Video Monsters

Dan is cashing in a rain check tonight, so Nathan and Eric are joined by filmmaker Robert Woods (AN IDEAL HOST) for an impromptu RAINY DAY MOVIE MADNESS where we each takes turns recommending our favorite movies to return to on a rainy day. So put away the umbrella, kick off your galoshes, and get cozy on the couch with your favorite snacks. We’re stuck inside today, so we might as well settle in for some comfort viewing with the V...

The Video Monsters lean even further into their 90s video store vibe by discussing the first 50 titles that they would select if Video Monsters was an actual brick and mortar video store. So put the posters on the wall, assemble the cardboard standees, and turn on the neon sign for tonight's first installment of Overnight Inventory!

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Thanksgiving comes early (technically late.... very late, but we’re trying to avoid being in a negative zone) this year, so grab your car keys, put on your Nixon mask, and meet us at the train station because it’s time for the Video Monsters to weather Ang Lee’s THE ICE STORM (1997).

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Get ready for the acceptable conclusion to the finest holiday special of the season! And when we say “finest,” we put the emphasis on “fine” because this is the VIDEO MONSTERS HOLIDAY SPECT-adequate (it’s OK) PART 2: DIMENSION EXTREME-MAS! Tonight’s format is a POPCORN PUNCHOUT, where the Video Monsters and special guest Kyle Kuchta (SURVIVAL OF THE FILM FREAKS, THE WOODSMAN, OUCHIE) assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket and work ...

Siege-ons Greetings from the Video Monsters!! Tonight we present Part One of our two-part annual HOLIDAY SPECT-adequate (it’s fine): A Mini-Movie Madness where Nathan and Eric take turns selecting their recommendations for winter/snowy/holiday-adjacent siege movies! So grab some hot cocoa, decorate some cookies, lock the doors, board up the windows, and prepare for an onslaught of good cheer with Part One of the Video Monsters HOLI...

Tonight’s forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of CHAOS! The Video Monsters are braving the elements this evening with a Stormy Weather Popcorn Punchout, where we assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket to decide which three storm, blizzard, tornado, hurricane, and/or other natural/unnatural weather phenomenon films will get the in-depth Video Monsters analysis over the next few weeks! Grab(bers) your umbrella because a Hard Rain’s a-gonn...

The Video Monsters have decided to travel back in time to a much better, more optimistic period in our lives: Halloween 2024! Tonight we’re discussing 1991’s HAUNTEDWEEN, a low-budget, surprisingly charming regional slasher film that closed out this year’s Knoxville Horror Film Festival. But first, Nathan provides us with some dispatches from KHFF telling about his favorites from the fest! So unpack your Halloween masks, put up som...

We think it is safe to say that, due to recent events, many of you out there are probably feeling a bit anxious about the future right now. We certainly are here at Video Monsters. We have always strived to make this silly little podcast a positive place to celebrate not just movies, but the sense of community that comes out of making, watching, and discussing films. Movies are a refuge; a safe place for us to escape our troubles a...

I see seas of blue, blue water too. The bright burning sun. The dark sacred soil. And I think to myself.... what a Waterful World That’s right! The time has come for us to venture off into the aquatic wasteland of the far future known as WATERWORLD; the notoriously expensive flop that was (mostly) directed by Kevin Reynolds! So grab a glass of Hydro, gulp down some grilled sea monster that tastes suspiciously like 90s era compute...

The Video Monsters continue their discussion on the work of Kevin Costner with an under-the-radar, late-career gem: Thomas Bezucha’s LET HIM GO (2020). This is a tense, lean neo-western thriller with a huge heart and some excellent performances from a fiery Diane Lane and the Cos’ as her steady-hand husband who embark on a road trip across the 60s midwest to find their kidnapped grandson. So grab your kids before the Weboys do, mee...

Director Kyle Kuchta and writer Jeanette Wall join the Video Monsters to talk about their new short film, OUCHIE, which recently screened at the Chattanooga Film Festival and is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit. After a discussion of the short, we each make our picks for a round of Mirror Movie Madness, discussing the best uses of mirrors in film! So grab your bandages and watch out for broken glass as Kyle and J...

Cancel the kitchen scraps, stop all merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas because it’s time to bow down before the almighty villainy Alan Rickman. Everything we do, we do it for him… and for the joy of catapulting ourselves into the castle of campy fun, crafty adventure, and questionable casting of Kevin Costner in the role of ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991)!

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The Video Monsters saddle up with special guest Robert Woods (filmmaker, An Ideal Host) for a Western-style showdown in tonight’s Kevin Costner Popcorn Punchout, where we assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket and duel our way down to the line to decide which three Costner films will get the in-depth Video Monsters analysis. Will we find ourselves in A Perfect World? Or maybe a Waterworld? Rooting for a Postman or a Man of Steel? W...

Grab your animal crackers, queue up Hurdy Gurdy Man, and meet us in a California basement because it’s time to finally close the book on our Journalism series with David Fincher’s ZODIAC (2007).

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