B-Movie Cast

The B-Movie Cast is back from a brief hiatus following our 500 th episode! This show is a bit different from most as instead of featuring a film, Mary, Nic, and Mark Mawston are joined by Steve Vertlieb! Steve is one of America's leading film archivists and historians who is a true living link between the golden age of Hollywood and today! A cinema journalist and film music educator Steve is a bit...

Holy Cats! That's right folks the B-Movie Cast's 500 th episode is here! Mary, Nic, and Juan are joined tons of listener feedback as we reflect on 499 episodes, Vince Rotolo's legacy and more! In honor of Vince we also check out one of his favorite films- 1971's "A Clockwork Orange"! So, gather your droogs and get ready for a 'very special episode' of The B-Movie Cast!

The B-Movie Cast has finally done it. We've gone down the road less traveled… and we did it on roller skates. That's right for episode 499 of The B-Movie Cast, Mary, Nic and special guest Steve Turek are getting our disco balls out and grooving into "Xanadu". Steve was particularly well qualified to join us for this episode because… well honestly, Nic had a hard time finding anyone else! But, asid...

The B-Movie Cast is back and the countdown to our 500 th episode continues! For film #3 in the countdown, Mary and Nic are joined by show favorite Michael Worth! The gang checks out "Gymkata" the most gymnastics filled rip off of "Enter the Dragon" that director Robert Clouse could come up with in his desperate attempt to recreate the lightning-in-a-bottle magic of his original work on the Bruce L...

  The B-Movie Cast is excited to have special guest Dr. Adrian Smith with us for this episode. Adrian joins Mary and Nic and the gang checks out some Euro-spy fun with the blondest James Bond knock-off: Agent 077- Dick Malloy (Ken Clark) in "From The Orient With Fury" (AKA- Fury on the Bosphorus). When a scientist who's invented a disintegration ray is kidnapped it's up to zero-double seven to cha...

The B-Movie Cast is back and the countdown to our 500 th episode continues! For film #5 in the countdown, Mary and Nic are joined by Eric Brooks! The gang checks out "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold". This cheese-filled 80s action flick features some really bad 'not-so-special' effects as well as some of Hollywood's best actors at their worst! The second film of a planned trilogy that m...

The B-Movie Cast is back and the countdown to our 500 th episode continues! For film #6 in the countdown, Mary and Nic are joined by show favorite Mark Mawston! The gang checks out one of the founding films in the 'spaghetti western' genre: "For A Few Dollars More". This classic stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty killers after the infamous 'El Nino'. Get your pasta sauce ready for th...

The B-Movie Cast is back and the countdown to our 500 th episode continues! For film #7 in the countdown, Mary and Nic are joined by Juan as the gang goes for some Luchador action with Santo in "El Baron Brakola"! There's wrestling, a whole lot of flashbacks, and some other fun. We watch Santo, and Santo's ancestor, battle the immortal Baron Brakola as this undead Lothario seeks revenge for the de...

The B-Movie Cast is back and the countdown to our 500 th episode continues! For film #8 in the countdown, we decided to try something freaky but tied to the classics: Ken Russell's 1986 film "Gothic"! Joining us to look at this strange flick is filmmaker and show favorite: Brian Cunningham! Mary, Brian, and Nic try to make sense of Ken Russell's interpretation of what happened in Lord Byron's vill...

The B-Movie Cast is taking a bite out of a Paul Naschy werewolf flick: "The Werewolf and the Yeti" (AKA: "Night of the Howling Beast") for our #9 film in the countdown to our 500 th episode! Joining Mary and Nic in this fur-fest is podcaster and Paul Naschy aficionado; Rod Barnett. Get ready for the werewolf vs yeti film with the least possible amount of yeti they could get by with. What it doesn'...

The countdown to the B-Movie Cast's 500 th Episode has begun! For our #10 film in the countdown, we are looking at something new: the 1970s film craze that was 'Nurseplotation'! To dive into the sub-genre, we're checking "Candy Stripe Nurses" from 1974. Mary and Nic are joined in this raunchy film romp by two B-Movie Cast favorites- Beverly Gray and Allan Holzman, both of whom worked on the film w...

The B-Movie Cast is going south of the border again for some Twilight-Zone-like fun with "Return to Youth" ("Returno A La Juventud"). It's the story of an old professor with the hots for a young student. When she rebuffs his advances he does what anyone would do; sells his soul to return to youth! Now he's got to do the devil's work or it's all over for him! Join Mary, Nic, and Juan as they find o...

  Zdravstvuyte Comrades! Welcome to a new B-Movie Cast! This week Mary and Nic are joined by Matt Kowalski and we're checking out another New Year's favorite from behind the iron curtain: "Morozko" AKA- "Father Frost"! This flick has been lampooned on MST3K and Riff Trax, now it's the B-Movie Cast's turn to show some love to one of Gorky Studio's most successful exports from the Soviet era! Tune i...

The cast is B-Movie, B-Movie Cast! That's right folks we're back and this is a double treat episode as we're doing a Christmas film and another in our "B is for BOND" movie series as we check out "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". In Bond's 6th on-screen outing, we find George Lazenby has taken over the role of Britain's most famous secret agent. Joining us in Bonding is show favorite Mark Mawston...

Tis the season for Christmas movies on the B-Movie Cast! First up, Mary, Nic, & Juan check out the 1944, vaguely Christmas-related, film noir: "Christmas Holiday". This film is set at Christmas… and that's about it. However, it's got Deanna Durbin & Gene Kelly, so who cares! So get ready for a very noir Christmas with "Christmas Holiday" on The B-Movie Cast.

The B-Movie Cast is back! This episode Mary and Nic are joined by special guest film maker Michael Worth! The gang takes a look at the 1987 modern day vampire western "Near Dark" starring Bill Paxton, Lance Henricksen, and Tim Thomerson. As a special treat, Michael did an interview with Tim Thomerson just for the B-Movie Cast and we've included it, in it's entirety in this episode! So grab a beer...

The B-Movie Cast is back! This episode Mary and Nic are joined by special guest film maker Michael Worth! The gang takes a look at the 1987 modern day vampire western "Near Dark" starring Bill Paxton, Lance Henricksen, and Tim Thomerson. As a special treat, Michael did an interview with Tim Thomerson just for the B-Movie Cast and we've included it, in it's entirety in this episode! So grab a beer...

The B-Movie Cast is back! This time it's all hands-on deck as Mary, Nic, and Juan check out "The Beast with Five Fingers". This 1946 classic stars Peter Lorre, Robert Alda, and Andrea King though the real star is a creepy, killer hand! Figure out if it's truly a monster or just a killer with a fetish for fingers as the B-Movie Cast checks out "The Beast with Five Fingers"!

Mary may not like musicals, but in this episode of The B-Movie Cast, Nic and special guest Mark Mawston have found one movie musical that she can enjoy: the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". That's right, we're taking a trip to transsexual Transylvania and checking out Tim Curry's most iconic roll! So grab a stiff drink and put on your dancing shoes because we're about to rock-n-roll w...

In this episode of the B-Movie Cast, Mary & Nic are joined by Barry Harding. Barry suggested we check out the 1947 film noir "Nightmare Alley". This film kind of disappeared for many years due to rights issues, but it's been rediscovered, and the B-Movie Cast is excited to check it out! So, grab your carnival ride tickets and get ready to check out Tyrone Powers' most unusual film role!

Hey B-Movie Cast family! In this episode Mary and Nic are joined by Juan from the creepy swamps! We check out a classic bit of film noir: "The Face Behind the Mask" from 1941. Great film starring Peter Lorre and Evelyn Keyes. Lorre is an immigrant coming to America to make a new life, only a tragic fire leaves him horribly disfigured. Now he must turn to a life of crime to survive. Will the love o...

The B-Movie Cast is back! In this episode, Mary and Nic are joined by filmmaker, actor, and martial arts movie aficionado, Michael Worth. Michael has taken a break from filmmaking, writing about 'Bruce-splotation' films, and launching The Pearl River Collection (of lost Martial Arts flicks) through VCI Entertainment, to check out Robert Clouse's attempt… ok maybe his third or fourth attempt at thi...

The B-Movie Cast is back! In this episode Mary and Nic are joined by Dr. Adrian Smith. Adrian takes a break from lecturing at the University of Sussex to help us figure out how many environmentalists does it take to kill one crocodile? The answer is one if it's Anthony Crenna (yes, he's Richard Crenna's son) in the Italian 80s horror romp "Killer Crocodile". We're diving headfirst into the radioac...

In this episode of the B-Movie Cast, Mary and Nic are joined by a very special guest: Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Allan Holzman! Allan was the editor on Roger Corman's space opera "Battle Beyond the Stars" and he's happy to share some of his memories from the set as we talk about this sci-fi funfest from 1980. Allan's also got a new book about the film coming out soon: "Celluloid Wars: Battle Bey...

Welcome back, Comrades! As part of the B-Movie Cast's party-approved 5-year plan, Mary, Nic, and special guest Matt Kowalski are checking some Sci-fi from behind the iron curtain! Get ready for some Soviet science fiction fun with "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin".  It's the story of a guy, a girl, a death ray, and why weather reports matter! So ready for some fun with the new B-Movie Cast!