Our podcast The Movies That Made Me returns from our post-Oscar hiatus with a brand-new guest! Visual effects supervisor and artist Todd Sheridan Perry breaks down the top 10 visual effects shots that made him with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Infested (2002)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Star Wars (1977)

Tron (1982)

The Abyss (1989)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Dead Alive (1992)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Number 17 (1932)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Flesh Gordon (1974)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Jack The Giant Killer (1962)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

1941 (1979)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Piranha (1978)

Caveman (1981)

Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)

Independence Day (1996)

Seconds (1966)

Superman (1978)

Innerspace (1987)

The Gate (1987)

Bad Taste (1987)

Meet The Feebles (1989)

Forgotten Silver (1995)

The One and Only Ivan (2020)

The Call of the Wild (2020)

F1 (2025)

Tron: Ares (2025)

Heat (1995)

Other Notable Items

Our Patreon! 

The Hollywood  Food Coalition

Robert Wise

TFH Guru Roger Corman

For All Mankind TV series (2019)

Star City TV series (2026- )

I’m A Virgo TV series (2023)

Boots Riley

John Dykstra

J. Stuart Blackton 

Georges Melies

James Whale

F.W. Murnau 

Peter Jackson

Alfred Hitchcock

The Dick Cavett Show TV series (1968-88)

Ray Harryhausen 

David Allen

Jim Danforth

TFH Guru Rick Baker

Charles Band

Gregory Jein

John Carpenter

Doug Beswick

Jim Aupperle

Bill Hedge

Laine Liska

Star Trek franchise

Battlestar Galactica TV series (1978-79)

Dennis Muren

Joe Viskocil

Douglas Trumbell

Robert Abel

Mat Beck

Jerry Goldsmith

John Frankenheimer

Christopher Reeve

Margot Kidder

Weta Workshop

Randall William Cook

Halo TV series (2022-24)

Mickey Rooney

Judy Garland

Richard Taylor

James Cameron

MPC VFX

Bryan Cranston

Darryl Zanuck

Harry Cohn 

Jack Warner

Los Angeles International Airport

Robert De Niro

Michael Mann

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