The Rad Revival House
Presenting a cult film podcast unlike any other! The Rad Revival House unearths cool, forgotten cinema for the young, and cinematically curious. Join your host, "The Professor" Cesare Augusto, as he introduces underrated, forgotten, and obscure movies to influence current moviegoing audiences to rediscover these forgotten gems, AND to help ignite the passion of newer generations of filmmakers in hopes of returning the cinema to vintage glory of decades past! The Rad Revival House premieres a new episode every Wednesday. Theme song by George Davison. Artwork by Liza Manansala
Episodes
Check it: the RRH reviews the 1985 hip-hop drama KRUSH GROOVE!
Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, be kickin’ it old-school style as he reviews this great piece of 80s pop culture. KRUSH GROOVE tells the tale of Russell Walker (Blair Underwood in his debut film role), a fictionalized take on Russell Simmons, the real-life founder of the legendary hip hop label Def Jam Recordings. When his rap band Run-D.M.C. has a sudden flush of su...
The Rad Revival House is "burning" up with excitement about our newest Horror review on WITCHFINDER GENERAL!We're joined by London-based cinephile and author Jennifer Upton, who provides some very shrewd insight on this unusual 1968 folk horror chiller. Vincent Price stars as Matthew Hopkins, a sadistic witch hunter who apprehends and tortures innocent people he wrongfully accuses of witchcraft 1600s England. When Hop...
Screen legend Robert Mitchum returns to the Rad Revival House in his classic grumbling, high-intensity fashion with his 1973 Boston-based gangster drama THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE!
Based on the novel by attorney-turned crime author George V. Higgins, THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE tells the tale of Eddie “Fingers” Coyle, an aging low-level gun-dealer doing whatever it takes to stay out of prison. Even if it means snitching out fellow cr...
Tuesday Night’s a great time for action cinema as the RRH reviews the 1991 cult classic THE LAST BOY SCOUT!
This doozy of a thriller stars Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans as a disgraced ex-Secret Service agent turned private eye and a fallen-from-grace ex-quarterback respectively, thrown together when a murder hits close to home. Enemies at first, the unlikely duo must naturally put their differences aside to solve the murder and brin...
This St. Patrick’s Day week, the Rad Revival House explores the working-class Irish immigrant historical thriller, THE MOLLY MAGUIRES!
Our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, takes the solo reins in this episode to review a film that is near and dear to his heart. A fellow immigrant himself, Professor Augusto analyzes what makes THE MOLLY MAGUIRES such an endearing film which centers upon the plight of real Irish-American immigrant work...
The Rad Revival House pays tribute to the late great Gene Hackman and his most underrated performances.
Returning to our show is noted film critic Jeanne Marie Denizard of “The Sleepless Critic”, as she and our host, Professor Cesare Augusto, take turns in exploring Hackman’s greatest and yet, woefully underseen roles, at least underseen by the mainstream masses. Together, they look at Hackman’s performances in HEARTBREAKERS, THE RO...
The Rad Revival House explores a true cinematic point of new return with the Mexican surrealist classic, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL!
Directed by Spanish cinematic master Luis Buñuel, the film is a nightmarish combination of metaphysical madness, and class warfare satire. A dinner party attended by Mexico's rich elite find themselves inexplicably trapped in the dining room of their party. The party guests are incapable of leaving th...
They’re coming for you, Barbara…again!
The Rad Revival House returns to the Horror subgenre of zombie flicks with the low-budget undead masterpiece FLESHEATER!
Stephen Tumolo, aka The Analog Man (and old Penn State buddy to our host, Professor Cesare Augusto), returns to lend a helping hand in analyzing this 1988 gore-fest that combines the classic George A. Romero zombie flick with the decade’s slasher craze. A bevy of drunken, sex...
The creepy, spellbinding 1956 science fiction classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is this week’s newest RRH review!
Really strange things are happening in a small California town. Seemingly-ordinary folks are acting weird. Rather than being their usual selves, they’ve become sullen, withdrawn, and emotionless, almost like living zombies. Dr. Miles Bennell (star Kevin McCarthy) and his girlfriend Becky (Dana Wynter) discover to th...
On this special Black History Month/Valentine’s Day hybrid episode, the Rad Revival House reviews the underrated cultural romantic drama MISSISSIPPI MASALA!
Starring a young Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury(THE HUNGRY GAMES: MOCKINGJAY), MISSISSIPPI MASALA is a heartfelt, emotionally-charged tale about interracial romance set in the American Deep South. Washington plays Demetrius, a young carpet cleaner who falls head over hee...
February is Black History Month, and the Rad Revival House is celebrating this momentous yearly observance our own way with a tribute to two iconic Blaxploitation classics, COTTON COMES TO HARLEM and COME BACK, CHARLESTON BLUE!
Master filmmaker Mike D of the African-American cinematic movement Reelblack makes his triumphant return to the RRH as he provides his grand film expertise to this week’s back-to-back film reviews. Based on ...
The Rad Revival House brings back the enigmatically great Marlon Brando with our review of 1966’s THE CHASE!
Joining us is Newman, host of the excellent podcast Movies 4 Dayz as this week’s Special Guest Lecturer. Newman and our host, Professor Cesare August, put their heads together to review this socially-powerful mid-60s drama. Set in a small Texas town before the pre-Civil Rights Movement, THE CHASE surrounds the town’s panic w...
On our newest episode, the Rad Revival House explores quite possibly the most BIZARRE film we’ve ever reviewed: 1977’s surrealistic nightmare, ERASERHEAD!
George Davison, a longtime friend of the RRH (and composer to our theme song!), returns as Special Guest Lecturer to lend a much-needed helping hand in analyzing this bonkers picture. Making his celebrated debut in ERASERHEAD, iconic filmmaker David Lynch (RIP) thrusts his stunni...
Presenting a special two-fer of firsts at the Rad Revival House! We’re reviewing our first ANIMATED feature, as well as our first DISNEY film, with 1959’s SLEEPING BEAUTY!
Aurora, a beautiful young princess, finds herself cursed by an alluring but evil fairy named Maleficent, who, after being slighted by the girl’s royal parents, hexes Aurora to prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep by her 16th birthday. Looking to offset the...
On the VERY FIRST Rad Revival House review of 2025, we're ushering the new year with a literal BOOM with our review of the 1955 film noir classic, KISS ME DEADLY!
Returning to the RRH is our old friend, tough guy cinema aficionado, and author Fred Schaefer. Together, we analyze the grim bleakness that is KISS ME DEADLY. Criminally-underrated 50s actor Ralph Meeker is Mike Hammer, the world's toughest and unapologetically-sadistic ...
Happy New Years Eve from the Rad Revival House! We’re ending 2024 with quite the bang with the 1992 Mexican-American action classic EL MARIACHI!
This picture is the debut of the now-legendary filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (DESPERADO, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, SPY KIDS, MACHETE), and what a hell of a debut it is. Utilizing a whopping-low budget of only $7,000, Rodriguez crudely yet lovingly tells the tale of an innocent young Mexican musici...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate! Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Rad Revival House, not a creature was stirring…except the zombies of RABID!
Join host Professor Cesare Augusto as he reviews this masterfully done zombie outbreak film from the legendary body horror specialist, David Cronenburg. After a near-fatal motorcycle accident puts innocent young Canadian woman Rose (star Marilyn Cha...
The Rad Revival House presents one slam-bang martial arts movie courtesy of that Hong Kong cinematic legend, John Woo: LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY.
This is not just any martial arts film either; it’s the eclectic Wuxia style of Chinese martial arts cinema depicting tales of mythical derring-do set in Ancient China. Woo of course is more famously renowned for his “Heroic Bloodshed” style of graphically-violent action flicks from the la...
Yee-haw!
The RRH goes back to the wild, wild west with the great psychological western THE TALL T!
Making his much-anticipated comeback is Phillip Duke II, the host of the great movie review podcast Making Tarantino, as he helps to analyze this wonderful and criminally-underrated Western thriller. Directed by Budd Boetticher (RIDE LONESOME) and based on the short story “The Captives” by the legendary western and crime author Elmore...
The Rad Revival House rolls out a true barrel of 1960s laughs with the comedy classic THE ODD COUPLE!
Joining our discussion is film critic and broadcaster Jeanne Marie Denizard, as we explore Neil Simon’s hilarious and witty look at divorce and the after-effects it has on two New York City men. Newly-divorced neat freak Felix Unger (the great Jack Lemmon) must navigate through the murky waters of his life following the recent spli...
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