The Rad Revival House

On our 2nd to last episode of Season 1, The Rad Revival House returns to Horror with the 1987 cult classic DOLLS!

Directed by Stuart Gordon (RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND), takes audiences on a silly yet exciting fantasy thrill ride, as a dysfunctional vacationing American family encounters a creepy old house inhabited by a kindly if eccentric couple, and their homicidal living dolls.

Using the power of stop motion animation ...

On our 38th episode, The Rad Revival House returns to the Land of the Rising Sun with the excellent Samurai thriller THE TALE OF ZATOICHI!

Legendary vintage Japanese actor Shintaro Katsu portrays the now iconic titular character, a master swordsman who happens to be blind as a bat. Despite his lack of vision, Zatoichi is one of cinemadom's deadliest warriors, thanks to amplified senses of hearing and touch, and a well-concealed...

The Rad Revival House is venturin' back to the good ol' 1970s with the classic Deep South crime thriller, WHITE LIGHTNING!

Starring a cast of familiar character actor faces and lead by the incomparable Burt Reynolds, WHITE LIGHTNING takes audiences on an up-close glimpse of the seamy underbelly of rural, booze-soaked Arkansas. Reynolds plays Gator McCluskey, a hardened ex-con who makes a deal with the feds to gather ev...

As we head to our Season 1 finale, The Rad Revival House explores the classic French children's classic, THE RED BALLOON.

Released in 1956, this short film surrounds an innocent Parisian boy who makes friends with the titular character, a sentient floating red balloon with a mind of its own. The pair are inseparable as they explore Paris's streets and have countless adventures. That is, until a gang of young bullies lo...

We’re at exactly FIVE reviews left until the finale of Season 1 of The Rad Revival House. And what better topic to lead off our first season than hypothetical what-ifs of legendary action icon Charles Bronson?
We’re joined by author and vintage tough guy cinema expert Fred Schaefer as we discuss the many missed opportunities that the “Death Wish” star could have grabbed. What if he faced fellow tough guy icon William Smith in a...

Ain't love grand? Not when it borders on obsession, it isn't!

On The Rad Revival House's very first Valentine's Day Edition, we review the soul-shattering 1960 South Korean thriller THE HOUSEMAID. Directed by celebrated Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Young, THE HOUSEMAID is a tale of unrequited love gone disastrously wrong. The film centers around a handsome Korean composer/music teacher Dong-sik Kim, a married man wh...

The Rad Revival House revisits the ol' Horror department with our review of the 1982 classic chiller JOHN CARPENTER'S THING!

Joining our discussion is veteran musician and film soundtrack composer George Davison. This claustrophobic shocker surrounds a group of scientists (led by bearded badass wonder Kurt Russell) stationed in Antarctica who find themselves stalked by an alien intruder with a gift for shape-shifting, and ...

Ladies and gentlemen: Elvis has left the building...guns a blazin'!

The Rad Revival House returns to the classic Hollywood western with a review of FLAMING STAR, starring Elvis Presley! The King of Rock and Roll becomes the King of Vengeance as he portrays Pacer Burton, a mixed-race young man caught in a turbulent war between whites and indigenous Americans. Pacer, a half-white, half-Kiowa man, must decide where his loyalt...

Do the dead return to possess the living?

That's the theme of tonight's newest review at The Rad Revival House with 1961's THE INNOCENTS!

Our host, the Professor Cesare Augusto, analyzes Jack Clayton's mesmerizingly haunting ghost tale. Cowritten by Truman Capote (BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, IN COLD BLOOD) from the Henry James novel THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS has young governess Ms. Giddens (the...

We return to the more artsy, abstract realm of cinema with a Prestige Picture Presentation review of Francis Ford Coppola's RUMBLE FISH.

Joining us on our review of RUMBLE FISH is Anthony DeSanctis, fellow professional cinephile and Programming Manager at the great Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based arts & entertainment venue ArtsQuest.

Both host Professor Cesare Augusto and Anthony analyze the film's reputations as of...

On our 12th episode, host Professor Cesare Augusto welcomes a very special guest lecturer, filmmaker and cinephile extraordinaire Mel Cartegena as they discuss DARK OF THE SUN, the visually-stunning and ferociously-violent 1968 mercenary thriller directed by Jack Cardiff and starring cult screen legends Rod Taylor, Jim Brown, Yvette Mimeux, Peter Carsten, and Calvin Lockhart!

Taylor portrays Captain Bruce Curry, a steely veter...

Another Rad Revival House first!

We are proud to announce a brand new film review campaign: the Prestige Picture Presentations. Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, reviews great classic films that, for some odd reason, were oddly neglected or left on the way side by mainstream film criticism circles. We as a forgotten cinema podcast intend to reintroduce these beautiful pieces of celluloid to unsuspecting audiences who will be...

No, this ain't the 1995 "Die Hard" ripoff starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but the late 1970s Grindhouse Trash Masterpiece set and filmed in the Philippines!

Since his return stateside from a two and a half week long vacation to his ancestral land of the Philippines, our host, The Professor Cesare Augusto, is cultivating a growing interest in Filipino cinema. He yearns to share with his listening class a taste of ...

"'Don't Go to Sleep' is 'Ordinary People meets 'Poltergeist'!"

Thus is the fitting description our host, The Professor Cesare Augusto, enthusiastically exclaims for this week's review of the little-seen, yet disturbingly impactful 1982 made-for-TV horror film "Don't Go to Sleep"!

This stunning network television family ghost story stars Valerie Harper, Dennis Weaver, Robin I...

Buongiorno, pardners! Welcome to a brand new Rad Revival House special showcase series, the Spaghetti Western Starter Pack!

Our Host, the Professor Cesare Augusto, presents this new special showcase by first shedding light on the wildly popular Western subgenre, the Spaghetti Western. This colorful, exciting, and violent film movement began in Italy where its many innovative directors took the classic Hollywood Western and fli...

The Rad Revival House enters the grimy, violent world of Grindhouse Cinema with legendary director John Carpenter's bleak yet action-packed urban thriller ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13!

Our host, the Professor Cesare Augusto, analyzes all the details that make this picture one of the greatest Grindhouse movies ever made: its stylish B-Budget feel, the graphically violent death scenes (especially one earlier in the film that has v...

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The Rad Revival House enters the Wild West with a vengeance with director John Sturges' classic suspense Western LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL!

In what is arguably his toughest entry in the Western genre, megastar Kirk Douglas stars as Marshal Matt Morgan, a steadfast lawman who tows the thin line between justice and vengeance when his wife is brutally raped and murdered by a pair of unknown assailants. Morgan d...

The Rad Revival House heads to 1950s Brooklyn as we review the touching vintage comedy LITTLE FUGITIVE!

Our host, the Professor Cesare Augusto, waxes sentimental in this episode, since LITTLE FUGITIVE takes place in his old stomping grounds of Brooklyn, NY. Our story centers around the misadventures of 7-year old Joey (the marvelously natural child actor Richie Ambrusco) who, after mistakenly thinking he murdered his older bro...