Our show has come to its conclusion. In a farewell address, Brandon reflects on the show and the decision to end. He also hints at his future podcast, gives a little bit of trivia regarding the show’s history, showers many folks with gratuity and ultimately gives thanks for 5 wonderful years of Cult Cinema Cavalcade. 

We appreciate your coming along with us on this journey, however long or short it may have been. Onward to the future, friends!

Our Friday the 13th bonus series continues in discussion of 1984’s The Final Chapter. Of note, 8 movies followed this one. Join us as we talk about Crispin Glover’s dance moves, Corey Feldman’s early peeping Tom days, Teddy’s computer, our crush on Trish Jarvis…AND TWIIIIIIIIINZZZZZ!

Special Guest: James Oster (Joblo.com)

Flicks For Fans’ Friday the 13th Event

Relive Cult Cinema Cavalcade’s live show from the 2019 Starbase Indy convention as Brandon and Cullen discuss the 1997 documentary TREKKIES.

Special thanks to Starbase Indy, Matt Quiett, Carl Doninger, Nick Rust and Jonathan David Small.

Movie Ratings

Brandon: “I think enough time has passed where this can be enjoyed and respected beyond the potential mean-spirited marketing hook it had back in 1997 that doesn’t hold weight anymore.”
Drinking the Kool-Aid

Cullen: “I hadn’t gotten around to revisiting this in a long time until now, and I really wish I had sooner. It’s a really fun movie.”
Drinking the Kool-Aid

Brandon and Cullen put a cap on our Godzilla Showa Era series by looking back, talking some of their favorite moments, monsters and aliens as well as listing our their personal ranking order of the films.

Thanks to everyone who partook in this grand event whether it be our guests or our wonderful listeners!

Movie Poster: Godzilla Hangover

Brandon and Cullen cross the finish line of their Showa Era Godzilla marathon with help from esteemed Rondo Award winning author and Kaiju master AUGUST RAGONE!

Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth’s cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus.

Episode Guest: August Ragone
Author, Host, Japanese Film Historian
August Ragone is a San Fransisco, Califronia native who has been an events promoter, author and Japanese film aficionado for over three decades. He first began his career as a teenager being the Japanese Film and Godzilla Expert for horror host Bob Wilkins on the KTVU TV station’s horror movie show case series
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Movie Information: Terror of Mechagodzilla
Synopsis: The fire-breathing “King of the Monsters” dukes it out with his mechanised duplicate.

Release date: March, 15 1975

Director: Ishirō Honda

Box office: 330 million JPY

Music by: Akira Ifukube

Screenplay: Yukiko Takayama

Produced By: Henry G. Saperstein, Tomoyuki Tanaka

Movie Poster: Terror of Mechagodzilla

Movie Rating: Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla

August Ragone
“Great character development harkening back to Monster Zero. It takes itself seriously but not too seriously and is a good time at the movies!”
Drinking the Kool-Aid

Cullen
“The model work was really awesome on it. It has Mechagodzilla so it had that advantage. There are some I liked more than this but it was really good.”
Converted

Brandon
“I was worried Jun Fukuda was going to outdo Ishiro Honda, but Honda absolutely redeems himself following All Monsters Attack. I really found the two Mechagodzilla films to compliment one another and I really loved this one.”
Drinking the Kool-Aid

We head into our final 2 films of the Showa Era of Godzilla, and introduce Mechagodzilla and King Caesar into the fold!

Episode Guest: Jessica Alsman
The Bob & Tom Show, DocHeads
Comedy lover. Part of the Bob & Tom family. Geek out on stuff & thangs.

Always overthinking. Sometimes on the radio.

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Movie Information: Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla
Synopsis: The fire-breathing “King of the Monsters” dukes it out with his mechanised duplicate.

Release date: March, 1977

Director: Jun Fukuda

Box office: 370 million JPY

Music by: Masaru Satô

Screenplay: Jun Fukuda, Masami Fukushima, Shin’ichi Sekizawa, Hiroyasu Yamamura

Produced By: Tomoyuki Tanaka

Movie Poster: Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla

Movie Rating: Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla

Jessica Alsman
“I feel like I either have to be all in with this or not at all. As a little one off, I probably don’t need to see it ever again.”
Stay Home with the Family

Cullen
“This is my favorite one of all we’ve done so far. I’d been looking very forward to it and it didn’t disappoint.”
Drinking the Kool-Aid

Brandon
“I think its safe to say this is Jun Fukuda’s best Godzilla film and it even reaches Ishiro Honda levels of greatness.”
Drinking the Kool Aid

Brandon, Cullen and Jimmy O take on a Friday the 13th movie near and dear to the their hearts. Get ready to “Ooh baby” as they scream their love for LANAAAA!!! while Roy Burns subs in for Jason.

Episode Guest: James Oster
Writer and contributor, reviewer and correspondent at JoBlo
Bacon, Cats & JoBlo by JimmyO. LAOFCS member. I’m a pretty awesome dad too!

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Movie Info: Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
Synopsis: Years ago, Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) killed infamous hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees (C.J. Graham), and the intensity of the experience has landed him in a mental institution. To end his torment and achieve a level of closure, Tommy escapes from the hospital and heads to the graveyard where Jason is buried, intending to dig up the body and cremate it. But, before this total annihilation can occur, a freak electrical accident resurrects Jason from the dead, and the terror begins anew.

Release date: August 1, 1986

Director: Tom McLoughlin

Box office: 19.5 million

Music by: Harry Manfredini

Screenplay: Tom McLoughlin

Produced By: Don Behrns

Movie Poster: Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI

Apparently Godzilla is worried about Ultra-Man as Jet Jaguar enters the fold to help him face off against another hodge podge monster.

The undersea nation of Seatopia sends the gigantic Megalon to destroy the world above – and it’s up to Godzilla and a size-shifting robot, Jet Jaguar, to defeat him.

Episode Guest: Jim Dietz
HHWLOD Network
Owner/Chef Gypsy Cafe, Co-Host/Producer HHWLOD Podcast Network and definitely geekier than you.

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Movie Information: Godzilla Vs Megalon
Synopsis: Godzilla and flying cyborg Jet Jaguar meet a giant cockroach and a big black chicken sent by Seatopians.

Release date: March 17, 1973

Director: Jun Fukuda

Box office: 220 million JPY

Music by: Riichiro Manabe

Screenplay: Jun Fukuda, Takeshi Kimura, Shin’ichi Sekizawa

Produced By: John Sirabella, Tomoyuki Tanaka

Movie Poster: Godzilla Vs Megalon

Movie Rating: Godzilla Vs Megalon

Jim Dietz
“As a kid this was love, now its the love a good bad movie.”
Kool-Aid

Cullen
“This is the Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan of Godzilla movies.”
Family

Brandon
“In the right scenario, be it the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode or with the right company, this works a bit better.”
Crusades

Godzilla takes on pollution and we bring on someone who has literally directed Godzilla before to talk about Godzilla’s stance.

From Earth’s pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.

Movie Information: Godzilla vs Gigan
Synopsis: Godzilla and Angorus fight three-headed dragon Ghidrah and huge bird Gigan at a cartoonist’s theme park.

Release date: March 12, 1972

Director:
Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda

Box office: 320 million JPY

Music by: Akira Ifukube

Screenplay: Takeshi Kimura, Shin’ichi Sekizawa

Produced By: Tomoyuki Tanaka

Movie Poster: Godzilla vs Gigan

Movie Rating: Godzilla vs Gigan
Cullen
“Its not on the higher end of things and its easily watchable, I just don’t know if I’m gonna reach for it as often as others.”
Crusade

Brandon Peters
“Works best as a standalone. Watching sequentially certainly weakens it, but as a random Godzilla movie viewing, its pretty good.”
Crusade

Godzilla takes on pollution and we bring on someone who has literally directed Godzilla before to talk about Godzilla’s stance.

From Earth’s pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.

David Kronmiller
Episode Guest: David Kronmiller
Director of Boris and the Bomb
David P. Kronmiller is a writer/director/standup. He appeared as a recurring character on TV’s Saved By The Bell: The New Class. His feature film, Boris and the Bomb, got into the Valley Film Festival (2019) and is starring Faran Tahir (Ironman), TJ Storm (Godzilla, Deadpool), Kavi Ladnier (Heroes) and J. Anthony McCarthy (Agent Carter) as Boris.

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Movie Information: Godzilla vs Hedorah
Synopsis: Godzilla fights pollution in the form of living sludge found by a scientist (Akira Yamauchi) and his son (Hiroyuki Kawase).

Release date: July 24, 1971

Director: Yoshimitsu Banno

Box office: 300 million JPY

Music by: Riichirô Manabe

Screenplay: Yoshimitsu Banno, Takeshi Kimura

Produced By: Tomoyuki Tanaka, Samuel Z. Arkoff

Movie Poster: Godzilla vs Hedorah

Movie Rating: Godzilla vs Hedorah

David Kronmiller
“The first couple minutes I wasn’t too sure, but this one really started clicking and as the monster grew so did my enjoyment of the movie.”
Kool-Aid

Cullen
“My wife said it was one of the worst Godzilla movies she had watched. I asked ‘Are you kidding me?’ God watch Son of Godzilla and All Monsters Attack and then try and tell me that!”
Kool-Aid

Brandon Peters
“I was really taken with this movie. Its a real standout and had me engulfed from the opening title sequence.”
Kool-Aid