For our first official inductee into the new Psychotronic Hall of Fame, we could think of no one better than Joe Dante, a director who embodies everything that psychotronic cinema stands for, from his roots as a Monster Kid and graduate of the Corman school, through his later mainstream breakthrough, which he achieved without ever abandoning his love of classic genre cinema. For the entire month of December, we'll be exploring the films and career of Joe Dante.

For our fourth and final week of this Joe Dante series, we're going to fast forward by a few years to 1998, for a film that works well as a companion piece to last week's film, GREMLINS. 

This week, we'll discuss how SMALL SOLDIERS was created and how during the course of its creation, it was swallowed up by the marketing machine, resulting in a very different film than what the filmmakers had originally intended.

As we discuss the film, we'll try to decide if we think it's eligible to be a part of the Psychotronic Canon, but we're gonna let you decide if it goes in!

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VOTE IN THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS FOR BEST PSYCHOTRONIC FILM OF 2019!

It's the time of year when we take a look back at our favorite films of the last year! As we always do, in addition to our picks, we'll also reveal the winner of a listener's poll for their favorite psychotronic film of the year, and that's where you come in!

Head to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HTFNWRR to vote to let us know which cult/genre movie was your favorite of the year! We'll reveal the winner in our upcoming Best of 2019 episode!

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