Category Archives: Creature Feature

Episode 212 – Frankenstein (2025)

Body Horror, Creature Feature, Netflix Original, New Release, Period Piece, Theatrical Release, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Guillermo del Toro’s love of monsters means he saps The Creature of any real sense of menace. It’s a shame, because it’s a gorgeous movie, with top-notch performances from its two leads.

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Episode 210 – V/H/S/Halloween

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The eighth installment in the found footage anthology franchise is a half-step up from the period-piece trilogy, but until they extricate themselves from this splatstick rut, these films will never live up to the promise of the first two.

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Episode 200 – Matt and Jim’s Best and Worst

Aliens, Anthology, Body Horror, Creature Feature, Creepypasta, Crime Procedural, Cursed Object Movie, Exorcism, Folk Horror, Foreign Film, Found Footage, Halloween, Haunted House, Horror Comedy, Period Piece, Possession, Prequel, Remake, Sequel, Serial Killer, Slasher, Slender Man, The Conjuring Universe, Universal Monsters, Vampires, Video Game Adaptation, Zombies

After 200 podcasts, we’ve watched some great movies and a whole lot of crap. Give a listen as we pick out our favorite and least favorite subjects of past episodes.

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Episode 194 – Wolf Man (2025)

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Seemingly at war with itself and unable to settle on its core themes, Wolf Man is a big step down from Leigh Whannell’s first Universal Monster flick, 2020’s The Invisible Man.

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Episode 181 – Alien: Romulus

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Alien: Romulus is not without its merits – set design and visual style in particular – but it suffers from an excess of fanservice callbacks, and the AI revenant of Ian Holm was a serious misstep.

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Episode 176 – A Quiet Place: Day One

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Michael Sarnoski’s prequel shares some of the pitfalls of earlier entries in the series, but his indie sensibilities add a new character-driven flavor to this film – and Lupita Nyong’o is characteristically excellent.

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Episode 175 – The Watchers (2024)

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Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature directorial debut unfortunately shares a lot of DNA with her father’s worst work, particularly Lady in the Water. The result, like that film, is rather tedious.

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Episode 169 – V/H/S/85

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The latest installment in the long-running anthology franchise is a step back up from V/H/S/99, but still doesn’t hit the same sweet spot as the first two films.

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Episode 157 – The Last Voyage of the Demeter

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Even with its slam-dunk premise, we didn’t love “Dracula on a Boat.” However, it gets points for hearkening back to 90s and early 2000s Universal monster flicks.

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Episode 155 – Cobweb

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Samuel Bodin’s dramatically under-promoted film features a few good scares and some deft camerawork, but the parents were written without depth and the film is sometimes paced too much like a trailer.

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