Severin Films' David Gregory

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 Check out RZA's first The Movies That Made Me appearance ⁠here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Highlighted trailers for movies discussed with Severin Films head honcho David Gregory on a new episode of our podcast The Movies That Made Me! Watch the full episode ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. 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. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠spectrevisionradio.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In case you haven't noticed, we've been off the last couple of weeks! We've been working double-time for a while, often bringing you two episodes a week as we plowed through this amazing recent awards season. Hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante will return in TWO WEEKS with brand-new episodes of The Movies That Made Me, starting with a supercool video episode April 7! Until then, see you at the movies... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices