How I Met Your Monster
How I Met Your Monster
Zach Wincik, Danny Salemme, Casey Brewer
How I Met Your Monster is the horror-comedy podcast that explores the introductions of your favorite movie monsters! Join Zach, Danny, and Casey as they break down how iconic monsters — from Freddy and Jason to Leatherface and Chucky — made their terrifying first impressions on screen. In each episode, we dive into the art of the perfect horror debut that turned these horror movie monsters into cinematic legends. Whether you’re a hardcore horror buff or just here for the fun, How I Met Your Monster delivers a perfect mix of spooky nostalgia and comedic commentary on the monsters you know and love. Subscribe now and never miss an episode. Now, let’s go meet some monsters!
Pinhead and Angelique in Kevin Yagher's HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE
We kick off our SPACE: THE FINAL FRONT-FEAR triple feature with Kevin Yagher's land-locked space race to Hell. The Box has gone digital, the pain remains mythical, and in space, you can get your flesh flayed in just under 12 parsecs as we leap through time and space in a black hole of horror to meet the sadomasochistic Cenobites in HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE.
Sep 28
2 hr 13 min
Vengeful Zombie Pirates in John Carpenter's THE FOG
We wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with John Carpenter's cozy campfire tale of swashbuckling coast ghosts. The fog is slaying, the radio is playing, and we're about to visit a town that puts the hell in seashell as we take passage on a decommissioned ghost ship bound for Antonio Bay to meet a horde of misty killer ghost pirates in THE FOG.
Sep 14
1 hr 58 min
Hugh Crain in Jan de Bont's THE HAUNTING (1999)
We continue our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with Jan De Bont's high-octane foray into fear. The house is alive (but the phone lines are dead), and if these walls could talk, they'd probably say WOW, as we sign up for a creep study disguised as a sleep study to meet Big Daddy Hugh Crain in THE HAUNTING.
Aug 31
1 hr 40 min
Reverend Kane in Gary Sherman's POLTERGEIST III
We kick off our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature with one of the scariest (and unnecessarily complicated) horror movies of 1988, POLTERGEIST III. Reverend Kane is back to terrorize Carol Anne in a fancy Chicago high-rise, and we break down all 13 MONSTER REVEALS in this divisive third entry in the Poltergeist franchise.
Aug 17
2 hr 8 min
The Grim Reaper in Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS (Re-Release)
THE FRIGHTENERS is 30 years old this year, and to celebrate we're re-releasing over coverage of the Peter Jackson horror comedy from Episode 142!
Aug 3
1 hr 49 min
Flesh-eating Zombies in Peter Jackson's DEAD ALIVE (aka BRAINDEAD)
We wrap up our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Peter Jackson's gooey gonzo gorefest. Moms are nitpicking, priests are ass-kicking, and one love-struck mama's boy just brought a lawnmower to a zombie fight as we visit the Wellington Zoo to meet its newest addition: a deadly Rat Zombie and its pustulating zombie horde in DEAD ALIVE.
Jul 20
1 hr 48 min
Count Orlok in Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU (w/ Chris Cooney)
We continue our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Robert Eggers’ gothic tale of death, love, and horny incels. His presence is everywhere -- with supernatural savoir-faire -- and one man's puppy love is another man's bubonic plague as we make rigor mortis boner jokes on our trip to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Orlok in NOSFERATU. Featuring special guest, Chris Cooney from Dead Noise Media.
Jul 6
1 hr 29 min
Zombie Julie in Brian Yuzna's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (w/ The Nightmare Trials)
We kick off our TOO HOT TO ROT triple feature with Brian Yuzna's tale of death, love, and zombies. The dead still feel, the living are a meal, and love truly is a burning flame as we crash our bike on the way to a low-security/high risk government testing facility to meet a horde of unkillable, gas-powered zombies, in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3. Featuring The Nightmare Trials.
Jun 22
1 hr 57 min
Captain Peytraud in Wes Craven's THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW
We wrap up our IT'S VOODOO, BABY triple feature with Wes Craven’s voodoo-doomed descent into near-death delirium. Zombies are real, the dead still feel, and we're traveling to Haiti at the height of the regime-ending anti-Duvalier protests to meet the soul-snatching bokor Captain Peytraud in THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW.
Jun 8
2 hr 8 min
TV TERRORS - Boy Meets World "AND THEN THERE WAS SHAWN" (Patreon Preview)
In this Patreon-exclusive episode of How I Met Your Monster, where we’re switching things up by turning our attention from movie monsters, to TV terrors. In today’s episode, we’ll be meeting the monster in the Boy Meets World season 5 episode, “And Then There Was Shawn,” a love letter to the genre, with a self-referential emphasis on teen slashers. The killer's a meanie, the first suspect is Feeny, and we're getting ourselves stuck in detention with Cory, Shawn, and Topanga to meet the John Adams High slasher in… A SCARY SPECIAL EPISODE presents: “And Then There Was Shawn”
Jun 1
8 min
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