The listener who entered our Sexy Xenomorph contest under the name “Do Critters Next” asked us to “Do Critters next,” so we did Critters next, which has ceased to become “next” and is now now. And who better to join us for this slice of silly 80s monster horror than a man whose own films bear the influence of that horror decade, Steven Kostanski, the director of Psycho Goreman, the movie that turned Stuart Wellington into a brain in a tube.
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“If you give me a movie with a bunch of small monster puppets running around, I'm basically gonna be happy. ” — Movie I Kinda Liked (Dan) @1:09:55
“It feels kind of like the perfect VHS movie. Like, this short little thing: you get some little monsters, a couple of gags, you get some... y'know, a lot of performers who you're like, 'Oh, yeah, I know them from somewhere else.'” —Movie I Kinda Liked (Stuart) @1:11:00
“It's like a really good kind of like... '80s VHS movie.” —Movie I Kinda Liked (Elliott) @1:11:35
“The bounty hunters kick ass, that opening scene is amazing, and it's everything I like. And the Critter effects are great, too. ” —Movie I Kinda Liked (Steven) @1:13:10
Flop House April 2nd Live Show in Brooklyn @1:20:50
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Stuart:
And just to let you know, Steve, we record the zoom video as well because we use it to, like, do promotional clips. I'm assuming you're okay with that.
Steven:
Yeah, yeah. Well I was gonna ask, am I allowed to get a screenshot of this? Uh —
Stuart:
Yeah.
Dan:
Oh, please.
Elliott:
Sure, just —
Steve:
Y'know, when times are dark I can look at this and feel good.
Dan:
I know exactly what Elliott's gonna do —
Elliott:
Yeah —
Stuart:
Yeah, "just me and my best friends".
Elliott:
And Dan knows what I'm gonna say, which is please just let us know so that — because Dan has a habit of tweeting out screenshots where I'm like this: [pauses]
Steven:
Well, no, literally if we —
Elliott:
And Dan and Stu are both like: [pauses*]
Stuart:
In your defense, that's kind of how your face always looks.
Elliott:
'Cause I'm talking most of the time — I mean, yeah, exactly, I'm talking most of the time so Dan knows to take a picture during the 90% of the podcast that's me gabbing on.
Dan:
I'm never — I've already told him several times I'm sorry and I won't do it anymore, and yet...
Elliott:
So now I'm making sure that our guest — our esteemed guest —
Dan:
Mm hmm.
Elliott:
— understands that that's my rider for any photograph.