The Movies That Made Me

The RZA is BACK! He breaks down the 10 movies that inspired him while making his latest flick, One Spoon of Chocolate — in theaters this Friday! As a bonus, he and host Josh Olson cook up the perfect double feature pairing for each movie.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

One Spoon of Chocolate (2026)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Waterloo (1970)

Yentil (1983)

The Cowboys (1970)

Walking Tall (1973)

Walking Tall Part 2 (1975)

A Real American Hero (1978)

Walking Tall (2003)

Billy Jack (1971)

Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1978)

The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)

The Creeping Flesh (1973)

Black Samurai (1976)

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)

Our Man Flint (1966)

Nothing But A Man (1964)

For A Few Dollars More (1966)

High Plains Drifter (1973)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

Take A Hard Ride (1975)

The Legend of N— Charlie (1972)

Boss (1974)

Bridges of Madison County (1995)

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)

Dirty Harry (1971) 

The Enforcer (1976)

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Where Eagles Dare (1976)

Moonraker (1971)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Kelly’s Heroes (1970)

Christine (1983)

Killdozer (1974)

The Car (1977)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)

Game of Death (1978) 

Fury of the Dragon (1976)

Dr. Butcher Medical Deviant (1980)

Motel Hell (1980)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Halloween (1978)

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Evil Dead (1981/83)

The Thing (1982)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors (1987)

Mother’s Day (1980)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Hellraiser (1987)

Hellraiser II (1988)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (1985)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Longlegs (2024)

Mandy (2018)

Abby (1974)

The Exorcist (1973)

First Blood (1982)

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Life Gamble (1979)

Ten Tigers from Kwangtung (1980)

The Five Deadly Venoms (1978)

Crippled Avengers a.k.a. Mortal Combat (1977)

The Soul of N— Charley (1973)

White Lightning (1973)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Normal (2026)

Convoy (1978)

Eden (2025)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

The Lost Boys (1987)

Near Dark (1987)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Quentin Tarantino

“Rapture” song by Blondie (1981)

Some Girls album by The Rolling Stones (1978)

Mick Jagger

Keith Richards

“Miss You” song by The Rolling Stones (1978)

“Honky Tonk Women” song by The Rolling Stones (1969)

Billy Squier

“King Tim III” song by Fatback Band (1979)

“Rapper’s Delight” song by the Sugarhill Gang (1979)

Our Walton Goggins podcast episode

Rod Steiger

Martin Luther King Jr.

Josh’s Bronzeville podcast (2017-21)

Laurence Fishburne

Larenz Tate

Christopher Plummer

Orange is the New Black TV series (2013-19)

Michael Harney

The Wu-Tang Clan

Bruce Dern

The Smokehouse in Burbank

Roscoe Lee Browne

Shameik Moore

Harry Goodwins

James Lee Thomas

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Phil Karlson

Walking Tall TV series (1981)

Buford Pusser 

Tom Laughlin

Bruce Lee

Bruce Li 

Our David Gregory podcast episode

Peter Cushing

Jim Kelly

Ivan Dixon 

Hogan’s Heroes TV series (1965-71)

Bob Crane

Law and Order TV series (1990-2020, 2022- )

The Mary Tyler Moore Show TV series (1970-77)

Mary Tyler Moore

Dick Van Dyke

Lou Grant TV series (1977-82)

I Spy TV series (1965-68)

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series (1964-68)

The Dick Van Dyke Show TV series (1961-66)

That’s My Mama TV series (1974-75)

Clifford Davis

Good Times TV series (1974-79)

Hill Street Blues TV series (1981-87)

Dennis Franz

Clint Eastwood

Spaghetti westerns

Sergio Leone

Sly Stone

Jim Brown 

Lee Van Cleef

Fred Williamson

The Milgram Theatre in Philadelphia

Richard Burton

Marlon Brando

Don Rickles

Donald Sutherland

Stephen King

James Brolin

Clint Walker

John Saxon

Lalo Schifrin

Angela Mao 

Bolo Yeung 

Jackie Chan

Sammo Hung

RZA/Wu-Tang’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) album (1993)

Rudolph Valentino 

Charlie Chaplin

Tekken video game franchise (1994- )

Street Fighter video game franchise (1987- )

Fist of the North Star franchise (1983- )

The Green Hornet TV series (1966-67)

Sonny Chiba

Vidiots

Venom Mob 

Shaw Brothers Studio

Alexander Fu Sheng

Philip Kwok

Burt Reynolds

Joseph Sargent

Bob Odenkirk

Walter Matthau

Beyond Fest

Howard Hawks

Ron Howard

Cary Grant

Tom Hanks

Bill Paxton

Lance Henriksen

Kathryn Bigelow

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Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with Severin Films head honcho David Gregory on a new episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me!

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Writer/director Lee Cronin (THE MUMMY, EVIL DEAD RISE) breaks down the eight movies that made him before he turned 10 — plus movies he's seen since that deserve more shine.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)

Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead (1992)

Bad Taste (1987)

The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Hole in the Ground (2019)

Evil Dead Rise (2023)

Jaws (1975)

Jaws 2 (1978)

Jaws 3D (1983)

Jaws: The Revenge (1987) 

Goodfellas (1990)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Commitments (1991)

Sing Street (2016)

Alien (1979)

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

The Shining (1980)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

Ringu (1998)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Local Hero (1983?)

The Holdovers (2023)

Poltergeist (1982)

The Evil Dead (1983)

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Evil Dead (2013)

Robocop (1987)

Robocop 3 (1993)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Black Book (2006)

Heavenly Creatures (1994)

The Exorcist (1973)

*Bug (2006)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Killer Joe (2012)

Sorcerer (1977)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

Quentin Tarantino

Peter Jackson

Diana Peñalver

Halo video game franchise (2001- )

The Academy Museum

Care Bears TV series (1985)

Steven Spielberg

Werner Herzog

Universal CityWalk

Jack Reynor

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining book by J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich (2023)

Warner Bros

Scatman Crothers

Blumhouse

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Steve Martin

John Candy

John Hughes

Bruce Campbell

TFH Guru Fede Alvarez

Scott Spiegel

Jerry Lewis

Paul Verhoeven

Fred Dekker

The Fear of God: Twenty-Five Years of The Exorcist documentary by Mark Kermode (1998)

William Friedkin

Brian Tyler 

Serj Tankian

System of a Down

Bug play by Tracy Letts (1996)

The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles

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Severin Films co-founder David Gregory joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down five of his favorite movies that Severin has released in special restorations, and five that he wishes Severin could, one day, release!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Frightmare (1974)

Satan’s Slave (1976)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Supervixens (1975)

The Night God Screamed (1971)

Black Snake (1973)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

*The Nanny (1965)

Delicatessen (1991)

Amelie (2001)

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Fear in the Night (1972)

Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)

Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023)

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol (2026)

The System of Doctor Goudron a.k.a. The Lunatics (1913)

Figures de Cire (1914)

Piranha (1978)

Shivers (1975)

*Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)

Satan’s Sadists (1969)

Five Bloody Graves (1969)

I Spit on Your Corpse (1974)

Blow-Out (1981)

The Howling (1981)

Satan’s Mistress (1982)

*Bloody Moon (1981)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Pieces (1982)

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

El Topo (1970)

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Santa Sangre (1989)

Psycho (1960)

*Threads (1984)

The Bodyguard (1992)

L.A. Story (1981)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Kess (1969)

The Day After (1983)

The War Game (1967)

The Full Monty (1997)

*Blood for Dracula a.k.a. Young Dracula (1974)

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Bicycle Thief a.k.a. The Bicycle Thieves (1948)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1964)

Taste of Fear (1961)

Diabolique (1955)

Brides of Dracula (1960)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

*Unhinged (1982)

Nightmare a.k.a. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)

*Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger (1976)

The Tattoo Connection (1978)

Edge of Fury (1978)

Fist of Fury II (1977)

The Dragon Lives Again a.k.a. Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1977)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Jaws (1975)

*The Last Shark a.k.a. The Great White (1981)

The Inglorious Bastards (1977)

Jaws II (1978)

They Call Me Bruce (1982)

Grizzly (1976)

Alien (1979)

Terminator (1984)

Shocking Dark a.k.a. Terminator II (1989)

Aliens (1986)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Cruel Jaws a.k.a. Jaws 5 (1995)

*I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975)

The Exorcist (1973)

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Doberman (1997)

The Doberman Gang (1972)

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)

Les Vampires (1915)

L'ibis Bleu (1919)

The Devils (1971)

Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (2002)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood Food Coalition

David McGillivray

Russ Meyer

Synapse Film

Mike Leigh

Peter Greenaway

Our Kier-la Janisse and Caelum Vatnsdal podcast episode

The Criterion Collection

Jimmy Sangster

Hammer Films

Ralph Bates

Virginia Wetherell

Joan Collins

Amanda Reyes

Al Adamson

The Grand Guignol Theatre in France

Tom Savini

The Cinéma français

BFI

Edgar Allan Poe

Jacques Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur

Barbara Steele

David Cronenberg

Susan Petrie

J. Carrol Naish

Lon Chaney Jr.

Russ Tamblyn

John Carradine

Carl Daft

Sam Sherman

Schlock-O-Rama: The Films of Al Adamson book by David Konow (1998)

Laszlo Kovacs

Vilmos Zsigmond

Ray Dennis Steckler 

Harry Novak

Variety

Gary Graver

The Goldman Theatre in Philadelphia

John Travolta

Tisa Farrow

Severin’s new show My Fleapit, My Palace

Jesús Franco 

William Lustig

Blue Underground

Lina Romay

Antonio Mayans

Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco book by Stephen Thrower (2020)

Video nasties

Margaret Thatcher

Lucio Fulci

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alan Klein

Claudio Argento

Dario Argento

Marcel Marceau

The TLA in Philadelphia

Mick Jackson 

Barry Hines

Ken Loach

BBC

PBS

Udo Kier

Paul Morrissey

Joe Dallesandro

Vittorio De Sica 

Andy Warhol

Claudio Gizzi

Dark Winds TV series (2022- )

Scooby-Doo franchise

Peter Cushing

Vinegar Syndrome

Kino Lorber

Bette Davis

Seth Holt

The Nanny novel by Evelyn Piper (1964)

Pamela Franklin

William Dix

Warner Bros.

Don Gronquist

Bruce Lee

Bruce Li 

Bruceploitation

The Shaw Brothers

Golden Harvest Films

Dragon Lee

Tso Name Lee

Elvis Presley

Laurel and Hardy

Emanuelle

James Bond

Quentin Tarantino

The New Beverly Cinema

The Zapruder film

Enzo G. Castellari

Universal Pictures

Film Ventures International

Edward L. Montoro

Vic Morrow

James Franciscus

American International Pictures

Joan Collins

Ralph Bates

Eileen Atkins 

Donald Pleasence

Hilary Mason

Caroline Munro

Peter Sasdy

Peter Medak

Radiance Films

Jan Kounen 

Jeunet

Marc Caro

Vincent Cassel

Monica Bellucci

Polygram Films

The Nuart Theatre

The Egyptian Theatre

Missing Movies organization

Paula Maxa

Louis Feuillade 

Ken Russell

TFH Guru Guillermo del Toro

Mark Kermode
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Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns from our post-Oscar hiatus with a brand-new guest! Visual effects supervisor and artist Todd Sheridan Perry breaks down the top 10 visual effects shots that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Star Wars (1977)

Tron (1982)

The Abyss (1989)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Dead Alive (1992)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Number 17 (1932)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Flesh Gordon (1974)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Jack The Giant Killer (1962)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1941 (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Piranha (1978)

Caveman (1981)

Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

Independence Day (1996)

Seconds (1966)

Superman (1978)

Innerspace (1987)

The Gate (1987)

Bad Taste (1987)

Meet The Feebles (1989)

Forgotten Silver (1995)

The One and Only Ivan (2020)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

F1 (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Heat (1995)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood  Food Coalition

Robert Wise

TFH Guru Roger Corman

For All Mankind TV series (2019)

Star City TV series (2026- )

I’m A Virgo TV series (2023)

Boots Riley

John Dykstra

J. Stuart Blackton 

Georges Melies

James Whale

F.W. Murnau 

Peter Jackson

Alfred Hitchcock

The Dick Cavett Show TV series (1968-88)

Ray Harryhausen 

David Allen

Jim Danforth

TFH Guru Rick Baker

Charles Band

Gregory Jein

John Carpenter

Doug Beswick

Jim Aupperle

Bill Hedge

Laine Liska

Star Trek franchise

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Dennis Muren

Joe Viskocil

Douglas Trumbell

Robert Abel

Mat Beck

Jerry Goldsmith

John Frankenheimer

Christopher Reeve

Margot Kidder

Weta Workshop

Randall William Cook

Halo TV series (2022-24)

Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland

Richard Taylor

James Cameron

MPC VFX

Bryan Cranston

Darryl Zanuck

Harry Cohn 

Jack Warner

Los Angeles International Airport

Robert De Niro

Michael Mann

SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions.

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