About this podcast
How I Met Your Monster is the horror-comedy podcast that explores the introductions of your favorite movie monsters! Join Zach, Danny, and Casey as they break down how iconic monsters — from Freddy and Jason to Leatherface and Chucky — made their terrifying first impressions on screen. In each episode, we dive into the art of the perfect horror debut that turned these horror movie monsters into cinematic legends.
Whether you’re a hardcore horror buff or just here for the fun, How I Met Your Monster delivers a perfect mix of spooky nostalgia and comedic commentary on the monsters you know and love.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 135 episodes
- The How I Met Your Monster 2026 Halloween Monster Ranking · 2 h 27 minTo celebrate Halloween, and to kick off a brand new fiscal year (aka freakskull year, cuz we freaky), we're not just wrapping up another triple feature -- we're wrapping up an…
- Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (EP66 Re-Release) · 51 minBack in 2022, we met Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN to celebrate the spooky season. This year, we're bringing back what became one of our personal favorite episodes…
- Pinhead and Angelique in Kevin Yagher's HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE · 2 h 13 min · Episode 164We kick off our SPACE: THE FINAL FRONT-FEAR triple feature with Kevin Yagher's land-locked space race to Hell. The Box has gone digital, the pain remains mythical, and in space…
- Vengeful Zombie Pirates in John Carpenter's THE FOG · 1 h 58 min · Episode 163We wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with John Carpenter's cozy campfire tale of swashbuckling coast ghosts. The fog is slaying, the radio is playing, and we're about to…
- Hugh Crain in Jan de Bont's THE HAUNTING (1999) · 1 h 40 min · Episode 162We continue our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with Jan De Bont's high-octane foray into fear. The house is alive (but the phone lines are dead), and if these walls could talk…
- Reverend Kane in Gary Sherman's POLTERGEIST III · 2 h 8 min · Episode 161We kick off our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with one of the scariest (and unnecessarily complicated) horror movies of 1988, POLTERGEIST III. Reverend Kane is back to terrorize…
- The Grim Reaper in Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS (Re-Release) · 1 h 49 minTHE FRIGHTENERS is 30 years old this year, and to celebrate we're re-releasing over coverage of the Peter Jackson horror comedy from Episode 142!
- Flesh-eating Zombies in Peter Jackson's DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD) · 1 h 48 min · Episode 160We wrap up our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Peter Jackson's gooey gonzo gorefest. Moms are nitpicking, priests are ass-kicking, and one love-struck mama's boy just brought…
- Count Orlok in Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU (w/ Chris Cooney) · 1 h 29 min · Episode 159We continue our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Robert Eggers’ gothic tale of death, love, and horny incels. His presence is everywhere -- with supernatural savoir-faire…
- Zombie Julie in Brian Yuzna's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (w/ The Nightmare Trials) · 1 h 57 min · Episode 158We kick off our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Brian Yuzna's tale of death, love, and zombies. The dead still feel, the living are a meal, and love truly is a burning flame…
- Captain Peytraud in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW · 2 h 8 min · Episode 157We wrap up our IT'S VOODOO, BABY triple feature with Wes Craven’s voodoo-doomed descent into near-death delirium. Zombies are real, the dead still feel, and we're traveling to…
- TV TERRORS - Boy Meets World "AND THEN THERE WAS SHAWN" (Patreon Preview) · 9 minIn this Patreon-exclusive episode of How I Met Your Monster, where we’re switching things up by turning our attention from movie monsters, to TV terrors. In today’s episode…
- Chucky in Tom Holland's CHILD'S PLAY (w/ Don Campbell) · 2 h 4 min · Episode 156We continue our IT’S VOODOO BABY triple feature, by meeting the killer doll who cusses like a trucker, Charles Lee Ray, better known as Chucky, in CHILD’S PLAY, starring…
- Mama Cecile and Papa Justify in Iain Softley's THE SKELETON KEY · 1 h 44 min · Episode 155Kicking off our IT’S VOODOO BABY triple feature, we’re meeting the body-snatching, eternal lovebirds Mama Cecile and Papa Justify in THE SKELETON KEY, starring Kate Hudson, Gena…
- The Hollywood Machine in David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE · 2 h 7 min · Episode 154We wrap up our MINDF*CKS triple feature with David Lynch's surrealist sensory experience through celebrity success and self-destruction. Everybody wants to be somebody, every…
- The Baby in David Lynch's ERASERHEAD · 1 h 40 min · Episode 153Our MINDF*CKS triple feature continues with David Lynch’s demented dive into domestic living. Parenthood is a cage, Henry's radiator is a stage, and the sins of the flesh have…
- Andrew Laeddis in Martin Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND · 1 h 49 min · Episode 152Our Mind Fucks triple feature kicks off with Martin Scorsese’s tragic trip to the island of misfit murderers. The storm is a-comin’, the mind is a-runnin’, and if your name’s…
- Evil Monks in Jean-Jacques Annaud's THE NAME OF THE ROSE · 1 h 8 min · Episode 151The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature wraps up with Jean-Jacques Annaud’s medieval monk murder mystery. The friars are repressed, but their hairdos are blessed, and God help us…
- THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Commentary (PATREON Preview) · 10 minTHE BRIDE! hits theaters this week, so we wanted to enjoy the original 1935 film THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in anticipation of the upcoming adaptation. Zach and Danny sit down to…
- John Doe in David Fincher's SE7EN · 2 h 9 min · Episode 150The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature continues with David Fincher’s rain-soaked race against a one-man judge, jury, and executioner. Sinners are being hunted, a perfect crime’s…
