Jeff Markin and Cheryl Lightfoot

American International Podcast

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For over three decades, an independent film studio churned out hundreds of movies that captured the imagination of audiences around the world. From horror to sci-fi to exploitation and everything in between, American International Pictures brought us low-budget, high energy and often controversial films with lurid titles, low budgets and some surprisingly big names. Join Jeff Markin and Cheryl Lightfoot as they dive into AIP’s catalog of nearly 500 movies, to discuss everything from The Abominable Dr Phibes to Zontar, the Thing from Venus! The American International Podcast is not affiliated w...

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Jeff Markin and Cheryl Lightfoot

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The Fast and the Furious 02.04.2023 32:56

The Fast and the Furious (1954) Jeff and Cheryl talk about the first AIP movie: the OG version of the race car drama The Fast and the Furious. The Fast and the Furious Directed by Edward Sampson and John Ireland Screenplay by Jean Howell and Jerome Odlum from a story by Roger Corman Produced by Roger Corman Starring: John Ireland as Frank Webster Dorothy Malone as Connie Adair Bruno VeSota as Bob...

American International Pictures: An Introduction 02.04.2023 7:53

American International Pictures, the studio that brought us movies like I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF , BEACH BLANKET BINGO , THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN , FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER , and A BUCKET OF BLOOD , and hundreds more iconic films, began on April 2nd, 1954. Now there is a podcast devoted to the masters of exploitation films, just in time for their 69th anniversary. Nice! Join Jeff Markin and Cher...

American International Podcast 13.03.2023 1:55

For over three decades, American International Pictures released movies that were amazing, colossal, incredible, and sometimes abominable, and made for an audience that had long been underserved: the American teenager. The studio released everything from monster movies to biker flicks to Edgar Allen Poe adaptations - films with lurid titles, controversial subject matter and some surprisingly big n...