CRYSTAL LAKE showrunner Brad Kane

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! Show Notes: 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! The Hollywood Food Coalition Brad’s new show Crystal Lake (2026- ) The Friday the 13th franchise Our Jonathan Tropper podcast episode Linda Cardellini Tokyo Vice TV series (2022-24) Lodge 49 TV series (2018-19) Our Jim Gavin podcast episode DTF St. Louis TV series (2026- ) Emmy Awards Sean S. Cunningham Victor Miller Peacock TIFF Mad Men TV series (2007-15) Our Walton Goggins episode TFH Guru Roger Corman Mark L. Lester Mark Lester Michael Patrick Kelly Arnold Schwarzenegger Twin Peaks TV series (1990-91, 2017) Clint Eastwood Doonesbury comic strip (1970- ) Perry King Roddy McDowall Tim Van Patten The Sopranos TV series (1999-2007) Michael J. Fox Leopold and Loeb TFH Guru Larry Cohen John P. Ryan Michael Moriarty Nicolas Cage Brian De Palma Alfred Hitchcock Michael Caine Angie Dickinson Janet Leigh Our Keith Gordon podcast episode Our Panos Cosmatos podcast episode American International Pictures Empire International Pictures Charlie Brown Christopher Walken The “More Cowbell” sketch on Saturday Night Live (2000) Ronny Cox Paul Verhoeven Tom Holland Fred Dekker The MPAA ratings board Julie Christie Pierce Brosnan The Simpsons TV series (1989- ) Donald Sutherland Nicolas Roeg Donald Cammell Robert Vaughn Fritz Weaver The Cannon Group Tobe Hooper Dennis Hopper Tom Hanks Bill Moseley Michael Keaton Wings Hauser Frank Capra Jr. Frank Capra Sr. John Alcott Stanley Kubrick The Cinerama Theatre in Manhattan The Loew’s Orpheum Theatre in Manhattan Gary Swanson Steve McQueen “Herbert West—Re-Animator” short story by H.P. Lovecraft (1922) Charles Band Brian Uzna Stuart Gordon Barbara Crampton Jeffrey Combs The United Artists East 85th Street Theatre in Manhattan Bruce Dern John Wayne The Brothers Quay David Lynch David Cronenberg Douglas Sirk Charles Bronson J. Lee Thompson Looney Tunes The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices