MONSTER ATTACK!

Jim reflects back on his first viewing of the 1966 Cult Classic Horror Film "Chamber Of Horrors," starring Patrick O'Neal, Caesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker, Jose Rene Ruiz Martinez, Jeanette Nolan, Marie Windsor, Wayne Rogers and Richard O'Brien. Two amateur sleuths, who also own a wax museum, help Baltimore police capture a serial killer in the late 19th century. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox and James Lechner join Jim for a rousing holiday discussion of the 1975 Cult Classic "The Giant Spider Invasion," starring Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish, Alan Hale Jr, Bill Williams, Kevin Brodie, Christine Schmidtmer, and Diane Lee Hart. This low-budget gem was one 1975's top-grossing flms and developed a huge cult following. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim dedicates this podcast to the memory of his friend Debra Reed who starred in the 1990 Cult Classic "Troll 2," also staring George Hardy, Michael Stephenson, Margo Prey, Connie McFarland, Robert Ormsby, Jason Wright, Jason Steadman, Don Packard and directed by Claudio Fregasso. This "So bad it's good" film has been a staple of many midnight showings across the country and has developed an incredible fan following equal to "Rocky Horror." Find out about this gem on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses an interpretation of a classic monster movie that made quite an impact on him when it was released in 1985 - "The Bride," starring Sting, Jennifer Beals, Clancy Brown, David Rappaport, Geraldine Page, Anthony Higgins, Alexei Sayle, Cary Elwes and directed by Franc Roddam. This retelling of the "Frankenstein" saga was not initially well-received but, has developed a large cult following the last 40 years. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicared To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox Joins Jim for a duscussion of the 1956 classic based on the immortal novel by Herman Melville - "Moby Dick," starring Gregory Peck, Richard Baseheart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Friedrich von Ledeur, Francis Wolf, Royal Dano, and directed by John Huston. This well-known tale involves the observations of a young seaman (Baseheart) while serving aboard a whaling ship under the command of Captain Ahab (Peck). But who is the real monster in the story? Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a cult classic Ghost Story film from 1980 - "The Changeling," starring George C Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse, and Madeline Sherwood. Based on a stroy by Russell Hunter and directed by Peter Medak, the film centers around a famous composer who lost his wife and daughter in a tragic accident and his struggles to move on. While living in an old house , he experieves several strange occurrances. Are they real or imagined? find out on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim has fun with a breakout cult film celebrating its 45th Anniversary this year - "Alligator," directed by Lewis Teague, written by John Sayles and starring Robert Forster Robin Riker, Michael Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Jack Carter, Perry Lang, Henry Silva, Bart Braverman, Angel Tompkins, Sue Lyon, and Royce D Applegate, A giant alligator who was flushed down a toilet as a baby, grows up and up and up in the sewers and wrecks havoc on a city. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

For the podcast's 10th Halloween Show, Jim pulls a classic Stanley Kubrick film out of the bag and discusses 1980's "The Shining," starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson,  Philip Stone,Joe Tiurkel, Anne Jackson, and Tony Burton. This adaptation of the Stephen King classic deals witha man, his wife and their young son spenfing the winter iso0lated at a large hotel in the Colorado Mountains. It's a frightening tales of a man's descent into madness. find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster 

Jim discusses the 60th Anniversary of a classic 1965 Sci-Fi Cult Film - "Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster," starring James Karen, Nancy Marshall, Robert Reilly, Lou Cutell. Marilyn Hanold, Robert Fields, David Kerman and Bruce Glover. The U.S. launches a manned flight to Mars as a Martian spaceship circles the Earth with plans to kidnap its young women. One thing leads to another leading to the title's conclusion. Confused? We'll sort it all out on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a little-known 1970 British horror film from Tigon Productions - "The Beast In The Cellar," starring Beryl Reid, Flora Robson, John Hamill, Tessa Wyatt, John Kelland, David Dodimead, Dafydd Havard, and directed by James Kelly. The story was based on a true story about two spinster sisters who kept their younger brother locked in a cellar for several years. When strange murders begin happening in a small British town, the sisters worry about who the perpetrator might be. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a little-known 1965 Sci-Fi film from Great Britain - "Blood Beast From Outer Space," aka "Night Caller From Outer Space,' aka "The Night Caller," starring John Saxon, Patricia Haines, Maurice Denham, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Burke, Aubrey Morris, John Carson, Marianne Stone, and directed by John Gilling. The story revolves around an unusual sphere that lands near a British town involving a spaceman and missing teenage girls. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Madeline Brumby, Shane Morton, and Mark Maddox join Jim for a look at the film that will be shown during the final Silver Scream Spook Show of 2025 - "Frankenstein Meets The Wolman," starring Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr.,  Patrick Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Ilona Massey, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Dwight Frye, and Jeff Corey. This sequel to Universal's "The Wolfman," scored big with audiences in 1944 and helped save the studio rom bankruptcy. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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Jim looks back at the top grossing film of 1985 - Robert Zemeckis' classic "Back To The Future," starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas wilson, Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendy Jo Sperber, George DiCenzo, Frances Lee McCain, James Tolkan and Billy Zane. The story centers around Marty McFly (Fox) accidentally travelling back 30 years in time and upsetting the timeline which could threaten his life and the life of his siblings. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing discussion of Tim Burton's homage to filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr, in 1994's "Ed Wood," starring Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Bill Murray, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lisa Marie, Conrad Brooks, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Gregory Walcott, Vincent D'Onofrio, G.D. Spradlin, Mike Starr, Max Casella, Brent Hinkley, George "The Animal" Steele, Norman Alden, and Juliet Landau. This look at the early career of the legendary filmmaker takes us from Wood's humble beginnings to the production of his cult classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated...

Jim revisits an old monster favorite now celebrating its 85th Anniversary - "The Mummy's Hand," starring Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford, Tom Tyler, George Zucco and Cecil Kellaway. An Archaeologist (Foran) and his buddy (Ford) are seeking the tomb of Princess Ananka without much luck until they meet a magician (Kellaway) and his daughter (Moran) who help finance the expedition. Nut there is a curse associated with the tomb of Ananka and that is just the beginning of the fun. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim revisits a film that he considers the best vampire movie ever made - Hammer films' "The Brides Of Dracula," starring Peter Cushing, David Peel, Yvonne Montaur, Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson, Miles Malleson, Henry Oscar, Mona Washbourne, Andree Melly, Fred Johnson,  and Michael Ripper. Directed by Terence Fisher, this film was the sequel to Hammer's "Horror of Dracula" but, offers a story about an evil count who preys on the women of a nearby village. Find out more on MONSTERATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses an adaption of one of his favorite Stephen King books -"Cat's Eye," based on two short stories in "Nightshift" and starring Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Robert Hayes, Kenneth McMillian, Mary D'Arcy, Candy Clark, James Naughton, Mike Starr, Charles S. Dutton, and directed by Lewis Teague. The three tales that surround the wanderings of a tabby cat are "Quitters Inc" involving a man's attempt to stop smoking, "The Ledge," dealing with a serious wager and "General" focusing on a little girl's fear of a monster in her bedroom. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The...

Jim reflects back on a 1965 Sci-Fi movie that is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year - "Crack In The World," starring Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox, and directed by Andrew Marton. A dying scientist's quest for a source of unlimited energy results in a situation that threatens all of mankind. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a little-known Sci-Fi film from 1955 - "The Atomic Man" aka "Timeslip," starring Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Vic Perry, Martin Wyldeck, written by Charles Eric Maine and Directed by Ken Hughes. This Anglo-American gem centers around a famous nuclear scientist who is at the heart of a strange mystery involving attempted murder and a strange man who talks gibberish. And yet, there is more. Find out on MONSTER ATTACK!, the podcast dedicated to old monster movies.

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a 50th Anniversary celebration of the very first Summer Blockbuster film - Steven Spielberg's "JAWS," Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton and a host of residents from Martha's Vineyard. Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, the story centers around a Cape Cod island town beseiged by a rogue Great White Shark. The film had an enormous impact on movie goers. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects back on a classic sci-fi film set in the year 2018 and directed by Norman Jewison - "Rollerball," starring James Caan, John Beck, John Houseman, Maude Adams, Moses Gunn, and Barbara Trentham. Corporations have now taken over the planet and rule the roost using a violent game to control the masses. One player stands up to the power and risks everything to play a game he loves. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 three men into space. On return, only one man survives and the other two are missing. But what also came back? Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 effects are some of Harryhausen's finest in this incredible film. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 later after the Earth has suffered a nuclear war. Roddenberry hoped the pilots would become a nice follow-up to Star Trek. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 there. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!. The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 on this special episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 Japanese defense Force is stunned while trying to find a way to stop the monsters. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 good man (or is it fish) down. Find out what happens on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 in an observation balloon and end up on a island in the Pacific. There are plenty of surprises in store for our castaways and you can find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To...

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 Japanese village arousing the interest of some local ne'er-do-wells. And in the distance, a familiar roar can be heard! Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster...

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 is operating a clinic under a new name and building another human. But things just cannot seem to go his way. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 dead causing a real problem for a small British town. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 ATTACK!, The Podcast.

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 second thoughts which could sabotage the trip. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 movie on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 this heralded classic on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 Kelljan and Michael Macready team up again to bring the Count back to terrorize an orphanage in a small Northern California community. find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies. Duration: 00:53:13

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 five men riding on a train with a strange doctor who tells their fortunes using Tarot cards. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicted To Old Monster Movies.

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 tour-de-force for Black. Find out more on this episode MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 episode of MONSTER ATTACK!. The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 who they lost contact with 20 years earlier find an eccentric professor, his daughter and a dark secret. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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 special effects men in the business. A giant octopus threatens San Francisco. How will will it be stopped? Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To...

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 Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox joins Jim for a rousing discussion of the 1965 Italian Sci-Fi classic "The10th Victim," starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Luce Bnifassy, Salva Randone, Evy Rigano, and directed by Elio Petri. A futuristic society uses a TV show that involves people hunting and murdering one another to channel off violent tendencies. One such hunt involves two of the most popular contestants. Find out more on this episode of MONTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a classic 1975 horror film from Tyburn Film Productions directed by Freddie Francis, "The Ghoul," starring Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastardo, Gwen Watford, Stewart Bevan, Ian McCulloch, Dan Meaden and Don Hendersan. Two couples find themselves lost in "the moors" and facing a strange family with a terrible secret. Find out more on this week's episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim loooks at a Sci-Fi Thriller celebrating its 50th Anniversary with Bryan Forbes' "The Stepford Wives," starring katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, William Prince, Carole Mallory, Toni Reid, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, George Coe, and Mary Stuart Masterson.Based on the novel by Ira Levin, a young couple move to the suburns from NYC where they find a strange community straight out of a 50's Sit-Com. But there is a dark secret about Stepford. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.<...

Mark Maddox joins Jim in an in-depth discussion of Tim Burton's superhero classic "Batman," starring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough, Billy Dee Williams, Tracey Walter, Jack Palance, Wiliam Hootkins, and Jerry Hall. This "Dark Knight" origin story was the top-grossing domestic feature film of the year and set the table for future superhero movies. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated TO Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses his first experiences with the 1959 Post-Apocalyptic classic "On The Beach," directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson and John Meillon. A US submarine arrives in Melbourne, Australia where the remaining members of the human race are left following a world-wide nuclear exchange. The clock is ticking before the end of humanity in this poignant film. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddux joins Jim for a look at Irwin Allen's classic1974  thriller "The Towering Inferno," starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Susan Flannery, Norman Burton, Don Gordon, Gregory Sierra and a host of rising stars. The nation's tallest building is being dedicated when fire breaks out on one of the upper floors leaving several people trapped. It's a race against time in this blockbuster released just before Christmas. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster M...

Mark Maddux joins us for an in-depth look at a Sci-Fi classic from 1971 directed by Robert Wise - "The Andromeda Strain," starring James Olson, Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell, Ramon Bieri, and Robert Soto as the "Baby." A satellite returning from space carries something that threatens all of mankind. It is a race against time in this thriller from 53 years ago that later proved prophetic. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses his first experience with a classic 1959 Horror-Thriller based on an infamous London serial killer - "Jack The Ripper, starring Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier, Jack Allen, Endre Muller, and Directed by Monty Berman and Robert S Baker. An American police detective assists Scotland Yard in stopping a killer that is haunting London in the late 1800s. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a classic Kaiju film that celebrates its 60th anniversary this month - "Ghidora: The Three-Headed Monster, starring Yosuke Natsuki, Yurikp Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, "The Peanuts" as Shobijin, Tkashi Shumura, Hisaya Ito, and directed by Ishiro Honda. A strange monster from outer space shows up as Godzilla ad Rodan are fighting. Mothra tries to convince the two to join her in defeating the threat. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on the last film in the Universal Frankenstein/Dracula Universe - "House of Dracula" starring Lon Chaney Jr, Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Glenn Strange, Martha O'Driscoll, Lionel Atwill, Jane Adams, and Skelton Knaggs. Dr. Eidelman (Stevens) known for helping those with unique problems, draws the interest of Dracula and Larry Talbott for relief from their respective curses. Throw in the Frankenstein Monster and you have a full set. Find out more about this 1945 classic on this episode MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox joins Jim for a discussion of a 1981 Thriller directed by Piers Haggard -"Venom," starring Oliver Reed, Susan George, Nicol Williamson, Klaus Kinski, Sterling Hayden, and Lance Holcombe. An attempted kidnapping of a young boy goes horribly wrong as a deadly snake threatens everyone in a London townhouse. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a classic sci-fi film from 1940 - "Dr. Cyclops, " starring Albert Dekker. Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, for producers Merian C. Cooper and Dale Van Every. A reclusive scientist with a laboratory laboratory deep in the Amazon jungle invites three scientists to assist. Upon discovering a horrific secret, they are subjected to experiments involving radiation. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses the sequel to "Son Of Frankenstein with 1942's "The Ghost Of Frankenstein," starring Lon Chaney Jr, Cedricke Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Janet Ann Gallow, Barton Yarborough, and Olaf Hytten. Produced by George Waggner and directed by Erle C. Kenton, this sequel picks up where "Son" left off except Ygor seeks out the "second" son of Frankenstein for help reviving "The Monster." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

In this final entry of this year's Halloween Fare, Jim discusses a classic cult film frim 1982 - "Poltergeist," starring Craig T. Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominque Dunne, Oliver Robbins, Heather O'Rourke, Michael McManus, James Karen, Zelda Rubinstein, Dirk Blocker, and Sonny Landham. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, this ghost story dominated the film from Halloween through the Holiday Season. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

In this Halloween Special Episode, Jim reflects on a "vampire" film that greatly impacted him in 1987 - Joel Schumacher's "The Lost Boys," starring Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Hermann,  Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Giertz, Corey Feldman, Jamison Newlander, Alexander Winter, Chance Michael Corbitt, and Tim Cappello. A recently divorced woman and her two sons move in with her father in a small California town that has a deadly secret. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses the one film in the "Halloween" franchise that does not include Michael Myers  - 1982's "Halloween III: Season of the Witch," starring Tom Atkins, Stacy Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter, Garn Stephens, Jonathan Terry, Nancy Keyes, Al Berry, Wendy Wassberg, Essex Smith, and Madie Norman. In the small town of Santa Mira, there are strange going-ons leading an E.R. doctor and the daughter of a missing man to make a horrifying discovery. Find out more on this special Halloween episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies. Duration: 00:52:24

Jim looks back at a Stephen King short story adaption celebrating its 40th Anniversary - "Children Of the Corn," starring Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, Courtney Gaines, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Jonas Marlowe, Robby Kiger, Anne Marie McEvoy, Julie Maddelena, and John Philbin. A fanatical group of children, following a religion centered around :He who walks among the rows," kills everyone in a small Iowa town and threatens a husband and wife who cross paths with them. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Madeline and Shane return to help Jim launch the 2024 Halloween Season with a look at the 1984 classic film "Ghostbusters," starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, William Atherton, and directed by Ivan Reitman. Three scientists fight spooks and spirits in New York City with hilarious results. But, there is a secret that threatens all mankind. Find out more on this Halloween episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton (Silver Scream Spook Show) join Jim for a rollicking discussion of the 1939 classic "Son Of Frankenstein," starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, LionelAtwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan, Emma Dunn, and Edgar Horton. Wolf Frankenstein goes to the village where his father years earlier had created "The Monster." But surpirses await the doctor. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects back on the first time he saw Ridley Scott's 1979 Sci=Fi masterpiece, "Alien," starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, and Ian Holm. A mining crew traveling in deep space is awakened and told to investigate a distress call from a nearby planet. And then the fun begins, because "in Space, no one can hear you scream." Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Clay Sayre returns to join Jim for a first for the podcast - A MONSTER ATTACK! Double Feature, featuring 1976's "Embryo," starring Rock Hudson, Barbara Carrera, Diane Ladd, Anne Schedeen, John Elerick, and Roddy McDowall, along with 1978's "The Manitou," starring Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Michael Ansara, Stella Stevens Jon Cedar, Ann Southern Paul Mantee, and Burgess Meredith. It's true "Double Feature" fare as Jim and Clay talk about these two cult films from the 70's and it's all ahead on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox and Clay Sayre join Jim for a "Rag-A-Rama" look at Irwin Allen's disastrous Eco-Disaster Film from 1978 - "The Swarm," starring Michael Caine, Katherine Ross, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray, Ben Johnson, Bradford Dillman, Jose Ferrer, and Richard Chamberlain. This film broke Allen's string of profit-making blockbusters with a bad performance at theatres. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on his first time watching James Cameron's 1984 Sci-Fi Classic "The Terminator," starring Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Arnold Schwartznegger, Earl Boen, Paul Winfield, and Lance Henriksen. A killer cyborg is sent from the future to kill the mother of a future revolutionary. This classic spawned several sequels and was one of the top grossing films of the year. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on an early Sci-Fi film made in 1959 concerning man's first missin to the Moon - :12 To The Moon," starring Ken Clark, Roger Til, Michi Kobi, Anna-Lisa, Robert Montgomery, Anthony Dexter, John Weingraf, Richard Weber, and Francis X. Bushman. An international mission to the Moon is full of hazards and surpirses as 12 individuals from different countries try to work together for all mankind. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses one of his favorite cult films from 1984 - "The Adventures Of Buckaroos Bonzai Across The 8th Dimension," starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Robert Ito, Matt Clark, Clancy Brown, Vincent Schiavelli, and Dan Hedaya. Buckaroo, a neurosurgeon-musician-adventurer, has little time to save the Earth from the clutches of Dr. Lizardo and the evil Red Lectroids. Find out more on this episode of MONTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects his first viewing of a classic Sci-Fi from 1981 from Director Peter Hyams - "Outland," starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham, Nicholas Barnes, Clarke Peters, and John Ratzenberger. A Federal Marshall assigned to a mining outpost on Jupiter's third moon, Io, is faced with a drug smuggling operation that is taking the lives of several workers. Find out how he faces up to incredible odds on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim talks about a game-changing Japanese film that helped restart the Godzilla franchise, "Godzilla 1984," aka "The Return Of Godzilla," starring Ken Tanaka, Keiju Kobayashi, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Yosuke Natsuki, Shin Takuma, Ken Satsuma and directed by Koji Hashimoto. 30 Years after Godzilla attacked Tokyo and was apparently destroyed, the giant dinosaur, now 80 meters tall, reappears and heads for the city once again. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim remembers his first viewing of the 1969 TV Movie, "Night Gallery," which served as the pilot for the series and starred Roddy McDowall, Ossie Davis, George Macready, Barry Atwater, Joan Crawford Barry Sullivan, Tom Bosley, Byron Morrow, Richard Kiley, Sam Jaffe, George Murdock and featured directors, Boris Sagal, Steven Spielberg, and Barry Shear. The film included three tales of the weird written by Rod Serling, who introduced each segment. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim looks back on a 1958 Roger Corman classic, "Viking Women and The Sea Serpent," starring Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Jonathan Haze, June Kenney, Bradford Jackson, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jay Sayer, Sally Todd, Mike Forrest, and Gary Conway. Viking women go on a quest to find their men after they fail to return from a journey. Along the way they encounter a large sea serpent and end up on an unknown island. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a classic Black Comedy Horror Film from 1980 written by Robert and Steven Charles Jaffe - "Motel Hell," starring Rory Calhoun, Nancy Parsons, Nin Axelrod, Paul Linke, Wolfman Jack, Elaine Joyce, Dick Curtis, Monique St. Pierre, Rosanne Katon, E Hampton Beagle, John Ratzenberger and directed by Kevin Connor. Farmer Vincent uses a very special ingredient in his famous smoked meats. And what might that be? Find out on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim thinks back on the first time he saw Phillip Kaufman's 1978 remake of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers," starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin McCarthy,  and Leonard Nimoy. Kaufman gives the story of an invasion of Planet Earth by space-borne seed pods a 70's approach, which has resulted in many considering this to be an excellent remake of the legendary 1956 classic. find out more of this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reminisces about the second "Monster Movie" he ever saw - Roger Corman's 1958 Sci-Fi "War Of The Satellites," starring Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Richard Devon, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox, Robert Shayne, Jared Barclay, and John Brinkley. The story centers around man's attempt to explore space while an alien race tries to prevent them from leaving planet Earth. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

In this very special anniversary episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, Jim reflects on the first time he saw Ken Russell's classic 1980 Sci-Fi film "Altered States," written by Paddy Chayefsky and starring William Hurt, Blair Brown, Charles Haid, Bob Balaban, Thaao Penghlis, Dori Brenner, Charles White eagle, Drew Barrymore, Megan Jeffers, Jack Murdock, John Larroquette, and George Gaynes. Russell's surrealistic look at a man's obsession with finding answers to the meaning of life developed a large cult following during the last 40+ years. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a masterful tale involving a clean-cut suburban lad who goes on a deadly shooting spree in Los angeles - Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets," starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Arthur Peterson, James Brown, Tanya Morgan, Mary Jackson, Sandy Baron, Monte Landis and Mike Farrell. This critically-acclaimed 1967 thriller shocked audiences on first release and developed a cult following during the next five decades. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a 1983 Sci-Fi homage to old 50s films which initially did not do well, but found an audience in Home Video and a nice cult following - "Strange Invaders," starring Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Louise Fletcher, Shawn Wallace, Kenneth Tobey, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Michael Lerner and directed by Michael Laughlin. A college professor and a tabloid reporter go on a quest to find the man's missing ex-wife. And yes, Aliens are involved. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reminisces about his first viewing of a classic sci-fi film from 1987 that has spawned an iconic franchise and following - "Robocop

Jim reflects on his first viewing of a 1984 Science Fiction film which spawned a popular Urban Legend - "The Philadelphia Experiment," starring Michael Pare', Bobby Di Cicco, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas, Louise Latham, Stephen Tobolowsky and Keene Holliday. A naval experiment in 1943 results in two sailors ending up in 1984. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a classic tale of witchcraft based on Fritz Leiber Jr;s novel "Conjuring Wife" - 1962's "Burn, Witch, Burn," starring Janet Blair, Peter Wyngarde, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls, Colin Gordon and Reginald Beckwith. With a screenplay written by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont and directed by Sydney Hayers, the film centers around the wife of a young college professor who uses spells and incantations to protect her husband from jealous co-workers. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on one of the first "Monster Movies" he saw after his family moved to North Carolina - "Marooned," starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Mariette Hartley, Nancy Kovak, Scott Brady, Walter Brooke, John Forsythe, and directed by John Sturges. This 1969 Sci-Fi tells the tale of three astronauts trapped in orbit around the Earth with no chance of being rescued. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox returns for a rousing discussion of a 1965 classic tale based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft  "Die, Monster, Die," starring Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Patrick Magee, Freda Jackson, Terence DeMarney and Directed By Daniel Haller. Based on "The Colour From Space," the story centers around a young man (Adams) visiting his British girlfriend and learning of the strange going-ons surrounded her home. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!. The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic "The Land That Time Forgot," starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron, Anthony Ainley, Declan Mulholland, Steve James, and directed by Kevin Conner. A group of shipwrecked sailors (both British and German) must work together to survive on an island that has dinosaurs and other perils. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a rousing discussion of a Kaiju film celebrating its 50th Anniversary - "Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla," starring Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Akihiko Hirata, Hiroshi Koizumi, Reiko Tajima, Hiromi Matsushita, Goro Mutsumi, Shin Kishida and directed byJun Fukuda. An alien race seeking to conquer Earth makes a giant robot based on Godzilla. And when the "Big Guy" finds out, trouble ensues. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects on the final anthology film by Amicus Productions - 1974's "From Beyond The Grave," starring Peter Cushing, David Warner, Wendy Allnutt, Rosalind Ayres, Marcel Steiner, Ian Brennen, Donald Pleasence, Angela Pleasence, Diana Dors, John O'Farrell, Ian Carmichael, Margaret Leighton, Nyree Dawn Porter, Ian Ogilvy, Lesley-Anne Down, Jack Watson, Ben Howard and directed by Kevin O'Connor. Four stories centering around a strange curio shop are woven together nto a tale of the fantastical. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a film from 1974 that did not do well upon its initial release, but has gained a large following the last 50 years - "PHASE IV," starring Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynn Frederick,  Alan Gifford, Helen Horton and Robert Henderson. Director Saul Bass provides a thought-provoking look into what might happen if insects, namely ants, fight back against what man is doing to the planet. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a classic 1963 Ghost Story based on the novel by Shirley Jackson ("The Haunting Of Hill House") and directed by Robert Wise -"The Haunting," starring Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Robert Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Rosalie Crutchley, Fay Compton, Valentine Dyall, and Lois Maxwell. This memorable tale about a small group investigating a legendary haunted house has developed a huge cult following the last 60 years. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Mark Maddox joins us for an in-depth discussion about Ridley Scott's 1982 Sci-Fi Classic "Blade Runner," starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, M Emmett Walsh, Edward James Olmos, Darryl Hannah, William Sanderson and Joanna Cassidy. A former cop (Ford) is forced to hunt down four "replicants" who have returned illegally to Earth. During the investigation, he finds himself having feelings for another replicant which complicates things a great deal. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses n adaptation of a popular Stephen King novel from 1984 - "Firestarter," starring Drew Barrymore, David Keith, Freddie Jones, George C. Scott, Heather Locklear, Martin Sheen, Louise Fletcher, Art Carney, and Moses Gunn. Produced by Dino De Laurentis and Directed by Mark L. Lester, the film focuses on an 8-year-old girl and her father who both have special abilities that a secret government agency wants to know more about. It's full of action and intrigue as the two try to escape. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies. 

Jim discusses a reimaging of a classic vampire tale - 1979's "Dracula," starring Frank Langella, Laurence Oliver, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Jan Francis, Trevor Eve, Tony Haygarth, Teddy Turner, Janine Duvitski, and Sylvester McCoy. Directed y John Badham, the story is based on the Hamilton Deane and John Balderston Broadway play which also starred Lasngella. The Count makes his way to England and sets his sights on two women for nourishment and pleasure. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

It is our 400th EPISODE !!! and Jim discusses what he calls "The Perfect Movie For All Monster Kids," Joe Dante's 1993 "Matinee," starring John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, Lisa Jakub, Robert Picardo, Lucinda Jenney, Jesse Lee, Jesse White, James Villemaire, David Clennon, Dick Miller, John Sayles, Lucy Butler, Belinda Balaski, Naomi Watts, and Kevin McCarthy. This loving tribute to old Monster Movies from the 50s and an homage to William Castle has won the hearts of many monster fans during the last three decades. And its all on this special 400th episode of MONSTER ATTACK...

Jim dedicates this episode to the memory of his parents, Jim & Phyllis, who would have celebrated their 70th Wedding anniversary the day after this publishes. One of the most-loved "Big Bug" films of the 50's is discussed here with 1954's "THEM!," starring James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Edmund Gwynn, Sandy Descher, Fess Parker, Onslow Stevens, Sean McClory, Leonard Nimoy, Dub Taylor, and Olin Howland. Directed by Gordon Douglas, this film set the tone for radiation-themed, big-big films to come. Join us or a very special episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses a cult-classic celebrating its 60th Anniversary this year - Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Peter Bull, and Tracy Reed. An Air Force General (Hayden) sends his bomber wing into Russia to bomb the country because of a conspiracy he believes in. Find out more about this heralded Black Comedy on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim reflects back of the first time he saw the second entry in the Star Trk TOS movie franchise - 1982s "Star trek The Wrath Of Khan," starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, and Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Based on the TOS episode "Space Seed," Kirk encounters Khan, who blames him for the death of his wife and seeks revenge. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim pays tribute to Universal Studio's first pairing of two of its iconic monsters in a feature film - 1943's "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman,"starring Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles, Ilona Massey, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lionel Atwill, and Dwight Frye. On a quest to find Dr. Frankenstein, Larry Talbott crosses paths with "The Monster." Find out moe about this historical meeting on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

Jim discusses the last "Frankenstein" film produced by Hammer Films - 1974's "Frankenstein & The Monster From Hell," starring Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse, John Stratton, Michael Ward, and Patrick Troughton. Directed by Terence Fisher, this film would also be Fisher's last feature film. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.