How I Met Your Monster
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. Subscribe now and never miss an episode. Now, let’s go meet some monsters!
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Today, we kick off our KILLER COMICS triple feature with Stephen Norrington’s cinematic showcase of sunburnt suckheads. The blood sprinklers are spraying, the daywalker is slaying, and we’re trying to figure out why Blade has a blade, but Whistler never whistles, as we hop into a 1968 Dodge Charger to meet Deacon Frost and his raving legion of bloodthirsty vampires in BLADE, starring Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson...
Wrapping up our CRUEL SUMMER triple feature, we’re renting a summer cabin on Camp Crystal Lake to meet the tenaciously territorial Jason Voorhees in FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER, starring Corey Feldman, Kimberly Beck, Crispin Glover, Joan Freeman, Erich Anderson, Lawrence Monoson, Camilla More, Carey More, Judie Aronson, Peter Barton, and Ted White.
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Continuing our CRUEL SUMMER triple feature, we’re trespassing on ancient Mayan ruins to meet an infestation of carnivorous vines in Carter Smith’s THE RUINS, starring Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, Jonathan Tucker, Joe Anderson, Laura Ramsey, and Dimitri Baveas.
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Kicking off our CRUEL SUMMER triple feature, we’re hijacking an RV on the Texas/Mexico border with actor/director/bozo Guilford Adams to meet the seductive and sinister Santanico Pandemonium and her Titty Twister patrons in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, starring George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Salma Hayek, Ernest Liu, Tom Savini, Danny Trejo, Fred Williamson, and Cheech Marin.
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Wrapping up our MAD SCIENTISTS triple feature, we’re making our way to Holstenwall to meet an evil hypnotist and his unconsenting sidekick in Robert Wiene’s THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGAI, starring Friedrich Feher, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Rudolf Lettinger.
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Continuing our MAD SCIENTISTS triple feature, we’re jumping ship to a private island to meet the mad Dr. Moreau and his chosen family of genetically-engineered Beast People in John Frankenheimer’s (and partially Richard Stanley’s) THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, starring David Thewlis, Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Rigney, Nelson de la Rosa, Mark Dacascos, and Ron Perlman.
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Kicking off our MAD SCIENTISTS triple feature, we’re traveling deep into the Great White North with horror author Don Campbell to meet the lonely lunatic, Howard Howe, and his human-walrus abomination, in Kevin Smith’s TUSK, starring Justin Long, Michael Parks, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, and Johnny Depp.
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Wrapping up our ROTTEN EGGS triple feature, special guest Sarah Clingenpeel from Terror Films joins us as we follow an adorable, but audacious billionaire to a private island in Costa Rica to meet his caravan of cretaceous carnivores in Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Wayne Knight, Ariana Richards, Joseph Mazzello, Donald Gennaro, Samuel L. Jackson, and Bob Pec...
Continuing our ROTTEN EGGS triple feature, we’re investigating the remains of an extraterrestrial ghost town to meet a family of phallic-headed flesh-feeders and their cosmic Queen, commonly known as BITCH, in James Cameron’s ALIENS, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, and Carrie Henn.
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Kicking off our ROTTEN EGGS triple feature, we’re screwed six ways to Easter Sunday as we meet an extraterrestrial infestation of Krites in Mick Garris’ CRITTERS 2, starring Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper, Roxanne Kernohan, Lin Shaye, Sam Anderson, and Tom Hodges.
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Wrapping up our UNLUCKY F*CKS triple feature, we sit down with musician Candi Carpenter to set off some doom-infused chain reactions and meet the Rube Goldberg of Grim Reapers in James Wong’s FINAL DESTINATION, starring Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Chad Donella, Sean William Scott, Kristen Cloke, Amanda Detmer, and Tony Todd.
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Continuing our UNLUCKY F*CKS triple feature, we’re praying to St. Patrick for good fortune (and a good shot at survival) before meeting the greedy, gold-obsessed Lubdan in Mark Jones’ LEPRECHAUN, starring Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Mark Holton, Robert Hy Gorman, and Ken Olandt.
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Kicking off our UNLUCKY F*CKS triple feature, we’re building up an appetite for pancakes and guzzling down the local water supply to meet a skin-crawling, flesh-eating virus in Eli Roth’s CABIN FEVER, starring Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Joey Kern, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, and Giuseppe Andrews.
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Wrapping up our HIGH OCTANE KILLS triple feature, we’re popping our collars and spiking our mullets to meet Skynet’s body-building, face-shooting Cyberdyne cyborg, The T-800, in James Cameron’s THE TERMINATOR, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Earl Boen, and Bill Paxton.
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Continuing our HIGH OCTANE KILLS triple feature, we're headed back to the 1800s with Timur Bekmambetov’s blood-soaked revisionist history hemoglobin-hungry hellscape. The political stakes are high, the wooden stakes are bloody, and honest Abe is honestly a badass as we twirl our axe and rewrite facts to meet an army of Confederate vampires in ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER, starring Benjamin Walker, Rufus Sewell, Mary Elizabeth Wi...
We're opening THE CRYPT for Patreon members to re-visit (or experience for the first time) the first 50 episodes of How I Met Your Monster, starting with a re-release of Episode 5 on John Carpenter's THE THING! In celebration of this week's live stream of The Thing, we're looking back on the days when Casey was not yet a host, but a recurring guest! To listen to the full episode and hear the beginnings of a beautiful horror movie l...
Kicking off our HIGH OCTANE KILLS triple feature, we’re cocking our metallic uzis and throwing caution to the crimson wind to meet the masochistic Martian, Big Daddy Mars, in John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS, starring Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea DuVall, Joanna Cassidy, Liam Waite, and Richard Cetrone.
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Here’s a preview of our A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET commentary episode — available on Patreon for Maniac Tier Patrons. If you wanna listen, find How I Met Your Monster on Patreon and become a member!
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Here’s a preview of our TERRIFIER 2 commentary episode — available on Patreon for ALL MEMBERS. If you wanna listen, find How I Met Your Monster on Patreon and become a member! This episode does not require a paid membership.
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Wrapping up our SEASON’S CREEPINGS triple feature with Peter Hyam’s 1999 century-capping showdown of good vs. evil. The balls are dropping, the pee is exploding, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is once again going toe-to-toe with holiday monsters as we party like it’s 1999… and panic like it’s Y2K… to meet New York’s most eligible — and evil — Beelzebubian bachelor in END OF DAYS.
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