Jim reflects on his first viewing of the Directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, 1972’s “Silent Running,” starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons, Cheryl Sparks, Steven Brown, Larry Whisenhunt and the vices of Roy Engel and Joseph Campanella. The was released 50 years ago without any
Madeline Brumby is back as she and Jim discuss an interesting Kaiju film from 1971, “Godzilla vs Hedorah,” starring Akira Yamanouchi, Toshie Komura, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshio Shiba, Keiko Mari and Yoshio Yoshida. The film, directed by Yoshimitu Banno,, takes the Godzilla saga in a different direction that emphasizes man’s destruction
Jim revisits his experience with a Cult Sci-Fi Classic from 1965 “Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster,” starring James Karen, Nancy Marshall, Lou Cutell, Marilyn Hanold, David Kerman, Robert Reilly and Bruce Glover. After Mars is rendered uninhabitable by an atomic war, a small band of Martians comes to Earth seeking
Jim examines a sci-fi classic from 1958, “Fiend Without A Face,” starring Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker, Terry Kilburn, Kynaston Reeves and Stanley Maxton. A scientist on an air base in Canada experiments with the materialization of thought waves, but a series of strange events leads an Air Force officer to
Jim revisits the very first “Vampire’ film he ever saw and takes an emotional trip down memory lane with “Dracula,” starring Bela Lugosi. Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Helen Chandler, Davis Manners and Herbert Bunston. This was the film that launched Universal Films as the king of horror just four
On this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, Jim Adams travels down memory to reflect on a film that helped him through a difficult time, 1969’s “Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,” starring Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Freddie Jones, Thorley Walters and Geoffrey Bayldon. The Baron is at it again blackmailing a
In this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, the podcast dedicated to Old Monster Movies, Jim Adams reflects on his experience watching 2010 The Year We Make Contact when it was released in 1984. This adaptation was based on Arthur C. Clarke’s sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey dealing with a return
Jim reflects on a low-budget Sci-Fi from 1968 directed by Nicholas Webster (“Santa Claus Conquers The Martians”) – “Mission Mars,” starring Darren McGavin, Nick Adams, George De Vries, Heather Hewitt, Shirley Parker, Michael, DeBeausset, and Bill Kelly. The U.S.’s first manned Mars landing encounters a strange creature that leads to
