Mighty Movie Podcast

The Mighty Movie Podcast brings you interviews with the makers of horror, fantasy & science fiction films, conducted by Dan Persons.

RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY: Bad Movie Podcast

RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY: Bad Movie Podcast

In the future — and by “future,” we mean 2001 — the Chinese prison system will be stupid. Also violent, sadistic, and quite, quite unsanitary — what with there not being a wall, fixture or floor that isn’t thoroughly coated with the viscera of its unfortunate inhabitants — but mostly really, [...]

MAC AND ME: Bad Film Podcast

MAC AND ME: Bad Film Podcast

MAC AND ME is another one of those transcendental experiences — a film so awful, a film so wrongheaded in all its aspects, a film so cynically devised and ham-fistedly executed that it practically redefines the idea of the bad film. An obvious rip-off of the Steven [...]

MARS NEEDS WOMEN: Bad Film Podcast

MARS NEEDS WOMEN: Bad Film Podcast

Oh, the Sixties, was there a way in which you weren’t one of our most fraked-up decades? War, assassinations, riots in the streets, MY MOTHER THE CAR on TV — never was there a time when it more seemed that society was shredding at the seams. Fortunately, director Larry Buchanan, the mastermind behind such cinematic [...]

Donnie Yen on DRAGON: Martial Arts Fantasy Interview Podcast

Donnie Yen on DRAGON: Martial Arts Fantasy Interview Podcast

Some people’s pasts come back to haunt them; some come back to kill them. In Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s martial arts film, DRAGON, Donnie Yen plays a loving husband living with his wife and child in a small, Chinese village at the beginning of the twentieth century. But when he seemingly inadvertently [...]

Ben Browder on BAD KIDS GO TO HELL: Horror Interview Podcast

Ben Browder on BAD KIDS GO TO HELL: Horror Interview Podcast

In such series as FARSCAPE and STARGATE SG-1, Ben Browder traveled to distant universes filled with strange and fascinating creatures. But in all their adventures, neither FARSCAPE’s John Crichton nor SG-1′s Cameron Mitchell ever had to contend with an environment as daunting as high school, or a life form as enigmatic [...]

STARCRASH: Bad Film Podcast

STARCRASH: Bad Film Podcast

Italy has brought us so many wonderful things: Fellini; lasagna; Silvio Berlusconi (that last is debatable). But among the many marvels borne of those shores, truly the most wondrous has to be the knock-off film, a genre that took groundbreaking, innovative American titles and replicated them with [...]

Director Victor Ginzburg on GENERATION P: Science Fiction Interview Podcast

Director Victor Ginzburg on GENERATION P: Science Fiction Interview Podcast

Eve bit the apple, Pandora opened the box, and for a certain generation of young Russians, the first taste of a certain, ambrosial nectar that we in the West call Pepsi did close to the same thing: unleash a desire that, once freed, could not be contained. In the caustic, Russian [...]

J.G. Quintel on REGULAR SHOW: Cartoon Interview Podcast

J.G. Quintel on REGULAR SHOW: Cartoon Interview Podcast

Give REGULAR SHOW creator J.G. Quintel credit for coming up with a title that works in ironic counterpoint to itself. On the one hand, the Cartoon Network series is an examination of young people entering the workforce in modern America, with all the friction, tension, and social and moral quandaries that might ensue. On the [...]

Pen Ward on ADVENTURE TIME: Animation Interview Podcast

Pen Ward on ADVENTURE TIME: Animation Interview Podcast

Television has managed to deliver up no shortage of animated shows ostensibly aimed at kids that also manage to build a justifiably enthusiastic adult fan base. Even with that, ADVENTURE TIME stands out. The tale of a human boy, Finn, and a shape-shifting dog, Jake (who’s also Finn’s brother — long story), making their way [...]

XANADU: Bad Film Podcast

XANADU: Bad Film Podcast

Somewhere towards the end of the 1970′s, the entertainment industry got it into its head that the public not only wanted to spend their nights out rollerskating to driving, disco music, but that they wanted to watch people rollerskating to driving disco music — so much so that there’d be no [...]

INVISIBLE INVADERS: Bad Film Podcast

INVISIBLE INVADERS: Bad Film Podcast

This is an episode of Temple of Bad that includes several firsts. It’s our first discussion of a black-and-white film. It’s our first discussion of a film that has such a ridiculously short running time. It’s our first film starring John Carradine, and our first film starring the oh-so-dreamy John Agar. Sadly, it’s also our [...]

FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE Director Tsui Hark: Fantasy Film Interview Podcast

FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE Director Tsui Hark: Fantasy Film Interview Podcast

FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE is the first Tsui Hark film to be shot in Imax 3D, starring Jet Li. Okay, stop salivating and sit back down, we’ve got work to do.
Granted, your enthusiasm is understandable. Hark — master of such deliriously epic action films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and ONCE UPON A TIME IN [...]

AN AMERICAN CAROL: Bad Film Podcast

AN AMERICAN CAROL: Bad Film Podcast

Could there be a movie so inanely scripted, so ineptly produced, so all-around awful that it confounds even the staunch acolytes of the Temple of Bad? Uh, yes. Yes there is, and it’s the topic of our latest episode.
AN AMERICAN CAROL was intended to serve as a counterbalance to the perceived liberal tilt of mainstream [...]