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SSSSSSS | Episode 469

Jim reflects back on the first time he saw this sci-i cult classic from 1973 -“SSSSSSS,” Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B Shull, Tim O’Connor, Jack Ging, Reb Brown, Kathleen King, Charles Steel, and Noble Craig. This is a tale of a mad scientist who wants to create

Psycho | Episode 468

Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing 9th Anniversary Special of the podcast talking about a classic game-changing film from Alfred Hitchcock – “Psycho,” starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, John Anderson, and Ted Knight. Marian Crane (Leigh) steals $40,000 from her employer

Godzilla Raids Again | Episode 467

Jim helps celebrate the 70th Anniversary of a classic Kaiju film _ “Godzilla Raids again,” starring Hirashi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Haruo Nakajima, and Katsumi Tazuka. Following the destruction caused by Godzilla in the first film and his demise by the “Oxygen Destroyer,” another Godzilla is found

Revenge Of The Creature | Episode 465

Jim revisits a classic “Creature” film directed by Jack Arnold -1955’s “Revenge Of The Creature,” starring John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning, Tom Hennesy, and Clint Eastwood. Another expedition into the Amazon results in the capture of the “Gill Man,” who is transported to a Florida

The Revenge Of Frankenstein | Episode 462

Jim reflects on one of the first Hammer Monster Movies he ever watched – 1958’s “The Revenge Of Frankenstein,” starring Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Grayson, Oscar Quitak, Michael Gwynn, John Welsh, Richard Wordsworth, George Woodbridge, and Michael Ripper. Directed by Terence Fisher and written by Jimmy Sangster, this film

The Night Of The Hunter | Episode 457

Jim discusses a cult classic psychological thriller from 1955 – “The Night Of The Hunter,” starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves, Billy Chapin, Sally jane Bruce, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Don Beddoe, Gloria Castillo and directed by Charles Laughton. A conman posing as a preacher terrorizes a

The Return Of Count Yorga | Episode 456

As a spotlight for the upcoming Monsterama Convention, Jim looks at a classic vampire film from 1971 – “The Return Of Cunt Yorga,” starring Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley (a guest at the convention), Roger Perry, Yvonne Wilder, Edward Walsh, Walter Brooke, George Macready, Craig T. Nelson, Rudy DeLuca, Tom Toner,

Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors | Episode 455

Jim reflects back on an anthology film from Amicus that greatly influenced him early on – Freddie Francis’ “Dr. Terror’s House Of Horrors,” starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Max Adrian, Ann Bell, Peter Madden, Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle, Ursula Howells, Katy Wild, Bernard Lee, Alan Freeman, Jeremy Kemp, Kenny Lynch,

Trilogy Of Terror | Episode 454

Jim reflects on a classic Made-For-TV Horror Film from Producer/Director Dan Curtis based on three stories by Richard Matheson – “Trilogy Of Terror,” starring Karen Black, Robert Burton, Jim Storm, Gregory Harrison, George Gaynes, John Karlen, Kathryn Reynolds, Walker Edmiston and Tracy Curtis. William F. Nolan adapts the first two

Forbidden Planet | Episode 452

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a rousing discussion of the 1956 Sci-Fi Classic “Forbidden Planet,” starring Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly and Earl Holliman. The episode also promotes the first Silver Scream Spook Show for 2025 at the Plaza Theatre in Atlanta.

The Beast With 1,000,000 Eyes | Episode 451

Jim reflects on a classic Roger Corman film from 1955, “The Beast With A 1,000,000 Eyes,” starring Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver, Bruce Whitmore, and Chester Conklin. An unseen alien takes over the bodies of animals and humans on its way to conquering the Earth

It Came From Beneath The Sea | Episode 450

Jim reflects on one of the first “Big Monster” movies he saw growing up, 1955’s Classic, “It Cam From Beneath The Sea,” featuring the work of Ray Harryhausen and starring Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox, and Harry Lauter. Produced by Charles Schneer and directed by

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