The GenX Show

Netflix has been an issue in Hollywood. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the history of B Movies, their evolution, and how Netflix (specifically) has hollowed out the 'bread and butter' B movies that sustained Hollywood. It's not that people don't go to movie theaters anymore (which is sorta true) it's that what's available on streaming is either big budget extravaganzas or utter crap C mo...

A little, underpublicized game game out in 1999 that changed the way we viewed horror gaming. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Silent Hill ... the little game that could, that it's parent company couldn't care less about, changed our perceptipon of what makes something scary and laid the groundwork for future horror games. Enjoy the show!

On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the worst era for horror movies, the early 1990's. How a collision of several circumstances from the prevalence of AIDS in the public consciousness to the rise of the Erotic Thriller combined to dampen the both the public's appetite for Horror and depress the quality of what was coming out at the time. However there were exceptions and, as Jeff points out,...

"You shitters wouldn't understand!" 40 years ago, in 1983, Stephen King's novel Christine was released (April) a mere seven months later (November) John Carpenter's version of that movie was released in theaters. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff and Magnus discuss both the book and movie, the 'coked out King" era, Carpenter's terrible 1982 and how both the book and movie are the same and completely d...

John Carpenter and Debra Hill never wanted to do any Halloween sequels. After, essentially, being bullied into doing Halloween 2 ... the pair were left with a choice to continue. The choice that was made: Turn the Halloween series into an anthology series with each movie a differnet story on Halloween night. The legacy of Halloween 3 might just be that, despite failing initially, Carpenter, Hill a...

Magnus from Voltaire's Ghost once again joins Jeff to talk about the history of Horror movies. From the Universal Monsters to the 1980's Slashers. The guys talk about their favorites from each era while touching on their overall affect on the history of horror movies. You don't want to miss this one. Enjoy the show!

John Carpenter's 1978 Slasher masterpiece Halloween turns 45 this month. In the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the lead up to the production of the film and how it's complicated legacy and it's financial success has haunted Carpenter throughout his career. How his breakthrough has become the shadow he cannot escape. Enjoy the show!

There have been many attempts to do HP Lovecraft style Cosmic Horror in the past both in games and in movies. On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about the most successful of these attempts in the classic Dark Souls styled epic horror game Bloodborne from 2015. One of the best games ever made. Along the way Jeff talks about it's surprisingly Catholic themes hinted with Asian perspec...

Magnus, from streaming sensation Voltaire's Ghost joins Jeff to talk about his new music and the ever changing state of the Music business. Has the availability of recording technology made things easier or ... worse? Fascinating conversation with an great musician. Find Magnus on: Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/voltaires-ghost/1687826381 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4qh2ndBm...

The 1990's gave us grunge, mid-tempo jangly guitar based pop songs, Friends ... Frasier ... Seinfeld and the big time classic rock reunion. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the heavily anticipated reunion of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. A union that produced a good unplugged live concert with an Egyptian orchestra called Unledded, a massive year long tour with an orchestra and disappointin...

1988 was THE year Jeff became a horror movie fan. Chief among those movies Jeff adored was the camp horror classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Don't devote a ton of brain power to trying to "break down" the meaning of this movie. It does what it says on the tin, as the British might say. Still one of his favorite movies of all time. In the second half Jeff talks about the year 1988 and how it...

On the latest episode of The GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his childhood/teenage love of the one and only Paul McCartney turned him into a music obsessive. Jeff also goes over how two of McCartney's most "unloved" album's (Off the Ground and Back to the Egg) are his personal favorites. From recording off the radio, to buying tapes then CD's Jeff goes through it all ... including owning a vinyl o...

On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about how his own generation's rejection of being "sold" contributed greatly in the notion that Generation X is the "forgotten" one. How our unease with being marketed to and aversion to selling out left Hollywood, the music business and much more left us to sell to our younger brothers and sisters ... the millennials. Enjoy the show!

The 1984 Richard Franklin directed movie, Cloak and Dagger from 1984 is on the surface a typical cold war kids movie about a kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dig deeper, however and you see that it's really about a kid who's dad is his hero. Featuring wonderful performances from Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman (in maybe his best acting performance) it's a kids movie with tons of h...

Jeff is back with another Ray Bradbury special. This time it's a Jonathan Pryce, Jason Robards and Pam Grier led movie about a father trying to be a good dad despite feeling old ... oh and an evil, borderline satanic carnival that is coming to town to make you a part of their exhibit. No big deal. Dark Disney at is purest and most meddling. Something Wicked this Way Comes is a great story with gre...

1982's The Electric Grandmother, based on a teleplay/Twilight Zone episode/Short Story from Ray Bradbury, is a curiosity from the golden era of childrens movies/enternatinment in the early 80's. A long-forgotten TV project that gave Jeff distinct memories unlike any other. Strange how an otherwise throw away TV movie can stay with you. The early 80s were quite a different time. Jeff talks about Br...

MTV News folded shop a few weeks ago. This was to the surprise of many of us who thought that it hadn't existed for years. On today's GenX Show, Jeff talks about the cultural zeitgeist that MTV News Held in the early to mid 1990's and how they were just plain cool and were very good at telling us what was cool. Kurt Loder forever! Enjoy the show!

It's been over 25 years since the concept of "selling out" permeated culture and society in general. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the context of "selling out" withing Gen Xers and how holding your peers accountable made our music better. At least, that's what we would like to think. Enjoy the show!

Something Wicked this way Comes? On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Disney's so-called "dark"era. A time when the studio through it's Buena Vista distributor released the darkest kid films it ever released. From The Black Hole to The Black Cauldron Disney took risks that it never did before or since. Jeff looks back on this weird era of Disney that hasn't been repeated since and probably ne...

On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the 1981 movie Dragonslayer. An amazing achievment in practical effects and "go motion" technology which was pioneered by stop motion wizard Phil Tippett. A movie that flopped upon release but is now considered a classic. Also Peter MacNicol before he got manipulated by Vigo the Carpathian. Enjoy the show!

Krull was a movie that was gorgeous. Set design, score, cinematogrophy, lighting and ambition to spare. Unfortunately it was let down by clunky and insipid dialoge, and excruciating pacing. This movie SHOULD have been better than it was but ... just wasn't. On the latest GenX Show Deep Dive, Jeff talks about this Peter Yates movies and wonders if this movie deserves re-appraisal or if it was too b...

Returning guest Joe Lipsett co-host of The Horror Queers joins Jeff to talk about Stranger Things season 4 episode 8 ... "The Van Scene" in particular. Does this depiction count as representation? Does the performance by Noah Schnapp heighten the scene. Jeff and Joe go through the scene, give thoughts on their own experiences growing up in the 1980's and if this rings true. Additionally does this...

Hello everyone. This week is the final instalment of "Kids Movies that Scared Us" series. Everyone has seemed to enjoy this trip down memory lane. This week is a re-post from my other podcast (CSG Podcast) from 3 years ago when I was experimenting with movie podcast amongst the other things I did. The audio isn't perfect so I did what I could to improve it. The Neverending Story ranks among Wolfga...

In 1979 Walter Murch was talking to some executives at Disney about making what amounted to a Wizard of Oz "sequel" but more in keeping with the spirit of L. Frank Baum the author of the book series. What came about was the darkest American fairy tale in keeping with the spirit of the author but failed at the box office in a big way. This week on the latest episode of Kids Movies that Scared Us mo...

Next in our Kids Movies that Scared us series, Molly Smith from Did that Age Well? Podcast joins Jeff to talk about the Don Bluth animated "What would happen if super smart lab rats helped out a field mouse in need" movie The Secret of Nimh . Along the way, Molly and Jeff discuss about how messed up the movie is, the rat murder that happens, harrowing lab scenes and a casual conversation with an o...