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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...

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 d...

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 ATTAC...

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...

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...

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 th...

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 Kellj...

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 f...

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...

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 epi...

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...

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 Podcas...

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 s...

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 Podc...

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 p...

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...

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 sub...

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 movie...

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...

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 fi...

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 th...

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 1...

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 t...

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 i...

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 Mon...