Fun Box Monster Podcast

Fun Box Monster Podcast #50 Society (1989)

Rich people are weird, right? Like, they're just gooier than the rest of us. Knowing just how gooey they are, it should be of no surprise to any of us when they start raising lower class people in their giant mansions, giving them everything they could ever want, then suck out their life force in a ritualistic orgy where they all just kinda blend into a giant ambrosia salad of skin and organs. If this sounds like your cup of tea...(it's a reference.) then grab your never-ending bottle of suntan lotion, your sweet party-jeep, and your best shunting suit, and join Matt and Tristan for the 100% true story of the 1% that is, Society. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #49 Pledge Night (1990)

If you watched Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, and thought..."Gee...this movie's great and all, but I wish there was more butt-stuff." We have the movie for you.  Acid Sid is the ghost of a murdered frat pledge who has returned from the grave to kill off the new pledges at a fraternity who's name sounds like peen. After a bunch of ass paddling, and other ass games, we get down to some serious murder. Some of it involving the exploding of people's asses. So grab your anchovy paste, a toilet banana, and a selection of mildly tainted maraschino cherries and join Matt and Tristan for a taste of the true college experience in 1990's asstastic monstrosity, Pledge Night. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #48 Night of the Demons 2 (1994)

Angela's back and she's having a party. I mean...not actually a party. And she's not having the party. It's actually a dance at a Catholic school. And the people involved don't actually go to the party. They go to Hull house to play a mean spirited prank that goes nowhere and isn't even slightly funny. Then they leave. But things really get going once Angela takes her sister away from the Catholic school and they go BACK TO HULL HOUSE? Once they realize that holy water can kill/save/explode/melt the demons depending on what is needed for each scene, they use it. But when Angela explains that it won't hurt her, and it doesn't hurt her...she is then killed with it a few seconds later. But don't worry she's back after as a snake. So steal your priest's best robes, lay out your summoning blanket, and join Tristan and Matt as they dissolve themselves in the huge pile of goo that is, Night of the Demons 2. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #47 The Pit (1981)

     Instead of developing coping mechanisms that might help him with the daily worries and disappointments that the average child faces, Jamie tends to solve all his problems by throwing them into a pit filled with prehistoric carnivores. This combined with him being a weird little perv, makes him a pretty unpopular kid. 

    Jamie is a great example of why the mental health field has never opted to incorporate huge pits full of murderous troglodytes into their child therapy sessions.

     So grab your favorite filthy teddy bear, some artistic nudes,  around 20 pounds of miscellaneous meats and join Tristan and Matt for the sensitive analysis of mental illness that is the 1981 film, The Pit. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #46 Black Roses (1988)

The citizens of Mill Basin are up in arms that middle-of-the-road hair metal band Black Roses have a four night engagement at the gym of the local high school. In a real spit in the eye of your typical Footloose style movie, it turns out that the concerned church-types are right. This band has sold their souls to the devil and now has the power to hypnotize kids into killing their parents. Things get really weird when a high school teacher, who looks like the Brawny paper towel mascot fights a puppet in his kitchen and then decides to burn down the entire school with all the children in it. And he's the hero! So grab your Man-O-War Bondage outfit, your haunted stereo, and your white Lamborghini and get ready to dunk your head into the giant vat of poutine that is Black Roses. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #45 Rocktober Blood (1984)

Billy's back from the dead, with a message from Hell! That message is, "Don't forget to mention that you have an identical twin brother when you're on trial for murder." Billy Eye is a hot-shot rock and roller, who spends all his time belittling women, banging groupies, and writing songs with names that predict crucial events in his life. When he decides to go on a killing spree, it takes everyone by surprise. When he returns after his execution for said crimes, it surprises them a second time. When he arrives on stage for the big Rocktober Blood show after being dead for a year, kills 3 women and kidnaps a fourth, his band is...well...actually they barely notice. Total pros those guys. So put on your gorilla-skull mask, your Tina Turner wig, and your aerobics gear and step into the luke-warm jacuzzi that is, Rocktober Blood.  

Fun Box Monster Podcast #44 Children of the Night (1991)

This film is constructed like a Swiss digital watch that's linked to the Geneva laser grid. You think this is just another vampire movie? Think again! It's a vampire movie where the vampires sleep with their lungs outside their bodies. Why? Well...because. Breathing is...umm... Shut up. That's why. So put on your fruit hat, grab your golf club, and drive your crazy person Jesus van to join Matt and Tristan for 1991's Children of the Night. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #43 Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Maximum Overdrive is the story of a huge semi-truck...full of cocaine that pulled up outside Stephen King's house. After snorting a metric ton of it, he wrote this nutso movie. And thank god he did. This is the movie that's so beautifully stupid that nobody else would have dared to make it. I wake up every day thanking my lucky stars that Stephen King hadn't hit rock bottom before he got to make this beautiful disaster. What do you get when you mix an armory full of weapons, a bunch of drunk Australians singing about doing it, a fleet of old trucks, 4 tons of cocaine, and 6 tons of plastic explosives? Magic. That's what. So strap on your Green Goblin head, your black market bazooka, and your best hitchhiking straight razor and get ready to join Matt and Tristan in the magical world of Maximum Overdrive. 

Fun Box Monster Podcast #42 Metamorphosis : The Alien Factor (1990)

Not sure what the name of this one refers to... I see the metamorphosis. That definitely happened. There were aliens I guess. But not sure what the factor was. They were making aliens, so maybe it was supposed to say "The Alien FACTORY". That makes some sense. Plus, it opens up great marketing opportunities. You could have a tie in with The Cheesecake Factory. "Metamorphosis : The Cheesecake Factory". Uggh. I just look at a Cheesecake Factory and I have a metamorphosis. Mondays right? Plus, trying on swimsuits? ACK! What was I talking about? Oh yeah. This movie. The monster definitely isn't a giant penis. Now I want cheesecake. Anyway, grab your favorite Boglin, hire a couple goons, and cozy up to the best movie to ever star a monster that is totally not a giant penis, Metamorphosis : The Alien Factor.  

Fun Box Monster Podcast #41 Deadly Spawn (1983)

Holy cow, guys. The Alien's deadly spawn sure does return in this one. When a meteor crashes on earth, a toothy phallus monster is unleashed. He kills 2 campers, then climbs into the basement window of suburban New Jersey home, where (she?) proceeds to spawn  a whole bunch of little wiggly, toothy, wang monsters. It proceeds to eat all of the residents one by one, until it's finally stopped by our resident Tommy Jarvis / monster kid character, who probably has a name, but I'll be damned if I can remember it. Or pretty much any other character name from this thing. Either way, this monster is cool and there's some really fun special effects stuff. So sit back, stuff your monster head full of flash powder, and enjoy the delicious hen-egg breakfast that is, Deadly Spawn.