Spooky season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with the latest steward of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise? CRYSTAL LAKE showrunner Brad Kane is on the slab this week, and he walks hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante through the sleazy movies that made him!
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Warrior (2011)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Halloween (1978)
The Parallax View (1974)
Klute (1971)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1981)
Cannonball Run (1981)
Class of 1984 (1982)
Oliver! (1968)
Firestarter (1984)
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Commando (1985)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
It’s Alive (1974)
Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Sisters (1972)
Psycho (1960)
Mandy (2018)
The Beast Within (1982)
The Howling (1981)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Total Recall (1990)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Fright Night (1985)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Hollywood Blvd. (1976)
Demon Seed (1977)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Legacy (1978)
Performance (1970)
White of the Eye (1987)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Wild Side (1995)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Terminator (1984)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (1986)
Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990)
The ’Burbs (1989)
The Last Movie (1971)
Beetlejuice (1988)
The Breakfast Club (1984)
Vice Squad (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Beastmaster (1982)
I Eat Your Skin (1971)
The Kindred (1987)
Obsession (2026)
From Beyond (1986)
Re-Animator (1985)
Society (1989)
Song of the South (1946)
The Devil and Max Devlin (1981)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
The Cowboys (1972)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Xtro (1982)
The Brood (1979)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
10 to Midnight (1983)
Cape Fear (1962)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Other Notable Items
Our revamped Patreon!
Brad’s new show Crystal Lake (2026- )
Our Jonathan Tropper podcast episode
Tokyo Vice TV series (2022-24)
Lodge 49 TV series (2018-19)
Our Jim Gavin podcast episode
DTF St. Louis TV series (2026- )
Mad Men TV series (2007-15)
TFH Guru Roger Corman
Twin Peaks TV series (1990-91, 2017)
Doonesbury comic strip (1970- )
The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007)
TFH Guru Larry Cohen
Our Keith Gordon podcast episode
Our Panos Cosmatos podcast episode
American International Pictures
The “More Cowbell” sketch on Saturday Night Live (2000)
The Simpsons TV series (1989- )
The Cinerama Theatre in Manhattan
The Loew’s Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan
“Herbert West—Re-Animator” short story by H.P. Lovecraft (1922)
The United Artists East 85th Street Theatre in Manhattan
The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica