10. Halloween Spooktacular Part 2 Top Five Horror, Sci-fi, Monster TV or Movies

In this week’s episode, we continue celebrating Halloween with our special guest, Patrick Louie, and talking about our Top 5 favorite horror, sci-fi, monster or Halloween movies and TV.

SPOILERS!

As we do with most of our lists on the show, we will be talking about plot points and details of these shows and movies. If you don’t want anything spoiled for you, please look through the show notes and jump ahead.

If you’re interested in some of the work Patrick talks about, it can be found here:

http://www.tomspinadesigns.com/

If you’d like to see Patrick’s other work or reach out to him directly, he can be found on Instagram: Pat_makes_things

If you’re looking to check out James’ artwork, it can be found on Instagram: Jlartpage.

If you enjoy this episode, please like, share, and subscribe to the podcast. You can reach us at [email protected]  and visit the Facebook group: The Secret Origins of Mint Condition.

45: James  introduces this week’s theme of top 5 horror, sci-if, monster and Halloween movies and leads to a larger conversation about horror movies.

6:25 Patrick starts off his list with “An American Werewolf in London,” leading us to talk about special effects and Rick Baker.

8:31 Chris starts off his list with the tv show, “Millennium”

11:09 Joe starts off his list with the classic, “Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein”

13:16 James starts off his list with the 1941 classic, “The Wolfman”

14:50 Patrick’s next pick is “Alien,” leading to a discussion about creating suspense in horror movies.

17:36 Chris gives us his next pick, “The Thing;” both the John Carpenter version and the recent prequel.

21:58 Joe gives us his next pick from the classic TV show, The Twilight Zone: “Terror at 20,000 Feet”.

24:15 James shares his next pick, “Ghostbusters,” leading to a larger discussion about the film.

27:27 Patrick’s next pick is “The Evil Dead” Trilogy; when pressed, Patrick says if he had to pick just one of the three, it would be “Evil Dead 2”

31:25 Chris gives his next pick, “The Conjuring”

34:25 Joe gives us his next pick, the classic “The Bride of Frankenstein”.

37:00 James gives his next pick, the 1986 version of “The Fly”.

39:24 Patrick gives his next pick from Nickelodeon: “Are you Afraid of the Dark”.

43:00 Chris gives his number two, “Poltergeist”

46:05 Joe gives his number two, which is also “Alien”. Leads to a conversation about female heroes.

48:55 James gives his number two pick, “Big Trouble in Little China”

51:07 Patrick gives his number one pick, “Friday the 13th” as a franchise; Patrick notes that part 7 is his favorite version of the character.

55:15 Chris gives us his number 1 pick: “Lovecraft Country” - in particular, episode 8 with Topsy and Bopsy.

59:29 Joe gives us his number one pick: “Rosemary’s Baby”.

1:03:35 James gives his number one pick (after many of his picks were already poached by the others...): “The Monster Squad”.