing lenticular VHS box is an actual movie? It's true! When a truck of "Genetic Material" hits a truck carrying notorious serial killer "Jack…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #258 : Gingerdead Man (2005) · 1 h 17 min · Episode 260This 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…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #257 Return Of Swamp Thing (1989) · 1 h 25 min · Episode 259One 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…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #256 - Endgame (1983) · 1 h 28 min · Episode 258The 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…
- Halloween III: Season of The Witch (1982) · 1 h 31 min · Episode 257We 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) · 1 h 15 min · Episode 256Would 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…
- Fun Box Monster Podcast #253 Severed Ties (1992) · 1 h 20 min · Episode 255Severed 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…
