MONSTER ATTACK!

Actress Hannah Fierman ("V/H/S," "Siren") joins Jim for a look at a unique Itallian Horror Film Genre that began back in the 1960's -"Giallo." Hannah talks about her favorite director, Dario Argento ("Opera," "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage,"Suspiria") while Jim reflects back on his experiences with Mario Bava (Black Sabbath," "Blood & Black Lace") . It is a round table look at a sometime misun...

Jim reflects on the movie that launched a popular 1979 television series -"Buck Rogers In The 25th Century," starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'ConnorPamela Hensley, Henry Silva, Felix Silla, Mel Blanc, HB Haggerty, Joseph Wiseman, and Howard F Flynn. Based on  classic Sci-Fi novel, an astronaut is frozen in space for 500 years and awakes to find Earth a much different place than the planet he...

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a special episode celebrating the 20th Anniversary fo The Silver Scream Spook Show with a discussion of the 1957 Cult Classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space," Directed by Edward d. Wood Jr and starring Bela Lugosi, Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge, Norma McCarty, M...

Jim revisits a favorite thriller from his childhood - 1954's "The Mad Magician," directed by John Brahm and starring Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Patrick O'Neal, and Jay Novello. Hoping to cash in on Price's success the year before with "House Of Wax," Columbia Pictures scripted this tale of a turn-of-the century illusionist seeking revenge on th...

Jim revisits a classic Jack Arnold Monster Movie that not only taught him about an extinct fish, but also provided him with inspiration for a Halloween costume. It's 1958's "Monster On The Campus," starring Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, Phil Harvey, Helen Westcott, Alexander Lockwood, Ross Elliot, and Whit Bissell. A college professor looking into the secre...

Jim talks about a Classic Sci-Fi Horror Sequel from Director Larry Cohen - 1978's "It Lives Again," (aka "Its Alive 2") starring Frederic Forest, Kathleen Lloyd, John P. Ryan, John Marley, Andrew Duggan, Eddie Constantine, and James Dixon. Made as the econd film in Cohen's "It's Alive" Trilogy, the film centers around another couple who find themselves embroiled in the birth of a mutant baby. The...

Clay Sayre joins Jim for a discussion of a beloved Sci-Fi TV show from 1963 -"The Outer Limits," starring a host of well-known television and film stars from the 40s, 50s and 60s. The show, which ran only two seasons, was unlike anything seen before on televison and developed a very loyal following during the last 63 tears. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Mov...

Jim revisits one of the first films MONSTER ATTACK! looked at 10 years ago -1966's "Fantastic Voyage," directed by Richard Fleisher and starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmund O'Brien, Donald Pleasence,, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, and Arthur Kennedy. This amazing Sci-Fi movie wowed audiences with its look inside of the human body as a miniaturized crew tries to save the life of an inj...

Brandon Reed joins us for a rousing look at one of Charles Band's first horror films – "1976's "CRASH!," starring Jose Ferrer, Sue Lyon, John Ericson, Leslie Parrish, and John Carradine. This drive-in classic features an evil Camaro ent on revenge. But revenge on what? … and Who? Find out on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim revisits one of his favorite Monster Movies growing up - 1966's "Island Of Terror,"  starring Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Eddie Byrne, Carole Gray, Sam Kydd, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Forbes-Robertson, and directed by Terence Fisher. On a remote island off the coast of Ireland, something has escaped from a research lab and threatens all of mankind. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast De...

Jim revisits one of his favorite Monster Movies from 1953 - "House of Wax," starring Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Frank Lovejoy, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni, Dabbs Greer, Roy Roberts, Angela Clarke, Charles Bronson, and Paul Cavanaugh. This classic retelling of 1933's "Mystery Of The Wax Museum," became one of Warner Brothers' biggest hits of the year when released and has gone on to critical and...

Jim reflects on the first time he saw the last fikn collaboration of George Pal (Producer) and Byron Haskin (Director) in 1978s Sci-Fi Thriller "The Power," starring George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette Michael Rennie, Arthur O'Connell, Earl Holliman, Nehemiah Persoff, Richard Carlson, Gary Merrill, Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Nichols, Aldo Ray, Vaughn Taylor, Ken Murray, and Forrest Ackerman. A scient...

Clay Sayre joins us for a special Double Feature episode of MONSTER ATTACK! featuring looks at William Grefes 1966 opus "Sting of Death," starring Joe Morrison, Jack Nader, Doug Hobart, Valerie Hawkins, Deanna Lund, and John Vella, along with Larry Buchanan's 1968 offering "Curse Of The Swamp Creature," based of the film "Voodoo Woman," and starring John Agar, Shirley McLine, Tony Hudson, Francine...

Jim discusses a classic cult film celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year and one that launched the career of a well-known actress -"The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane," starring Jodie Foster, Scott Jacoby, Alexis Smith, Martin Sheen, Mort Shuman, and directed by Nicholas Gessner. A young girl seemingly lives alone in a large rural house in Canada. As some of her neighbors attempt to find...

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a rousing discussion of the 1953 Monster Movie Classoc "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms," starring Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald woods, Lee Van Cleef, Steve Brodie, Ross Elliot, Michael Fox, King Donovan, James Best, and with Special Effects by Ray Harryhausen. A dinosaur, frozen in the Arctic, is awakened after a nucle...

Jim explores the 1931 Horror Classic Film "The Walking Dead," starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hull, Barton Maclane, and directed by Michael Curtiz. An innocent man (Karloff) is convicted of murder and executed. His body is brought back to life by a scientist (Gwenn) seeking to find out what happens to the soul after death. But what about those who...

Jim remembers the first time he watched the 1931 Horror Classic "Frankenstein," directed by James Whale and starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr, Dwight Frye, Lionel Belmore, Marilyn Harris, and Michael Mark. Based on the novel by Mary Shelley, this film helped Universal Studios establish itself as the Studio of Horror which continued to giv...

MONSTER ATTACK! celebrates its 10th Season Anniversary and Jim discusses the first time he saw the 1951 Sci-Fi Classic "The Thing From Another World," starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Douglas Spencer, Robert Cornwate, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz, Paul Frees, George Fenneman, and James Arness. Produced by Howard Hawks and directed by Christian Nyby, this film...

Jim rerturns to the fifth film MONSTER ATTACK! discussed in its 10-year history with a 50th Anniversary look at the 1976 cult classic "Mansion Of The Doomed," starring Richard Basehart, Lance Henriksen, Gloria Grahame, Trish Stewart, Vic Tayback, Katherine Stewart, Al Ferrara, and Libby Chase. An obsessed research scientist kidnaps people and uses their eyes to restore his daughter's sight followi...

Jim revisits the time he first watched Hammer's 1956 Classic Sci-Fi Film - "X The Unknown," starring Dean Jagger, Leo McKerm, Edward Chapman, William Lucas, Peter Hammond, Ian McHaughton, Michael Ripper, Anthony Newley, and Edward Judd. A strange radioactive substance oozes out of the ground and threatens a nearby village in Scotland. But can the substance be stopped? Does it pose a danger to the...

Jim discusses a classic 1963 Roger Corman-produced monster movie that was also the directorial debut for Francis Ford Coppola -"Dementia 13," starring, Bart Patton, Luana Anders, William Campbell, Mary Michel, Patrick Magee, Eithne Dunne, and Karl Schanzer. After her husband's death, a woman trying to win favor with her rich mother-in-law devises a scheme to be put into the family will. But, there...

It;s a MONSTER ATTACK! Double Feature as Jim revisits two classic Universal films - "The Mummy's Hand" * "The Mummy's Tomb," starring Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Peggy Moran, Cecil Kellaway, Tom Tyler, Lon Chaney, John Hubbard and Turhan Bey. Universal continued its monster parade of movies with two enteries concernong a 3,000-year-old mummy on the loose. After two explorers find the h...

                                                                  Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton (The Silver Scream Spook Show) join Jim  to discuss  Ishiro Honda's classic 1964 Kaiju film "Ghidora, The Three-Headed Monster, starring Yosuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi, Hisaya Ito, Haruo Nakajima, Masanon Shinohara, Shoichi Hirose, and The Peanuts.. The appearance of...

Jim talks about a classic Drive-in Horror Move from 1976 - "Squirm," starring Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy, R A Dow, Fran Higgins, Jean Sullivan, Peter MacLean, and Directed by Jeff Lieberman. A severe thunderstorm knocks down power lines near a small Georgia town causing electricity to surge into the ground and affect the worms. What could possibly go wrong? fiond out on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Pod...

Jim talks about a classic 1954 Thriller from Alfred Hitchcock - "Rear Window," starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, and Raymond Burr. A famous photojournalist confined to a wheelchair after breaking his leg spends his recovery watching his neighbors' lives. But, is one of them a murderer? Find out on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.