It's time to rebuild the Resonator, yet again, for one more ill-advised session with the Eldritch portal and all its slimy purple citizens. But also, Herbert West is here to revive a marsupial? Join us for more sexy squid lady, inexplicable character replacements, and some incredibly gratuitous stunt boobs!
2023-11-06 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe people have spoken! You all seem to enjoy when we chat about non-Frankenstein horror, and it's Halloween season, so it seemed like a good time. Plus, there's like a million good horror movies out right now. And Eric actually had time to watch some of them! We discuss a whole big list of the current horror slate, but tried to be low on spoilers for those of you who might not have seen them a...
2023-10-30 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostReal ones know that we love to dip our toes into the Frankenstein adjacent world of Re-Animator from time to time. And it's been awhile, so we've decided to check out this miniseries from Full Moon Entertainment that mashes up Re-Animator and From Beyond to create the Stuart Gordon Extended Cinematic Universe.
This week we're talking about the first two episodes. Join us as we get o...
2023-10-16 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, we are back with the second half of the original DC Creature Commandos run from the early '80s. Join us as the crew starts to finally become an organized unit. We're asking the big questions like: "why are they always hanging out with blind kids?", "is a geisha robot really worth the money?", and "how many times does Lucky have to die before it finally sticks?".
2023-10-02 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe haven't talked comics in a while, so we decided to dig into the original run of DC's Creature Commandos, part of the Weird War Tales anthology series. Here we have a Frankenstein, a Dracula, and a Werewolf fighting Nazis with the assistance of their absolutely horrible commanding officer. They're eventually joined by a Medusa, and occasionally by a Robot.
We're going through DC's...
2023-09-18 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe recently discussed Betsy Phillips' short story "Frank" and this week we're taking a look at a short film adaptation. Join us as we compare and contrast the two versions of this story and ultimately decide that they both have some interesting ideas to bring to the table!
You can watch the short here: https:/...
2023-09-04 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe're going back to our old friend Apex Magazine to discuss another short work. This week it's Betsy Phillips' zombie-farmhand mystery/romance with an evil Doctor who is just Frankensteinian enough to get our attention. It's a beautiful story that came to us as a recommendation from previous Frankencast discussion subject (and Apex Magazine published poet) Elizabeth McClellan.
Read ...
2023-08-21 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello, Civic City citizens! We're back with the last six episodes of Frankenstein Jr. Join us as we say farewell to Buzz and his lovable giant robot sidekick. We'll see some obvious borrowing from Scooby Doo, a cool Hammer Horror reference, and our first repeat villain. Oh, and a super racist episode that we kinda halfway skipped. Oops, Hanna-Barbera.
2023-08-07 20:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with more Frankenstein Jr! Hopefully you all had fun with the last batch, because this bunch doesn't get any more clever or deep. Join us as literal child Buzz Conroy and his pet robot Frankenstein Jr. use an infinite array of hyper-specific gadgets to assist the American military in defeating an array of foes that we have never seen before, but who all clearly have extensive history...
2023-07-24 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey kids! Are you ready for some Saturday morning cartoons? Join us as we climb on our faithful giant robot companion, leave our dad behind and fly all the way back to the 1960s, when Hanna-Barbera ruled the airwaves! This week, we're discussing the first 6 Frankenstein Jr. shorts, including: the one with a slightly racist Asian stereotype, the one where we meet extra-terrestrial life and murde...
2023-07-10 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week your horror hosts are getting a little personal. We're talking about all the ways each of our neurodivergences intersect with our fascination with horror and other genre stories. Join us for as we discuss the autistic-coded Frankenstein and the Werewolf as a metaphor for ADHD, among other things.
And as always, feel free to reach out to us if you want to hear more about our expe...
2023-06-26 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with a free-flowing chat about the State of the Horror Union! We're discussing all the big releases from the first half of 2023 along with some upcoming stuff and a few things from 2022. And don't worry it's mostly spoiler-free!
2023-06-12 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAnd now, for the THRILLING conclusion of League of Frankenstein! Yes, we have more literary characters mixed together haphazardly in an erotic mashup for the ages. Join us for a bloodless surgery, an unpleasant experience with a bale of hay, an unexpectedly fun visit to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and Victor and Elizabeth finally get one last bang for the road.
It's been a while since we talked about This Ain't the Munsters XXX, so it seemed high time we looked at some more Frankenporn. This week we're discussing the first half of Digital Playground's episodic film League of Frankenstein, which is kind of a parody of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing?
In this half, we'll meet all our literary characters: Peter Pan, Wendy Da...
2023-05-15 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this is an episode. You can't say it's not. We decided to try to analyze two songs by Alice Cooper, famous for his clever and nuanced lyricism. It's a good thing we decided to do both songs, or this would have been a very short episode.
Join us as we run the metaphor of Frankenstein's monster as puberty into the ground, and then get completely flustered by the brilliantly disg...
2023-05-01 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're really excited about Jennifer Donohue's "A Country of Eternal Light" so we may have gone a little overboard. The Bride read Jennifer's story and had some feelings that she wanted to share. This is an int...
2023-04-17 21:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're discussing this beautiful and visceral short from Jennifer Donohue. She recently shared the story with us and we were eager to talk about this painfully honest meditation on grief in the modern world. It's a story about the physical objects that carry on after us and tell our histories. And it's a story o...
2023-04-17 21:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's this? Your Horror Hosts have left the safety of their sparking science lab in the basement dungeon of Castle Frankencast and gone out into the real world. Yes, we went to a dinner theatre and had Frankenstein-themed cocktails and saw a live performance of the Young Frankenstein musical. And it was awesome! Join us for a post-mortem of our Frankencast outing!
2023-04-03 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes we talk about the Munsters, an iconic sitcom that has had a lasting impression on American popular culture, and sometimes we talk about... other sitcoms. This week, we talk about the pilot episode of Struck By Lightning, a late-70s sitcom that got canceled after 3 episodes aired (even though 11 had already been filmed). Unfortunately, we've only been able to track down the pilot. But ...
2023-03-20 21:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're discussing this absolutely brilliant narrative poem by Elizabeth R. McClellan that explores the thoughts of Victor Frankenstein's never-living second creation, the Bride he gave up on. It's a heartbreakingly beautiful poem that we cannot recommend highly enough.
We're excited to share Elizabeth's wo...
2023-03-14 01:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with the second half of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and we're all going cyberpsycho! Things go from bad to worse for our crew of lovable cyber-criminals. And then from worse to even worse. And then it gets REALLY bad. But David and Lucy are definitely going to live happily ever after, right? David and Lucy are going to live happily ever after, RIGHT?
2023-02-20 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're getting anime again over at Frankencast HQ! This was Eric's suggestion, and boy was it a good one! This week, we're talking about the first five episodes of the series, talking about what cyberpunk even is, and learning all kinds of futuristic slang. Enjoy, chooms!
2023-02-06 22:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're talking about a weird oddity record from 1963, Famous Monsters Speak. Or specifically, we're talking about the Frankenstein side. The other side has Dracula, and we only engage with Dracula when he's mixed into our Frankenstein stories. But here, he's quarantined to his own side of the record, so we'll leave him there.
Instead, we'll spend time with the scientists of...
2023-01-23 22:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe went on and on about the missing dialogue from the Ygor-Monster back when we discussed Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. And now, thanks to this video by The Skeleton Crew using the original shooting script, we have a little bit more of an idea of what that version of the film might have looked like. Special thanks to friend of the show Tim Kirk for sharing this video with us!
Months after doing all the films on the main feed, we're finally talking about the short story that inspired them all. It's unspeakably weird and unbelievably racist, as we've all come to expect from H.P. Lovecraft. But it's still worth a read, especially if you're a fan of the films. Just be prepared for some truly hateful stuff in part 3. Oh, Howard, can't you just write nice, friendly cosmic...
2023-01-02 22:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey fiends! We're taking this week off here on the Patreon. Thanks so much for all of your support. But we didn't want to leave you completely empty-handed, so here are some links to a few pieces of interesting Frankenstein ephemera. Each of these will be the subject of upcoming Patreon episodes, so you can prepare in advance, if that's your thing! Thanks again! We hope you've all had a happy h...
2022-12-26 14:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with some non-Frankenstein horror movie discussion. It's December, so we're watching a lot of Christmas horror, so we thought we'd share some of our favorites. This one is way less spoilery than our usual format, so hopefully you'll find some new movies you haven't seen! Merry Christmas, fiends!
2022-12-12 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHere at the Patreon, Decem-Burton is getting started a little early! We're kicking things off with Burton's classic live action short film, Frankenweenie. This came out the year we were born, and was a video store staple back in the day. It features Bastion from The Neverending Story, Wendy Torrance from The Shining, and the burglar from Home Alone who isn't Joe Pesci.
It's a sweet little...
2022-11-28 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
Just wanted to give you some advanced warning, about the episode this week. As the holidays get close, scheduling gets tougher. It didn't help that we added two main feed author interview bonus episodes a couple weeks apart. (The other one is coming soon. Heads up, we'll be speaking to Refe Tuma, author of Frances and the Monster!)
All of this to say, we know we promised t...
2022-11-14 02:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe've got a particularly laid-back episode this week. Join us as we chat about some of the buzziest horror movies of Spooky Season 2022.
(Some honorable mentions we didn't discuss: Barbarian, Deadstream, Dark Glasses, and Resurrection. ALL worth checking out.)
Since we recorded, I have gotten a chance to watch Terrifier 2. You know where to find us if you wanna chat about that...
2022-11-07 23:50:02 +0000 UTC View Post