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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 30, 2018

Jim pulls another classic Bert I. Gordon film into the spotlight with 1957's "The Cyclops," starring Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr., James Craig, Tom Drake and Duncan Parkin. While looking for her finance, who crashed in a remote area of Mexico, a young woman and her expedition happen upon strange creatures and 125-foot...


Jul 23, 2018

A cult classic from 1959 is put in the spotlight this week as Jim explores "The Monster of Piedras Blancas," starring Les Tremayne, Don Sullivan, Jeanne Carmen, Forrest Lewis and John Harmon. A small California coastal is plagued with several mysterious murders. The local lighthouse seems to be a factor. Is it a maniac...


Jul 16, 2018

It's Dinosaurs and a hot, humid prehistoric world in the middle of the ... South Pole? Jim turns his attention to 1957's cult classic, "The Land Unknown," starring Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Douglas Kennedy and Henry Brandon. An expedition is trapped in a land that has been frozen in time. Will...


Jul 9, 2018

It's an alliterative favorite from Jim's past as he reminisces on Roger Corman's 1959 cult classic, "The Wasp Woman," starring Susan Cabot, Barboura Morris, Anthony Eisley and Michael Mark. The owner of a large cosmetics firm tries to find the fountain of youth with an experimental enzyme resulting in horrific results....


Jul 2, 2018

Jim re-visits the story of Col. Glen Manning with a look at Bert I. Gordon's cult classic from 1958, "War of the Colossal Beast," starring Sally Fraser, Russ Bender, Roger Pace and Dean Parkin. It seems Col Manning survived the fall off Boulder Dam and is terrorizing the remote countryside in Mexico. Can he be saved?...