Tonight on the show as we recover from the Massive Comic Con we have from Warehouse 13, Smallville and the new sci-fi show Killjoys on the show with us Aaron Ashmore. We also have artist Rich Woodall on the show with us too. The music tonight will be from Jurassic Park as Jurassic WORLD was the #1 movie at the box office the third year in a row.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039148/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Today’s record spotlight is on a movie celebrating its 40th JAWS.
This record is an old one. and one of my proudest. With out the music from Jaws as composed by John Williams the movie would be bland and boring. John Williams did an amazing job of giving us one of his best scores. A Soundtrack which he also one an Oscar for. This would start his amazing relationship with Steven Spielberg also scoring The Indiana Jones films, Jurassic Park and most recently Lincoln.
The music was one in The Burbank Studios with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Spielberg said the score invokes fear and a phobia that only John can do.
The main “shark” theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes—variously identified as “E and F”or “F and F sharp” became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger Williams described the theme as “grinding away at you, just as a shark would do, instinctual, relentless, unstoppable.”The piece was performed by tuba player Tommy Johnson . When asked by Johnson why the melody was written in such a high register and not played by the more appropriate French horn, Williams responded that he wanted it to sound “a little more threatening”. When Williams first demonstrated his idea to Spielberg, playing just the two notes on a piano, Spielberg was said to have laughed, thinking that it was a joke. As Williams saw similarities between Jaws and pirate movies, at other points in the score he evoked “pirate music”, which he called “primal.
This is one of best American Film scores of all time.
Hey every one if you been wondering how to catch old shows of mine I have a you tube link you can subscribe too.
Please check out my past interviews a lot of them can be found here and I am trying to add more interviews every week.
A lot of Horror guests and sci-fi people, as well as guests from comic books and cos players too.
Check it out as soon as you can and subscribe to my page and like a video and leave a comment.
Don’t forget Dr.Chris Radio of Horror airs Sunday night at midnight, on WCUW 91.3 FM in Worcester MA and online at http://www.wcuw.org.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnl4YRwmzCoIi_dqvFhOUOA/videos
Tonight on the show we have Curtis M.Lawson a Horror Author with his own Horror comics as well. We will also have author and film critic Dan Kimmel on to talk about the Summer movie line up.
AND SOPHIE KELLER will be starting as the new co-host for Radio of Horror tonight. Also Sophie and I just sat down and watched Terminator 1 and 2 to get read for the new Terminator coming out soon. We will have music from those films to play and be talking about the films.
https://curtismlawson.wordpress.com/
Season 10 of the IDW X-Files comic comes to an end in July with issue #25 and in August we begin season 11. Now a recent interview with writer Joe Harris who still calls IDW book in continuity will be affected by the upcoming Fox mini series on tv. How this will all work out I am not sure. I can only assume that the comic will be directly affected but the show will not have any connection to the comic book, such is the way with this type of media.
I love the comic book from IDW. They have really given us a great story over the last four volumes the Year Zero and the Lone Gunman Transformers,Ghostbusters,Crow,Ninja Turtles crossover.
There are four volumes out from IDW in the main arc as well as they are wrapping up a Millennium comic. Frank Black guest starred on the X-files to wrap up his dangling plot threads from his cancelled show and he appears in one issue of vol 3 to assist Mulder. Agent Doggett and Reyes return in the comic and are kidnapped and a long running plot has the agents looking for their friends. Skinner and the Smoking Man return. THe Lone gunman are revealed to be alive and living below their graves in Arlington National Cemetery.
The Fluke man returns with an army of Fluke like beings and we even drag William the son of Scully and Mulder into the story. Nothing is retconned out it’s all here. It does not seem as though Mulder are Scully are still together like they were in I want to Believe the 2008 movies that failed to revive the series. Now 8 years later in 2016 it returns as a mini series. Last year Fox did the same with 24 and it was a huge hit.
IDW has also been reprinting the original X-Files comics that came out from Topps back in the 1990s. Topps series ran for 41 issues. (Tops during much of the 90s had comics for Jurassic Park, Mars Attacks, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Jason goes to Hell just to name a few.) The comic was a huge hit at a time comics were about to crash and burn like the Roswell UFO.
Charles Aldred Artist on The Walking Dead 7-current was the artist on the book at the start. Sci-fi writer Kevin J Anderson also wrote several issues as well as Novels for that series. It didn’t affect the tv show but the comic did pick up plot from the show.
The first volume of IDW series was so gripping I could not put it down and when a new volume comes out every few months its the number 1 comic collection I look forward too. If your a fan of the X-Files you can’t go wrong with this series. Joe Harris and his team of artist like Michael Walsh and Matthew Dow Smith and more do a great job of bring the X-Files back to life. Lets hope in January the Fox show can do the same.
The series we thought was gone and now Their baaaack, The remake of Poltergeist came out this weekend no mixed to awful reviews. I thought I go over the legacy of Poltergeist and that even includes the tv series.
POLTERGEIST
In 1982 Steven Spielberg and Toby Hooper created Poltergeist staring Craig T Nelson (The Incredibles and Coach) The Freeling Family who has been living over a cemetery unknowing cuz they moved the headstones but they didn’t move the body. Which is one of the best lines of the movie as Dad Craig finds out shouting it at his boss the realtor who sold them the house. After they lose their daughter Carol An, They team up with a group of worthless ghostbusters and don’t clean the house. It takes a psychic Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein). The mom goes to the other side to rescue their daughter and they the house tries to kill the whole family, they escape after mom takes a bath in the pool with real live skeletons. (Something the filmmakers neglected to tell anyone.) This film had more problems and the curse that followed plagues it today. Four of the cast members are DEAD, the sister Dana-Dominique Dunne, Carol Anne-Heather O Rourke, Pugsley-Lou Perryman, and Zelda. This has some of the best special effects for ghost seen at the time till Ghostbusters came along. The music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith for this and the next film.
POLTERGEIST 2 The Other Side
The Freeling Family now living with their grandmother on their mother’s side has tried to escape the events from a couple of years ago. But then the Reverend Kane a creepy old man (Julian Beck). With the help of a medicine man suggested by Tangina who realizes that the child Carol Anne has psychic powers the evil Poltergeist want. They go to the other side after encountering a slug like creature (a design by H.G. Giger they go to the other side to fight Kane and stop the Poltergeist who killed their grandmother. This was as good as the original and I only just watched it a few weeks ago and thought it really enhances the first film. The new character Kane would always scare the hell out of me as a kid. I really liked the medicine man Joseph. The look of the Poltergeist world was not what I though it be, Its all white and heavenly. This movie lost both new characters to the horror of the Poltergeist Legacy.
POLTERGEIST 3
They drop the subtitle for the third one a lot of the time you notice that.
This time the girl moves in with her aunt and uncle to get away from the evil spirts. I just think no one else wanted to come back and do the third one but Heather. They are in a big high rise apartment building in New York city now. In this film the Poltergeist pack up with Kane and move to New York with her. Zelda returns as well as Tangina spitting out her cryptic mumbo jumbo. The aunt and uncle are played by Tom Skerritt (Alien) and Nancy Alan (RoboCop 1,2,3). Kane and Tangina meet and go hand and hand into the light and this time Kane is played by Nathan Davis replacing the original actor who passed away. They lose the girl they find the girl it’s the same plot but this time it’s in a big high rise not the suburbs There were also some fire fighters who died making this movie which is very sad. Heather died at the age of 12 shortly before this movie was released. The curse of Poltergeist had done its job one final time.
Poltergeist The Legacy
This has nothing to do with the movies. This a Canadian horror television series which ran from 1996 to 1999. The series tells the story of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers. Despite bearing the Poltergeist name, there is no real connection between the show and the Poltergeist films aside from the title.
Poltergeist: The Legacy debuted on Showtime, and all first-run episodes of the first three seasons premiered on that network, though they were later syndicated. After the third season, Showtime cancelled the show, and the rights were purchased by Sci-Fi Channel which continued the series for another season.
Poltergeist 4 The Remake
Same plot line as before. Sam Rockwell playing Craig Nelsons character of the father, provided some neat one liners and funny moments as he always does in anything he’s in but this fell flat and drama actor Rosemary Dewitt as the mom and disappeared from the box office very fast this past month. Despite it having bad reviews it actually made back its budget and a profit as these lower budget horror movies will do. We will get a sequel….just watch. Instead of an adorable woman with a squeaky voice we get a reality TV star that the older daughter is obsessed with played by Jarred Harris. The son instead of the mom goes into the further which is like some CGI out of an early 2000s video game it’s so bad. The movie poster put too much into the creepy clown that attacks the son. This is not even the mcguffin of the movie it’s just there to scare people with clowns. Bad remake not needed produced by Sam Raimi …..sigh Sam stop producing these crappy horror movies and direct a good horror movie.
Tonight on the show from up state MA in Salem we have James the owner and operator of Count Orlok’s Nightmare gallery on with us to talk about his shop and the 
passing of the late great Sir Christopher Lee. Then from Sweden I have Magnus Sellergren a music composer on with us to talk about his newest music creation. We will play some of his music as well as talk about Jurassic World.
Jurassic Park 1 ,2,3,4
We have four of these movies now can you remember the last time you saw Jurassic Park. How about where you were in the summer of 1993. I was 13 years old and went to the movies to watch this film. It was a huge thing for me at the time. I watched it 4 times. Twice by myself. Once with my friend Tim and once with a kid I used to babysit. A group of people go to an island to check out Dinosaurs brought back to life from DNA cloning and hijinks and crazy Dino stuff happens, at this point do I need to explain the plot.
I had never seen anything like this ever. No one had. This was also one of the first movies to have the THX digital effects logo blasting at your face. I had not read the book yet at this point. I knew the guy whop directed this also had done the Indiana Jones movies and ET. I went into this with high expectations and got those expectations met. Big Dinos everywhere the T Rex is awesome and the Raptor Kitchen scene kicks ass and is creepy and tension building.
Alan Grant played by Sam Neil and Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern are great. Samual L Jackson has a small part but still great. I recognized none of them but I got to know who they are. FUN FACT: Richard Attenborourgh (who plays John Hammond the creator of Jurassic Park), was the director of Gandhi years ago and Steven Speilberg ET were both nominated for Best Picture and it lost to Richards film. Years later Steven would cast him in Jurassic Park.
Both this and the Lost World have scores by John Williams who also did every Star Wars movie and ET and so many others
Now Jurassic Park The Lost World I read the book before the movie came out and I’m not going to go into the big difference between the two. They can be found elsewhere online. I saw this when I was 17 once in the theater and I skipped going to my prom to go see this movie. Jeff GOldblum comes back joined by Julianne Moore and Vince Vaughn and the kids come back and so does Richard’s John Hammond. They go to the other island to study the Dinosaurs and Hammond Nephew a shitty little character wants to take the Dinosaurs off the island. This is a bad idea as you see at the end of the movie. They don’t go into great detail about what happened to the other island. Its just gone. This was ok, more Dinosaurs more people getting killed. Malcolm’s kid Kelly is lame as the other kids and this is no better. Great ending some people didn’t love. Too much CGI yes not as much robot annamatronic stuff. So sad.
Jurassic Park 3 was ok I loved certain things but other not great. Sam Neil comes back and helps a divorced couple find their missing kid. Thats it There are a couple great things like when Tea Leoni asks, “Is this how you create Dinosaurs?” Alan, ” No this is how you play god” Sam is great in this movie a great role for him and he helps this really short movie directed by Joe Johnson (Director of Captain America and Wolfman) decent stuff the new SpineoSaurus is ok but way too silly.
Jurassic World is the new film in the saga which comes out this weekend. I loved it I saw it tonight. Chris Pratt is great in this film. He really is showing his action hero acting chops with a sense of humor and we love that. There is some reddit theory Owen is the little kid from Jurassic Park that told Dr.Grant that the Raptor is lame. Hmmmm??? Bryce Dallas Howard runs Jurassic World and her nephews come to visit the same day their new Dino mix breed silly hybrid breaks out. It cause a mess and more Dinos run amuck. They ignore JP 2 and 3 in this film and only focus on the first movie. However on the table of one of the Security detail (Jake Johnson from the New Girl) is Ian Malcolm’s book. This book is mentioned in JP 2 and 3. We also get to see the Original Park visitor center and other original film nods. If there is a villain in the movie it’s Vincent D’Onofrio as Hoskins who wants to use the Raptors who are like brother to Owen as weapons for war. Very bad idea. I guess he didn’t watch the Aliens movies. Also the only actor to return from the original movie is BD Wong as Dr.Henry Wu.
Great movie go see it this weekend it kicks ass and it awesome. Its playing at the Black Stone Valley Cinema in Millbury MA, and a bunch of other theaters
The first three films have been on Dvd and Blu ray for years loaded with Dino awesome sauce.
It’s with great sadness I must say to talk about the passing of Sir Christopher Lee.
He will always be Dracula to me.
1922-2015
A Great Comic
Check out Their review
Reanimator #3
Keith Davidsen 
Randy Valiente (a)
Francesco Francavilla, Andrew Mangum (c)
Fans & retailers, order the cover of your choice!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
When Susan Greene joined Dr. Herbert West as his new assistant, she’d craved the forbidden thrills of his unorthodox experiments – the awakening of zombies, stitching together new lifeforms, refining narcotics from undead brain fluid, and more. But once she uncovered the Reanimator’s terrifying secret, she’s been overcome with suspicion and doubt. Now, she’ll finally get the answers she seeks… but will she survive the shocking revelation? Meanwhile, two drug cartels prepare for war, with the mad doctor’s entire operation as the prize. Can even the evil genius of Herbert West counter the sinister intent of those who serve Elder Gods and Voodoo witchcraft?
On the show tonight we have Andy Branch and his partner coming on to talk comic cons and STEEM Peanut Butter yes we talk about food sometimes too. Its weird ….also we have on Horror comic artist Joseph Schmalke who’s interview will be on you tube soon as the last time we played it, it crashed and burned.
https://www.facebook.com/theinfernalpact?__mref=message_bubble
I will also be playing the music tonight from Beetlejuice on Vinyl
A new Kickstarter that FRIGHT NIGHT and horror historians need to check out, a great documentary on FRIGHT NIGHT. I pledged to get a copy so should you.
These guys also did the Leviathan movie a documentary about Hellraiser
Besides Poltergeist, Insidious Chapter 3 and Sinister 2 what other Horror is coming, how about a long over due movie by Eli Roth, and another project from Roth
THE GREEN INFERNO
In collaboration with Universal and High Top, BHT Creates Unique Marketing and Distribution Strategy to Bring Long Awaited Film to Theaters
(Los Angeles, California, June 1, 2015) BH Tilt, Blumhouse Productions’ label dedicated to creating tailored distribution strategies for genre films, will release Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno on September 25, 2015 in collaboration with Universal Pictures and High Top Releasing, a label dedicated to servicing high quality movies using Focus Features’ distribution capabilities. The companies will debut The Green Inferno on approximately 1,000 screens and promote the film by employing a targeted digital campaign focused on creating awareness and engagement among genre fans.
“The Green Inferno is a wild, fun ride that took us deeper into the Amazon than anyone has ever taken a film crew,” said Roth. “BH Tilt is a forward thinking label that is helping to redefine how genre movies can be released. I want to express my deep gratitude to the fans for their incredible support of this movie and to everyone at Blumhouse and Universal for making sure fans can experience the film in theaters across the country.”
Jason Blum said: “When we launched BH Tilt we said our goal was to be part of the continuing evolution of distribution, whether it is through changing marketing strategies, changing revenue sources or changing windows. We are excited to capitalize on new developments in distribution and marketing to bring Eli’s movie to horror lovers across the country.”
In The Green Inferno, a group of student activists travels to the Amazon to save the rain forest and soon discover that they are not alone, and that no good deed goes unpunished.
The Horrors of AutoCorrect
streaming free online
Watch now via Eli Roth’s Crypt TV: bit.ly/horrorsautocorrect
What happens when an old school slasher faces off with a tech-savvy teen? Find out in The Horrors of AutoCorrect!
The 6-minute horror/comedy short is now available for free viewing online exclusively from Crypt TV, the digital genre studio co-founded by Hostel and Cabin Fever director Eli Roth. It has amassed more than 20,000 views on Facebook in less than a day.
The short film stars Nick Principe (Laid to Rest, Hatchet II) and Jaquelyn Fabian. It’s written and directed by newcomer Alex DiVincenzo.
“The premiere of The Horrors of AutoCorrect is a long time coming,” says DiVincenzo. “I owe everything to my dedicatd cast and crew for helping to make it happen. I cannot thank Crypt TV enough for believing in the project. As an admirer of Eli Roth’s work, it’s an honor to be working with him.” DiVincenzo is currently working on his next short, a ’50s throwback titled Trouser Snake.
In The Horrors of AutoCorrect, Jenny’s quiet evening at home watching a scary movie is interrupted by a stalker who can’t quite master the art of text messaging. The result is a “sidesplitting, clever commentary on contemporary communication” (All Things Horror) that pays homage to such genre favorites as Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2.
The Badger Game
On June 2nd, The Badger Game, the award-winning indie thriller which has wowed festival audiences nationwide, will be available on both iTunes and Google Play. If you haven’t had the chance to see this nail-biter yet, let us know. We’d love to get you a copy and if you are so inclined, help us spread the word. SPPR has worked with the team behind the film for years in other capacities and we’re really proud they came to us to help get it seen.
Written and directed by Thomas Zambeck and Joshua Wagner (Mimesis), The Badger Game is a twisted tale about infidelity and extortion, taking viewers on a harrowing journey, galvanized by wicked humor, violence, lust, suspense and unprecedented levels of cynicism.
Liam (Sam Boxleitner) is a successful advertising executive with money to burn and a healthy appetite for infidelity. Alex (Augie Duke) is his scorned mistress, hell-bent on revenge against the married man who wronged her. At first, the plan seemed simple: take Liam hostage and threaten to expose his indiscretion, lest he pay a healthy sum of money. But Alex knows she can’t do it alone. Enter her unhinged brother Kip (Patrick Cronen), exotic dancer Jane (Sasha Higgins), and desperate wallflower Shelly (Jillian Leigh). With the table set and the team in place, Liam soon finds himself held against his will – his perfect world about to crumble.? Forced to reckon with four mysterious captors and impossible odds, his only hope is to turn the quartet against each other and make it through the night alive.?
The Badger Game has impressed festival audiences across the country. Named official selections at the 2014 Arizona Underground Film Festival and the Twisted Celluloid Film Festival, the film won Best Drama honors at the 2014 Laughlin International Film Festival as well as Best Thriller, Best Supporting Actress (Jillian Leigh) and “Most Cool” awards at the Pollygrind V Festival.
chrisdsav
Radio of Horror Blog 