Fun Box Monster Podcast

Follow Fun Box Monster Podcast
Share on
Copy link to clipboard

Each episode, we choose a favorite obscure or semi-obscure horror movie, and run it down, scene by scene filling in plot hole, and connecting dropped story threads where they might occur...

funboxmonster


    • May 23, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 24m AVG DURATION
    • 246 EPISODES


    Search for episodes from Fun Box Monster Podcast with a specific topic:

    Latest episodes from Fun Box Monster Podcast

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #245 Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 93:59


    In the original Poltergeist a happy likable family, through no fault of their own, become the victims of a malevolent spectral force. In part two, the spectral force is there, but the happy likable family...is not quite as happy or likable. By adding too much Amityville and Shining to the mix, plus a tiny dash of xenophobia it misses the mark a bit. But there's still a lot to like about it. Matt and Tristan talk Poltergeist 2 : The Other Side. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #244 Grim (2005)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 75:07


    There's like a troll or something? I guess his name is Grim or maybe not. There's some caves. People walk a whole bunch. I guess there's a talisman that does something, but they lose it. Sometimes people's eyes go red.  Matt and Tristan talk about it for some reason. 

    grim fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #243 Firestarter (1984)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 93:56


    My toxic trait is that I would totally sign up for the lot 6 tests, even after that dude clawed his eyes out.  Join Matt and Tristan for the closest thing we got to an X-Men movie in the eighties, Firestarter. 

    xmen firestarter fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #242 The Carrier (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 102:30


    Ok. Big old trigger warning. If there's a thing that bothers you to hear discussed even in less than graphic detail (SA, animal deaths) this might not be the one for you. This is a pretty mean movie in places, and pretty incomprehensible in places so be forewarned. That said, on the good side it's a very impressive low budget movie that did a whole lot with not much. On the bad side, some of the not much was comprehensible dialogue and character motivation.  Matt and Tristan talk about the biggest little melt movie ever, The Carrier. 

    carrier fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #241 : Exorcist 2 : The Heretic (1977)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 92:05


    Without a doubt, this is the best movie ever to feature James Earl Jones wearing a Locust mascot costume. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #241 Highway To Hell (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 94:37


    This movie is a case study in how a generic title combined with a bad poster can sink even the best of movies into obscurity. How this thing isn't talked about CONSTANTLY is a downright tragedy. 

    highways highway to hell fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #240 Curse 2 : The Bite (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 87:08


    Turns out that the real Curse was the movie we all watched together. 

    curse bite fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #239 My Bloody Valentine (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025 78:27


    A special Valentine's Day episode! 

    bloody fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #238 976-Evil (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 83:25


    Remember telephones? Well, if you do, there were these numbers you could call for psychics, sex talk, or drunken Santas. As it turns out, like the majority of capitalist enterprises, they were run by the devil. Join Matt and Tristan for the eighties best phone-based-satan movie, 976-Evil. 

    evil santas fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #237 : Cobra (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 99:37


    Crime is the disease, he's the cure. He's going to inoculate society with a vaccine made of bullets. He's putting a cast on society's broken leg. A cast of punching. He's going to treat society's plantar fasciitis by pouring gas on it and setting it on fire. Matt and Tristan watch the Cannon films masterpiece, Cobra. 

    crime cobra fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #236 The Lawnmower Man (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 126:30


    In a town where lawnmowers are outlawed, one outlaw rises to cut lawns to a uniform height. Matt and Tristan talk about Lawnmower man. 

    lawnmowers lawnmower man fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #235 Graveyard Shift

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 104:16


    In this Stephen King classic, several terrible Maine accents battle for supremacy in a mill full of rats. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #234 Head Hunter (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 83:32


    Evil Dead wind travels from Africa to Florida (Actually still Africa) to pop the heads off some folks who are just trying to enjoy their Voodoo in peace. Also, a guy is going through a divorce. Surprisingly more is said about that than the head popping. 

    africa evil dead voodoo fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #233 The Laughing Dead (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 83:25


    Not to crib a more successful podcast's thing, but I honestly can't figure out how this got made. I don't hate it, but it is so deeply weird, and I believe there are no more than 2 actual professional actors in it. Also it has better SFX than movies with fifty million dollar budgets. Truly inexplicable, but worth checking out. 

    laughing sfx fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #232 Ghoulies 4 (1994)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 86:25


    I only have one major problem with Ghoulies 4. There aren't even four Ghoulies. Haters will say there aren't even two Ghoulies, and that two actors in halloween masks don't count as little rubber monsters, but that isn't for me to say. Matt and Tristan discuss Ghoulies 4. 

    haters ghoulies fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #231 Troll (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 70:51


    Everybody wants to see Phil Fondacaro turned into a Ghoulie, and there's no other movie where you can see it. 

    troll ghoulie fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #230 : Halloween 5 (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 101:37


    Everybody shut up. Tina is a treasure. How dare you all. Matt and Tristan talk about the best/worst entry in the Halloween franchise. 

    halloween fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #229 Sleepwalkers (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 105:59


    The story of a Were-cat and her son, and nothing else super creepy or off-putting. 

    sleepwalkers fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #228 Rumplestiltskin (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 104:02


    The classic story of a cursed item shop where the proprietor doesn't want to sell items, shouldn't sell items, and does anyway, then gets mad that you bought them. It's probably a metaphor for capitalism somehow, but I haven't quite figured it out yet. 

    rumplestiltskin fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #227 The Funhouse (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 93:17


    There's definitely a house. As to fun...We leave that up to you. 

    funhouse fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #226 - Children of the Corn III : Urban Harvest (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 103:59


    He who walks behind the rows has gotten a hip 90's makeover. Oaklies, Bugle Boys, the whole deal. Three times the corn...three times the terror. Or something. 

    children of the corn urban harvest fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast : The Unnamable (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 80:59


    More like...Unwatchable...amirite? Yeah. The episode is at about that level too. Sorry. I'm on vacation next week, and really phoned it in. Also, this movie is kinda rough. 

    unwatchable fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #224 : Dracula 2000

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 117:22


    In the tradition of 2001 A Space Odyssey, 2,000 BC, and 2000 Flushes toilet cleaner, comes Dracula 2000. The story of several regrettable haircuts, and some sort of vampire or something. 

    bc dracula space odyssey flushes fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #223 Hellraiser IV : Bloodline (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 88:34


    The king will be praised. Hell will be raised. Suckers will try to phase him. But Pinhead won't be phased. (In space)

    hell hellraiser bloodline suckers fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #222 Child's Play (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 105:19


    We thought we deserved a little treat, so this week we talk about one of our all time faves, Child's Play. 

    child fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #221 The Wraith (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 88:06


    The second best revenge story involving a Wraith. 

    wraiths fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #220 Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 117:51


    Of all the adaptations of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, this one was the most confusing. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #219 Phenomena (1985)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 108:25


    If you need a film to teach someone a lesson about the dangers of arming chimps with straight razors, this one will do it. 

    phenomena fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #218 Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 80:40


    You're never gonna guess what happens in this one. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #217 Nightmare Weekend (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 88:33


    Nightmare Weekend is one of the most inscrutable movies I've ever seen. The only part I really get is where a hand puppet from a church basement religious show is killing people with little grey balls. Everything after that got really weird. 

    nightmare fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #216 The Running Man (1987)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2024 89:02


    Boy, he sure does run. 

    boy running man fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #215 Shadow Creature (1995)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 90:11


    One thing I can say about this movie with absolute certainty is that it was shot in Buffalo. As a bonus, the creature clearly cast a shadow when exposed to a light source. Truth in advertising indeed. 

    truth shadow buffalo creatures fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #214: The Uninvited

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 103:33


    You think your cat has killer hairballs? Ha! I mean seriously folks. I've heard of a hat-on-a-hat, but a cat-in-a-cat? You guys are great. Anyway, what else is in the news... Um, have you heard about this? This cat has poison spit, and can contaminate your entire food supply. What is this Chipotle? Thank you, you guys have been great that's my time. Remember to spay and neuter your pets. 

    chipotle uninvited fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #213 People Under The Stairs (1991)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 108:59


    Not all landlords are vicious child stealing cannibals. However...

    people under the stairs fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #212 : Night of the Creeps (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 99:13


    Thrill me. 

    thrill night of the creeps fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #211 Head of the Family (1996)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 72:10


    We finally messed around and upset the head. Now we are dead. 

    family head fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #210 Vamp (1986)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 106:20


    First off, if nobody won a graphic design award for this logo, there is no justice. Next, jinkies. This movie is a whole lotta wacky. 

    vamp fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #209 The Visitor (1979)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2024 99:34


    Somehow this science fiction version of the Omen, featuring Tolkienesque levels of backstory about a girl being chased by space gods/police, infiltrating the world government and the perils of basketball team ownership was a little too confusing for the unhip audiences of 1979, but luckily we've evolved since then. 

    visitors omen tolkienesque fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #208 Leprechaun (1993)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 81:00


    On this week's episode, we talk about the Irish Anti-Defamation league's favorite film, Leprechaun. 

    leprechauns fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #207 Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 87:16


    In a twist that I can't imagine anyone expecting, the Maniac Cop series veers into a Voodoo Bride of Frankenstein story where a Houngun priest stabs severed heads, makes human turduckens, and worships anti-justice by bringing back Maniac Cop for the purposes of... getting justice?  Your guess is as good as mine. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #206 Beyond Reanimator (2003)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 79:44


    Our series of Cops & Crooks continues with Beyond Reanimator. It takes place in a prison so it counts. 

    cops crooks re animator fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #205 : Manic Cop 2 (1990)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 98:24


    Maniac Cop 2 is basically a buddy cop movie with two serial killers. It's kinda weird. 

    cops 1990s manic maniac cop fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #204 Shocker (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 114:40


    Yeah...but like...what if Nightmare on Elm Street was...like, bad? 

    nightmare on elm street shocker fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #203 Maniac Cop (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2024 106:31


    He's a Maniac on the dance floor. Is he dancing like he never danced before? Tune in to find out! 

    cops maniac maniac cop fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #202 Bloody Birthday (1981)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 93:51


    This movie is why I will never have kids. 

    bloody birthday fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #201 Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : The Dream Warriors (1987)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2023 106:49


    To celebrate the re-release of Tristan's superhero horror comic Rad Wraith  (Rad Wraith Double Feature #1 out in better comic stores everywhere) we're talking about the best superhero horror movie of all time, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #200 Little Devils : The Birth (1993)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2023 91:33


    Canada owes me an apology. If you were looking for an even lower budget version of a knockoff Puppetmaster movie... look no further. 

    canada birth devils puppet master fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #199 The Howling 2 : Your Sister is a Werewolf

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2023 94:59


    I think the title really says it all. It's a sequel to The Howling, and someone's sister is a werewolf. Also, the movie is a hot mess and really fun. 

    sister werewolf howling fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Podcast #198 Ghosthouse (1988)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 95:18


    Ghosthouse is a goddamn delight. I don't know what else to say. Everyone needs to see it or they won't believe that it is real. 

    ghost house fun box monster podcast
    Fun Box Monster Special Episode! Conversation with Jackie Kong of Blood Diner & Night Patrol!

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2023 54:54


    We have Jackie Kong for an interview. If you want some deep info on Night Patrol, it's right here. 

    Fun Box Monster Podcast #197 Grave Secrets (1989)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 96:37


    Unlike my line of gravy for kids, Gravy Secrets, the only gravy with a fun prize floating in the jar, Grave Secrets is a kinda bleak ghost story about horrible, depressing real life crap best relegated to Lifetime original movies. My recommendation is to not watch it, and instead spend the hour and a half drinking gravy. 

    secrets lifetime grave fun box monster podcast

    Claim Fun Box Monster Podcast

    In order to claim this podcast we'll send an email to with a verification link. Simply click the link and you will be able to edit tags, request a refresh, and other features to take control of your podcast page!

    Claim Cancel