With the success of their last Halloween themed Side Cast and posting on Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers where J.Blake and Dion Baia recommend some horror films they both feel may have fallen through the cracks or have been overlooked, the boys meet back at the Podwits studios to record a quick cast about the zombie genre. […]
Posts Tagged ‘Night of the Living Dead’
Side Cast: The Zombie Genre
Posted: 24th October 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, History, News, Podcast, Side-Casts, UncategorizedTags: 28 Days Later, Carnival of Souls, City of the Living Dead, Dairy of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Dead Alive, Dead Snow, George Romero, House by the Cemetery, I Walked with a Zombie, Land of the Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Lucio Fulci, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare City, Resident Evil, Return of the Living Dead, Scream, Serpent of the Rainbow, Shaun of the Dead, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Survival of the Dead, The Beyond, The Faculty, The Walking Dead, Val Lewton, White Zombie, Zack Snyder, Zombie
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Side Cast: October Horror Recommendations
Posted: 8th October 2014 by Podwits Administrator in Books, Celebrities, Comic Books, Film, History, Podcast, Side-Casts, TelevisionTags: Adrienne Barbeau, Andy Kaufman, Black Christmas, Black Sabbath, Bob Clark, Brad Dourif, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead, don mancini, EC Comics, George Romero, God Told Me To, Hal Holbrook, Horror, Invaders From Mars, James Cagney, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Spinell, John Carpenter, John Carradine, Larry Cohen, Leslie Nielsen, Lucio Fulci, Maniac, Mario Bava, Martin, mike ploog, Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead 1990, Peeping Tom, Peter Cushing, Randy Jurgensen, Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, Seed of Chucky, Sharon Mitchell, Shock waves, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Stephen King, Sylvester Stallone, Tales of the Crypt, Ted Danson, Tom Baker, Tom Savini, tony lo bianco, True Blood, Twilight, Vault of Horror, Vincent Price, William Lustig, William Powell, Zombie
To help get the word out about their new Podcast Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, Dion and J. Blake sit down to recommend 10 horror films for the Halloween season that they feel may be overlooked or forgotten in today’s times. The boys attempt to compile a list of amazing fright films that may not be […]
Side-Cast: Horror Remakes Part 1
Posted: 16th October 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review, Podcast, Side-CastsTags: 13 Ghosts, 28 Days Later, Assault on Precinct 13, Bob Clark, Bullitt, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Deadly Blessing, Don Siegel, Don't Look Now, Donald Sutherland, Ed Gein, Friday the 13th, Funny Games, George Romero, Halloween, Halloween 2, House on Haunted Hill, I Spit on Your Grave, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Irreversible, John Carpenter, John Saxon, Kevin Williamson, Last House on the Left, Monica Bellucci, Murder By Decree, My Bloody Valentine, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, Phil Kaufman, Psycho, Robert Duvall, Scream, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Straw Dogs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beyond, The Crazies, The Evil Dead, The Faculty, The Fly, The Haunting, The Strangers, The Thing, Tony Todd, When a Stranger Calls, William Castle, World's End
‘Tis the season of witches, ghosts and goblins, and the Podwits are full of the Halloween spirit! Contributor J. Blake and Dion sit down in this edition of the Side Cast to discuss their favorite remakes in the horror film genre! They get into the nuts and bolts and see how their faves stack up […]
Side Casts: Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
Posted: 24th July 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Podcast, Side-CastsTags: 12 Monkeys, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, 2019: After the Fall of New York, 9, After Earth, Battle Royale, Blade Runner, Book of Eli, Buster Keaton, Castlefreak, Charlie Chan, Children of Men, Christopher Lambert, Cyborg, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Deathrace 2000, Elysium, End Game, Ender's Game, Ernest Borgnine, Escape from New York, Firefly, Fortress, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, George Miller, I Am Legend, Italian Cinema, James Mason, Jeffery Combs, John Carpenter, Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, la jetee, Logan's Run, Mad Max, Mel Gibson, Metropolis, Mind Warp, New Barbarians, Night of the Living Dead, Omega Man, Pacific Rim, Peter Weller, Planet of the Apes, Post Apocalyptic, Reign of Fire, Richard Matheson, Robocop, Robocop 2, Rod Serling, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Silent Films, Soylent Green, Star Trek, Stuart Gordon, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Day After Tomorrow, The Hughes Brothers, The Hunger Games, The Last Man on Earth, The Postman, The Purge, The Road, The Road Warrior, The Stand, The Thing, The Time Machine, The Walking Dead, The Warriors, This is the End, Time Travel, Total Recall, Trancers, Warner Oland, Waterworld, World War Z
Dion and contributor J. Blake are back for another edition of the Podwits’ Side Cast. This time they take on a very weighty topic in the lore of cinema, the Post-Apocalyptic film. Believe it or not, a lot more movies than you may think end up inhabiting this horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre, and you may be surprised what Dion […]
World War Z The Podwits Review
Posted: 27th June 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Books, Film, Film ReviewTags: Brad Pitt, Dawn of the Dead, Finding Neverland, George Romero, Marc Foster, Max Brooks, Night of the Living Dead, Quantum of Solace, The Walking Dead, World War Z, WWZ, Zack Snyder
World War Z is One of the Most Formulaic and Meaningless Zombie Films Ever Made. Rating: * * out of five stars Review by Luke Whitmire Ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) traverses the world to prevent a zombie pandemic that is destroying governments, nations and humanity itself. WWZ was initially envisioned as a […]
Side-Casts: The Decline of the Horror Convention Part 1
Posted: 17th April 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Podcast, Side-CastsTags: 52 Pick Up, Anchor Bay, Andrew Divoff, Blue Underground, Burt Reynolds, Casino, Chiller Theater, Dario Argento, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Ed Begley Jr., Elijah Wood, Fangoria, Friday the 13th, George C Scott, George Romero, Hardcore, Harvey Keital, Horror Conventions, Inherit the Wind, Jake LaMotta, Joe Bob Briggs, Joe Spinell, John Glover, Kane Hodder, Knightriders, Leon, Lucio Fulci, Maniac, Martin, Martin Scorsese, Monster Vision, Night of the Living Dead, Peter Boyle, Raging Bull, Randy Jurgensen, Shamus, Sherman Howard, Side-Cast, Sidecast, Tales From the Crypt, The Professional, The Warriors, Tom Savini, Toy Soldiers, Two Evil Eyes, Walter Hill, William Lustig, William Sadler, Wishmaster
Dion debuts The Podwits’ brand new spin-off, called Side-Casts; a series of podcasts that will be done with various contributors, by various Podwits members. In Part 1 of Dion’s 3-part debut special, he and contributor J. Blake discuss the decade-long decline of horror conventions, and also reminisce about various legendary, but seldom-seen masterpieces (most horror, but others skirt the line) that […]
Strolling Along with The Walking Dead
Posted: 11th April 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Podcast, TelevisionTags: Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Frank Darabont, George Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombie
“When Hell is full, the Dead will walk the Earth…” Brian and Dion take a stab at season 3 of The Walking Dead, and discuss the highlights of the prior two seasons, as well as its comic book origins. Get you zombie bug-out bag ready and make sure the SUV is gassed up, because the […]
How the Remakes Stack-up, Part 2: Night of the Living Dead
Posted: 8th October 2012 by Dion in Film, Film ReviewTags: Carnival of Souls, Dario Argento, George Romero, I Walked with a Zombie, Lucio Fulci, Night of the Living Dead, Remakes, Tom Savini, White Zombie, Zombie
So to usher in the Halloween season here is the second installment of this series, I figured I should do a real classic as well as one of my favorite horror films of all time: Night of the Living Dead. As stated in my last post, I try to search through all the muck and crap […]
Facing Childhood Fears: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13
Posted: 21st September 2012 by Dion in Film, Film ReviewTags: Assault on Precinct 13, George C Scott, George Romero, Gregory Peck, Halloween, Howard Hawks, John Carpenter, Kim Richards, Night of the Living Dead, Quentin Tarantino, Rage, Rio Bravo, Sorcerer, The Boys From Brazil, The Fog, The Last Man on Earth, The Thing, Vincent Price, William Friedkin
It’s interesting what images stay with you from childhood, still crisp as the day they were viewed. I know like most kids growing up, in what sadly seems already like another time, I was exposed to a lot of television and film at a very early age, which made me into what I am today […]
The Zombie Apocalypse is Upon Us….
Posted: 6th June 2012 by Dion in News, Up on The Soap BoxTags: Cannibalism, Center for Disease Control, Night of the Living Dead, Walking Dead, Zombie, Zombie Apocalypse
Okay, over the past week or so, my worst fears have started to be confirmed. It seems the world is starting to go to pot, and a possible zombie apocalypse could be upon us. Why do I think so, you ask? Well, just ask the Center for Disease Control.