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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