Monsters Inside Me Is The New I Was Impaled
One delightful side effect of today's crowded media landscape is that the junky "documentary" shows I love so much can't afford to be coy about their titles. When you're scrolling through the guide, you might be more likely to stop on something called My Giant Face Tumor or My Skin Could Kill Me or My Strange Addiction than, for instance, Taboo. Don't get me wrong, Taboo can be pretty great -- check out these perverts! -- but with that title, you wouldn't necessarily know what it's about; it could just as easily be an HSN hour about lingerie or a Fuse documentary about the guy from the Black Eyed Peas.
Animal Planet's excellent series Monsters Inside Me goes one better in terms of extremely literal titling: it brings the same magic to the show clips on its official site. If these don't pique your interest, well then...I guess you prefer not to watch hideous medical horror stories. Okay. I get it. But this selection of the very best titles might change your mind.