“Monster Attack” is a podcast dedicated to old “Monster Movies,” the ones we all grew up with and fell in love with. These are the films that opened up a new world of scary creatures, sci-fi wonders and frightening tales of the supernatural. Former radio personality Jim Adams re-visit a time when ra…
The Monster Attack podcast is a delightful show that delves into the world of classic monster, horror, and sci-fi movies. Hosted by Jim Adams, this podcast is a must-listen for any fan of these genres. With a perfect balance of passion and information, Jim brings these old movies to life in a way that is both entertaining and educational. What sets this show apart is the host's ability to find the good in even the most mediocre films, avoiding the temptation to pick at their flaws or make fun of old tropes. Instead, he celebrates them for what they are and helps listeners find even more enjoyment in these classic films.
One of the best aspects of The Monster Attack podcast is Jim's extensive knowledge and research on each film. Whether he's flying solo or has guests on the show, Jim provides interesting backstories about the cast, plot, and production that add depth to each episode. This information not only enhances the listener's understanding of the film but also helps them decide whether or not they want to seek out more obscure titles. Additionally, episodes with co-hosts Mark and Madeline bring a livelier dynamic to the show.
However, one drawback of The Monster Attack podcast is that sometimes when Jim has guests on the show, it can veer off on tangents that leave basic information unaddressed. While these tangents may be entertaining, they can detract from getting a comprehensive understanding of each film. Additionally, some listeners have pointed out audio issues where Jim's acknowledgement sounds mask over his co-hosts' voices, making it difficult to hear what they are saying.
In conclusion, The Monster Attack podcast is a labor of love for host Jim Adams. With his passion for classic monster movies shining through each episode, he provides an enjoyable experience for fans of this genre. While there may be some minor drawbacks like occasional tangents and audio issues, overall this podcast offers valuable insights into old horror movies and helps listeners discover hidden gems they may have missed. If you have a warm place in your heart for classic monster movies, The Monster Attack podcast is sure to enhance your enjoyment of these films.
Jim pays tribute to one of his favorite Horror Hosts growing up -"Baron Daemon" from Syracuse, N.Y. and takes a look at the "Flash Gordon" Serials from the late 1930's. Mike Price a.k.a. Baron Daemon worked for WNYS Channel 9 for more than 45 years and left quite a legacy throughout Upstate and Central N.Y. During his afternoon kids show, he would show the classic Flash Gordon serials. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 oceanarium for study by two scientists (Agar and Nelson). But you can't keep a good man (or is it fish) down. Find out what happens on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
In memory of his mother, Phyllis, for Mothers Day, Jim discusses a classic film based on a Jules Verne novel - 1960's "Mysterious Island," starring Michael Craig, Gary Merrill, Michael Callan, Herbert Lom, Joan Greenwood, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert, Dan Jackson and directed by Cy Endfield with special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Union soldiers and a war correspondent escape a Confederate POW camp in an observation balloon and end up on a island in the Pacific. There are plenty of surprises in store for our castaways and you can find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Madeline Brumby, Shane Morton and Mark Maddox join Jim for a rousing discussion of 1964's Kaiju Classic, "Godzilla vs The Thing," aka Godzilla Vs Mothra or Mothra vs Godzilla," starring Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yu Fujiki Emi and Yumi Ito, Krnji Sahara, Jun Tazaku, Akira Tani, Haruo Nakajima, Katsumi Tazuka and directed by Ishiro Honda. A strange egg floats ashore at a small Japanese village arousing the interest of some local ne'er-do-wells. And in the distance, a familiar roar can be heard! Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 picjs up where "The Curse Of Frankenstein" left off. The Baron is operating a clinic under a new name and building another human. But things just cannot seem to go his way. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddox joins Jim (who's suffering from an extreme pollen allergy) in discussing a strange little "Zombie" film from 1973, in fact a "Zombie on motorcycles" film - "Psychomania," Starring Nicky Henson, George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Mary Larkin, Denis Gilmore, Roy Holder, Robert Hardy, Ann Michelle, and Directed by Don Sharp. A group of teens decide to use Black Magic to die and return from the dead causing a real problem for a small British town. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim reflects on his introduction to "Giallo" films with Dario Argento's "The Bird With The Crystal Plumage," starring Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Mario Adorf, Umberto Raho, and Raf Valenti. In Argento's directorial debut, the story centers around an American writer who witnesses an attempted homicide. But, something's not quite right. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast.
Jim discusses a classic Sci-Fi film produced by George Pal and directed by Byron Haskin - "Conquest Of Space," starring Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Ross Martin, Phil Foster, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Redfield, Benson Fong, William Hopper, Vito Scotti, Michael Fox, and Rosemary Clooney. In the near future, a planned mission to the Moon becomes a mission to Mars. But it's commander begins having second thoughts which could sabotage the trip. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses one of his favorite Sci-Fi films growing up - "This Island Earth," Starrinf Rex Reason, Faith Domergue. Jeff Morrow, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson, Douglas Spencer and directed by Joseph M. Newman and Jack Arnold. Aliens from the planet Metaluna grab a group of Earth scientists to help them solve a problem with generating power using nuclear energy. Find out more about this legendary movie on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 family in Appalachia during The Great Depression. Find out more about this heralded classic on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 SeLuca,Tom Toner, Philip Frame, David Lampson, Helen Baron, Karen Ericson, and Jesse Welles. Bob Kelljan and Michael Macready team up again to bring the Count back to terrorize an orphanage in a small Northern California community. find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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, Thomas Baptiste, Michael Gough, and Jennifer Jayne. This tale involves five men riding on a train with a strange doctor who tells their fortunes using Tarot cards. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicted To Old Monster Movies.
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 stories while Matheson adapts the third segment in this excellent tour-de-force for Black. Find out more on this episode MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddox joins Jim for a tip of the hat to a classic Jack Arnold "Big Bug" film celebrating its 70th Anniversary, "Tarantula," starring John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliot, Bert Holland and Clint Eastwood. An experiment by a scientist out in a remote part of California gets out of control and threatens a small town and possibly the planet. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!. The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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. A group of astronauts on a mission to find out what happened to a colonizing party who they lost contact with 20 years earlier find an eccentric professor, his daughter and a dark secret. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 in a remote art of the California desert. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER AYYACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 Robert Gordon, the effects from this film continued to establish Harryhausen as one of the best special effects men in the business. A giant octopus threatens San Francisco. How will will it be stopped? Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses a 1965 Horror Classic from Producer/Director William Castle - "I Saw What You Did," starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Sara Lane, Andi Garrett, Sharyl Locke, Patricia Breslin, John Archer, John Crawford, and Joyce Meadows. Three girls playing a phone prank end up playing a lethal game surrounding the murder of a man's wife. Find out moe on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing discussion of the 1965 Italian Sci-Fi classic "The10th Victim," starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Luce Bnifassy, Salva Randone, Evy Rigano, and directed by Elio Petri. A futuristic society uses a TV show that involves people hunting and murdering one another to channel off violent tendencies. One such hunt involves two of the most popular contestants. Find out more on this episode of MONTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim reflects on a classic 1975 horror film from Tyburn Film Productions directed by Freddie Francis, "The Ghoul," starring Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastardo, Gwen Watford, Stewart Bevan, Ian McCulloch, Dan Meaden and Don Hendersan. Two couples find themselves lost in "the moors" and facing a strange family with a terrible secret. Find out more on this week's episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim loooks at a Sci-Fi Thriller celebrating its 50th Anniversary with Bryan Forbes' "The Stepford Wives," starring katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, William Prince, Carole Mallory, Toni Reid, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, George Coe, and Mary Stuart Masterson.Based on the novel by Ira Levin, a young couple move to the suburns from NYC where they find a strange community straight out of a 50's Sit-Com. But there is a dark secret about Stepford. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddox joins Jim in an in-depth discussion of Tim Burton's superhero classic "Batman," starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough, Billy Dee Williams, Tracey Walter, Jack Palance, Wiliam Hootkins, and Jerry Hall. This "Dark Knight" origin story was the top-grossing domestic feature film of the year and set the table for future superhero movies. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated TO Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses his first experiences with the 1959 Post-Apocalyptic classic "On The Beach," directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson and John Meillon. A US submarine arrives in Melbourne, Australia where the remaining members of the human race are left following a world-wide nuclear exchange. The clock is ticking before the end of humanity in this poignant film. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddux joins Jim for a look at Irwin Allen's classic1974 thriller "The Towering Inferno," starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Susan Flannery, Norman Burton, Don Gordon, Gregory Sierra and a host of rising stars. The nation's tallest building is being dedicated when fire breaks out on one of the upper floors leaving several people trapped. It's a race against time in this blockbuster released just before Christmas. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddux joins us for an in-depth look at a Sci-Fi classic from 1971 directed by Robert Wise - "The Andromeda Strain," starring James Olson, Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, and Robert Soto as the "Baby." A satellite returning from space carries something that threatens all of mankind. It is a race against time in this thriller from 53 years ago that later proved prophetic. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 assists Scotland Yard in stopping a killer that is haunting London in the late 1800s. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 are fighting. Mothra tries to convince the two to join her in defeating the threat. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 Larry Talbott for relief from their respective curses. Throw in the Frankenstein Monster and you have a full set. Find out more about this 1945 classic on this episode MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Mark Maddox joins Jim for a discussion of a 1981 Thriller directed by Piers Haggard -"Venom," starring Oliver Reed, Susan George, Nicol Williamson, Klaus Kinski, Sterling Hayden, and Lance Holcombe. An attempted kidnapping of a young boy goes horribly wrong as a deadly snake threatens everyone in a London townhouse. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses a classic sci-fi film from 1940 - "Dr. Cyclops, " starring Albert Dekker. Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, for producers Merian C. Cooper and Dale Van Every. A reclusive scientist with a laboratory laboratory deep in the Amazon jungle invites three scientists to assist. Upon discovering a horrific secret, they are subjected to experiments involving radiation. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses the sequel to "Son Of Frankenstein with 1942's "The Ghost Of Frankenstein," starring Lon Chaney Jr, Cedricke Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Janet Ann Gallow, Barton Yarborough, and Olaf Hytten. Produced by George Waggner and directed by Erle C. Kenton, this sequel picks up where "Son" left off except Ygor seeks out the "second" son of Frankenstein for help reviving "The Monster." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 directed by Tobe Hooper, this ghost story dominated the film from Halloween through the Holiday Season. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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. A recently divorced woman and her two sons move in with her father in a small California town that has a deadly secret. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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, and Madie Norman. In the small town of Santa Mira, there are strange going-ons leading an E.R. doctor and the daughter of a missing man to make a horrifying discovery. Find out more on this special Halloween episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 centered around :He who walks among the rows," kills everyone in a small Iowa town and threatens a husband and wife who cross paths with them. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 New York City with hilarious results. But, there is a secret that threatens all mankind. Find out more on this Halloween episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 had created "The Monster." But surpirses await the doctor. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 nearby planet. And then the fun begins, because "in Space, no one can hear you scream." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 Cedar, Ann Southern Paul Mantee, and Burgess Meredith. It's true "Double Feature" fare as Jim and Clay talk about these two cult films from the 70's and it's all ahead on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 of profit-making blockbusters with a bad performance at theatres. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 was one of the top grossing films of the year. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 of hazards and surpirses as 12 individuals from different countries try to work together for all mankind. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 little time to save the Earth from the clutches of Dr. Lizardo and the evil Red Lectroids. Find out more on this episode of MONTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 faced with a drug smuggling operation that is taking the lives of several workers. Find out how he faces up to incredible odds on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 dinosaur, now 80 meters tall, reappears and heads for the city once again. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim remembers his first viewing of the 1969 TV Movie, "Night Gallery," which served as the pilot for the series and starred Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, George Macready, Barry Atwater, Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan, Tom Bosley, Byron Morrow, Richard Kiley, Sam Jaffe, George Murdock and featured directors, Boris Sagal, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Shear. The film included three tales of the weird written by Rod Serling, who introduced each segment. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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 they fail to return from a journey. Along the way they encounter a large sea serpent and end up on an unknown island. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim discusses a classic Black Comedy Horror Film from 1980 written by Robert and Steven Charles Jaffe - "Motel Hell," starring Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, Nin Axelrod, Paul Linke, Wolfman Jack, Elaine Joyce, Dick Curtis, Monique St. Pierre, Rosanne Katon, E Hampton Beagle, John Ratzenberger and directed by Kevin Connor. Farmer Vincent uses a very special ingredient in his famous smoked meats. And what might that be? Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
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, which has resulted in many considering this to be an excellent remake of the legendary 1956 classic. find out more of this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
Jim reminisces about the second "Monster Movie" he ever saw - Roger Corman's 1958 Sci-Fi "War Of The Satellites," starring Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox, Robert Shayne, Jared Barclay, and John Brinkley. The story centers around man's attempt to explore space while an alien race tries to prevent them from leaving planet Earth. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.
In this very special anniversary episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, Jim reflects on the first time he saw Ken Russell's classic 1980 Sci-Fi film "Altered States," written by Paddy Chayefsky and starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Bob Balaban, Thaao Penghlis, Dori Brenner, Charles White eagle, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette, and George Gaynes. Russell's surrealistic look at a man's obsession with finding answers to the meaning of life developed a large cult following during the last 40+ years. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.