Animal Instinct: After ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Chimp Crazy,’ Filmmaker Eric Goode Exposes His Own Past With the Illegal Reptile Trade

HBO's *Monsters of God* Puts Philly at the Center of a Reptile Trafficking Story

source: Philadelphia Magazine A new HBO documentary series traces the roots of American reptile smuggling directly to the Philadelphia region — and the story is stranger than most fiction. Monsters of God, a five-part series from filmmakers Eric Goode and Jeremy McBride, the duo behind Tiger King and Chimp Crazy, focuses its opening episode heavily on a local dealer named Hank Molt and his operation, the Philadelphia Reptile Exchange. During the…

Animal Instinct: After ‘Tiger King’ and ‘Chimp Crazy,’ Filmmaker Eric Goode Exposes His Own Past With the Illegal Reptile Trade

Goode admits he was “part of the problem” in the new HBO docuseries Monsters of God, which takes his gonzo style of documentary to dangerous new levels: “People don’t realize how fucking crazy we are.”