Episode Details

Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys.  We’re talking about 1979’s Screamers aka Island Of The Fishmen and 1996’s Screamers.

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We start by talking about what we’ve done involving horror recently. Liam talks about the film The Pale Door, and we talk about how neither of us were crazy about the film. We take a brief tangent into the problematic career of Clint Eastwood and American westerns vs. spaghetti westerns. We briefly talk about the series finale of the CBS series The Stand and Judas And The Black Messiah.

Up first is Screamers aka Island Of The Fishmen. We begin by talking about the weird convoluted history of the film, in that it was shot originally in 1979, purchased by a new production company years later, had several scenes cut/re-shot/just deleted outright. We talk about the director’s filmography and his background in the genre of giallo.

Liam talks about how he’s not a huge fan of creature features but actually enjoyed this film quite a bit.