The Movies That Made Me

Severin Films' David Gregory

The Movies That Made Me

Show Notes

Severin Films co-founder David Gregory joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to break down five of his favorite movies that Severin has released in special restorations, and five that he wishes Severin could, one day, release!

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Frightmare (1974)

Satan’s Slave (1976)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Supervixens (1975)

The Night God Screamed (1971)

Black Snake (1973)

The Seven Minutes (1971)

*The Nanny (1965)

Delicatessen (1991)

Amelie (2001)

The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

Lust for a Vampire (1971)

Fear in the Night (1972)

Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)

Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023)

Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol (2026)

The System of Doctor Goudron a.k.a. The Lunatics (1913)

Figures de Cire (1914)

Piranha (1978)

Shivers (1975)

*Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)

Satan’s Sadists (1969)

Five Bloody Graves (1969)

I Spit on Your Corpse (1974)

Blow-Out (1981)

The Howling (1981)

Satan’s Mistress (1982)

*Bloody Moon (1981)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Pieces (1982)

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

El Topo (1970)

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Santa Sangre (1989)

Psycho (1960)

*Threads (1984)

The Bodyguard (1992)

L.A. Story (1981)

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Kess (1969)

The Day After (1983)

The War Game (1967)

The Full Monty (1997)

*Blood for Dracula a.k.a. Young Dracula (1974)

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

Bicycle Thief a.k.a. The Bicycle Thieves (1948)

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1964)

Taste of Fear (1961)

Diabolique (1955)

Brides of Dracula (1960)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

*Unhinged (1982)

Nightmare a.k.a. Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)

*Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger (1976)

The Tattoo Connection (1978)

Edge of Fury (1978)

Fist of Fury II (1977)

The Dragon Lives Again a.k.a. Deadly Hands of Kung Fu (1977)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Jaws (1975)

*The Last Shark a.k.a. The Great White (1981)

The Inglorious Bastards (1977)

Jaws II (1978)

They Call Me Bruce (1982)

Grizzly (1976)

Alien (1979)

Terminator (1984)

Shocking Dark a.k.a. Terminator II (1989)

Aliens (1986)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Cruel Jaws a.k.a. Jaws 5 (1995)

*I Don’t Want to Be Born (1975)

The Exorcist (1973)

Hands of the Ripper (1971)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Doberman (1997)

The Doberman Gang (1972)

The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)

Les Vampires (1915)

L'ibis Bleu (1919)

The Devils (1971)

Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils (2002)

Other Notable Items

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The Hollywood Food Coalition

David McGillivray

Russ Meyer

Synapse Film

Mike Leigh

Peter Greenaway

Our Kier-la Janisse and Caelum Vatnsdal podcast episode

The Criterion Collection

Jimmy Sangster

Hammer Films

Ralph Bates

Virginia Wetherell

Joan Collins

Amanda Reyes

Al Adamson

The Grand Guignol Theatre in France

Tom Savini

The Cinéma français

BFI

Edgar Allan Poe

Jacques Tourneur

Maurice Tourneur

Barbara Steele

David Cronenberg

Susan Petrie

J. Carrol Naish

Lon Chaney Jr.

Russ Tamblyn

John Carradine

Carl Daft

Sam Sherman

Schlock-O-Rama: The Films of Al Adamson book by David Konow (1998)

Laszlo Kovacs

Vilmos Zsigmond

Ray Dennis Steckler

Harry Novak

Variety

Gary Graver

The Goldman Theatre in Philadelphia

John Travolta

Tisa Farrow

Severin’s new show My Fleapit, My Palace

Jesús Franco

William Lustig

Blue Underground

Lina Romay

Antonio Mayans

Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco book by Stephen Thrower (2020)

Video nasties

Margaret Thatcher

Lucio Fulci

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alan Klein

Claudio Argento

Dario Argento

Marcel Marceau

The TLA in Philadelphia

Mick Jackson

Barry Hines

Ken Loach

BBC

PBS

Udo Kier

Paul Morrissey

Joe Dallesandro

Vittorio De Sica

Andy Warhol

Claudio Gizzi

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