MONSTER ATTACK!

MONSTER ATTACK!

Jim Adams

MONSTER ATTACK!

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“Monster Attack” is a podcast dedicated to old “Monster Movies,” the ones we all grew up with and fell in love with. These are the films that opened up a new world of scary creatures, sci-fi wonders and frightening tales of the supernatural. Former radio personality Jim Adams re-visit a time when radioactive dinosaurs threatened Tokyo, werewolves terrorized the population at large and mad scientists conducted hideous experiments in large mansions.

SSSSSSS | Episode 469

SSSSSSS | Episode 469

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...

Psycho | Episode 468

Psycho | Episode 468

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...

Godzilla Raids Again | Episode 467

Godzilla Raids Again | Episode 467

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...

Flash Gordon (1936-40) Episode 466

Flash Gordon (1936-40) Episode 466

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...

Revenge Of The Creature | Episode 465

Revenge Of The Creature | Episode 465

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...

Mysterious Island | Episode 464

Mysterious Island | Episode 464

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...

Godzilla vs The Thing | Episode 463

Godzilla vs The Thing | Episode 463

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...

The Revenge Of Frankenstein | Episode 462

The Revenge Of Frankenstein | Episode 462

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...

Psychomania | Episode 461

Psychomania | Episode 461

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...

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage | Episode 460

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage | Episode 460

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...