In Abominable (2006), a girl gang on a bachelorette party weekend must contend with a voyeuristic creep in the house up the hill. Also, a sasquatch wants to eat them. Nbd.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

In The Last Dinosaur (1977), an asshole billionaire named Thrust leads a team of people of varying competence on a quest to find a tyrannosaur living in the North Pole. He's definitely not there to hunt it. Promise.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) is a masterpiece that defined not only the creature feature genre, but filmmaking through the last fifty years. I don't have anything snarky to say; this movie slaps.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Zombeavers (2014) is the kind of film you see once in a generation, a masterpiece that transcends the genre and rivals the works of Kubrick, Kurosawa, or good Spielberg. Picture attractive young women and their dipshit boyfriends beset by a horde of undead beavers, underpinned by a gut-wrenching human story of heartbreak and revenge.…

The Cabin in the Woods (2011) is a brilliant and hilarious deconstruction of the horror genre. Five college students try to survive a zombie assault in a remote cabin--but not all is as it seems. We love this one.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Bait aka Bait 3D (2012) follows the plight of two great white sharks trapped inside a grocery store in the aftermath of a tsunami. The two big fish must contend with hostile locals in an increasingly desperate bid for survival. Also, there are a bunch of Australian who all look alike. And the guy from Nip/Tuck.…

Our first bonus episode! A month back, special guest/musical genius Jason joined Ethan to see Godzilla Minus One (2023) in the theatre, like the fancy gentlemen that we are. Honestly, we loved it. Join us for a discussion of what may well be the best Godzilla movie ever made, and a strong contender for best film of the year. Plus: a long-winded, me…

In our first zombie movie, Anna and the Apocalypse (2017), our titular character and her friends must fend off a swarm of Christmastime zombies with the power of song. It's Britain, so like, they don't just all have guns, like Americans would. You have to improvise.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Krampus (2015) sees our heroes confront the greatest foe of all: family. Also, a goatman Anti-Santa of German legend. Will these unfortunates band together to fend off Krampus's retinue of holiday horrors?Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

In A Quiet Place (2018), two negligent parents kind of sort of try to keep their children alive in the midst of a monster apocalypse. Ethan loves this movie, but Mom is a hater. Plus: Ethan endorses nuclear weapons!Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) is the recut, redubbed, overall Americanized version of the original Japanese Gojira we covered last week. Look how they massacred my boy! We discuss what this version gets right, what it's missing, and how surprisingly gay it is.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

The original Japanese Gojira (1954) is a sad movie. Godzilla's first outing, directed by Honda Ishirō, sees the giant kaiju at his most wrathful, an avatar of war punishing humanity for unleashing nuclear weapons upon the world. Despite how campy the series would swiftly become, the original is a grim, violent movie concerned with the human propens…

Anaconda (1997) features Jon Voight's strangest performance. Like, I haven't seen all his movies, but this has got to be the weirdest. I dunno, fight me. Anyway, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Owen Wilson, and podcast favorite Kari Wuhrer go up-river to die horribly in the coils of giant anacondas. It's great.…

In what is nearly but not quite the nadir of the series, 1987's Jaws: The Revenge (aka Jaws IV) sees an unlikely cast of talented actors face off against the second great white to declare la vendetta against the Brody family. Will Ellen Brody, her dumbass son, and the friendly local drug smuggler escape piscine vengeance? Or will the ghost of Jaws …

We confront our fears with Eight Legged Freaks (2002), in which giant spiders run amok through a small Arizona town. Starring a young Scarlett Johansson, Kari Wuhrer, and the ghost of David Arquette's career, we once again see plucky weirdos assailed by bugs in the desert. Will Oswald's gun be enough to fend off the octopedal horde?…

A US government experiment with a hunger for flesh runs amok in a small town in the 1988 remake of The Blob. Will the townsfolk make the tragic mistake of trusting shady authority figures, or will they be saved by local activism and self-organization? Plus: we recorded a whole episode with a guest without the audio crapping out on us!…

Matthew McConaughey's arms fight every dragon in the world in Reign of Fire (2002). In another movie that's Actually Good, survivors of a dragon apocalypse must contend with their ash-eating oppressors. Will dragonkind's magnificently stupid breeding strategy give humanity enough of an edge to prevail?…

In Komodo (1999), we see yet another chapter in the endless battle between nature and evil oil companies. Unfortunately, a traumatized and profoundly annoying boy is stuck in the middle of it all. Plus: we delve into the darkness lurking in Mom's mind.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

In Them! (1954), hardworking sugar merchants face ants of unusual size. Spawned by humankind's nuclear folly, these ants will stop at nothing to propagate their species and ensure that insect civilization, not human, dominates this world now and always!Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Did you eat your oatmeal? In John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), Kurt Russell, Keith David, and the immortal Wilford Brimley face a monster from space that eats to live and lives to eat. Will an arsenal of military surplus be sufficient to defend them? All sarcasm aside, The Thing is a brilliant film and you should watch it. Donate to the Maui Stron…

In The Thing from Another World (1951), it's science vs. the military vs. an alien vegetable! Scientists and airmen at a remote North Pole outpost must contend for their lives with a murderous, intelligent carrot (and also, radiation).Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Attack the Block (2011) takes us back to London, this time with aliens. When police fail to react to an alien invasion, a group of neighbors band together to provide effective community defense. Will they prevail against the imperialist alien invader?Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Twister (1996) dares to ask the real questions. Are tornadoes people? Are they really after Jo? Or do our protagonists' struggles spring from an adrenaline-fueled, narcissistic fantasy that sees them as the main characters in a drama of their own construction? Join us as we debate whether this is even a monster movie!…

The Birds (1963) is one of Hitchcock's masterpieces. Ostensibly, this movie is about birds running amok. We know better, though, don't we, dear? Also: trust ye not the prophecies of drunkards.Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

Sabretooth (2002) is actually pretty bad. In our first SyFy original, we're introduced to tiger vision as a lab test subject flees its captors. Desperately trying to survive in the wild, our saber-tooth responds by eating the only food at hand: dumb people in the woods. Alas, arch-capitalist Gimli, son of Glóin, and his goons are in swift pursuit. …

The Relic (1997) depicts the harrowing struggle between an illegal tenant and the Chicago Police Department. Will John Whitney restore his good name, or will he be foiled by addiction, homelessness, and/or the devious machinations of a rival biologist and a forlorn police detective?Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

In Tremors (1990), Kevin Bacon and Earl Ward star as working-class men trying to escape the bounds of capitalism and traditional masculinity. Also, man-eating worms. Can they and a ragtag group of immigrants, Trump voters, and/or budding domestic terrorists prevail? Or are they destined to be worm food?…

In an odd little flick called An American Werewolf in London (1984), American student David finds his European vacation cut short by by a merciless predator who strikes when he's at his weakest. Also, there's a werewolf. Ahwooooooo!!Av The Bigger Boat Podcast

In our inaugural episode, we travel into uncharted territory... with a woman! Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) features the eponymous Gill-man fighting desperately to defend his home from a group of marauding Americans. Will he find love? Will he repel these brutes? Should we bomb isolated ecosystems with chemical weapons in the name of Scienc…

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This week the ladies discuss Oceans 8 and Angelas throwback Den of Thieves. They also argue over the sharks name, feel free to share your thoughts on the Shandy Shark (boooooo) name on our instagramAv Biggerboatpodcast