Cult Film Club Podcast

Cult Film Club Podcast

Welcome to the Cult Film Club, a monthly podcast and blog about MOVIES WE LOVE TO DEATH despite how bad, weird or obscure they are. In fact, we love them because they’re bad, weird or obscure! We discuss and analyze cult films from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond. The Cult Film Club feed is also the home for the I Read Movies & Crestwood House podcasts!

Episodes

July 15, 2025 63 mins

In this episode I close out the Raimi Spiderman trilogy of novelizations with the most maligned entry.

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In this episode Pax does a deep dive into the novelization of the first Rambo sequel which is adapted by the original Rambo author based on the original screenplay by James Cameron!

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In this episode, coinciding with the release of the newest Mission Impossible movie, Pax is covering the only entry in that franchise to get a novelization; the very first one from 1996.

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In this episode Pax talks about the novelization to Kevin Costner's infamous Waterworld from 1995!

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March 25, 2025 111 mins

On a very special episode, our 100th, Jaime, Pax and Shawn finally tackle a all time favorite film, 1987's Adventures in Babysitting!

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In this episode Pax discusses the 1997 Con Air novelization by Richard Woodley.

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In this episode I delve into the first of a series of Miami Vice novelizations by the author Stephen Grave!  This one covers the show's pilot!

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In this episode Pax covers the 1995 cyber thriller The Net starring Sandra Bullock and Dennis Miller.

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In this holiday episode of I Read Movies Pax talks about the novelization of the movie he just covered with Cult Film Club; Santa Claus the Movie (1985) by Joan D Vinge!

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December 16, 2024 87 mins

Pax takes Jaime and Shawn on a sleigh ride through the Salkinds' Santa Claus the movie starring Dudley Moore and a completely unhinged John Lithgow.

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November 25, 2024 87 mins

On the latest episode of the Cult Film Club, co-host Shawn introduces Paxton and Jaime to one of his favorite indie movies from the 90s, the Jim Jarmusch/Forest Whitaker jam Ghost Dog.

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This week Pax reposts his special IRM episode of The Shadow from the After Lunch Podcast which was released earlier this year.  

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On the 2024 season finale of Crestwood House, the gang closes out our silent horror series with arguably the most celebrated early creepy film, the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera!

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IRM Halloween episode! For this Halloween I'm covering the novelization of the original Terminator from 1984.  I also discuss the separate UK version of the Terminator novelization.

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Since we just covered the 1985 zombie classic Return of the Living Dead on the Cult Film Club, we thought it would be apt to re-release Paxton's I Read Movies episode where he covers the film's novelization written by none other than Night of the Living Dead's John Russo. If you're curious about how the movie might differ from the original script, or how Russo had a darker take on a sequel to NotLD, check out this episode.

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On this week's Crestwood House, we're continuing our dive into silent horror as co-host Shawn introduces Pax and Michael to 1921's The Phantom Carriage!

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October 21, 2024 94 mins

For the 2024 Halloween episode, Pax, Shawn and Jaime decide to watch and discuss the 1985 zombie masterpiece Return of the Living Dead. SEND MORE PODCASTERS!

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October 16, 2024 83 mins

Pax takes Michael and Shawn along on a Faustian trip of debauchery and redemption with FW Murnau's silent adaptation of Faust.

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October 9, 2024 61 mins

On the sixth episode of season 4 of The Crestwood House podcast, co-host Michael finishes up our trio of anthology films with the one film that arguably started them all, 1945's Dead of Night. Considered by Martin Scorsese as one of the scariest films of all time, this film follows a group of acquaintances and strangers in a farmhouse as they tell each other scary stories from their lives to try and prove or disprove the existence ...

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We're breaking into the month of October with the fifth episode of season 4 of the Crestwood House. On this week's episode co-host Shawn regales Michael and Paxton with some Tales From the Crypt, er, at least the 1972 Amicus anthology film.

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