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!
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Signup to Generate a PitchHow 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.
Recent episodes include "The How I Met Your Monster 2026 Halloween Monster Ranking" (26 October 2026, 147 minutes), "Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (EP66 Re-Release)" (12 October 2026, 51 minutes), and "Pinhead and Angelique in Kevin Yagher's HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE" (28 September 2026, 133 minutes).
How I Met Your Monster publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 102 minutes across 135 episodes.
Booking probability for How I Met Your Monster is 43%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. How I Met Your Monster requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. How I Met Your Monster's contact route on record: verified email.
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How I Met Your Monster is a comedy podcast with 135 episodes published.
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To celebrate Halloween, and to kick off a brand new fiscal year (aka freakskull year, cuz we freaky), we're not just wrapping up another triple feature -- we're wrapping up an ENTIRE. FUCKING. YEAR of monsters. A...
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Back in 2022, we met Michael Myers in John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN to celebrate the spooky season. This year, we're bringing back what became one of our personal favorite episodes. So carve your Jack-O-Lanterns, eat some...
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...
Danny's pick to wrap up our DEAD OF SUMMER triple feature is the John Carpenter classic, THE FOG. In this episode, we meet the vengeful zombie pirate, Captain William Blake, and his undead crew of the Elizabeth Dane. We...
Episode #162
Casey picks Jan de Bont's The Haunting for the second movie in our Dead of Summer triple feature. In this episode, we meet Hugh Crain, along with Hill House itself. We trace the film's tangled path from a planned...
Episode #161
We're kicking off our Dead of Summer triple feature with Poltergeist III (1988) , the divisive third entry in the Poltergeist franchise where Reverend Kane follows Carol Anne to a high-rise apartment building in...
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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! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and YouTube For bonus content and...
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...
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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...
Returning guest Don Campbell joins us as we meet Charles Lee Ray in episode 156, tackling Tom Holland's 1988 classic Child's Play as the second entry in the "It's Voodoo Baby" triple feature. We break down all eight of...
IT'S VOODOO, BABY kicks off with Kate Hudson and Gena Rowlands as we dig into Ian Softley's The Skeleton Key (2005), one of the most slept-on horror films of the 2000s. We break down all five monster reveals, the Hoodoo...
We wrap up our MINDF*CKS triple feature with David Lynch's surrealist sensory experience through celebrity success and self-destruction. Everybody wants to be somebody, every somebody is someone else, and the Hollywood...
Episode #153
We dive into the industrial hellscape of David Lynch's debut feature, Eraserhead (1977), for the second film in our MINDF*CKS triple feature. In this episode: How Lynch's black-and-white nightmare was made over six...
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island is one of the most rewatchable psychological thrillers of the 2000s, and on this episode of How I Met Your Monster, we break down exactly why. Set in 1954 at Ashecliffe Hospital for the...
The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature wraps up with Jean-Jacques Annaud’s medieval monk murder mystery. The friars are repressed, but their hairdos are blessed, and God help us, James Bond is giving Sherlock Holmes as we...
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THE BRIDE! hits theaters this week, so we wanted to enjoy the original 1935 film THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in anticipation of the upcoming adaptation. Zach and Danny sit down to watch and yap (it's meaningful yapping...
Episode #150
The DEVILS & DICKS triple feature continues with David Fincher’s rain-soaked race against a one-man judge, jury, and executioner. Sinners are being hunted, a perfect crime’s constructed, and we can’t help but ask...
The Exorcist III (1990) kicks off our Devils & Dicks triple feature! We dive into William Peter Blatty's underrated horror sequel that trades demonic possession for police procedural tension - well, mostly. Lieutenant...
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In anticipation for SCREAM 7, Zach sits down with two SCREAM super fans (co-host Danny and special guest Laron Chapman) to discuss the original film and it's upcoming sequel. To hear new commentary episodes each month...
We wrap up our SCARYTALES triple feature with Guillermo Del Toro’s war-torn journey through the horrors of fascism. The Pale Man sees you, but fantasy frees you, and it turns out that the real monsters are the fascist...
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