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Oct 27, 2026
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we're bringing back a fan favorite.
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Fuck, Marry, Kill, Universal Monsters Edition.
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Oh, yes, yes, yes.
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First up.
Jordan GrantHOST
This is such core, vivid memories for me.
Jordan GrantHOST
And we would lay down our blankets on the hard tile, and she would play black and white Universal Monster films, and she had them on VHS.
Jordan GrantHOST
And then she had these collector's editions, and I'm devastated I don't have them.
Jordan GrantHOST
My uncle has them, so whatever.
Darren MarlarHOST
These were the first cinematic universe, monsters crossing into each other's films.
Darren MarlarHOST
For decades, Universal Monsters defined Halloween.
Darren MarlarHOST
Every October, children dressed as Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolfman.
Darren MarlarHOST
These costumes were safe, familiar, comforting.
Scott RogerGUEST
I don't know if they're using a water phone or not, but they're they're kind of using this spooky voice or they're using the this ghostly kind of.
Scott RogerGUEST
singing style in the with their background singers to yeah i want to talk about you know ghosts and goblins or you know uh the universal monsters and uh i really i have a quite exhaustive list of stuff and there was literally any movie you can think of there was either a tie-in song or there was a song that was kind of like talking about that movie it's I mean, I think that, you know, drive-in movies, teenagers going to drive-in movies, and having that, you know, post-World War II money, you know, that's really what led to the popularity.
Scott RogerGUEST
Disposable income for the first time, basically.
Scott RogerGUEST
Yeah, these teenagers, the first time that teenager was a term, and this population had disposable income and free time and...
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Scott RogerGUEST
So in the, in the fifties, people wanted to feel slightly scared or slightly, they wanted to get in the mood of the season.
Scott RogerGUEST
And so these people, audio cues and like wind blowing in the background or crows cawing you know those come up a lot as well and it's it's because they're setting this like a sound atmosphere for something like a hop Yeah,
Mark PoppityHOST
so we're still in the kind of Universal Monsters phase.
Mark PoppityHOST
Yes, for sure.
Dana GouldHOST
Oh, of course.
Dana GouldHOST
Now, When someone said, hey, there's this young woman that has a YouTube channel all about the Universal Monsters, I thought that would be a funny dream.
Dana GouldHOST
But it turns out to be true.
Dana GouldHOST
You're actually a girl and you know who Evelyn Anchors is.
Antonia CarlottaGUEST
He saved hundreds of Jewish refugees.
Antonia CarlottaGUEST
He invented the concept of the movie star and the movie studio tour.
Antonia CarlottaGUEST
And then I'm learning, you know, all about the Universal Monsters.
Antonia CarlottaGUEST
And that so few people have ever heard of Carl Laemmle.
Obie KnoxHOST
She can't give him death herself, but she believes there may be someone whose knowledge of life and death could help.
Obie KnoxHOST
which sends Larry toward possibly the most ironic medical consultation in Universal Horror, Lawrence Talbot, a man desperately trying to die, goes looking for Dr. Frankenstein.
Obie KnoxHOST
By the time Larry and Mileva reach Viseria, Frankenstein is dead, The castle is in ruins, leaving Larry without the one person he hoped might know how to end his curse.
Obie KnoxHOST
Before he can figure out what to do next, the full moon arrives.
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Obie KnoxHOST
The explosives go off, water crashes through the ruins, Manoring and Elsa barely escape, but the monster and the Wolfman disappear beneath the flood.
Obie KnoxHOST
Universal once again presents this as though everyone involved is probably dead, which would be more convincing if we hadn't opened this very movie by watching Larry recover from already being dead.
Obie KnoxHOST
The ending also points toward what Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman changes for Universal Horror.
Obie KnoxHOST
Earlier films build their stories around individual monsters and the people connected to them.
MikeHOST
And today we're continuing with our 10 days of Halloween.
MikeHOST
And today we're going back to universal era, which is primarily the 30s and 40s, also the 20s, but really the golden age of universal monsters starts with... dracula in 1931 and continues all the way up to the creature from the black lagoon some would even say this island earth with metaluna mutants i can't remember what year that came out but we get almost to the end of the 1950s and so today allison's going to bring you her two favorite films from the 1940s
AllisonHOST
Okay, cool.
AllisonHOST
So my runner-up is this movie called The Body Snatcher.
AaronHOST
But as far as this year goes.
AaronHOST
But yeah, I mean, what I appreciated is that it basically functions as a modern take on a Universal Monsters movie.
AaronHOST
That's a fun way to...
AaronHOST
If you're going to do a Clayface movie, yes, I'm very glad it wasn't like a... a uh anti-hero type thing i'm glad it like stood on its own feet as being like no this guy's you know he's evil like he's like he has these reasons we could care about why he turns bad but like at the end of the day this is he
ScottHOST
We need to talk about it, but what I want to do for January next year, I want to kick off with some old classics.
ScottHOST
I want to do a month of classics and Universal Monsters and
MarkHOST
old...
MarkHOST
Yeah, we did a few, didn't we? We did Dracula.
Steve YounisHOST
Are there any that, before I go through some of the ones that I listed, any that come to mind that you're particularly fond of, Michael?
Michael BaileyHOST
not scary but there's a bizarro story from the 60s where he goes to Hollywood and like is like hanging out with like the Universal Monsters basically it's like bizarro and Frankenstein and it's all played for laughs but it's a lot of fun regardless of it it's kind of like up there with like you know Abbott Costello meet Dracula or Abbott Costello meet Frankenstein so um i'm also um a particular fan of and you showed the cover at the beginning action comics annual number one uh where superman and batman came up to fight vampires essentially uh and it has basically i love this more than anything because at the very end uh, you know, Superman's like, you know, cause this is when they didn't get along all that well.
Michael BaileyHOST
He's just like, I was surprised you were, uh, you were willing to team up with me.
Michael BaileyHOST
He's just like, yeah, well, I wasn't really keen on like a super powered vampire.
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