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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.

Oct 30, 2017

Jim examines a cult favorite from 1956, "Indestructible Man," starring Lon Chaney Jr., Casey Adams, Marion Carr and Russ Elliot. "Butcher" Benton is brought back to life after his execution by a scientist looking for a cancer cure. Unfortunately, that gives him a chance to revenge himself against a crooked lawyer and...


Oct 23, 2017

Jim looks at the film many consider the standard-bearer for all Hammer Dracula films, "Horror of Dracula," starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling and Carol Marsh. The evil count, after dispatching Jonathan Harker, sets his sights on Harker's fiancé, Lucy. Will Dr. Van Helsing come to...


Oct 16, 2017

Jim channels his inner child with a favorite from his early years watching monster movies with this review of 1960's "Dinosaurus!," starring Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson and Paul Lakather. A construction crew working on a remote island uncovers two dinosaurs and a caveman. When a freak lightning storm awakens the three,...


Oct 9, 2017

Jim examines a 1943 Universal classic that he initially did not like as a kid, but learned to appreciate recently - "Son of Dracula," starring Lon Chaney Jr, Louise Albritton, Robert Page and Evelyn Ankers. A mysterious Count Alucard visits a woman at her family's Louisiana plantation and strange things begin...


Oct 2, 2017

Jim looks at another one of the life-defining movies from his childhood in "From Earth To The Moon," based on the Jules Verne novel of the same name. In 1868, a successful business convinces his peers that they can all send someone to the moon and return them in a book that shows surprising insight into the events...