The Tome of Monsters Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Join the guys this week as they talk about a very bleak part of the future no one likes to talk about, KILLER ROBOTS! Listen as the boys talk about the 1973 Westworld movie, the five dead children possessing a pizzeria's animatronics mascots and a shopping mall overkill approach on mall security

Join the guys this week as they make a trip into the woods to read from the book of souls to bring you THE EVIL DEAD! Listen and learn about the Deadites, evil spirits possessing human bodies, the history and characteristics of the Necronomicon PLUS so much more on this weeks episode.

Sources used for this episode can be found below:

https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/Necronomicon_Ex-Mortis

https://evildead.fandom.com/wiki/The_Faceless_Man_(Ash_and_the_Army_of_Darkness)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230406-the-evil-dead-the-horror-shocker-that-set-off-a-culture-war

Join the guys this week as they bring you the biggest, most radioactive episode yet with GODZILLA! Listen as the guys talk about everything from the man in the suit who made Godzilla the iconic monster that he became, the nuclear allegory of godzilla, its entire TOHO time PLUS so much more on this kaiju packed episode.

music used and its licenses can be found below:

Airwaves by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/79-airwaves License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

sources for this episode can be found below:

https://www.blackgate.com/2017/08/12/haruo-nakajima-the-man-who-was-godzilla/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBNEG8kLfQ

https://godzilla.com/blogs/movies

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55965/25-fun-facts-about-godzilla

https://skeining.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/the-man-in-the-godzilla-suit/

Join the gang as they  bring you everybody's favorite moody hell spawn HELLBOY! Listen as the guys talk about Del Toro's masterpiece, about how BOTH Del Toro AND Mignola both fought for Ron to play our angsty horned detective and Moses breakdown on 2019's reboot. Tune in to listen to him break down everything about the reboot from the soundtrack, to scene choices and a personal incident that may or may not have soured Moses on the reboot before he'd seen even a second of it PLUS so much more on this infernal episode.

Join the guys this week as they travel down the uncanny valley to bring you movies about humanoid monsters. Listen as Luis and Fernando star gaze to bring you 2009's sci fi thriller PANDORUM and their space Mutants while Moises does the unthinkable and goes spelunking back to 2005 to bring you THE DESCENT! Learn about the crawlers and listen to Moises once again find a way to bring this back to lovecraft PLUS so much more on this weeks episode.

music used and their licenses can be found below:

Star Citizen - Titans by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/12301-star-citizen-titans License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Cinematic Emotions 1 - Creepy by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/12307-cinematic-emotions-1-creepy License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

listen to the lurking fear by following the link below:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7i48shFkjTwWQCHSCDNfhO?si=b9509c41c3714fcd

follow the link to watch the descent 2

https://soaper.tv/movie_1eGMXj9gY9.html

sources for this episode can be found below:

https://movieweb.com/the-descent-movie-facts-trivia/

This Is What Takes ‘The Descent’ From Scary to Terrifying.

https://builtin.com/robotics/uncanny-valley-examples

https://absolutehorror.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lurking_Fear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent

https://collider.com/the-descent-personal-horror/#:~:text=But%20the%20claustrophobic%20aspect%20isn,flares%20to%20light%20the%20cave

Join the boys this week as they make their way inside the wolves den and talk about werewolves. Listen as the boys talk aboutsome deep cut werewolf movies such as late phases, Blood Manor and Bad moon and learn about the legend about the werewolf and about different ways you can be turned into one PLUS so much more on this weeks episode.

sources used for this episode can be found below:

https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-origins-of-werewolves-104775

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+epic+of+gilgamesh&oq=what+is+the+epic+of+gilgamesh&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBCDc5NTFqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

https://www.livescience.com/24412-werewolves.html

http://www.differencebetween.net/language/words-language/difference-between-lycan-and-werewolf/

Join the guys this week as they travel back in time to 1984 to bring you Freddy Krueger. Listen as the boys talk about Springwood's serial child killer and all his nightmare inducing glory. Learn about the legend that is Freddy Krueger as the boys go down his nightmarish movie timeline and talk about everything from inspiration for the look of Freddy Krueger to a few fun facts about the franchise you may not have known about PLUS so much more on this nightmare inducing episode

sources used for this episode can be found below;

Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger Is the Best Slasher of All Time 

https://georgetownvoice.com/2023/09/22/a-case-for-the-classics-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984/

https://www.cbr.com/michael-myers-vs-jason-voorhees-who-wins/#:~:text=Ultimately%2C%20Jason's%20persistence%20and%20ability,it%20may%20have%20no%20peer.

https://screenrant.com/nightmare-elm-street-freddy-krueger-facts-trivia/#he-s-a-metaphor-for-child-neglect-amp-subconscious-fears

https://screenrant.com/nightmare-on-elm-street-freddy-krueger-trivia-behind-the-scenes/#he-has-his-own-holiday

https://www.shoepalace.com/blogs/all/10-facts-about-a-nightmare-on-elm-street

https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2014/10/a_nightmare_on_elm_street_facts_freddy_krueger.html

music and its license can be found below:

Cinematic Emotions 1 - Creepy by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/12307-cinematic-emotions-1-creepy License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Take a trip down memory lane and join the guys this week as they go back to the beginning and bring you UNIVERSAL MONSTERS! Listen as the guys Talk about the first official debuts of Dracula, The Mummy and Frankenstein. Learn about some of the behind the scenes magic, about the legality of our monsters more famous versions PLUS so much more on this horror packed episode.

music used and their licenses can be found below:

Haunting Prelude by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/12288-haunting-prelude License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

sources used for this episode can be found below:

https://collider.com/universal-monsters-horror-dracula-mummy-timeless-love-explained/

https://variety.com/2018/artisans/features/universal-1931-dracula-1202683151/

https://morbidlybeautiful.com/horror-history-dracula-1931/

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/Dracula1931

https://screenrant.com/best-dracula-lugosi-lee-comparison/

Join this guys this week as they make their way to the icy north to bring you the different adaptions of the 1938 science fiction novela "WHO GOES THERE". Tune to learn more about 1951 classic which John Carpenters THE THING was a remake of and the not so great 2011 prequel. Listen as they talk about the many different abilities, appearances, as well as the differences between shapeshifting creatures from another world that discovered that man is the warmest place to hide.

Join the guys this week as they make their way deep into the Labyrinth to brings you everything you need to know about Guillermo Del Toro's most influential work. Listen as the guys break down what each of the monsters represent plus bring to light some fun facts about the movie, you might now have known plus so much more. 

music used and their licenses can be found below:

Pensive piano piece by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/22-pensive-piano-piece License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Piano Sessions - Part 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/42-piano-sessions-part-1 License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

sources used for this episode can be found below:

https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/hollywood/why-guillermo-del-toro-film-pans-labyrinth-isnt-typical-fairy-tale-7560221/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/y9v9bv/why_is_pans_labyrinth_held_in_such_high_critical/

https://www.tor.com/2011/05/25/the-darkness-of-pans-labyrinth/