The Rad Revival House

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Rad Revival House, not a creature was stirring…except the zombies of RABID! Join host Professor Cesare Augusto as he reviews this masterfully done zombie outbreak film from the legendary body horror specialist, David Cronenburg. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident puts innocent young Ca...

The Rad Revival House presents one slam-bang martial arts movie courtesy of that Hong Kong cinematic legend, John Woo: LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY. This is not just any martial arts film either; it’s the eclectic Wuxia style of Chinese martial arts cinema depicting tales of mythical derring-do set in Ancient China. Woo of course is more famously renowned for his “Heroic Bloodshed” style of graphicall...

Yee-haw! The RRH goes back to the wild, wild west with the great psychological western THE TALL T! Making his much-anticipated comeback is Phillip Duke II, the host of the great movie review podcast Making Tarantino, as he helps to analyze this wonderful and criminally-underrated Western thriller. Directed by Budd Boetticher (RIDE LONESOME) and based on the short story “The Captives” by the legend...

The Rad Revival House rolls out a true barrel of 1960s laughs with the comedy classic THE ODD COUPLE! Joining our discussion is film critic and broadcaster Jeanne Marie Denizard, as we explore Neil Simon’s hilarious and witty look at divorce and the after-effects it has on two New York City men. Newly-divorced neat freak Felix Unger (the great Jack Lemmon) must navigate through the murky waters of...

The RRH returns to the Hammer Horror Studio with their gothic masterpiece, THE GORGON! Also returning is Rob from the great film review podcast, The Cinemigos, as he joins our host, The Professor Cesare Augusto to analyze this little-seen scare-fest. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, the two titans of Hammer Horror (famously as Professor Van Helsing & Dracula), reunite in this film as both mu...

For the first time, The Rad Revival House reviews a criminally-underrated classic from the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock: THE WRONG MAN! Joining us is Special Guest Lecturer Peter Mascuch, a Cinema Studies Professor at St. Joseph’s University of New York and a true great mind for film. We discuss what is arguably the most disturbing Hitchcock film due to its gripping realism and sha...

Ciao, action fans! The Rad Revival House returns to Italy with a review on the slam-bang crime thriller THE ITALIAN CONNECTION! Antonio Palacios, host of the excellent cult film review program The Cultworthy Podcast, returns to the RRH to lend his always brilliant insight on this little-seen but powerful 1973 Italian picture. THE ITALIAN CONNECTION, a great example of the Poliziotteschi subgenre o...

Tired of Election Day chaos? Then you oughta “lighten up” with our newest review of the 1984 cult action classic, STREETS OF FIRE! Anthony DeSanctis, Programming Manager at Bethlehem, PA’s great arts venue ArtsQuest, returns to the RRH to lend a helpful hand analyzing this action-packed musical adventure directed by genre legend Walter Hill. When beautiful lady rockstar Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is k...

On this very special Halloween edition of the Rad Revival House, we explore the grippingly-realistic 1984 British nuclear war thriller, THREADS! Joining us is host Cesare Augusto’s old friend from his Penn State Com-Radio Days, Stephen “Analog Man” Tumolo, where they revisit their old talk show roots (as co-hosts of a true crime show entitled “Mercury Climbing”) and rap about the frightening inten...

On our newest Prestige Picture Presentation, we explore the brilliantly melancholy 1948 Italian drama, BICYCLE THIEVES, directed by the excellent Vittorio De Sicca. Frank Mandosa, host of the great film review podcast Silver Screeners, returns to the Rad Revival House to discuss this bleak but beautiful piece of Italian neorealism. Shot in and taking place during post-World War II Rome, BICYCLE TH...

The Rad Revival House the classic Criminally Forgotten Actors category with a look back at the three best performances of fantastic 70s character actor Linda Haynes! Filmmaker and cinephile Jay Corso returns to the RRH as he helps dissect three films from the late great Haynes’ 70s library: THE NICKEL RIDE, ROLLING THUNDER, and HUMAN EXPERIMENTS. Our host Cesare Augusto and Jay carefully analyze j...

In our newest Untapped Potentials discussion, The Rad Revival House explores the criminally-underrated intensity of comedy legend Eddie Murphy! Joining us is filmmaker and African-American cinema specialist Mike Dennis of Reelblack, as we analyze two specific films in Murphy’s illustrious acting career: the 1982 buddy-cop classic 48 HRS, and the 1997 action thriller METRO. We look at Murphy’s expl...

The Rad Revival House returns to the Land of the Rising Sun, with Akira Kurosawa's magnificently gritty police thriller, STRAY DOG! Offering his great film insight is Rob of the fabulous film review podcast, The Cinemegos. Rob and our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, analyze this classic detective procedural set in Japan, where rookie cop Murakami (the great Toshiro Mifune) finds himself in the pro...

Get ready for a ghoulishly fun review as the RRH analyzes its first Horror film of Season 2: THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE! Joining tonight’s analysis are Gabby & Boomer of the great Horror review podcast, Podcast in The Woods, as we take a look at this cult teen slasher flick from 1982. Unlike other, more prominent editions to the slasher subgenre, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE is credited for its...

The RRH returns to the wild Italian west with THE BIG GUNDOWN! Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, explores this action-packed, yet deeply provocative Spaghetti Western starring two of the sub-genre’s most prolific stars, Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian. Van Cleef plays Jonathan Corbett, a veteran bounty hunter hired to bring down a cackling, wiley outlaw named Cuchillo (Milian) accused of raping a...

The Rad Revival House is thrilled to explore a brand-new Untapped Potentials episode that will tickle the curious bones of all tough guy cinema fanatics: what if martial arts god Bruce Lee met bombastic screenwriter John Milius? Joining our discussion are Wayne and Liam of the great film review podcast, In Film We Trust. Here, our guest lecturers unite with Professor Cesare Augusto for the first t...

On this special edition of the Rad Revival House, we promote the special film festival event: the Haydenfilms 5.0 Online Film Festival! Joining our discussion is Special Guest Lecturer, Hayden Craddolph, founder of the organization behind this great film festival, Haydenfilms Institute (HFI). Here, we promote a very special film festival featuring unique and inspiring short and feature-length film...

Welcome to Season 2 of THE RAD REVIVAL HOUSE! And what better film to premiere our 2nd season than Francis Ford Copolla's nightmarish war epic, APOCALYPSE NOW? Shot in the Philippines, APOCALYPSE NOW surrounds one soldier's quest to find and kill a madman who has transformed the dense Asian jungle into his own blood-soaked kingdom. Set in the Vietnam War, disturbed Army captain Willard (Ma...

On our big SEASON FINALE of The Rad Revival House, we review the grim yet great 1970s revenge classic, ROLLING THUNDER! Legendary screenwriters Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould presents this hard-hitting tale of returning Vietnam Vet Major Charles Rane (the great William Devane) who, after 7 years of captivity in a Hanoi POW camp, returns home to San Antonio, TX to a hero's welcome, yet without...

On our 2nd to last episode of Season 1, The Rad Revival House returns to Horror with the 1987 cult classic DOLLS! Directed by Stuart Gordon (RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND), takes audiences on a silly yet exciting fantasy thrill ride, as a dysfunctional vacationing American family encounters a creepy old house inhabited by a kindly if eccentric couple, and their homicidal living dolls. Using the power o...

On our 38th episode, The Rad Revival House returns to the Land of the Rising Sun with the excellent Samurai thriller THE TALE OF ZATOICHI! Legendary vintage Japanese actor Shintaro Katsu portrays the now iconic titular character, a master swordsman who happens to be blind as a bat. Despite his lack of vision, Zatoichi is one of cinemadom's deadliest warriors, thanks to amplified senses of hear...

The Rad Revival House is venturin' back to the good ol' 1970s with the classic Deep South crime thriller, WHITE LIGHTNING! Starring a cast of familiar character actor faces and lead by the incomparable Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING takes audiences on an up-close glimpse of the seamy underbelly of rural, booze-soaked Arkansas. Reynolds plays Gator McCluskey, a hardened ex-con who makes a d...

As we head to our Season 1 finale, The Rad Revival House explores the classic French children's classic, THE RED BALLOON. Released in 1956, this short film surrounds an innocent Parisian boy who makes friends with the titular character, a sentient floating red balloon with a mind of its own. The pair are inseparable as they explore Paris's streets and have countless adventures. That is, un...

We’re at exactly FIVE reviews left until the finale of Season 1 of The Rad Revival House. And what better topic to lead off our first season than hypothetical what-ifs of legendary action icon Charles Bronson? We’re joined by author and vintage tough guy cinema expert Fred Schaefer as we discuss the many missed opportunities that the “Death Wish” star could have grabbed. What if he faced fellow to...

Ain't love grand? Not when it borders on obsession, it isn't! On The Rad Revival House's very first Valentine's Day Edition, we review the soul-shattering 1960 South Korean thriller THE HOUSEMAID. Directed by celebrated Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Young, THE HOUSEMAID is a tale of unrequited love gone disastrously wrong. The film centers around a handsome Korean composer/music teacher...