Podcast appearances and mentions of Charles B Griffith

This week on The 80s Movie Podcast, host Edward Havens launches a new semi-regular series, Produced and Abandoned, spotlighting films that were completed but largely discarded by their distributors. First up: the bizarre and nearly forgotten 1980 horror-comedy Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype, a very loose retelling of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring Oliver Reed in a dual role, and written and directed by Charles B. Griffith, the legendary screenwriter behind The Little Shop of Horrors. Produced by Cannon Films, the movie was rushed from concept to completion in just a few months, only to practically vanish from theaters. Edward explores the film's wild production history, from Griffith's original comedy concept and failed attempt to cast Dick Van Dyke to Oliver Reed's last-minute involvement and the movie's mysterious disappearance after only a handful of theatrical screenings. Plus: the connections to cult favorites like Condorman and The Apple, the strange international afterlife of the film on VHS, and why forgotten studio castoffs like Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype still deserve rediscovery decades later. ----more---- Transcript From Los Angeles, California, the entertainment capital of the world. It's The 80s Movie Podcast. I'm your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. Today, on this 137th episode of the show, I'm going to be starting a new semi-regular series called Produced and Abandoned, that brings movies that were made and barely exhibited back to the spotlight, if even only for a moment. One of the many advantages of having a non-linear podcast like this one is that I, as the host and the researcher and the writer, can zag unexpectedly at a moment's notice when I feel compelled to. And that happened to me this week. For a film historian like myself who focuses on movies from a specific discipline like, say, from the 1980s, the internet is a veritable cornucopia of people who share in some way many of your same passions, and you will find them doing a lot of the legwork unintentionally for you, or pointing you in a direction you didn't know you needed to go. In 2026, I. Edward Havens, still have an active Facebook account, which I mainly use to keep in touch with my friends and family who are scattered throughout the globe. I have curated my feed so that the non-relative crazy uncles and aunts of the world, with their tinfoil hats and indecipherable conspiracy theories about the strangest subjects, do not reach me. So it's not as toxic a space as many people know it to be. Some time last week, thanks to filmmaker Adam Rifkin, I learned about a private Facebook group called Old Movie Newspaper and Print Ads from Around the World. Nearly a century of digital newspaper clippings, mostly from the United States and mostly from the 1970s and 1980s. If, for example, if you wanted to know how many theaters the god awful 1988 Joe Piscopo horror/action/comedy film Dead Heat opened at in Detroit in May of 1988, I can tell you that now. It was twenty one theaters, by the way. Including four drive ins. And while perusing this private Facebook group of insane movie nerds, my kind of people, I saw an ad for an Oliver Reed movie I had never heard of before, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hype. Well, the episode that I had been working on, that I've been tinkering with for damn more than two years now, was moved to the backburner once again, for the time being. I had to learn more about this movie, and I had to learn about it right then and there, because that's who I am. At one thirty in the morning, with a toddler ready to wake up in five and a half hours. I was exhausted, but at least I was going to get the ball rolling. And what I discovered is just how amazingly quick this film went from concept to writing, to production to completion. In an interview published in the 1997 book "BackStory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1960s," the film's writer and director, Charles B. Griffith, described how the film came together. The title, originally "Doctor Feelgood and Mr. Hype," was one of several joke titles and ideas that Griffith had come up with for an expected meeting with Francis Ford Coppola about getting a movie made in the late 1970s. Griffith's own pitch for the film was that a hippie invents a new drug that turns its users into advertising executives. It was more meant to be an opening icebreaker joke than a real movie. After filming the movie Up From the Depths in the Philippines in 1978, Griffith would find himself talking to Cannon Films co-president Menahem Golan, who wanted Griffith to write a screenplay for The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood. While that film would get made, it would get made without Griffith ever signing on to it. But the two men would continue to talk regularly, as Griffith had been a roommate of Golan's when the Israeli filmmaker first arrived in America. And during one of those talks around New Year's Day of 1980s, Golan asked Griffith, who had just finished a two decade long, two dozen screenplay working relationship with Roger Corman, what he wanted to do next, Griffith would blurt out, for whatever reason, the title and pitch for "Doctor Feelgood and Mr. Hype," and Golan loved the idea. He was ready to put $750,000 into the production, provided Griffith had the film ready in four months... Ready to screen at the Cannes Film Market in four months, that is. Now, Griffith hadn't written a script for "Doctor Feelgood" at this point. All he had was that very basic one line concept, because it was never meant to be an actual film. Breaking down his timeline, Griffith figured he had three weeks to write and prep the film, a month to shoot, and two weeks to edit the footage. Of the $750,000 budget. Griffith would get twenty five thousand dollars to write and another twenty five thousand dollars to direct. As mentioned a moment ago, Griffith was a veteran of working with Roger Corman, so getting a shooting script ready in three weeks shouldn't have been a problem. Griffith, after all, had famously written the screenplay for The Little Shop of Horrors in just two days, and Griffith would completely change the direction of the story as well as the title. Cannon's own press release for the film would sum up the new story thusly... Horror spoof. Very loosely based on the R. L. Stevenson story, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lovable yet unattractive, chiropodist doctor Henry Heckle takes an overdose of a slimming drug, believing it will kill him. The drug transforms him and he becomes handsome and slim. He seduces several women, all of whom recoil from him when they see the ugliness in his eyes. The drug begins to wear off, and he takes a second dose, and he begins to terrorize the local community. Finally, he realizes that his love, Coral, loves him for himself, preferring the physically ugly but the spiritually beautiful. At first, Griffith tried to get the legendary Dick Van Dyke to play the titular characters, but Mr. Van Dyke was booked for all of 1980, appearing in the title role in a Broadway revival and U.S. tour of The Music Man. So he would turn to his second choice, who was, naturally as one would expect as a second choice to be for the wiry, immensely talented singer, dancer and actor Dick Van Dyke, the incredibly talented but somewhat pudgy, hirsute and not exactly known as a singer and dancer, Oliver Reed. By 1980, Mr. Reed had lost a lot of his star luster that made him an unusual heartthrob throughout the late 60s and early 70s. Not that he wasn't working on a regular basis. In fact, when Reed agreed to take the lead roles here, Griffith would have exactly one week to work with the legendary actor, who had a tiny hole in his schedule before he needed arrive in Paris to begin production on Disney's Condorman. That wouldn't be a problem for Griffith, who was used to dealing with massive production changes at the last minute. Reed's casting was announced to the press in late February, after Griffith had already cast Catherine Mary Stewart, who had recently finished her first film role in Menahem Golan's The Apple, as Coral, the beautiful young woman who falls for Heckyl, as well as Corman regulars Mel Welles and Dick Miller, and Jackie Coogan, the child star of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid Who found a renewed fame as Uncle Fester on the beloved 1960s television sitcom The Addams Family. The film would also be the first film for diminutive actor Tony Cox, best known as Marcus from the Bad Santa movies. Filming was scheduled to begin on March 3rd in Los Angeles. The schedule front loaded to get everything they needed from Reid before they lost him. But just before filming began, Griffith would lose his leading lady. I can't find out why Catherine Mary Stewart left the film before production began, but Griffith would find her replacement in Sonny Johnson. Johnson certainly had more film experience than Stewart, having appeared on an episode of Charlie's Angels, and featured in Bill Murray's Where the Buffalo Roam and in Animal House... although her scenes in the latter film would end up on the proverbial cutting room floor. Johnson would go on to co-star alongside Jennifer Beals in 1983's Flashdance, before sadly passing away in June of 1984 at the age of thirty of a ruptured aneurysm. She would join the cast the day before production began. Despite the legendary tales of Reed and his love of debauchery and excessive drinking, there are no contemporary reports of him being anything but an absolute gentleman on and off the set during his time with the production. The only issue Griffith had with the actor was that Reed had a fantastic take on heckle with a brilliant New York accent and sophistication. But, for Hyde, he would be slow and ponderous. You know, like the stereotypes of Oliver Reed. Busy with production, Griffith never noticed that in the Hollywood press, Cannon Films had, in promoting the 17 films they'd be selling at the Cannes Film Festival's market in early May, been telling the press that the budget for Dr. Heckyl was not $750,000, but $3,000,000. A not unusual mood for producers trying to get bigger sales from foreign markets. But sure enough, Griffith would have a 99 minute movie fully edited by Skip Schoolnik, whose next editing job would be on Halloween 2, and a musical score by Richard Band, ready for its first Cannes Film Market screening on May 11th. The film would screen a total of 8 times in 11 days, although there aren't any reports of how many countries cannon might have sold the film to during those two weeks. From all contemporary appearances, Cannon was preparing to open the film in the United States on October 10th, a date seemingly picked because Oliver Reed would be done with Condorman and not due on the set of his next film, Tobe Hooper's Venom, until the end of October. And as would be the norm in 1980, Cannon would prepare a sneak preview of the film to gauge audience reaction. On Friday, July 18th,1980, Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype would have a sneak preview at the Nickelodeon Theater in Boston, and according to the person who posted the image in the Movie Ads Facebook group, that would be the only paying public screening of the film, that it would be shelved forever from theatrical screening ,and banished to an otherwise ignoble premiere on VHS some years later. And while that is mostly true, it's not exactly one hundred percent true. I was able to find at least two actual theatrical release play dates, both opening on that same July 18th as the Boston sneak preview, at the Golden Mile Twin and the Imperial 6 in Toronto, two evening shows a day at the Golden Mile and five daily shows at the Imperial 6. The only contemporary hint as to how the film played in Toronto was that both screens dropped the film after a single week. Cannon would continue to promote and show the movie at various film festivals and markets around the globe, including at the Montreal Film Festival in late August 1980, where Menachem Golan's crazy disco sci-fi musical The Apple was screening in competition. And in an August 26th, 1980 article about Cannon Films in The Hollywood Reporter, it would be stated that Dr. Heckyl was one of eight movies Cannon was still planning to release theatrically before the end of the year. Except that never ended up happening. Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype does not appear to have ever played in any cinema outside of, maybe, one screening at a film festival in Barcelona on June 8th, 1981, but I can't find anything about this screening outside of a listing on the IMDb's Release info page. The film would start showing up on VHS tapes around the world, with titles like Experiência Fatal in Brazil, Boyfriend and Wild in Greece, Dr. Hekiru to Mr. Haipu in Japan. And my personal favorite, I'm Ugly, But I Want to Conquer in Hungary. In May of 2026, one can find the movie available for free with ads on the Tubi platform, as well as a pirated copy on the most popular English language video sharing platform. I might sit down one day and watch it, but as I said on the previous episode, I have a lot of plans for this podcast. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again, hopefully, real soon. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, https://the80smoviepodcast.com/, for extra materials about Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype. The 80s Movie Podcast has been researched, written, narrated, and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.

"If I do not receive blood within four chronoctons of time, I will have no need of emotion."   "I wear my sunglasses at night So I can, so I can Watch you weave then breathe your story lines" Charles B. Griffith starts to spread his wings. 

Charles B. Griffith stumbles upon a new scenario to endlessly repeat for Roger Corman. Turns out, it's the same as the old scenario. In the meantime Beverly Garland cooks, Dick Miller finds his voice and we all listen to a lot of steel guitar.

Flesh and the Spur (1956) AIP Production #120 Jeff and Cheryl dig their heels in and watch John Agar look for the gunman who killed his twin in Flesh and the Spur. Directed by Edward L. CahnWritten by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna with additional dialogue by Lou Rusoff and Edward L. Cahn Based on a story by Charles B. Griffith and Mark Hanna Produced by Alex Gordon, Touch Connors and Charles John Lyons, Jr. Cast: John Agar as Luke Random and Matthew Random Marla English as Wild Willow Touch Connors as Stacey Doggett Raymond Hatton as Windy Maria Monay as Lola Joyce Meadows as Rena Kenne Duncan as Kale Tanner Frank Lackteen as Indian chief Mel Gaines as Blackie Michael Harris as Deputy Marshal Eddie Kafafian as Bud Kermit Maynard as Outlaw Produced for Hy Productions Released by American International Pictures  Stream Flesh and the Spur on Tubi or YouTube. Visit our website - https://aippod.com/ and follow the American International Podcast on Letterboxd, Instagram and Threads @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast  Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

In this Season Finale, Agent Weaver and Sheriff Taylor confront the the monster responsible for the missing children, they are armed and have each others' backs, but will that be enough? This season featured: Writer J.D. Dennis as Sheriff William Henry Taylor, Supervisory Special Agent Harriett Hodgeman, Chase Newell, and additional voices. Editor K.D. Lalonde as Agent Orion B. Weaver, Chad Billings, and additional voices. Steve Rau as Senior Deputy Roy Huckabee, Special Agent Lukas Wesker, and Edward "Byers" Mars. Steven H Dennis as Mark Lanford. Langston Styles as The Pirate Captain, Le Chat Noir, and Travis Parsons. T. Davis as Deputy Hunter Washington, and Douglas Fry. Guy Gunn as Jupiter Moss. Logan F. as Ty Campbell. Trey Fuquay as Officer Troy Swinton and Officer Bill Waters. Jenny Walters as Melissa Harding. Joan Wisenbeck as Pearl Nash. Meredith Knowlton Dennis as Lottie O'Neal. Jessica Stalvey as Doris Taylor. Jane Walters as Virginia "Ginny" Turner. Christopher Bridgman as Deputy Chetan "Chet" Sisseton. Marshall Pritchett as Chip Allman. Allison Pritchett as Diana Fuquay. JB as Tanner "Tanner Tunez" Tills. Steven Dennis as Craig Roberts. Robert Moss as Agent Benton Fawkes. Mark Walters as Supervisory Special Agent Gideon Hearns. Christine Z. Dennis as Abigail Newhouse. Justin Daniels as Jack "Frohickie" Brown. Paige Ohnesorge as Cassandra Laikos. Matthew Kraus as Drew "Langley" Marlow. Mya Logan as Asia Baker. and C:D as Fred Duplas. With special thanks to Liam P. Vaughan for The Starport Inn's theme - find his music @ https://www.patreon.com/LiamPeregrine - to Kelly Brennan on Patreon, consider joining them @ http://patreon.com/TheStarportInn - and to Creature from the Haunted Sea, Produced by Roger Corman and Charles Hanawalt, and Written by Charles B Griffith. No animals, insects, or otherwise living creatures were harmed in the making of this podcast. The Starport Inn will return with Season Two, after a well earned break. In the mean time, find us at linktr.ee/thestarportinn - Consider supporting us at https://www.redbubble.com/people/thestarportinn/shop - Questions? email us at TheStarportInn@Gmail.com

This week we have a look at the 1959 horror film A Bucket of Blood.  This is Episode #440! A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 American comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Dick Miller and was set in the West Coast beatnik culture of the late 1950s. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film, produced on a $50,000 budget, is about a dimwitted, impressionable young busboy at a Bohemian café who is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor when he accidentally kills his landlady's cat and covers its body in clay to hide the evidence. When he is pressured to create similar work, he becomes a serial murderer.A Bucket of Blood was the first of a trio of collaborations between Corman and Griffith in the comedy genre, which include The Little Shop of Horrors (which was shot on the same sets as A Bucket of Blood) and Creature from the Haunted Sea. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

This week we have a look at the horror film The Little Shop of Horrors.  This is Episode #439! The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about a florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, and Dick Miller, who had all worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film combines dark comedy with farce and incorporates Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $28,000 (equivalent to $288,000 in 2023). Interiors were shot in two days, by utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/castle-of-horror-podcast--4268760/support.

This week Lee and Daniel are joined by friend and fellow podcaster Gary Hill to continue the Roger Corman tribute thread. This time they cover two very similar cheapies Corman and writer Charles B. Griffith came up with "A Bucket of Blood" (1959) & "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960), which are two great examples of doing more with less. The economic film making of the Corman method; the greatness of Dick Miller, and many other things are touched upon. The host also talk about what they've watched as of late. Stay out of the beatnik coffee house and don't feed the plants until you've listened to this episode! "A Bucket of Blood" IMDB  "The Little Shop of Horrors" IMDB  Gary's Podcasts are here.  Gary's Charity Auction, Fleas and Flicks.  Daniel's Podcast, I Don't Speak German.  Join Daniel's Patreon for more podcasts.  Featured Music: "Beatnik" by The Champs; "Main Title from The Little Shop of Horrors" by Fred Katzman; & "Plants & Rags" by PJ Harvey.

Gunslinger (1956)  Jeff and Cheryl take a seat in the Red Dog Saloon to see the catfights and duels in Gunslinger.Directed by Roger CormanWritten by Charles B. Griffith and Mark HannaProduced by Roger Corman for Palo Alto ProductionsStarring:Beverly Garland as Marshal Rose HoodJohn Ireland as Cane MiroAllison Hayes as Erica PageMartin Kingsley as Mayor Gideon PolkJonathan Haze as Jake HayesMargaret Campbell as Felicity PolkBruno VeSota as Zebelon TabbChris Alcaide as Deputy Joshua TateDick Miller as Jimmy TontoWilliam Schallert as Marshal Scott HoodAaron Saxon as Nate Signo A Palo Alto productionDistributed by American Releasing Corporation You can stream Gunslinger on Pluto TV or The Roku Channel, or rent it on Prime Video. Visit our website - https://aippod.com/ and follow the American International Podcast on Letterboxd, Instagram and Threads @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast. View the Gunslinger trailer here.  Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955).

It Conquered the World (1956) Jeff and Cheryl prepare for Earth's invasion by a terrifying creature straight from the salad bar in It Conquered the World.Produced by Sunset Productions for American International PicturesProduced and Directed by Roger CormanWritten by Lou Rusoff and Charles B. Griffith (uncredited) Starring:Peter Graves as Dr. Paul NelsonLee Van Cleef as Dr. Tom AndersonBeverly Garland as Claire AndersonSally Fraser as Joan NelsonRuss Bender as General James PattickTaggart Casey as Sheriff N.J. ShallertKaren Kadler as Dr. Ellen PetersDick Miller as Sgt. NeilJonathan Haze as Corporal Manuel OrtizPaul Harbor as Dr. Floyd MasonCharles B. Griffith as Dr. Pete SheltonThomas E. Jackson as George HaskellMarshall Bradford as Secretary PlattDavid McMahon as General CarpenterPaul Blaisdell as The Monster (uncredited) Produced and released under American International Pictures.Find this movie streaming (if you can) or get a bootleg VHS version from someone on the dark web. Follow the American International Podcast on Letterboxd, Twitter and Instagram @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast.View the It Conquered the World trailer here.Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

The Wild Angels (1966)AIP Production #6611/6660 Jeff and Cheryl watch a rebellious Peter Fonda and his gang ride their choppers and stick it to the man in The Wild Angels. Produced and Directed by Roger CormanWritten by Charles B. Griffith and Peter Bogdanovich (Uncredited) Starring:Peter Fonda as "Heavenly Blues" Nancy Sinatra as "Mike" aka “Monkey” Bruce Dern as Joe "Loser" Kearns Diane Ladd as "Gaysh" Buck Taylor as "Dear John" Norman Alden as Medic Michael J. Pollard as "Pigmy" Joan Shawlee as Momma Monahan Frank Maxwell as Preacher Gayle Hunnicutt as Suzie Dick Miller as Rigger Marc Cavell as "Frankenstein" Released under American International Pictures. Rent this movie on the Roku channel, ScreamPix and Vudu. Follow the American International Podcast on Letterboxd, Twitter and Instagram @aip_pod and on Facebook at facebook.com/AmericanInternationalPodcast. View the Wild Angels trailer here.Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

"Handsome guys can get away with murder..." This week, JD and Randy rewatch the 1980 film, "Dr. Heckyl and Mr Hype." Directed by Charles B. Griffith and written by Griffith and Mark Hanna, this horror-comedy stars Oliver Reed in the titular role and tells the story of a doctor who transforms into a monstrous figure after taking a potion. Alongside Reed, the movie stars Sunny Johnson and Maia Danziger. Will the hosts change their opinions since their last viewing in 2017? Is the film a hidden gem or a flop? Tune in to find out and prepare to be surprised (or not). Did you know that Oliver Reed disliked the movie so much that he refused to promote it upon release? Gee, I wonder why? "To LOVE him is to DIE for him!"

Out of the forest and into the ocean! This week we're talking about UP FROM THE DEPTHS! This Jaws riff is Directed by the writer of Little Shop of Horrors, Charles B. Griffith! Up From The Depths is about a tourist community in Hawaii that is attacked by some sort of two-finned monster shark. It's up to the resort's Head of PR, a pair of haole grifters and an abyssal marine biologist to attempt to save the day. Originally intended as a comedy-horror, it was heavily re-edited into something pretty straight-forward, but you can really tell that they removed a lot. There's a plethora of side characters, Colonization commentary, sunken treasure and some really tremendous ADR/dubbing. That said, we still really enjoyed this goofy little movie! FISH CAN'T WALK!

So in our last memo we made the mistake of promising a two-part memoriam on Monte Hellman -- we decided to expand it to a five-part memoriam. Here's part one, you sickos.R.I.P. Monte,July 12, 1929 - April 20, 2021Sources for this episode:Charles B. Griffith, interview with Dennis Fischer, Midnight Marquee, No. 33 (1984)Gene Corman, interviewed by Tom Weaver, from Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Directors, Producers, Actors, Moguls and Makeup (1988)Kent Jones, ““The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman,” The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Thoams Elsaesser et al. (2004)Monte Hellman, interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, originally published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2005), eventually published in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Book & Lyrics by Howard Ashman | Music by Alan Menken | Based on the film by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles Griffith | Originally Produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)Episode Segments:3:36 - Speed Test5:06 - Why God Why10:31 - Back to Before24:16 - What's Inside53:43 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?1:08:32 - Our Favorite Things1:16:17 - Corner of the Sky1:20:41 – What Comes Next?Works Consulted & Referenced:Little Shop of Horrors (Original Libretto) by Howard AshmanThe Little Shop of Horrors (Film) Directed by Roger Corman, Screenplay by Charles B. Griffith"How Howard Ashman and Alan Menken Created the Iconic Little Shop of Horrors" by Louis Botto (Playbill.com)Howard (2018 Documentary) Directed by Don Hahn, Produced by Don Hahn, Lori Korngiebel and Jonathan PolenzMusic Credits:"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble"Somewhere That's Green” from Little Shop of Horrors (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Music by Alan Menken & Lyrics by Howard Ashman | Performed by Ellen Greene"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

Merci à W9 pour cette affiche alternative pour le podcast 34ème épisode de notre podcast où après quelques vacances bien méritées nous revenons vers nos chers films de requins avec deux productions hélas pas bien fameuses là encore... "Shark Week" de Christopher Olen Ray en 2012 part sur un concept intéressant faisant de ses requins les instruments de la vengeance sadique d'un trafiquant psychopathe sur son île secrète mais s'enlise très vite dans une médiocrité quasi criminelle. "Up from the Depths" de Charles B. Griffith en 1979 nous emmène paresseusement dans un camp de vacances hawaïen reconstitué aux Philippines menacé par un poisson préhistorique vague ancêtre pataud de nos squales actuels. Recommandations:La liste Shark Parade Sens Critique de QuentinLa liste Letterboxd Shark Parade de FabienLa bio de Cirio H. Santiago sur NanarlandLe Paris Shark Fest du 20 au 22 septembreLe podcast Dis-cor-dia sur "Autant en emporte le vent"

Madeline returns for a second straight episode and talks with Jim about Roger Corman's ultimate cult film 1960's "Little Shop Of Horrors," starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Jack Nicholson, Charles B. Griffith and Dick Miller. While discussing this classic film, they are also joined by a surprise guest. Find out more during this special episode of "Monster Attack!"

Inspired by Dan Gilroy’s new VELVET BUZZSAW — and a listener suggestion — we’re looking back this week at another darkly humorous tweaking of the destructive world of high art and those who inhabit it: Roger Corman’s 1959 low-budget horror-comedy A BUCKET OF BLOOD. In this half of the pairing we talk about how Corman and screenwriter Charles B. Griffith balance the film’s tricky tone, how its obvious cheapness reflects Corman’s storied ability to work within restrictions, and what it’s like to watch iconic character actor Dick Miller in one of his rare starring turns. Plus, some feedback on our recent episodes on UNBREAKABLE and WIDOWS. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about A BUCKET OF BLOOD, VELVET BUZZSAW, or anything else film-related by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Roger Corman cult classic from 1957 is in Jim's spotlight this week with "Attack Of The Crab Monsters," starring Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Mel Welles and Charles B. Griffith (who also wrote the screenplay). A group of nuclear researchers are trapped on a remote island, hunted by creatures mutated by recent Hydrogen Bomb tests. Whop survives this deadly onslaught. Find out on this week's episode of"Monster Attack!"

Will YOU join his human museum? This week at The B-Movie Clubhouse the gang will cover another Roger Corman film. This time it’s A Bucket of Blood from 1959. The film was written by Charles B. Griffith and stars Dick Miller and Ed Nelson. Plus we have some great feedback. Toll Free Number 888-350-2570 Join […]

Today’s episode: Screaming young girls sucked into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell. On today’s show Nic and I will be talking about the 1959 film Beast from Haunted Cave. Directed by Monte Hellman written by Charles B. Griffith and staring Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff and Richard Sinatra. Toll […]