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,
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
Jim discusses his first experience with a classic 1959 Horror-Thriller based on an infamous London serial killer – “Jack The Ripper, starring Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier, Jack Allen, Endre Muller, and Directed by Monty Berman and Robert S Baker. An American police detective
Jim discusses a classic Kaiju film that celebrates its 60th anniversary this month – “Ghidora: The Three-Headed Monster, starring Yosuke Natsuki, Yurikp Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, “The Peanuts” as Shobijin, Tkashi Shumura, Hisaya Ito, and directed by Ishiro Honda. A strange monster from outer space shows up as Godzilla ad Rodan
Jim reflects on the last film in the Universal Frankenstein/Dracula Universe – “House of Dracula” starring Lon Chaney Jr, Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Glenn Strange, Martha O’Driscoll, Lionel Atwill, Jane Adams, and Skelton Knaggs. Dr. Eidelman (Stevens) known for helping those with unique problems, draws the interest of Dracula and
In this final entry of this year’s Halloween Fare, Jim discusses a classic cult film frim 1982 – “Poltergeist,” starring Craig T. Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominque Dunne, Oliver Robbins, Heather O’Rourke, Michael McManus, James Karen, Zelda Rubinstein, Dirk Blocker, and Sonny Landham. Produced by Steven Spielberg and
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
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 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
Jim talks about a game-changing Japanese film that helped restart the Godzilla franchise, “Godzilla 1984,” aka “The Return Of Godzilla,” starring Ken Tanaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Shin Takuma, Ken Satsuma and directed by Koji Hashimoto. 30 Years after Godzilla attacked Tokyo and was apparently destroyed, the giant
Jim looks back on a 1958 Roger Corman classic, “Viking Women and The Sea Serpent,” starring Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Jonathan Haze, June Kenney, Bradford Jackson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jay Sayer, Sally Todd, Mike Forrest, and Gary Conway. Viking women go on a quest to find their men after
Jim thinks back on the first time he saw Phillip Kaufman’s 1978 remake of “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,” starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin McCarthy, and Leonard Nimoy. Kaufman gives the story of an invasion of Planet Earth by space-borne seed pods a 70’s approach,
