Show Notes
Writer/director Lee Cronin (THE MUMMY, EVIL DEAD RISE) breaks down the eight movies that made him before he turned 10 — plus movies he's seen since that deserve more shine.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (2026)
Dead Alive a.k.a. Braindead (1992)
Bad Taste (1987)
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Hole in the Ground (2019)
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Jaws (1975)
Jaws 2 (1978)
Jaws 3D (1983)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Commitments (1991)
Sing Street (2016)
Alien (1979)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
The Shining (1980)
Paranormal Activity (2009)
Ringu (1998)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Local Hero (1983?)
The Holdovers (2023)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Evil Dead (1983)
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Evil Dead (2013)
Robocop (1987)
Robocop 3 (1993)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Black Book (2006)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
The Exorcist (1973)
*Bug (2006)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Killer Joe (2012)
Sorcerer (1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Other Notable Items
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The Hollywood Food Coalition
Quentin Tarantino
Peter Jackson
Diana Peñalver
Halo video game franchise (2001- )
The Academy Museum
Care Bears TV series (1985)
Steven Spielberg
Werner Herzog
Universal CityWalk
Jack Reynor
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining book by J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich (2023)
Warner Bros
Scatman Crothers
Blumhouse
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Steve Martin
John Candy
John Hughes
Bruce Campbell
TFH Guru Fede Alvarez
Scott Spiegel
Jerry Lewis
Paul Verhoeven
Fred Dekker
The Fear of God: Twenty-Five Years of The Exorcist documentary by Mark Kermode (1998)
William Friedkin
Brian Tyler
Serj Tankian
System of a Down
Bug play by Tracy Letts (1996)
The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles
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