Geek Channel 8: Recent Episodes
Geek Channel 8
A bunch of friends geek out over film and other pop-culture history on the 8th, 18th and 28th days of each month!
Eric, Jasone, and Laura watch the 2004 USA-TV Pilot Frankenstein, allegedly produced by Martin Scorsese and allegedly written by Dean Koontz.
Will, Jasone, Eric and their guest, English Literature scholar and librarian, Laura Braunstein, continue their discussion of Hallmark's adaptation of Frankenstein.
Did you know that Hallmark made a version of Frankenstein? Neither did we. Join Eric, Will, and Jasone as they welcome Laura Braunstein a librarian with a PhD in British Literature as we talk about the supposedly most book-accurate version of Frankenstein ever made.
In another attempt to revive the Universal Monsters, this time as an action movie franchise, we get the a bunch of stuff stitched together as Van Helsing. We give the 2004 another look.
Jasone, Will, and Eric continue their deep-dive into Frankenstein-related cinema with the 2002 indie oddball, May!
Eric, co-host Will, and guest host Jasone talk about the X-Files fifth season episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus"!
Eric and Will along with special guest host Jasone, delve into the dungeons of Castle Freak!
In this episode Eric, Will, and Jasone attempt to analyze Kenneth Branagh's epic adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, examining its faithfulness to the novel, Robert De Niro's performance as the Creature, the over-the-top creation scene, and the film's Arctic framing device - in other words, there's going to be a lot of comparing to the 1992 version going on.
In this episode Eric, Will, and Jasone dig into TNT's 1992 television adaptation of Frankenstein, examining its faithfulness to the novel, Randy Quaid's performance as the Creature, the unique creation sequence, and the film's Arctic-set wraparound. They discuss production history, critical reception, and how this low-budget TV movie compares to later big-screen versions.
Our exploration of Frankenstein on film takes us into the depths of the anime version, Kyoufu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein (AKA The Monster of Frankenstein), which is also the MARVEL Comics version of Frankenstein!
No survey of Frankenstein-inspired films would complete without a dive into The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - lord help us.
In 1974 Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder set out to parody Frankenstein... did they succeed? We investigate.
More lucha libre action with Santo el enmascarado de plata y Blue Demon contra los monstruos!
Our exploration of Frankenstein around the world continues in Mexico with Santo and the Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein!
We continue our look at international versions of Frankenstein; this time Japan with Frankenstein vs. Baragon AKA Frankenstein Conquers the World!
Rounding out our look at the UK's take on Frankenstein on film, we analyze The Evil of Frankenstein.
Frankenstein evades execution and starts his experiments anew as "Dr. Stein" we watch and analyze the sequel to Hammer Horror's Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein!
Eric and Will are joined by Bruce Graver and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, authors of the book Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein for a screening of the UK's first film take on Frankenstein, Hammer Horror's The Curse of Frankenstein!
Frankenstein super fan Dusty Palmer of IT'S ALIVE!!! Electric Tattoo joins us for the all-star monster rally that is House of Frankenstein!
Kino joins Eric and Will for a look at the 1920 German Expressionist masterpiece, Der Golem!
Filmmaker and Sideshow Performance Artist Kino McFarland joins us for a watch of Edison's 1910 film Frankenstein, and the early German Expressionist serial Homunculus!
Christopher Saunders stops by for a discussion of our most requested movie to date, the 2024 remake of Nosferatu!
Jasone Staley returns for the Roger Corman time travel movie Frankenstein Unbound and while we're back in 1816 we also watch Ken Russell's Gothic.
We travel through time AND space wtih The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!
We continue traveling through time - this week's stop is Seattle in 2012 where your Safety Not Guaranteed.
Michael Crichton again - but this time were trading dinosaurs for knights in shining armor.
How important is the big screen for Jurassic Park movies? Is the latest attempt to revive the series just a star vehicle for Scarlett Johansson? Will and Eric ponder these questions and more!
Soon the Jurassic Park franchise will last as long as the Jurassic Era... and we are going to watch 'em all!
Our Jurassic-ly long exploration of dinosaurs on screen continues with Adult Swim's Primal.
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time, the dinosaur movie you haven't seen, Turok: Son of Stone.
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time that means watching the box office flop Early Man.
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time that means watching the long-forgotten film Le Chainon Manquant (The Missing Link AKA BC Rock).
One Million Years B.C. has left it's mark on cinema history... mostly due to it's movie poster. But how is the film itself?
Near the Dawn of the 21st Century, 20th Century Fox brought us the Dawn of the Dinosaurs on film in the new millennium.
Jurassic Park, what hat thou wrought? We seek to answer the question "why was this made"? Were they "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"? Or is this the kind of movie that should've gone extinct long ago?
It's 1940. The world is at war. Disney releases their first theatrical flop - but it would go on to be one of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time. This is Fantasia!
Boys Adventure? Check. Mammoths? Check. More stop motion dinosaurs from the 50s? Czech!
We watch The Lost World... no, not that Lost World, the original The Lost World, the 1925 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel about Professor Challenger leading a team to the jungles of South America to find dinosaurs!
Spielberg returned to the big monster genre more than 20 years later with Jurassic Park and we're going to talk about it.
Continuing our look at 1874 on film, we watch Stephen Chow in the 1994 Hong Kong action comedy Hail the Judge!
We try to decipher a Russian Opera loosely based on a play, loosely based on a novel loosely based on Russian history... we think.
The Conclusion of the 2020 BBC/Netflix Dracula brings the story up to present day England. Does it work?
The second episode of the Netflix BBC Dracula, "Blood Vessel" devotes it's entire feature length to expand upon one short early chapter from Bram Stoker's novel.
How will the immortal vampires of today fare thousands of years in the future? That's the question asked by Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
Another Dracula film purporting to be from Wes Craven... is Dracula 2000 worth seeing? We attempt to answer that question.
We take a look at the lighter side of the darkness with two Dracula based horror comedies, 1979's Love At First Bite, and 1995's Vampire in Brooklyn.
We look at another Dracula film from 1979, this time a remake of Nosferatu, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre. And, as usual, we tell you what wine pairs best with it.
Courtney Floyd of The Way We Haunt Now podcast joins us for an analysis of the 1979 movie version of Dracula.
Courtney Floyd of The Way We Haunt Now podcast joins us to look at the 1977 BBC TV movie Count Dracula.
Following the Universal take on Dracula, we had to check out the Hammer Horror take on Dracula!
Our look at Dracula continues with the sequel to Dracula, Dracula's Daughter from 1936.
Our exploration of the works of Bram Stoker on film continues with the legendary 1931 Universal horror film, Dracula!
Jasone Staley, producer of The Super Satan Show, returns to help us evaluate the 1971 X-rated Ken Russell film, The Devils.
In Episode 333 - we are sorta halfway to Satan with our guest Jasone Staley, producer of The Super Satan Show. He joins us in watching Danny Elfman portray the Devil in Forbidden Zone!
Seeking to replicate the success of the American film Jaws in Japan, Toho Studios ended up making a very different kind of film...
After the Daniel Craig films messed up the Ian Fleming Bond timeline we get back on track with the 1973 Live and Let Die.
The last two seasons of, "The Saint" are in color, and Eric and Johanna watch "The Queen's Ransom” from Season 5 and and ”Invitation to Danger” episode from Season 6.
Continuing an exploration of "The Saint", Johanna and Eric watch "The Abductors", from Season 4.
Continuing an exploration of "The Saint", Johanna and Eric watch "Sibao", an episode from Season 3.
Diving into one of the greatest TV shows of the 1960s, "The Saint". Eric and Johanna watch an episode from Season 1 ("The Talented Husband") and and episode from Season 2 ("Luella").
By the late 1970s both the BBC and Hammer Films are done with Quatermass, but that doesn't stop rival network ITV from scooping up and releasing Nigel Kneale's aborted four part conclusion to the Quatermass saga. Set in the future, this Quatermass outing is an altogether different experience...
We watch the second Hammer Horror film, X the Unknown, the "unofficial" sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment!
Released on a double bill with The Black Sleep was this science fiction gem that launched the Hammer Horror era, as well as British Science Fiction in general: The Quatermass Xperiment!
John Zanardelli joins the show for a discussion of a long-forgotten film that brought together John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone, and Tor Johnson.
Coming up to date on the character of Wednesday Addams with the Netflix show "Wednesday" (2022-). We break down every episode so far.
Continuing our look at the character of Wednesday Addams and her family, we watch the 1992 "The Addams Family" animated TV show, the long shadow Christina Ricci cast over the role from The Addams Familyand Addams Family Values movies, "The New Addams Family" TV show from 1998, comedienne Melissa Hunter's unofficial web series, "Adult Wednesday Addams", and Netflix's pre-Wednesday foray into a supernatural powered girl coming-of-age, "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina".
We watch an episode of the original 1964 The Addams Family TV show, and an episode of the 1973 The Addams Family cartoon.
The long-lost pilot episode of Geek Channel 8 from 2015 where fans from 4 different age brackets discuss Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
We continue our look at Dungeons & Dragons on film with a breakdown of the 13 episode anime Record of Lodoss War!
In our quest to find the ultimate Dungeons & Dragons show, we're joined by voice actor Bill Timoney for the first of a two-part episode on the anime Record of Lodoss War!
Oh, yes we did go there! Re-evaluating the film that was reviled by critics and gamers alike, the long-awaited big screen adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons! So, what exactly went wrong here and why?
An old friend of Eric's shows up to talk about the animated Sword & Sorcery classic Fire and Ice.
By the power of Grayskull! We talk about the 1987 fiasco that was Masters of the Universe.
The Sword and Sorcery movie boom of the 1980s started with the aptly named The Sword and the Sorcerer. This week we look at how this happened.
Anthony "Tank" Mansfield from the What Ya Into? podcast returns to discuss Conan the Destroyer, the 1984 sequel to Conan the Barbarian.
This week we're joined by Anthony "Tank" Mansfield from the What Ya Into? podcast to discuss the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic, Conan the Barbarian.
Eric and Rosie watch the 1971 Charles Bronson & Toshirô Mifune samurai Western, Red Sun!
We finish up The Godfather Trilogy with a film that with less than 5 minutes of editing went from an unpopular film to a pretty well received one.
The film that's on both the short list of "best films ever made" and "best sequels ever" - The Godfather Part II.
Eric welcomes very special guest, Bill Phillips, the screenwriter of the classic killer car movie Christine!
Rosie, Johanna, and Eric watch a double feature of Lone Wolf and Cub samurai films: Sword of Vengeance, and Baby Cart at the River Styx.
Before you stream "Rings of Power"... Almost 20 years ago, there wasThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - how does it hold up?
In preparation for Amazon's Rings of Power, our epic re-watch continues as with, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers!
A look back at the epic film that revived the fantasy genre, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring!
In the second of a two-part episode on animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's works David, Eric, Johanna, and Rosie re-watch The Lord of the Rings (1978) and The Return of the King (1980)!
In the first of a two-part episode on animated adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's works David, Eric, Johanna, and Rosie travel back to the 1970s for a re-watch of The Hobbit (1977) and The Lord of the Rings (1978)!
Rosie, Johanna, and Eric are joined by Tolkien fan David as they discuss The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
We embark on an Epic Quest to watch all of Peter Jackson's Tolkien films beginning with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
We watch Denis Villeneuve's 2021 adaptation of Dune, and discuss whether it fixes the mistakes of its predecessors.
Sandworm-a-palooza continues when we watch the Sci Fi Channel's Y2K miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune!
Continuing our look at cinematic sandworms, we watch David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the novel Dune!
There's something going on in the Nevada Desert... we watch Tremors as part of our series on sandworms.
Both Beetlejuice and Starship Troopers had animated television spin-offs. Were they as good as everyone says? We investigate.
In 1997 director Paul Verhoeven followed up the disastrous Showgirls with Starship Troopers, which was equally disastrous... or was it? Join us as we reevaluate this box office, film critic and audience flop.
Continuing our look at the tide of Basic Instinct knock-offs that flooded video store shelves in the 1990s.
Basic Instinct opened the floodgates for the direct-to-video erotic thriller subgenre of the 1990s... one of the first out of the gates was Animal Instincts in the fall of 1992.
We look at how Benelux Neo-Noir culminated in one of the most controversial Hollywood films of the late 20th Century.
Third in our series on Benelux Noir, is Gutland, a thoroughly thought-provoking film from Luxembourg.
Continuing our look at the Benelux Noir subgenre of films with the surreal Dutch thriller, The 4th Man!
Johanna, Rosie, and Eric start an excursion into the obscure Benelux Noir subgenre of films with the Belgian (and Luxembourgian) thriller, Loft.
In this special double episode, we finish out the original Cowboy Bebop series, and also discuss The Animatrix!
Cowboy Bebop Knockin' On Heaven's Door (also known as Cowboy Bebop: The Movie) - how does it hold up 20 years later?
In Cowboy Bebop "Sessions 5", we cover episodes 19-22 and the Unabomber, MK Ultra, and Cowhand Stew.
In Cowboy Bebop "Sessions 3 and 4", we cover episodes 11-18 of what just might be the greatest anime series ever.
It's time for Cowboy Bebop! We cover "Session 1", the first five episodes of the classic anime series.
Before No Time To Die comes out, we jump both forward to the middle of Bond's career, the sixth book, but also backward to the first movie... Dr. No!
Eric, Nat, and Rosie finish the first arc of James Bond's career with Quantum of Solace.
In episode 007, Join Nat, Eric, and Johanna as we watch the first appearance of James "Jimmy" Bond on screen: 1954's "Casino Royale"!
Nat's back to talk about "Aliens" video games. Eric looks at the influential Dark Horse Aliens comics, and their upcoming future at Marvel, and Johanna reviews the Alien III Audiobook based on William Gibson's screenplay for the Alien movie that never was!
In looking at the expanded Aliens Universe, Eric and Johanna watch the 1987 film Predator.
A double feature! Eric and Johanna take on It! The Terror from Beyond Space, and Alien!
Eric and Nat are joined by Rosie in the continued exploration of Tarzan films with Tarzan and His Mate!
In the inaugural episode of Geek Channel 8, hosts Eric and Nat discuss the 1918 silent film Tarzan of the Apes!
Geek Channel 8, a pop-culture time-machine! Join us for a round-table discussion of the films of yesteryear, and the impact they had - or didn't have!