It has 5 Academy Awards and boat loads of critical acclaim. It is on more must watch lists than we can count. So of course attempt to do the impossible by remaking Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975). We might as well try to climb Mount Everest with our teeth. Who are we to think we can have a better cast than Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, Sidney Lassick, and William Redfield? Maybe we should be committed for even trying. More imp...
Sep 14, 2016•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Part 2 of the Hollywood's invasion plans on our movie theaters. Invasion of the Remake snuck behind enemy lines and got Hollywood's remake battle plans and they plan to carpet bomb us so badly that we couldn't contain the news in just one podcast. Sam and Jason continue there coverage of the all the action, comedy, western, drama, horror and sci-fi remakes in the works. Back to normal next week. We promise. Support the show by leaving a rating and 5-stars on iTunes. Share us with your friends on...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Part 1 of our 2-part special on all the remakes currently planned by Hollywood. We got behind enemy lines to get the skinny on over 100 remakes and reboots to make you, our devoted Invaders more prepared for the carpet bombing of films you may find familiar. Dramas, comedies, horror, science fiction, action movies and even cartoons to live action are all covered here. The birth of a new cinematic universe is also covered. Be prepared and stand aware. The invasion is all to real! Like and share u...
Aug 31, 2016•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Who are you going to call when the remakes attack? Who are you going to call when Hollywood forces movies you don't want to see down your throats? Jason, Trish, and Sam are here to defend you against the Invasion of the Remake! Celebrating our first year of the Invasion, we tackle one of the most controversial remakes / reboots ever! The 2016 remake of Ghostbusters by Paul Feig blew up the internet with just its trailer alone. Find out what we thought of the Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate ...
Aug 23, 2016•1 hr 59 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Hey wait...what happened to episode 50? Well we wanted to do a big movie that had been remade and it didn't fall into the schedule quite right. So being that we are on the frontline of the Invasion of the Remake we can also get creative with the order of the universe or at least our little corner of it. Next week will be episode #50 but for now we present to you our remaking of Hardware (1990)! Richard Stanley's low budget science fiction, thriller brought some major themes of environmental coll...
Aug 17, 2016•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Invasion of the Remake travels to Sin City, Las Vegas, to learn how to rob a casino from the greatest of the greats. Lesson #1 comes from Frank Sinatra as Danny Ocean and his Ocean's 11 Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Richard Conte, Joey Bishop, Henry Silva, Buddy Lester, Richard Benedict, Norman Fell, and Clem Harvey. Lesson #2 comes from George Clooney as (you guessed it) Danny Ocean and his Ocean's Eleven Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, Scott Caan, Casey Affleck, ...
Aug 10, 2016•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 49
A young man named Alex Rogan is desperate to escape his small little world in the Starlight Starbright trailer park. His only escape is in the one arcade game at the trailer park, Starfighter. Alex had no idea this game would be the gateway to another life among the stars as a reluctant hero. Invasion of the Remake goes back to a childhood favorite in The Last Starfighter (1984) rethinking it as a modern remake and how modern gaming might change this sci-fi, adventure film, while still consideri...
Aug 03, 2016•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Left alone to defend and ungrateful people, two men battle against the clock and the odds to prove there own self worth in two very different but thematically similar movies. Gary Cooper leads an all-star cast alongside Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Lee Van Cleef, and Lon Chaney Jr. in the Oscar winning western High Noon (1952). While Sean Connery heads to the third moon of Jupiter, Io, with Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking, and John Ratzenberger in the science fiction movie Outland ...
Jul 27, 2016•1 hr 56 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Proving we are completely and utterly insane, we took on our very first Fan Challenge. The challenge was to just watch Hard Rock Zombies (1985) but since we are mad as hatters, we had to remake this low budget schlock fest. Cause that is how we roll. We went into this film with no preparation, we watched it, and hit record. This is the result. Little did we know what we would be in for. Wheelchair bound werewolf? Check. Little mongoloid zombie who eats himself? Check. Hitler? Yup, check, it's go...
Jul 20, 2016•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 46
"Welcome to Fright Night!" That's right, we're taking on the 80's vampire horror comedy classic Fright Night (1985) versus the Fright Night (2011) remake! Tom Holland's original has retro sentimentality as well as Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell on his side. But Craig Gillespie brought an an all star cast in Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Imogen Poots, and David (Doctor Who) Tennant! This is going to be a close battle. Subscribe now! Like and share Invasion of the Remake with your friends on so...
Jul 13, 2016•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Invasion of the Remake goes on the run! In a world where you can not live past the age of 30, Logan must pursue those who run from the sacrificial rite called Carousel only to be ordered to find a rebel group that has escaped the city for a mythical place called Sanctuary. To find it Logan has to now go on a run, or be exterminated by his fellow Sandmen. This week the Invaders try to remake the sci-fi classic Logan's Run (1976), something Hollywood has been trying to do for the past 20 years! Ca...
Jul 06, 2016•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 44
"Release the Kraken!" Those words were first shouted in 1981 in the now classic Desmond Davis film Clash of the Titans with effects by the incredible Ray Harryhausen. In 2010 Louis Leterrier remade Clash with modern effects to mixed reviews. Comedian Monty Scott joins the invasion team to see who would win in a fight, Harry Hamlin's Perseus versus Sam Worthington's Perseus, or Laurence Olivier's Zeus against Liam Neeson's Zeus. We pull out all our Greek mythology knowledge and take these two fan...
Jun 29, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 43
This week Jason, Trish and Sam travel down memory lane reminiscing about their favorite fantasy films from days of yore and current favorites. Legend, Krull, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Mirror Mask, Ator the Fighting Eagle, Game of Thrones, Clash of the Titans, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Pan's Labyrinth, Willow, Edward Scissorhands, Stardust, The Princess Bride, How to Train Your Dragon, The Sword & the Stone, Dragonslayer, are all here and so much mo...
Jun 22, 2016•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Continuing our month long Fantasy Film June the Invaders remake an 80's fantasy classic. The highest grossing independent film of it's time, The Sword & the Sorcerer looked cool, but is a narrative mess with a great core idea. It's perfect for the Jason, Trish, & Sam to remake with today's audiences in mind. The Sword & the Sorcerer starred Lee (Hateful Eight, Django Unchained) Horsley, Kathleen (Godfather Part II) Beller, Simon (Jaws 3-D) MacCorkindale, Richard (Halloween) Lynch, Ri...
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 41
In 1982 a retired body builder relatively new to acting got his big break as one of the the most iconic literary characters of all time. That character was Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, and that man was Arnold Schwarzenegger! Director John Milius co-wrote the script with Oliver Stone and had an all-star cast to support Arnold, like James Earl Jones, Max Von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, and Mako. The movie is now considered a fantasy classic. In 2011, after a failed sequel and many more fail...
Jun 08, 2016•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Richard Donner could do no wrong in the 1980's cultivating many hits like Lethal Weapon, The Goonies, Superman, Scrooged, and The Omen. In 1985 Donner directed Ladyhawke with Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Ken Hutchison, and Alfred Molina. While loved and appreciated at the time, the film was not a hit and has become a largely forgotten romantic, fantasy classic. That's where the Invasion of the Remake hosts come in, because they think it is ripe for a...
Jun 01, 2016•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Two movies based on The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark brought Westlake's most famous character, Parker, to the silver screen, but they wouldn't be actually called Parker. Westlake famously protected the character and the name Parker wouldn't be used until after his death when Jason Statham starred in a movie title after the titular character. Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin starring as Walker/Parker in a very ethereal adaptation of the novel alongside Angie Dic...
May 25, 2016•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 38
When an old god-monster is resurrected, a grieving family seeks to stop it before it kills everyone in the town. Clive Barker's short story from the Books of Blood, Rawhead Rex (1986) also became his first story to hit the silver screen and he hated it! This lead him to take a more controlling roll on the Hellraiser film. On this episode we take a look at what went wrong, how we might bring it back to the silver screen and do honor to the source material. Leave us a 5-star rating and review on i...
May 18, 2016•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Breaking the goofy type-casting Keanu Reeves had fallen into from two Bill & Ted movies, he starred in his first action film, Point Break (1991) from Director Kathryn Bigelow. Co-starring Patrick Swayze, Gary Busey, and Lori Petty, Point Break became a cult hit of the 1990's. Flash forward to 2015 and a new take on the concept by Director Ericson Core and Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer starring Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer, and Delroy Lindo. Strap on your parachutes as t...
May 11, 2016•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Long before his "tiger blood" drove him completely insane (allegedly), Charlie Sheen shot a low budget sci-fi, supernatural, revenge flick called The Wraith (1986) along side Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, and Clint Howard. Does this ghost with a really cool car hold up? This week the Invaders with comedian Brittany Lyseng are in the driver's seat and rework this movie to make it worthy of a remake...Invaders style. Become part of the Invasion and leave us a 5-star rating and revie...
May 04, 2016•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Sean Connery is the original James Bond and after Diamonds are Forever he said he would never play Bond again. Never say never. Those are the words that became the title to the 1983 remake of Thunderball (1965), Never Say Never Again. The Invaders sneak into the files of MI-6 to see which of the Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory inspired stories can defeat the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and is the best of 007. Become an Invader, tell you friends about the podcast, and repost it on your social media for all to...
Apr 27, 2016•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 34
In 1981 John Irvin brought many elder statesmen of Hollywood together to bring Peter Staub's novel Ghost Story to the big screen. Hollywood legends like Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Melvyn Douglas, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. are joined by the highly expressive Craig Wasson and the gorgeous Borg Queen Alice Krige in this dramatic, supernatural, mystery film. Join Jason, Trish, and Sam as we remake this movie with today's audiences in mind. Who would we cast? Listen to this week's episode to find o...
Apr 20, 2016•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 33
The best thing about South Korean films is that they are really, really insane! Chan-wook Park brought the fan favorite manga to the big screen in 2003 with great success. Fast forward a decade and director Spike Lee remakes Oldboy for an English speaking audience starring Josh Brolin to mixed reviews. Often found on worst film remake lists, is the Spike Lee version really that bad? Listen to this weeks episode as we discus this tale of revenge, violence and incest! Become an Invader by writing ...
Apr 13, 2016•1 hr 55 min•Season 2Ep. 32
"From outer space they came! Meteor borne, meteor strange! Now these amazing Monolith Monsters reveal powers! Shocking beyond belief! The most shocking science-fiction concept ever brought to the screen! Stranger than anything science had ever discovered!" These are the words that accompany the trailer for the 1957 Universal Pictures sci-fi classic The Monolith Monsters. Arguably the most unique invasion, disaster movie to ever grace the silver screen that you probably have never heard of. Liste...
Apr 06, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 31
In 1990 France's Luc Besson wrote and directed La Femme Nikita, a coming of age action story with bullets, starring Anne Parillaud, Tcheky Karyo, Jean Reno, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Jeanne Moreau, which went on to become an international sensation spawning two television series and the remake Point of No Return directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermont Mulroney, Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel. In this week's episode we put the original and the remake to task and...
Mar 30, 2016•1 hr 37 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Flash...ah aaahhh...savior of the universe! Mike (Get Carter, Omen II) Hodges brought Flash Gordon from the Alex Raymond comic strips to the big screen in 1980 in big budget, campy fun. Starring Sam J. Jones as Flash Gordon, Melody Anderson as Dale Arden, Max Von Sydow as Emperor Ming, Topol as Dr. Hans Zarkov, Ornella Muti as Princess Aura, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Brian Blessed as Prince Voltan, and Peter Wyngarde as Klytus. Join the Invaders as they re-imagine Alex Raymond's classic ch...
Mar 23, 2016•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Two children befriend one and another in this throat ripping coming of age story...wait what? In 2008 a small Swedish film based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist called Let the Right One In made quite the splash at film festivals and global cinemas. Two years later the newly resurrected Hammer films took interest and remade it for English speaking audiences starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. While both films are quite similar, the changes made ...
Mar 16, 2016•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 28
It's Jason's birthday episode and the Invaders put on there shades and take a stab at remaking John Carpenter's conspiracy classic They Live with special guest Sam Stepanenko. They Live may be sparse in dialogue and yet it is full of quotables by the late Roddy Piper and some great performances by Keith David, Meg Foster, George Flower, Peter Jason, and Raymond St. Jacques. Improving on a sci-fi classic like They Live may be an impossible task but Invasion of the Remake is up to the challenge. Y...
Mar 09, 2016•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 27
in 1967 Edouard Molinaro adapted a frantic vaudevillian style play by Claude Mognier into the first screen adaptation of Oscar. In 1991 John Landis Americanized the French version by setting into the gangster 30's era with an all-star cast featuring Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri, Art LaFleur, Tim Curry, Vincent Spano, Linda Gray, Marisa Tomei, with a special appearance by Kirk Douglas! Can the gangsters take on the madness of the French? Listen to this weeks e...
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 26
You've heard the predictions from the most qualified movie analysts now you can hear the predictions from the least qualified of all, the Invaders! Can Bryan Cranston upset Matt Damon & Leonardo DiCaprio? Does Mad Max: Fury Road run down the Revenant? Does Inside Out induce blinding rage in Jeff? Has anyone actually watched an Oscar nominated short film? Are snubs intentional? Find out the answer to one (two if you are lucky) of these questions on this weeks naked statue edition of Invasion ...
Feb 24, 2016•2 hr•Season 2Ep. 25
