Episode 66: 1979 with Scott Drebit
A podcast about the great movie years.
Daily Dead columnist Scott Drebit’s new book is A Cut Below: A Celebration of B Horror Movies, 1950s-1980s, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he picked 1979, a banner year for horror. He joins us to discuss the working-class scares of Alien, the insanity of Zombie, the inexplicable PG rating of Tourist Trap, and more.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Alien is streaming on Hulu, and is available for digital rental or purchase. The Brood is streaming on Max and the Criterion Channel (and, as we mentioned, is available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection), and is available for digital rental or purchase.
Zombie (or Zombi 2, or Zombie Flesh Eaters) is streaming on Shudder and is available for digital rental or purchase, as well as on a really spectacular 4K UHD Blu-ray from Blue Underground.
Phantasm is streaming on Peacock, Kanopy, and a whole host of ad-based streamers, as well as in this A+ collection from Arrow Video. And Tourist Trap is on Amazon Prime, Peacock, Shudder, and the ad-based streamers as well.
You can follow Scott on Blusky here, and you can buy A Cut Below here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). And you can follow Mike on Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.