The Wolfman (1941) Revisited |Episode 352 Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a lively discussion of the Universal 1941 classic, ‘The Wolfman,” starring Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, Ralph Bellamy and Patric Knowles. For more than seven decades this film has been
Jim reflects on a 1967 classic from Hammer Films and the fourth in its Frankenstein Franchise – “Frankenstein Created Woman,” starring Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris, Barry Warren, Duncan Lamont, Alan MacNaughtan, Peter Blythe and Derek Fowlds. The Baron is back with a new experiment involving capturing
Jim discusses a 1954 Sci-Fi film that was not readily available in the U.S. for many years, “Stranger From Venus” aka “The Venusian,” starring Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine, Derek Bond and Cyril Luckman. A strange man appears at a small inn with a dire warning for its residents concerning man’s
Jim takes another look at a classic 1957 Monster Movie that set in motion a series of “Teen Exploitation horror films – “I Was A Teenage Werewolf,” starring Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime, Barney Phillips, Malcom Atterbury, Joseph Mell and Guy Williams. A mad scientist uses a troubled teen
Jim revisits another favorite from his childhood by reflecting on 1957’s “The Thing That Couldn’t Die,” starring William Reynolds, Carolyn Kearney, Andra Martin, Peggy Converse, Jeffrey Stone, James Anderson, Carl Horvath and Robin Hughes. The head of a man accused of witchcraft in the 16th century is found and wrecks
Jim revisits his favorite “Brain” movie from his early days as a “Monster Kid,” 1957’s” The Brain From Planet Arous,” starring John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Thomas Browne Henry and Ken Terrell. An alien brain inhabits the body of renowned nuclear physicist with plans to conquer the people of
Jim revisits a classic 1957 Sci-fi from Bert I. Gordon, “The Amazing Colossal Man,” starring Glen Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, Larry Thor, James Seay and Russ Bender. After surviving a plutonium blast, a man begins to grow at an incredible rate. Can doctors cure him before he becomes a
Jim Revisits a classic 1957 Sci-Fi from Hammer, “X The Unknown,” starring Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, Edward Chapman, William Lucas, Marianne Brauns and Ian MacNaughtor. A creature from beneath the Earth’s crust and highly radioactive threatens mankind in its quest for food. Find out about Jim’s first taste of Hammer
Jim revisits a favorite Dinosaur film form his childhood, 1957’s “The Land Unknown,” starring Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Phil Harvey, Henry Brandon, Douglas Kennedy and Tim Smyth. An expedition in Antarctica finds four people n a land that has been untouched for millions of years. Can they escape
Jim discusses a sci-fi disaster that ranks up there with some of the worst movies he has watched – 1972’s “The Doomsday Machine,” starring Grant Williams, Bobby Van, Ruta Lee, James Craig, Mala Powers, Denny Miller and Casey Kasem. A manned flight to Venus is doomed form the start as
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
