Jaws did more for the cinema than even Universal could have predicted... it spawned an entirely new genre. Petar, Josh and Cecil are joined this week by Brandon Tenold as we look at the best and worst of the Jaws knockoffs from Tentacles and Great White (The Last Shark) to Devil Fish and Cruel Jaws.
The Jaws films are so iconic (even if it's iconography is for how bad the sequels are) that it's about time Josh, Cecil and Petar looked into the impact this quadrilogy has had on film.
1989 was awash with movies set in the blackened deep of the oceans... outer space was no longer the great unexplored reach, but the darkest elements of our own planet. Petar, Cecil and Josh look at all 6 of the underwater monster flicks that arose in 1989. Leviathan, Deepstar Six, The Abyss, Lords Of The Deep, Endless Descent and The Evil Below.
Josh and Cecil look at just how much you used to be able to get away with on TV and no longer can. All in the Family would never make it today. What about Miami Vice? Twilight Zone? NYPD Blue? St. Elsewhere? Hill Street Blues? It's nuts some of the examples we have.
Terminal City Ricochet is a film that more people need to see. Jello Biafra sits down with Josh to discuss his acting career and this movie in particular. Charley McMullen joins Cecil, Petar and Josh to examine Terminal City Ricochet in more detail. Check it out.
Poltergeist has a remake coming out... so we have to look back at this franchise.
With Fury Road opening tonight... Josh, Cecil and Petar take a look at the films that brought us to this point.
Is the relationship between film and pop culture symbiotic or parasitic?
Day of the Animals is not just a movie, but a genre. This week we look at those animal attack films such as Jaws, Tentacles, Night Of The Lepus, Kingdom Of The Spiders, Tarantula, Jennifer The Snake Goddess, Frogs, Roar, Empire Of The Ants, Phase IV, Grizzly, Them and so many others.
Cecil Trachenburg, Petar Gagic and Josh Hadley are all fans of music videos and you will be surprised at just how many music videos were directed by movie directors. Michael Bay, David Fincher, John Landis, Tobe Hooper, Tony Scott, David Lynch, Stan Winson, James Cameron, Katherine Bigelow and so many others.
VHS, it's how most of us acquired our vast database of movie knowledge. Cecil, Josh and Petar take a look at how VHS changed the face of movies and how VHS even changed the face of technology itself.
Joe Dante comes back to the show and talks about his TV work from low budget anthology shows to mainstream work such as Hawaii 5-0 and CSI and the rest of us talk about how television is becoming more and more theatrical.
David Gerrold is one of those science fiction writers who's name you may not know but who's work you know all too well.
Context? Who needs context? These are just some of the random bullshit I saved while editing RadioDrome episodes.
Television has changed more than most people realize. It had gotten more graphic and yet more censored. It has become more free and yet more restrictive. The cast of RadioDrome have witnessed these changes throughout our lives and I bet you have too, you just didn't notice.
You have the right to remain silent... FOREVER. The Maniac Cop franchise is one of the most overlooked in the horror community and Josh, Cecil and Petar aim to change that.
Video Games are everywhere... movies, cartoons, comic books, novels and other assorted baubles... but does this form of art truly translate to other media? We look into this.
A few years ago I got together with frequent collaborator Mike White and KC Von B to put forth a radio program about adult films that was mature and introspective... the result was Sinema (KC Von B's title I remember correctly). In this pilot we examine the films Behind The Green Door and Cafe Flesh, films that have a relation you may not pick up on at first. We look at the stories, the histories and yes, the sex. Joining us for his thoughts is the one and only Bill Margold as well. This never m...
Cop movies and vigilante movies are so common the themes in them are all but cliches at this point even when they should not be. Why is this? Why do we love to see the rogue cop take the law into his own hands to get the bad guy? Petar and Josh take a look at this while Cecil is off at PAX.
Uwe Boll, the name conjures up the starkest of images and yet the real man is down to earth and honestly just wants to make good films. Brad Jones, Alex Jowski and I sit down and talk to the man in a very candid piece that you are sure to devour.
Was there a better action movie director in the 1980's than James Glickenhaus? I don't think so. I sat down and talked to him on 2 separate occasions (both collected here) and got his take on movies today, his films in particular and the state of the industry and where it's going. We also discuss how 42nd Street radically changed after Shakedown was made.
Peter David, a name that any comic or scifi fan will know as one that engenders quality and originality. I sat down and talked to Mr. David about his body of work and how it was working within the confines of the franchises he works with.
How as the horror genre changed? Has it gotten better over time? Worse? Josh, Cecil and Petar look into this phenomena and then rant about how we all hate new horror films.
How much does the marketing of a movie play into it's success? Josh, Petar and Cecil examine this and Joe Dante (yes, that Joe Dante) stops by to talk about Trailers From Hell ( trailersfromhell.com/ ) and some of the sequels to his movies... that he had nothing to do with.
What Best Of The Best is the best of the best? Mike White steps in this week to help Cecil, Josh and Petar look at the Best Of The Best Franchise.
In this second special episode of RadioDrome, writer Buzz Dixon reveals what it was like to work on the myriad of properties from the 80's which he made so distinct. G.I. Joe, Transformers, Visionaries, Thundarr and so forth.
Josh, Petar and Cecil look at disaster films and why the public is so drawn to seeing the worst aspects of their acts played out before them.
Nuclear war, radiation, giant mutant bugs... the horrors of the age of the atom. Josh, Cecil and Petar take a look at the Atomic Horrors from the 1950's through today.
In this special edition of RadioDrome we look at film preservation and speak to Joe Rubin of Vinegar Syndrome about the upcoming Vinegar Syndrome TV project which you can help with here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/vinegarsyndrome-tv-instant-digital-exploitation#/
A TV series, a film, a song... they capture (intentionally or not) the zeitgeist of the era they are created in... and that rarely translates well into a new era. Josh, Cecil and Petar take a look at some of these instances which both did and did not work being transferred out of their native times.
