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MONSTER ATTACK!

“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-visits a time when radioactive dinosaurs threatened Tokyo, werewolves terrorized the population at large and mad scientists conducted hideous experiments in large mansions.

Jul 29, 2019

Jim pulls out another "Guilty Pleasure" from his youth with a look at Bert I. Gordon's 1958 cult classic, "Attack Of The Puppet People," starring John Agar, June Kenney, John Hoyt, Laurie Mitchell, Susan Gordon and Jean Moorhead. A lonely doll maker shrinks people to add to his "unique" collection.  For the victims,...


Jul 22, 2019

 This week's podcast pays tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the historic July 20, 1969 moon landing with a look at 1968's "Countdown," starring Robert Duvall, James Caan, Joanna Moore Betty Buxley and directed by Robert Altman (his fiest feature film). A desperate mission calls for one astronaut to fly a Gemini...


Jul 15, 2019

Jim reflects on another "Guilty Pleasure" from his youth - the 1958 Cult Classic, "Queen Of Outer Space," starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Laurie Mitchell, Dave Willock, Patrick Waltz and Paul Birch. Four astronauts find themselves on the planet Venus, now inhabited by a race of beauty queens and swimsuit models....


Jul 8, 2019

Jim reflects on one of the first films he saw starring Bela Lugosi - 1940's "The Devil Bat,"directed by Jean Yarbrough and co-starring Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Donald Kerr and Yolande Donlan. Lugosi plays a mad scientist in this low-budget pot boiler, who takes revenge on the owners and family of those he feels...


Jul 1, 2019

Jim reflects on the second "Mummy" picture released among the four that followed the 1932 version of "The Mummy." "The Mummy's Tomb," starring Turhan Bey, Elyse Knox, John Hubbard, Dick Foran, George Zucco and Lon Chaney Jr, picks up 30 years after the events in "The Mummy's Hand." A high priest is sent to america to...