FOR ALL MANKIND visual effects maestro Todd Sheridan Perry
The Movies That Made Me
SpectreVision Radio
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Spectre Vision Radio |
| 0:03.3 | Attention film lovers, alien obsessives, adventure seekers, and abnormally big fish enthusiasts. |
| 0:12.2 | The spiel is ready for your ear holes. |
| 0:14.2 | It's a deep dive interview podcast that looks at the world through the lens of our greatest living director, Stephen Spielberg. |
| 0:19.5 | Each episode brings in a special guest to talk about their favorite Spielberg movie, whether it's something he produced, wrote, cameoed in, or directed himself. Authors, filmmakers, actors, comedians, paranormal experts, you name it. They're on the show Talking Spielberg. Sometimes these guests have worked with the man himself, like Jurassic Parks' Arianna Richards, fabled Gooney, Corey Feldman, E.T.'s mom, D. Wallace, or A.I.'s Haley Joel Osman. And sometimes they're just famous fans of his work, like comic book Luminary Brian Michael Bendis defending Spielberg's famous comedy flop in 1941, Kumail Nanjiani, nerding out about Indiana Jones or Ryan Johnson going all the way back to the Colombo pilot that Spielberg directed when he was just 21 years old. |
| 0:59.4 | The spiel is a conversational look at cinema hosted by me, Eric Vespi, and produced by Spector Vision Radio. |
| 1:04.8 | Thank you. This is The Movies That Made Me with your hosts, Josh Olson and Joe Dante. Let's show we jump into it. |
| 1:52.5 | Why don't we do this? |
| 1:54.1 | This is going to be a fun one, a very visual one. |
| 1:57.2 | So folks, if you're listening in the usual manner and have the option of |
| 2:01.7 | watching this one, please do watch it. Watch it on our Spotify feed or we'll upload this to |
| 2:07.0 | our YouTube channel as well. But I'm very psyched, man. We've, we've, Todd Perry is, can I tell |
| 2:16.2 | him how we met Todd? Yeah, totally. |
| 2:18.3 | So I wrote and directed a movie way back in the 40s called Infested. |
| 2:26.3 | And we had absolutely no money. |
| 2:29.3 | And we had hired a visual effects company that for various reasons were not quite able to finish |
| 2:36.1 | the job and we were kind of desperate and happened to Robert Wise too on Star Trek so it's |
| 2:41.3 | you know you're in good company oh well too bad he didn't know about Todd I don't know how somehow |
| 2:48.4 | we found these scrappy kids who tell me correct me if I wrong, because it has been many, many years, Todd. So if I'm getting stuff wrong. And you guys were, they doing stuff for Corman, am I correct? We were doing stuff for Corman, yep. And then some interstitials and stuff. Yeah, like really, and they came, or we came to them or they came to us, and they said, you know, we showed them what we needed because we literally could not release the film. There was just like major stuff missing. And they said, well, how much do you have left? And we said, we have $117.12. And they said, well, we'll make it work for that. And they did. |
| 3:26.5 | They absolutely did. |
| 3:27.4 | They saved it. |
| 3:28.5 | We managed to release it. |
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