MONSTER ATTACK!

Jim revisits a favorite of his from 1956 - "Earth vs The Flying Saucers," starring Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, John Zaremba, Thomas Henry Browne, and Harry Lauter. This classic featuring effects by Ray Harryhausen and directed by Fred Sears set the table for future flying saucer films. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses one of the most beloved Sci-Fi franchises from the 1950-60's  which began with 1955's "The Quatermass Xperiment," starring Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson, Thora Hird, David King-Wood, Lionel Jeffries, Toke Townley, Harold Lang and Directed by Val Guest. The story centers around an experiment by Professor Bernard Quatermass which sends thre...

Shane Morton and Madeline Brumby join Jim for a rousing discussion of a Ray Harryhausen 1977 Classic - "Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger," starring Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Patrick Troughton, Damien Thomas, Bruce Barnabe, Margaret Whiting, and Peter Mayhew. This tale has Sinbad (Wayne) helping  Dione save her brother (Thomas) after he was cursed by an evil witch (Whiting). The effect...

Mark Maddox joins Jim  for a  discussion of two Gene Roddenberry TV Movie pilots from the early 1970s - "Genesis II" and "Planet Earth," starring Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Majel Barrett, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodriguez, John Saxon, Diana Muldaur, and Christopher Cary. Both stories deal with a researcher (Cord, Saxon) who is trapped during  a deep space hibernation experiment and found 150 years la...

Jim reflects back on the first time he saw this sci-i cult classic from 1973 -"SSSSSSS," Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B Shull, Tim O'Connor, Jack Ging, Reb Brown, Kathleen King, Charles Steel, and Noble Craig. This is a tale of a mad scientist who wants to create a human who can survive the aftermath of an atomic war - namely a snake human. Oh, and it gets crazier from...

Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing 9th Anniversary Special of the podcast talking about a classic game-changing film from Alfred Hitchcock - "Psycho," starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, John Anderson, and Ted Knight. Marian Crane (Leigh) steals $40,000 from her employer and while on the run ends up at the infamous Bates Motel. Find out more...

Jim helps celebrate the 70th Anniversary of a classic Kaiju film _ "Godzilla Raids again," starring Hirashi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Haruo Nakajima, and Katsumi Tazuka. Following the destruction caused by Godzilla in the first film and his demise by the "Oxygen Destroyer," another Godzilla is found along with a second threat Anguirus, who are headed for Osaka. he...

Jim pays tribute to one of his favorite Horror Hosts growing up -"Baron Daemon" from Syracuse, N.Y. and takes a look at the "Flash Gordon" Serials from the late 1930's. Mike Price a.k.a. Baron Daemon worked for WNYS Channel 9 for more than 45 years and left quite a legacy throughout Upstate and Central N.Y. During his afternoon kids show, he would show the classic Flash Gordon serials. Find out mo...

JIm revisits a classic "Creature" film directed by Jack Arnold -1955's "Revenge Of The Creature," starring John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva, Ricou Browning, Tom Hennesy, and Clint Eastwood. Another expedition into the Amazon results in the capture of the "Gill Man," who is transported to a Florida oceanarium for study by two scientists (Agar and Nelson). But you can't keep a go...

In memory of his mother, Phyllis, for Mothers Day, Jim discusses a classic film based on a Jules Verne novel - 1960's "Mysterious Island," starring Michael Craig, Gary Merrill, Michael Callan, Herbert Lom, Joan Greenwood, Beth Rogan, Percy Herbert, Dan Jackson and directed by Cy Endfield with special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Union soldiers and a war correspondent escape a Confederate POW camp i...

Madeline Brumby, Shane Morton and Mark Maddox join Jim for a rousing discussion of 1964's Kaiju Classic, "Godzilla vs The Thing," aka Godzilla Vs Mothra or Mothra vs Godzilla," starring Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yu Fujiki Emi and Yumi Ito, Krnji Sahara, Jun Tazaku, Akira Tani, Haruo Nakajima, Katsumi Tazuka and directed by Ishiro Honda. A strange egg floats ashore at a small J...

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...