Jim discusses a classic sci-fi film from 1940 - "Dr. Cyclops, " starring Albert Dekker. Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, for producers Merian C. Cooper and Dale Van Every. A reclusive scientist with a laboratory laboratory deep in the Amazon jungle invites three scientists to assist. Upon discovering a horrific secret, they are subjected to experiments involving radiation. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To ...
Nov 11, 2024•45 min•Season 9Ep. 21
Jim discusses the sequel to "Son Of Frankenstein with 1942's "The Ghost Of Frankenstein," starring Lon Chaney Jr, Cedricke Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Janet Ann Gallow, Barton Yarborough, and Olaf Hytten. Produced by George Waggner and directed by Erle C. Kenton, this sequel picks up where "Son" left off except Ygor seeks out the "second" son of Frankenstein for help reviving "The Monster." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Ded...
Nov 04, 2024•49 min•Season 9Ep. 20
In this final entry of this year's Halloween Fare, Jim discusses a classic cult film frim 1982 - "Poltergeist," starring Craig T. Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominque Dunne, Oliver Robbins, Heather O'Rourke, Michael McManus, James Karen, Zelda Rubinstein, Dirk Blocker, and Sonny Landham. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, this ghost story dominated the film from Halloween through the Holiday Season. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Pod...
Oct 28, 2024•54 min•Season 9Ep. 19
In this Halloween Special Episode, Jim reflects on a "vampire" film that greatly impacted him in 1987 - Joel Schumacher's "The Lost Boys," starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Hermann, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Giertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Alexander Winter, Chance Michael Corbitt, and Tim Cappello. A recently divorced woman and her two sons move in with her father in a small California town that has a deadly secret. Find out more on this episode of M...
Oct 21, 2024•54 min•Season 9Ep. 18
Jim discusses the one film in the "Halloween" franchise that does not include Michael Myers - 1982's "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," starring Tom Atkins, Stacy Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter, Garn Stephens, Jonathan Terry, Nancy Keyes, Al Berry, Wendy Wassberg, Essex Smith, and Madie Norman. In the small town of Santa Mira, there are strange going-ons leading an E.R. doctor and the daughter of a missing man to make a horrifying discovery. F...
Oct 14, 2024•52 min•Season 9Ep. 17
Jim looks back at a Stephen King short story adaption celebrating its 40th Anniversary - "Children Of the Corn," starring Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, Courtney Gaines, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Jonas Marlowe, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddelena, and John Philbin. A fanatical group of children, following a religion centered around :He who walks among the rows," kills everyone in a small Iowa town and threatens a husband and wife who cross paths with them. Find out more on this e...
Oct 07, 2024•42 min•Season 9Ep. 16
Madeline and Shane return to help Jim launch the 2024 Halloween Season with a look at the 1984 classic film "Ghostbusters," starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton, and directed by Ivan Reitman. Three scientists fight spooks and spirits in New York City with hilarious results. But, there is a secret that threatens all mankind. Find out more on this Halloween episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To O...
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton (Silver Scream Spook Show) join Jim for a rollicking discussion of the 1939 classic "Son Of Frankenstein," starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, LionelAtwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, and Edgar Horton. Wolf Frankenstein goes to the village where his father years earlier had created "The Monster." But surpirses await the doctor. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Sep 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 9Ep. 14
Jim reflects back on the first time he saw Ridley Scott's 1979 Sci=Fi masterpiece, "Alien," starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, and Ian Holm. A mining crew traveling in deep space is awakened and told to investigate a distress call from a nearby planet. And then the fun begins, because "in Space, no one can hear you scream." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Sep 16, 2024•49 min•Season 9Ep. 13
Clay Sayre returns to join Jim for a first for the podcast - A MONSTER ATTACK! Double Feature, featuring 1976's "Embryo," starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Anne Schedeen, John Elerick, and Roddy McDowall, along with 1978's "The Manitou," starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens Jon Cedar, Ann Southern Paul Mantee, and Burgess Meredith. It's true "Double Feature" fare as Jim and Clay talk about these two cult films from the 70's and it's all ahead on ...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 9Ep. 12
Mark Maddox and Clay Sayre join Jim for a "Rag-A-Rama" look at Irwin Allen's disastrous Eco-Disaster Film from 1978 - "The Swarm," starring Michael Caine, Katherine Ross, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, Ben Johnson, Bradford Dillman, Jose Ferrer, and Richard Chamberlain. This film broke Allen's string of profit-making blockbusters with a bad performance at theatres. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Sep 02, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 9Ep. 11
Jim reflects on his first time watching James Cameron's 1984 Sci-Fi Classic "The Terminator," starring Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwartznegger, Earl Boen, Paul Winfield, and Lance Henriksen. A killer cyborg is sent from the future to kill the mother of a future revolutionary. This classic spawned several sequels and was one of the top grossing films of the year. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Aug 26, 2024•46 min•Season 9Ep. 10
Jim reflects on an early Sci-Fi film made in 1959 concerning man's first missin to the Moon - :12 To The Moon," starring Ken Clark, Roger Til, Michi Kobi, Anna-Lisa, Robert Montgomery, Anthony Dexter, John Weingraf, Richard Weber, and Francis X. Bushman. An international mission to the Moon is full of hazards and surpirses as 12 individuals from different countries try to work together for all mankind. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Aug 19, 2024•57 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Jim discusses one of his favorite cult films from 1984 - "The Adventures Of Buckaroos Bonzai Across The 8th Dimension," starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Matt Clark, Clancy Brown, Vincent Schiavelli, and Dan Hedaya. Buckaroo, a neurosurgeon-musician-adventurer, has little time to save the Earth from the clutches of Dr. Lizardo and the evil Red Lectroids. Find out more on this episode of MONTER ATTACK!, The...
Aug 12, 2024•45 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Jim reflects his first viewing of a classic Sci-Fi from 1981 from Director Peter Hyams - "Outland," starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham, Nicholas Barnes, Clarke Peters, and John Ratzenberger. A Federal Marshall assigned to a mining outpost on Jupiter's third moon, Io, is faced with a drug smuggling operation that is taking the lives of several workers. Find out how he faces up to incredible odds on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast De...
Aug 05, 2024•43 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Jim talks about a game-changing Japanese film that helped restart the Godzilla franchise, "Godzilla 1984," aka "The Return Of Godzilla," starring Ken Tanaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Shin Takuma, Ken Satsuma and directed by Koji Hashimoto. 30 Years after Godzilla attacked Tokyo and was apparently destroyed, the giant dinosaur, now 80 meters tall, reappears and heads for the city once again. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old M...
Jul 29, 2024•44 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Jim remembers his first viewing of the 1969 TV Movie, "Night Gallery," which served as the pilot for the series and starred Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, George Macready, Barry Atwater, Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan, Tom Bosley, Byron Morrow, Richard Kiley, Sam Jaffe, George Murdock and featured directors, Boris Sagal, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Shear. The film included three tales of the weird written by Rod Serling, who introduced each segment. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, ...
Jul 22, 2024•56 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Jim looks back on a 1958 Roger Corman classic, "Viking Women and The Sea Serpent," starring Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Jonathan Haze, June Kenney, Bradford Jackson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jay Sayer, Sally Todd, Mike Forrest, and Gary Conway. Viking women go on a quest to find their men after they fail to return from a journey. Along the way they encounter a large sea serpent and end up on an unknown island. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To O...
Jul 15, 2024•46 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Jim discusses a classic Black Comedy Horror Film from 1980 written by Robert and Steven Charles Jaffe - "Motel Hell," starring Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, Nin Axelrod, Paul Linke, Wolfman Jack, Elaine Joyce, Dick Curtis, Monique St. Pierre, Rosanne Katon, E Hampton Beagle, John Ratzenberger and directed by Kevin Connor. Farmer Vincent uses a very special ingredient in his famous smoked meats. And what might that be? Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monst...
Jul 08, 2024•46 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Jim thinks back on the first time he saw Phillip Kaufman's 1978 remake of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers," starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin McCarthy, and Leonard Nimoy. Kaufman gives the story of an invasion of Planet Earth by space-borne seed pods a 70's approach, which has resulted in many considering this to be an excellent remake of the legendary 1956 classic. find out more of this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Mo...
Jul 01, 2024•58 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Jim reminisces about the second "Monster Movie" he ever saw - Roger Corman's 1958 Sci-Fi "War Of The Satellites," starring Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox, Robert Shayne, Jared Barclay, and John Brinkley. The story centers around man's attempt to explore space while an alien race tries to prevent them from leaving planet Earth. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Jun 24, 2024•46 min•Season 9Ep. 1
In this very special anniversary episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, Jim reflects on the first time he saw Ken Russell's classic 1980 Sci-Fi film "Altered States," written by Paddy Chayefsky and starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Bob Balaban, Thaao Penghlis, Dori Brenner, Charles White eagle, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette, and George Gaynes. Russell's surrealistic look at a man's obsession with finding answers to the meaning of life developed a large cult f...
Jun 17, 2024•52 min•Season 8Ep. 51
Jim reflects on a masterful tale involving a clean-cut suburban lad who goes on a deadly shooting spree in Los angeles - Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets," starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Arthur Peterson, James Brown, Tanya Morgan, Mary Jackson, Sandy Baron, Monte Landis and Mike Farrell. This critically-acclaimed 1967 thriller shocked audiences on first release and developed a cult following during the next five decades. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcas...
Jun 10, 2024•50 min•Season 8Ep. 50
Jim reflects on a 1983 Sci-Fi homage to old 50s films which initially did not do well, but found an audience in Home Video and a nice cult following - "Strange Invaders," starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Louise Fletcher, Shawn Wallace, Kenneth Tobey, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Michael Lerner and directed by Michael Laughlin. A college professor and a tabloid reporter go on a quest to find the man's missing ex-wife. And yes, Aliens are involved. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK...
Jun 03, 2024•44 min•Season 8Ep. 49
Jim reminisces about his first viewing of a classic sci-fi film from 1987 that has spawned an iconic franchise and following - "Robocop...
May 27, 2024•59 min•Season 8Ep. 48
Jim reflects on his first viewing of a 1984 Science Fiction film which spawned a popular Urban Legend - "The Philadelphia Experiment," starring Michael Pare', Bobby Di Cicco, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Louise Latham, Stephen Tobolowsky and Keene Holliday. A naval experiment in 1943 results in two sailors ending up in 1984. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
May 20, 2024•48 min•Season 8Ep. 47
Jim reflects on a classic tale of witchcraft based on Fritz Leiber Jr;s novel "Conjuring Wife" - 1962's "Burn, Witch, Burn," starring Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon and Reginald Beckwith. With a screenplay written by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont and directed by Sydney Hayers, the film centers around the wife of a young college professor who uses spells and incantations to protect her husband from jealous co-workers. Find out more on this e...
May 13, 2024•39 min•Season 8Ep. 47
Jim reflects on one of the first "Monster Movies" he saw after his family moved to North Carolina - "Marooned," starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Mariette Hartley, Nancy Kovak, Scott Brady, Walter Brooke, John Forsythe, and directed by John Sturges. This 1969 Sci-Fi tells the tale of three astronauts trapped in orbit around the Earth with no chance of being rescued. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Mons...
May 06, 2024•45 min•Season 8Ep. 46
Mark Maddox returns for a rousing discussion of a 1965 classic tale based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft "Die, Monster, Die," starring Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Patrick Magee, Freda Jackson, Terence DeMarney and Directed By Daniel Haller. Based on "The Colour From Space," the story centers around a young man (Adams) visiting his British girlfriend and learning of the strange going-ons surrounded her home. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!. The Podcast Dedicated To Old...
Apr 29, 2024•52 min•Season 8Ep. 45
Jim reflects on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic "The Land That Time Forgot," starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley, Declan Mulholland, Steve James, and directed by Kevin Conner. A group of shipwrecked sailors (both British and German) must work together to survive on an island that has dinosaurs and other perils. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies....
Apr 22, 2024•44 min•Season 8Ep. 44
