Modern Movie Monsters | Ep #07

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After being locked in the Hourchive during a nuclear explosion, we emerge with hideously profuse knowledge of Godzilla, cryptozoologic creatures, and the trick to getting around that "no eating after midnight" rule (hint: just don't wear a watch!). 

Show Notes:  

02:18 Modern monsters (when gluing fur on your face just doesn't cut it)
04:30 Children of the bomb: Japan's atomic monsters
13:05 Misties
18:33 "Gonna need a weapon" (Attack the Block)
19:01 The Attack the Block creatures
21:30 It's a movie with a monster, not a monster movie (The Host | Cloverfield) 
27:09 Cryptozoology primer 
33:50 Interlude: Tenacious D: "Sasquatch"

34:42 Slashers

37:54 "Glove Guy" Special feature standbys

42:25 The Wizard Master 

44:27 The Citizen Kane of slasher movies 

45:16 Interlude: Dokken: "Dream Warriors" 

46:36 Gremlins and the PG-13 rating

53:49 Gremlins Go to the Movies: Snow White | Hulk Hogan

57:55 Tremors 
1:02:02 Xenowhats?

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Classic Movie Monsters 

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Modern Movie Monsters | Episode #07

Classic Movie Monsters | Ep #05

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From our laboratory in the castle east -- which has some pretty lousy acoustics -- we bring you the first half of a two-part creature feature on movie monsters. In this installment we stitch together some background on the classic Universal Studios monsters, consult Consumer Reports on the best ways to become a werewolf, and discover that the secret to a good story is a dude who eats flies. 

Show Notes:

01:03 Pogs
02:30 The A-listers
06:00 Nosferatu
07:35 Expressionist horror
09:30 The Lugosi Dracula
12:35 Abbot and Costello legimize everything
13:20 Second-stringers and one-night stands
15:45 Nuc-u-lar mu-tants and mid-century monsters
16:40 Interlude: Puttin' on the Ritz (Young Frankenstein)
18:10 The logistics of monster-making

19:58 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

25:05 Bram Stoker's Dracula ("Are you sure there wasn't a cowboy?")

32:20 Teen Wolves

33:22 Werewolves ("Bust some science on me.")

41:16 Interlude: The Monster Squad

41:43 The mummy -- it sounds good on paper

42:20 The vampire slump

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Modern Movie Monsters 

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Classic Movie Monsters | Ep #05