A Cure for the Common Craig

30/08/2024

Do you believe in cryptids? Is Bigfoot, or some variation like the Fouke Monster, really out there? And if they are, are they just lonely, but shy creatures? Or are they genital-ripping monstrosities who want to mate with you? Look, we really don't know. But we'll try to answer these very important questions.

We want to believe! But if these movies are any indication, you may want to use caution if you decide to go camping. Grab your guitar and serenade the sasquatch, while we discuss The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), Night of the Demon (1980), and Willow Creek (2013). And please, mind your hogs, regardless of how much they weigh!

BIGFOOT - We Want to Believe. A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 133. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

16/08/2024

After the length of that last episode, you may have thought that we were dead. But no, we have one final stop before we can escape the Summer of Action! Well, two technically.

But if we're going to escape from two of America's major cities, we may need help from someone with experience. Thankfully, Snake Plissken always seems to get captured at the most convenient times, when some serious rescue or recovery situation presents itself. Better team up with Snake and give this a listen if you want to be the Duke of Podcast Listeners, a number one! Break out of summer with John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981) and Escape from L.A. (1996)!

Summer of Action, Part 6. A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 132. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

05/08/2024

The Summer of Action arrives in the Hyborian Age! Brother Brian joins us, as we discuss the Riddle of Steel, the Wheel of Pain, the Tree of Woe, the Mountain of Power, and other elements related to the film adventures of Conan the Cimmerian.

Do you want to live forever? If you do, you may as well listen to a really lengthy podcast episode featuring Conan the Barbarian (1982), Conan the Destroyer (1984), and Conan the Barbarian (2011). Let us tell you of the days of high adventure!

Summer of Action, Part 5, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 131. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

19/07/2024

You didn't think that it was game over for the Summer of Action, did you? What are we gonna do now, what are we gonna do? We're not going to build a fire and sing a few songs, I'll tell you that. Look, if we're going to do this right, we need to bring in a special guest. James (not Cameron), allegedly the foremost expert of all things involving this movie, joins us to discuss the ins, facehuggers, and outs, chestbursters, of the James (okay now) Cameron classic Aliens (1986)!

Summer of Action, Part 4. A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 130. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

05/07/2024

If you think action movies are all testosterone, think again! We have three movies for you, with ladies kicking some serious butt. You'd better hope that you're not on the wrong side of vengeance, messed with a police officer/martial arts instructor's family, and that you haven't been stealing babies!

A child conceived to become an instrument of vengeance? Probably not the best situation to be born into. But she does manage to display some wonderful umbrella sword-related blood spraying and splattering for us. Meiko Kaji IS Lady Snowblood (1973)!

An unfortunate mistake causes a martial arts instructor to leave a big city police force, returning to small town Utah, where some rich jerk and his goons are ruining everything. Including eliminating her father, the local sheriff! Can she become the new sheriff, thanks to an emergency election, and make things safe again for the innocent townspeople? Cynthia Rothrock IS China O'Brien (1990)!

And then from there, babies are being stolen and taken to the underworld, with one set to become the emperor of China, and the others destined to become evil minions of the Grandmaster! What the hell? Only three women from different perspectives can possibly stop this madness! Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, and Anita Mui ARE The Heroic Trio (1993)!

Summer of Action, Part 3. A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 129. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

26/06/2024

The Summer of Action continues, and it feels like a steel mill outside. Hot enough to melt a liquid nitrogen-frozen T-1000! Oh, yeah, and it's also 40th anniversary of the first movie in this series. So, chill out, dic...oh, wait! I mean, chill out and relax while we discuss some James Cameron cyborg stuff.

Overshadowed by its sequel, is there any reason to watch the original movie in this series? The Common Craig argues its merit as a slasher-style horror film with a science fiction coat of paint. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a seemingly unstoppable cyborg from the future, sent to the past to wipe out any Sarah Conner that gets in its sights. Grab your phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range, and join us for a 40th anniversary celebration of The Terminator (1984)!

And then from there, with reportedly a nearly $100 million budget increase, can James Cameron deliver on the promise of a sequel to match the intensity of the original? Or will it be all Hollywood polish and little substance? Get ready to up the ante, with dueling Terminators, both trying to track down a 10-year-old John Conner, with the future of the human race potentially at stake! Beware of AI, or prepare yourself for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)!

Summer of Action, Part 2. A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 128. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

22/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

The final movie is number eleven, honoring James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).

22/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number ten is Curse of the Demon (1957), honoring Dana Andrews.

22/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number nine, honoring Timothy Brown, is Black Heat (1976)!

22/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number eight is The Three Faces of Eve (1957), honoring Joanne Woodward, currently living with Alzheimer's disease.

22/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number seven, honoring Rip Torn, is The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976).

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number six is Death Becomes Her (1992), honoring Bruce Willis, currently living with frontotemporal dementia.

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number five, honoring Charlton Heston, is Planet of the Apes (1968)!

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number four is The Bedford Incident (1965), honoring Sidney Poitier.

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number three is Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), honoring Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan. And hey, there's a lot of on that poster, too!

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

Movie number two is Fire Down Below (1957), honoring Rita Hayworth, who died of Alzheimer's disease in 1987.

21/06/2024

The Longest Day Movie Marathon is happening today! Right now!

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?pg=personal&px=10175030&fr_id=17194

Please consider making a donation to support research and awareness of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, if you are able to do so.

The marathon began by honoring Charles Bronson with a viewing of Violent City (1970).

10/06/2024

It's time we does the tell, so that we 'members the man who in the roar of an engine lost everything. A burnt-out, desolate man, who wandered out into the wasteland. It was there, in that blighted place, that he learned to live again. Witness us doing the tell, so we will ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

While we have not yet had a chance to see the new movie, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), it feels right to blaze into the Summer of Action by discussing the previous films in the series. Join us as we spend some time with Max. His time in the Interceptor with the Main Force Patrol,  battling gangs in a world in decline in Mad Max (1979), to the post-apocalyptic mercenary loner, in search of gasoline in The Road Warrior (1981). And then from there, displaying moral fiber, placing himself in harm's way, showing compassion to protect a group of abandoned children in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and to assist a group of woman struggling to escape an oppressive regime in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Summer of Action, Part 1, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 127. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

07/06/2024

Pretty cool horror guest for Cape Con 2024! Terrifyingly awesome news!

😱 David Howard Thornton 😱

David Howard Thornton is best known for his portrayal of Art The Clown in the Terrifier franchise. He will be at Cape Con 2024 all weekend signing autographs, taking pics, and hopefully sharing some behind the scenes stories on the making of Terrifier 3 set to release on October 11, 2024!!

Cape Con 2024 | November 1-3
Show Me Center | Cape Girardeau, MO

Box Office: Show Me Center Box Office - No Fees
Online: www.cape-events.com/ticket

02/06/2024

Click this link to make a donation:

https://act.alz.org/site/TR?fr_id=17194&pg=personal&px=10175030

In an effort to raise Alzheimer's awareness, and to generate donations for research, I am again participating in The Longest Day. Yes, The Longest Day is actually June 20, this year. But since I goofed and requested off on June 21, that will be MY longest day. And if there's one thing I do well, it's watching movies. A lot of them. So why not celebrate the careers of filmmakers we've lost, and those currently living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, by watching their performances and works in a Longest Day Movie Marathon format? It seems totally reasonable to me.

Two years ago, I went all out, watching 14 movies over 24 hours. But like last year, I'm going to take it a little easier on myself again, planning a much healthier 11 movies, beginning around 8 am and continuing until the 11th movie ends.

As this is designed to tie-in with my podcast, A Cure for the Common Craig, there is a stipulation. All of the movies will be something that we would possibly cover on the podcast. So, our typical horror, trash, sci-fi and action genre selections, with a few fantasy, mystery, thriller borderline cases. You want the list? Here's the list, with the names of the actors being honored:

1. Violent City (1970) - star, Charles Bronson
2. Fire Down Below (1957) - star, Rita Hayworth
3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - stars, James Doohan & Nichelle Nichols
4. The Bedford Incident (1965) - star, Sidney Poitier
5. Planet of the Apes (1968) - star, Charlton Heston
6. Death Becomes Her (1992) - star, Bruce Willis
7. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - star, Rip Torn
8. The Three Faces of Eve (1957) - star, Joanne Woodward
9. Black Heat (1976) - star, Timothy Brown
10. Curse of the Demon (1957) - star, Dana Andrews
11. Vertigo (1958) - star, James Stewart

Now, I'm not going to do anything crazy, like livestreaming myself watching these movies. But I do plan to check-in on social media at least once per movie, so you can track my progress and make sure that I'm not just sleeping half the day. This is taking place from the comfort of my home. So if you're local, and I know you, I might invite you in. As long as you're quiet during the movies. And you're clean.

Stand up to the darkness of Alzheimer's and make a donation today, to join me in helping the Alzheimer's Association provide their support to all those facing the disease. Thank you!

28/05/2024

Mentioned way back in Episode One of the podcast, one of Nicole's favorite horrors finally receives the featured treatment. Please don't tell Angela Bettis that it took us this long to get back to it.

If you can't find a friend, make one. Angela Bettis stars in writer/director, Lucky McKee's May (2002), delivering a charming, moving performance as an awkward young woman who seems to have a difficult time meeting and connecting with people. When she does meet someone new, she sometimes sees parts of them that are not particularly appealing, leading her to develop a solution to the problem. So many pretty parts, no pretty wholes.

May (2002), A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 126. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

12/05/2024

Happy Horror Mother's Day! No two horror moms are the same. So I guess that they're all special in their own way.

Do you have a favorite horror movie mother? Or maybe there's a horror movie mom that you love to hate?

10/05/2024

There's always time for horror. Especially on Mother's Day! Even if your mom pretends or acts like she doesn't really care for horror, you know that she's only kidding. So kick back and listen as we discuss two of the most famous horror mothers in cinema history, and then go watch the movies with your mom!

Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) finds herself in a difficult position after making an impulsive, even criminal decision. After stopping at a roadside motel, and a mostly pleasant conversation with the proprietor, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), we can only hope that she'll take steps to set things right. After a nice shower, of course. And if she can avoid a run-in with Norman's mother. It's Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)!

And then from there, a young woman experiencing her first pregnancy finds herself unusually isolated and alone in a New York City apartment building. While she receives guidance from her husband, doctor, and the odd elderly couple who live next door, a series of events leaves her uncertain as to which of them she can actually trust, in Roman Polanski's paranoid classic, Rosemary's Baby (1968).

Happy Mother's Day Horrors, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 125. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

30/04/2024

Have you ever been in the shower and found yourself wondering, what DID William Shatner do in the 1970s? Between the cancellation of Star Trek in 1969 and Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, he must have done something, but what? Well listeners, we're here for you.

A former priest who had a crisis of faith (Shatner), is among a small group aboard a plane trapped in mid-air over the Atlantic, terrorized by unexpected demonic passengers, in the made-for-television movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973). A traumatic childhood incident leads Matt Stone (Shatner) to a life as a gi**lo conman, with a taste for stylish threads, wealthy women, and murder in Impulse (1974)! A man devoted to protecting his family and breaking them free of a devilish curse (Shatner), becomes a pawn of Satan, turned against his brother in The Devil's Rain (1975)! And then from there, a heroic, horseback-riding veterinarian (Shatner) attempts to stop a massive colony of tarantulas from transforming a small Arizona town into the Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)!

Shatner in the '70s - A Partial William Shatner Actor Autopsy. A Cure for the Common Craig Episode 124. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

29/04/2024

A CB radio prank becomes a nightmare for two brothers (Paul Walker and Steve Zahn), who are targeted by a psychotic trucker out for revenge in Joy Ride (2001).

Road Trip Terror, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 123. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

25/04/2024

A young couple (Kristy Swanson & Chad Lowe) eloping to Las Vegas, leave the interstate, only to end up in a struggle to escape the underworld on the Highway to Hell (1991).

Road Trip Terror, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 123. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

15/04/2024

C. Thomas Howell makes the terrible mistake of picking up kill-crazy hitchhiker, Rutger Hauer, and then becomes the prime suspect for his crimes in The Hitcher (1986).

Road Trip Terror, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 123. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

13/04/2024

Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis are the token Americans, obsessed with the pursuit of a driver in a green van, who they suspect may be a homicidal maniac, in the Australian trucker suspense classic Road Games (1981).

Road Trip Terror, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 123. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

12/04/2024

If you're like me, you love a good road trip. The open road, listening to your favorite music, chasing suspected serial killers, picking up sinister hitchhikers, making sadistic enemies on your CB radio, taking the backroads to hell. Good times!

Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis are the token Americans, obsessed with the pursuit of a driver in a green van, who they suspect may be a homicidal maniac, in the Australian trucker suspense classic Road Games (1981).  C. Thomas Howell makes the terrible mistake of picking up kill-crazy hitchhiker, Rutger Hauer, and then becomes the prime suspect for his crimes in The Hitcher (1986). A young couple eloping to Las Vegas, leave the interstate, only to end up in a struggle to escape the underworld on the Highway to Hell (1991). And then from there, a CB radio prank becomes a nightmare for two brothers, who are targeted by a psychotic trucker out for revenge in Joy Ride (2001).

Road Trip Terror, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 123. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.

28/03/2024

A very Tall Man. Deadly, flying silver spheres. A Lady in Lavender. Jawas? Okay, technically not Jawas.

Two brothers and their pal, an ice cream man by trade, attempt to unravel the mystery of what is happening to the bodies of the dead at Morningside Cemetery.  Of course, snooping around manages to incur the wrath of The Tall Man and his minions, and leads them to discover a portal to some otherworldly locale. It's time for a 45th anniversary celebration of Phantasm (1979)!

Phantasm - 45th Anniversary, A Cure for the Common Craig, Episode 122. Available now at cureforthecommoncraig.com and on your favorite podcast platform.