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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
