CLUE, COBRA, and COCOON Keep watching this Bat Channel for our return to regularly formatted episodes after Gavin completes his move.

In our ongoing Summer Reading Series Hess goes all solo professor style with an update on the CANDYMAN legacy to help you understand how Candyman relates to FREDDY KRUEGER, and perhaps also a 6 foot tall invisible bunny?  Pitter Patter

The Boy Who Could Fly & Clan of the Cave Bear

How many Mark Hammills can YOU eat?! RETURN OF THE JEDI's voluminous pit nightmare is perhaps the ultimate in STAR WARS monstrosities, as well as one of its most enduring toys.  But is it bitchin' van art?  We also crack the nut on what all the STAR WARS media is secretly about...and hint...knobs are involved.  +++PS FANS: sorry about my mouse noise on this one, I'm gonna have that fixed by next episode+++

Big Trouble in Little China & The Black Cauldron

One of George A. Romero's lesser known monster films explores whether MARTIN, as portrayed by John Amplas, is actually a cursed bloodsucker from the days or yore, or just a deranged teen alienated by cultish superstition and mental derangement.  This bleak, savage, but oddly poignant portrayal of alienation in the rust belt modernity of 1970s Pennsylvania explores issues of sanity, doubt, religion, and the fracturing of society.  CONTENT WARNINGS FOR DISCUSSIONS OF MURDER SCENES THAT FEEL LIKE SEXUAL VIOLENCE *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

Look to the skies with us this week as Gavin presents his take on Jordan Peele's UFO waking nightmare from 2022.  SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS EVERYWHERE! If you haven't already watched the film, we strong recommend you do so before enjoying this episode.  Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a giant flying sand-dollar that sucks up horses into its multi-use sphincter.  You spit into the wind, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and YOU DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE CHIMP.  *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

Strap in your stepping geese and polish your Schmeisser submachine guns cuz it's pissed off nazi time!  You thought the zombies in YOUR life were pissed, wait til you meet these undead European meanies.  They're coming out of the ocean, they're coming out of the snow, and you better not have any of their gold or you're going to get what's coming to you.  Gavin and Hess explore the through-lines that unite these and other iterations of the nazi zombie phenomenon and place that firmly inside the larger category of "European zombies", which, we learn, are utterly distinct from those originating here in the USA. Also, check out the film RAMPANT, about Korean zombies taking over a medieval city.  CONTENT WARNINGS:  NAZIS NAZIS NAZIS The use of the term "Scandahoovian"  Failure to remember the name of the College Humor show UM ACTUALLY, despite it being one of Hess' favorites.  *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

PixelLit Podcast -  https://pixellitpod.com Phil and Hess conclude their dive into all things THING by looking at what the authors of each version included (dogs) and sometimes excluded (mind-reading-Thing), as well as personal anecdotes, and a lot of love for the 2002 THE THING videogame.

Hess brings on friend of the show PHIL from PIXEL LIT to discuss all things THE THING! In this first installment of a two-part ride, Hess and Phil discuss the original 1938 Novella WHO GOES THERE? that inspired director Howard Hawks as well as John Carpenter in the creation of their vastly influential horror films.  This episode runs through the literary "other" in film, the Red Scare in the early 20th century, and how terrifying Rob Bottin's FX were when shown on the big 35mm screen.  CONTENT WARNINGS:  literary theory pontificating pink commie leanings *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

Hess and Gavin are getting into professional Game Mastering! *** I’m giving listeners of this show a special opportunity to play Hess's first hosted sessions of DUNGEON WORLD: ESCAPE! Currently there is scheduled an 18+ version at 630 on Thursday March 16 - 5 slots open And a TEEN version at 2pm on Sat March 11, also up to five players. Times are Eastern Standard Time USA (EST) And if you’re not familiar with Dungeon World it’s a rules light, character focused fantasy take on games like Dungeons and Dragons, and in ESCAPE...  *** The Heroes play a band of nefarious convicts, being unjustly (or perhaps justly in your case?) shipped into servitude over sea to a notorious prison colony. Playing as races typically associated with villainy (hobgoblins, bugbears, etc), they will have to fight for their lives and their FREEDOM!!! If you have questions or want to organize a more custom game, or at a different time, shoot me an email at oopsallmonsters@gmail.com

In the revolutionary dystopian RPG originally published in 1988 by Mike Pondsmith and R Talsorian Games, CYBERPUNK (various, from TTRPG to anime to FPShooter) explores the edges of humanity, capitalism, and personal frailty amongst a neon backdrop of acid rain, body-altering cyberware, and techno-wizardry.  No characters personify the monstrous alienation of this world more deliciously than MAELSTROM, a gang of cyber-maniacs that take de-humanization and self mutilation not as eventual goal, but stepping-stone for entry into their bloody, maniacal cabal.  Whether it's selling morbid "better-than-life" hallucination chips or dealing in zero-nutrition insect "food stuffs" through their ALL FOODS front, MAELSTROM is a bleeding chrome tooth in the manicured aesthetic of NIGHT CITY'S cosmopolitan facade.  CONTENT WARNINGS:  steampunk anime capitalism *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

Unbuckle your pants and load your bazookas, cuz it's blobbin' time! In 1988, exactly 30 years after the original film, Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith starred in a gruesome horror comedy full of over-the-top gore effects and middle-fingers to the man.  Whether you are currently, or on your way to being, a blobficianado, join us on our journey to answer the immortal question...can we blame the Russians for this one?  CONTENT WARNINGS:  briefly mentioned cinematic over-the-clothing sexual assault fake mullets verbal abuse of the american food pyramid *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Check Heidi Lange out @ChimeraCostumes and Sandman Books https://www.sandmanbooks.com/

Wax your lips and sharpen your lapels, because Gavin and Hess don't pull punches in the conclusion of their agonizingly deep take on the mid-90s roleplaying sensation, VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE.  CONTENT WARNINGS:  adolescence/teenagers are discussed The Columbine School shooting Chris Kattan *** Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Check Heidi Lange out @ChimeraCostumes and Sandman Books https://www.sandmanbooks.com/

Lace up your leather jacket and polish your wine bottles full of precious bodily fluids, it's time to suck the life out of adolescence!  NOT adolescents...adolescence!  Leave the teens alone.  Or help them? They need help, perhaps in the form of a wildly involved, super-system of roleplaying games built on a foundation of punk rock, goth music, shoe-gazing mental illness and reductive ethnic stereotyping that DEFINITELY ISN'T CARRIED INTO THE 21st century by its parent company.  BAT!!! CONTENT WARNINGS: the existence of teenagers Andrew Lloyd Webber  Antonio Banderas...or should I say...Antonio Ban-BARE-ASS!?  yeah? no? yeah! The total vivisection of your soul over the course of nine centuries...but in a sexy fun way this time.  ********* Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters

NOT AN EPISODE FOR CHILDREN!!! 2022 brought us a nightmarish new vision of demonic bliss in the restart of the HELLRAISER series, so HAPPY FU*%ING NEW YEAR!   Seriously though, this one is a major point of enthusiasm for both of us, and we slammed out an old-school, double-thicc episode for y'all.  CONTENT WARNINGS: Genital Mutilation Bill Burr as Pinhead The total vivisection of your soul over the course of nine centuries ********* Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Check Heidi Lange out @ChimeraCostumes and Sandman Books https://www.sandmanbooks.com/

A nutsack kaiju emerges from the Hudson Bay to destroy millennials and they didn't give it an award, they just gave JJ Abrams a Ballz-load of money.  CONTENT WARNINGS:   Actual Filmic Debate Forgetting of Lizzy Kaplan The acknowledgement of TJ Miller as a living human man The pretentious definition of cinema language in the negative abstract ********* Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Check Heidi Lange out @ChimeraCostumes and Sandman Books https://www.sandmanbooks.com/

Show Creator Greg Mcracken, when forced to change his devilish villain from a traditional tailed and horned goat man by the censors at CARTOON NETWORK, turned to camera and growled under his breath..."Not a problem...suck on THIS instead," and delivered this week's infernal topic...His Infernal Majesty, aka HIM. CONTENT WARNING  FOR: ONE TRULY UPSETTING DEMON SERIOUSLY, IT'S LIKE PENNYWISE FOR KIDS BUT WORSE ********* Get all our stuff here: https://linktr.ee/oopsallmonsters Check Heidi Lange out @ChimeraCostumes and Sandman Books https://www.sandmanbooks.com/

There's a vicious space cockroach inside of Vincent D'Onofrio, and it needs you to give it sugar.  This wacky space-crime-on-earth action comedy about a secret intergalactic government agency that steals your thoughts in order to keep you ignorant about the magnitude of life's real dangers is HILARIOUS.  RIP Kevin Conroy https://www.cbr.com/kevin-conroy-dc-pride-batman/

Hess examines the impact of Jack Arnold's cinematic sci-fi masterpiece, connecting the Creature (aka Gill-Man) to Michael Myers, and understanding the film (originally conceived as an adaptation of Beauty & The Beast through the very heavy presence of the male gaze.  Also: Extensive Guillermo Del Toro Jeff Goldblum covering COMMON PEOPLE  by Pulp One mandatory Star Wars Rant and only one trashing of JJ Abrams