The Video Monsters pay tribute (sort of) to the late David Johansen (AKA Buster Poindexter) with a Hot Hot Hot Movie Madness recommending films that could be categorized under various definitions of the word “hot.”
Can you tell this idea was a last-minute pivot when our original recording plans fell through? We had to ask ourselves:
What to do on a night like this?
Movies sweet, we can't resist
We need a party theme
A fundamental jam
So we go re-cord-cord-cord
Yeah, and dis-cuss-mov-ies
That are hot, hot, hot
Feeling hot, hot, hot, oh, Lord
Now that that’s out of the way… grab some sunscreen and prepare to get sweaty as the Video Monsters recommend some movies that get us heated in tonight’s Hot Hot Hot Movie Madness!*
*It's snowing (kinda...just flurries) in the south in early November, so the irony just couldn't be passed up to have today be the day we catch up on posting this episode recorded earlier in the summer.
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
The Video Monsters are joined by very, very special guest Paige Campbell to discuss their short film (Striya), our love of the Chattanooga Film Festival, and some of our favorite folk horror movies to round out the spooky season. So light a candle, pick out a pumpkin, and embrace your inner monster as we head to the woods for our Folk Horror Movie Madness!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
The Video Monsters are joined by very, very special guests Amanda (aka DeepKutz) and Evan (aka Lil Punkin) from LVCRFT to discuss spooky music and gateway horror movies in honor of LVCRFT's recently released 7th album: Kids. So grab your pumpkin spice, take a quick bite, and exercise your demons because its time to take it to the graveyard for a hauntingly good time with LVCRFT!!
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Grab your passport and prepare yourselves for a trip to the land with Seoul (that’s what they call it, right?) as the Video Monsters head back for round two of South Korean cinema! Nathan and Dan will make ten picks each for themselves and for Eric in absentia to bring you our 30 recommendations in tonight’s South Korean Movie Madness! Remember that these 30 films will comprise the selection for our next Popcorn Punchout, where we pit the films against each other to determine which three movies we cover in full over the next few weeks!
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Grab your spray-on shoes, choke down a sardine with a side of chocolate snowballs, and fly down to Swallow Falls on your favorite ratbird because it’s time for the Video Monsters to translate their thoughts and rain some sunshine down on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 2009 animated epic, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
The Video Monsters have gone to the Jedi temple and sought out the holocron from the archives for tonight's episode: STAR WARS Mini-Popcorn Punchout - the first Mini-Popcorn Punchout that we recorded long ago as a test run to make sure the shorter format was feasible and could be done in a more reasonable amount of time than a full Punchout. And like all things STAR WARS these days… it went off without a hitch and not a single person got upset. So grab your power converters, cuddle up with your porg companion, and meet us at the Tosche Station because it’s time to duel over the fate of the STAR WARS film franchise in this mini-Popcorn Punchout!
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Dan is cashing in a rain check tonight, so Nathan and Eric are joined by filmmaker Robert Woods (AN IDEAL HOST) for an impromptu RAINY DAY MOVIE MADNESS where we each takes turns recommending our favorite movies to return to on a rainy day. So put away the umbrella, kick off your galoshes, and get cozy on the couch with your favorite snacks. We’re stuck inside today, so we might as well settle in for some comfort viewing with the Video Monsters’ RAINY DAY MOVIE MADNESS!
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The Video Monsters lean even further into their 90s video store vibe by discussing the first 50 titles that they would select if Video Monsters was an actual brick and mortar video store. So put the posters on the wall, assemble the cardboard standees, and turn on the neon sign for tonight's first installment of Overnight Inventory!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
Thanksgiving comes early (technically late.... very late, but we’re trying to avoid being in a negative zone) this year, so grab your car keys, put on your Nixon mask, and meet us at the train station because it’s time for the Video Monsters to weather Ang Lee’s THE ICE STORM (1997).
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
Get ready for the acceptable conclusion to the finest holiday special of the season! And when we say “finest,” we put the emphasis on “fine” because this is the VIDEO MONSTERS HOLIDAY SPECT-adequate (it’s OK) PART 2: DIMENSION EXTREME-MAS! Tonight’s format is a POPCORN PUNCHOUT, where the Video Monsters and special guest Kyle Kuchta (SURVIVAL OF THE FILM FREAKS, THE WOODSMAN, OUCHIE) assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket and work their way down to the top three films from the Dimension Extreme label. So grab your Diary (of the Dead), meet us at Eden Lake, and come Inside to watch us bare our Teeth and Feast on this POPCORN PUNCHOUT!
From all of us at Video Monsters, have a Merry DIMENSION EXTREME-MAS!...and may your holiday season be more than adequate.
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Siege-ons Greetings from the Video Monsters!! Tonight we present Part One of our two-part annual HOLIDAY SPECT-adequate (it’s fine): A Mini-Movie Madness where Nathan and Eric take turns selecting their recommendations for winter/snowy/holiday-adjacent siege movies! So grab some hot cocoa, decorate some cookies, lock the doors, board up the windows, and prepare for an onslaught of good cheer with Part One of the Video Monsters HOLIDAY SPECT-adequate (keep those expectations low, people): SIEGE-ONS GREETINGS!!
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Tonight’s forecast: Cloudy with a Chance of CHAOS! The Video Monsters are braving the elements this evening with a Stormy Weather Popcorn Punchout, where we assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket to decide which three storm, blizzard, tornado, hurricane, and/or other natural/unnatural weather phenomenon films will get the in-depth Video Monsters analysis over the next few weeks! Grab(bers) your umbrella because a Hard Rain’s a-gonna fall as we Crawl our way through A Perfect Storm full of Twist(er)s and turns during tonight’s STORMY WEATHER POPCORN PUNCHOUT!
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The Video Monsters have decided to travel back in time to a much better, more optimistic period in our lives: Halloween 2024! Tonight we’re discussing 1991’s HAUNTEDWEEN, a low-budget, surprisingly charming regional slasher film that closed out this year’s Knoxville Horror Film Festival. But first, Nathan provides us with some dispatches from KHFF telling about his favorites from the fest! So unpack your Halloween masks, put up some spooky decorations, and meet us at the hellraiser fundraiser because we’re just dying to start the show with tonight’s KHFF-inspired analysis of HAUNTEDWEEN (1991)!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
We think it is safe to say that, due to recent events, many of you out there are probably feeling a bit anxious about the future right now. We certainly are here at Video Monsters. We have always strived to make this silly little podcast a positive place to celebrate not just movies, but the sense of community that comes out of making, watching, and discussing films. Movies are a refuge; a safe place for us to escape our troubles and process our emotions, both alone and together. It is in that communal spirit that we present tonight’s episode: our Stormy Weather Monthly Movie Madness (an episode that was recorded many months ago and includes zero discussion of the current state of political affairs), where Nathan and Dan (and Eric in a brief cameo) discuss the movies we would pick for a month of stormy weather viewing.
In lieu of our usual goofy pun-filled descriptions, we just want to say that we know things are looking pretty dire right now, and we know there is little we can do or say to reassure anyone, but our hope is that this and future episodes of our show can at least take your mind off of the horrors of the real world for a little while. In short, we hope this Stormy Weather Monthly Movie Madness provides you with a little shelter from the storm (come on, we had to get at least one pun in there).
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Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com. Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
I see seas of blue, blue water too. The bright burning sun. The dark sacred soil. And I think to myself.... what a Waterful World That’s right! The time has come for us to venture off into the aquatic wasteland of the far future known as WATERWORLD; the notoriously expensive flop that was (mostly) directed by Kevin Reynolds! So grab a glass of Hydro, gulp down some grilled sea monster that tastes suspiciously like 90s era computer-generated graphics, and meet us at Water’s End because it’s time to dig up some dirt on WATERWORLD (1995) with special guest Robert Woods (AN IDEAL HOST).
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
The Video Monsters continue their discussion on the work of Kevin Costner with an under-the-radar, late-career gem: Thomas Bezucha’s LET HIM GO (2020). This is a tense, lean neo-western thriller with a huge heart and some excellent performances from a fiery Diane Lane and the Cos’ as her steady-hand husband who embark on a road trip across the 60s midwest to find their kidnapped grandson. So grab your kids before the Weboys do, meet us at the dinner table, and listen to how little restraint we have when it comes to making puns based on tonight’s title, LET HIM GO (2020)!
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Director Kyle Kuchta and writer Jeanette Wall join the Video Monsters to talk about their new short film, OUCHIE, which recently screened at the Chattanooga Film Festival and is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit. After a discussion of the short, we each make our picks for a round of Mirror Movie Madness, discussing the best uses of mirrors in film! So grab your bandages and watch out for broken glass as Kyle and Jeanette reflect on their terrific short, OUCHIE, and crack up over our picks for the Video Monsters Mirror Movie Madness!
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music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons
Cancel the kitchen scraps, stop all merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas because it’s time to bow down before the almighty villainy Alan Rickman. Everything we do, we do it for him… and for the joy of catapulting ourselves into the castle of campy fun, crafty adventure, and questionable casting of Kevin Costner in the role of ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES (1991)!
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The Video Monsters saddle up with special guest Robert Woods (filmmaker, An Ideal Host) for a Western-style showdown in tonight’s Kevin Costner Popcorn Punchout, where we assemble our Video Rack Attack Bracket and duel our way down to the line to decide which three Costner films will get the in-depth Video Monsters analysis. Will we find ourselves in A Perfect World? Or maybe a Waterworld? Rooting for a Postman or a Man of Steel? Will this episode be like walking into a Field of Dreams, or will it feel like we are trapped in a Tin Cup with No Way Out; forced into a War that stretches on for Thirteen (Draft) Days? All we can say at the moment is that our pun game is UNTOUCHABLE! For answers to everything else, you’ll have to dive into tonight’s Kevin Costner POPCORN PUNCHOUT! If you enjoy this episode, come join the Video Monsters crew on Discord - be a part of the discussion and listen in live when we record our episodes!! Go to linktree.com/videomonsterpod for the link to Discord, our socials, and other highlights!!
Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com. Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well.
music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons