The Movies That Made Me
The Movies That Made Me
SpectreVision Radio
Filmmakers and entertainers discuss the movies that inspired them. Hosted by Oscar nominated screenwriter and TFH Guru Josh Olson and fearless leader himself, director Joe Dante. The Movies That Made Me is recorded live in Hollywood and engineered by film composer Don Barrett. SpectreVision Radio is a bespoke podcast network at the intersection between the arts and the uncanny, featuring a tapestry of shows exploring creativity, the esoteric, and the unknown. We’re a community for creators and fans vibrating around common curiosities, shared interests and persistent passions. spectrevisionradio.com linktr.ee/spectrevisionsocial #filmmaking #film #movies #cinema #behindthescenes #interview #filmhistory #hollywood #directing #writing #screenwriting #producing #editing #sounddesign #filmscores #music #indiefilm #cultcinema #arthouse #midnightmovies #horrorfilms #genrefilm #creativity #art #artists
RELAY director David Mackenzie
Director David Mackenzie discusses his favorite movies from his childhood with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Relay (2025) Hell Or High Water (2016) Starred Up (2013) 28 Years Later (2025) Sinners (2025) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) *My Fair Lady (1964) Dr. Doolittle (1967) *Don’t Look Now (1973) The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) The Man Who Fell To Earth (1987) *The War Game (1965) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) *The 39 Steps (1935) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1936) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) North By Northwest (1959) The Lady Vanishes (1939) *Bande A Part a.k.a. Band of Outsiders (1964) Goodbye to Language (2014) *The Last Detail (1974) The Long Goodbye (1973) Point Blank (1967) *The Conversation (1974) Night Moves (1975) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) *Klute (1971) The Parallax View (1974) Jaws (1975) *The French Connection (1971) F For Fake (1973) *Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 26
54 min
Featured Trailers: Benjamin Caron
A few select trailers for films discussed by director Benjamin Caron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 22
27 min
NIGHT ALWAYS COMES director Benjamin Caron
Director Benjamin Caron discusses his favorite movies that take place over the course of one day or night with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode Vanishing Point (1971) Vanishing Point (1997) Night Always Comes (2025) Sharper (2023) Star Wars (1977) *Rope (1948) North By Northwest (1958) Rebecca (1940) To Catch A Thief (1955) Russian Ark (2002) Birdman (2014) Rear Window (1954) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The Trouble With Harry (1955) Vertigo (1958) *Where Eagles Dare (1968) The Great Escape (1963) All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) *Before Sunrise (1995) A Brief Encounter (1945) Before Sunset (2004) Before Midnight (2012) Boyhood (2014) *La Haine (1995) A Prophet (2013) Deep End (1970) *Magnolia (1999) Boogie Nights (1997) *Go (1999) Pulp Fiction (1994) Morvern Callar (2002) The French Connection (1971) The Bourne Identity (2002) *Panic Room (2002) Seven (1995) The Game (1997) Fight Club (1999) The ’Burbs (1989) *Collateral (2004) Mission: Impossible (1996) Public Enemies (2009) *Victoria (2015) After Hours (1985) Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014) Good Time (2017) Uncut Gems (2019) Devil In A Blue Dress (1995) Out of Time (2003) American Graffiti (1973) High Noon (1952) The Sadist (1963) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Josh and Joe’s Friend of the Fest Vanishing Point screening at the Los Feliz 3 on Saturday, August 23! This list is also available on Movies Unlimited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 19
1 hr 20 min
Featured Trailers: Jordan Harper
Featured trailers for the movies discussed in this week's Jordan Harper episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 15
27 min
SHE RIDES SHOTGUN novelist Jordan Harper
Novelist Jordan Harper discusses his favorite film adaptations with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode She Rides Shotgun (2025) Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Infested (2002) War of the Worlds (2025) Changing Lanes (2002) A History of Violence (2005) Shogun Assassin (1980) Blue Ruin (2013) Paper Moon (1973) Freeway (1996) Welcome To The Dollhouse (1996) The Godfather (1972) The Day of the Dolphin (1973) Adaptation (2002) *The Grifters (1990) The Big Sleep (1946) Chinatown (1974) *LA Confidential (1997) *Winter’s Bone (2010) Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) *Mystic River (2003) Gone Baby Gone (2007) Dante’s Peak (1997) Volcano (1997) *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) JFK (1991) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Sid and Nancy (1986) *No Country For Old Men (2007) Raising Arizona (1987) Purple Noon (1960) The Hunted (2003) To Live and Die in LA (1985) *Goodfellas (1990) True Grit (2010) *Trainspotting (1996) *Drugstore Cowboy  (1989) Barfly (1987) T2: Trainspotting (2017) Killing Them Softly (2012) *The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition Jordan’s novel She Rides Shotgun (2017) Jordan’s novel Everybody Knows (2023) Jordan’s novel The Last King of California (2024) Jordan’s forthcoming new book A Violent Masterpiece (2026) This list is also available on ⁠Movies Unlimited⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 12
1 hr 14 min
Featured Trailers: Remembering Jonathan Kaplan
Featured trailers for some of the movies discussed in this week's Jonathan Kaplan tribute episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 9
46 min
Remembering Jonathan Kaplan
We're remembering the late great director (and Trailers From Hell Guru) Jonathan Kaplan (1947–2025) and re-running our chat with the director of Over The Edge, The Accused, and many more. Jonathan took us on a journey through some of his favorite movies. Movies Referenced In This Episode The Student Teachers (1973) Night Call Nurses (1972) White Line Fever (1975) Truck Turner (1974) Heart Like A Wheel (1983) The Accused (1988) Over The Edge (1979) Modern Times (1936) City Lights (1931) Manhattan (1979) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Apartment (1960) North By Northwest (1959) Moon Pilot (1962) Mr. Billion (1977) White Heat (1949) The Wizard of Oz (1939) The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers (1974) Superman (1978) Superman II (1980) The Three Musketeers (1948) Shane (1953) The 400 Blows (1959) 8 ½ (1963) Fellini Satyricon (1969) Richard (1972) Millhouse (1971) The Projectionist (1970) El Dorado (1966) The Shootist (1976) Woodstock (1970) Payback (1999) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)Billy Liar (1963) Ford Vs Ferrari (2019) The Wild Bunch (1969) The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) Bad Girls (1994) Masters of the Universe (1987) Giant (1956) The More The Merrier (1943) The Graduate (1967) The Victors (1963) …And Justice For All (1979) Citizen Kane (1941) An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) The Day of the Dolphin (1973) The Call of the Wild (2020) The Lion King (1994) The Lion King (2019) The Revenant (2015) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Dr. Strangelove (1964) Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Day For Night (1973) Being There (1979) Bound For Glory (1976) Second-Hand Hearts (1981) Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Student Nurses (1970) Valley of the Dolls (1967) Charlie’s Angels (2019) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Psycho (1960) The Oscar (1966) Barry Lyndon (1976) Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) Bird (1988) The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) American Sniper (2014) The Beguiled (1971) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Fort Apache (1948) The Searchers (1956) Straight Time (1978) Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971) True Confessions (1981) Monster (2003) Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970) This list is also available on Letterboxd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 5
1 hr 35 min
Trailer Show: James DeMonaco
Featured trailers discussed in James DeMonaco's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 25
31 min
THE HOME writer/director James DeMonaco
Writer/director James DeMonaco discusses his top ten films that evoke the surreal, hallucinatory feel of dreams/nightmares, while not actually depicting dream/or nightmares with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode A History Of Violence (2005) The Home (2025) 52 Pick-Up (1986) The Purge (2013) The Purge: Anarchy (2014) The Purge: Election Year (2016) Staten Island (2009) This Is The Night (2021) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 3 Women (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) Jack (1996) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Godfather Part III (1990) Dementia 13 (1963) Star Wars (1977) THX 1138 (1972) Blood Simple (1984) Megalopolis (2024) Mandy (2018) Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010) Nightmare Alley (2021) Blue Velvet (1986) Mulholland Drive (2001) The Accused (1988) The Swimmer (1968) Dune (1984) Dune (2021) Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014) Crash (2005) *Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (2000) Paterson (2016) Fellini’s Roma (1972) Amarcord (1973) La Strada (1954) Nights of Cabiria (1957) 8 ½ (1963) Dirty Harry (1971) Gremlins (1984) Irreversible (2002) Antichrist (2009) Play It As It Lays (1972) Nashville (1975) Boom! (1968) Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) Punch Drunk Love (2002) The Long Goodbye (1973) Phantom Thread (2017) One Battle After Another (2025) Happy Gilmore (1995) Happy Gilmore 2 (2025) March of the Wooden Soldiers a.k.a. Babes in Toyland (1934) Beetlejuice (1988) Monkey Trouble (1994) Prizzi’s Honor (1985) Vertigo (1958) Invaders From Mars (1953) The Woman in the Window (1944)  Inception (2010) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Dreamscape (1984) What Dreams May Come (1998) The Truman Show (1998) Minority Report (2002) Other Notable Items Our ⁠Patreon⁠! Our pals at ⁠Movies Unlimited⁠ ⁠The Hollywood Food Coalition⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 22
1 hr 7 min
AIRPORTS co-director Adam Rifkin RETURNS!
Writer/Director/TFH Guru Adam Rifkin returns to discuss cinematic remixes and mashups with Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode The Movie Orgy (1968) The Tingler (1959) Hollywood Boulevard (1976) I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957) Speed Crazy (1959) Chelsea Girls (1965) Timecode (2000) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Vertigo (1958) The Green Fog (2017) An Eye For An Eye (1981) The Rock (1996) The Clock (2010) High Noon (1952) 3:10 To Yuma (1957) Airport ’75 (1975) The Artist (2011) La Classe Américaine (1993) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1983) Topaz (1966) The Day Of The Jackal (1973) Zelig (1983) Forrest Gump (1994) Director’s Cut (2018) What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) International Secret Police: Key of Keys (1965) Kung Pao: Enter The Fist (2002) Trail Of The Pink Panther (1982) Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960) Game Of Death (1978) Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Targets (1968) The Terror (1963) The Limey (1999) Poor Cow (1967) The Last Movie Star (2017) Smokey And The Bandit (1976) The Italian Job (1969) The Italian Job (2003) The Shining (1980) Terror Nullius (2018) The Road Warrior (1981) Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) The Three Musketeers (1973) Memento (2000) The Apple (1980) The Timekeepers Of Eternity (2021) Jaws (1975) Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace (1999) Star Wars: Episode II — Attack Of The Clones (2002) Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge Of The Sith (2005) Heaven’s Gate (1980) Gremlins (1984) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Batman Returns (1992) The Exorcist (1973) Cruel Jaws (1995) Blow-Up (1966) Caligula (1979) The Godfather (1972) Dracula (1931) Dracula (Spanish-language 1931) Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) Other Notable Items Our Patreon! Our pals at Movies Unlimited The Hollywood Food Coalition This list is also available on ⁠Movies Unlimited⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 15
1 hr 34 min
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