Joe Dante talks The Howling, Gremlins, & Horror movies on "Sports and Hip-Hop with DJ Mad Max"

Huge thank you to legendary director Joe Dante for coming on my show for an interview! Joe discussed his passion for movies starting at a young age by going to the movie theaters, his love for classic Horror films, and how he started working with Roger Corman. He talked about directing The Howling, wanting to cut down the iconic werewolf transformation scene, and originally promoting this film as a slasher. He got into directing his iconic film Gremlins, in which Steven Spielberg sent him the script in the mail. He told the stories of when he knew that Howie Mandel was the perfect voice for Gizmo and why he wanted Kate's monologue scene to be in the film. Joe then got into why he didn't want to make Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the technology being easier to use the Gremlin puppets in this film, and the references to Lon Chaney Sr.'s face reveal in the 1925 The Phantom of the Opera and Rambo. He talked about the upcoming animated Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai that will be airing on HBO Max soon and the upcoming Roger Corman biopic that he is currently working on. We went over his contributions to the Horror genre, Horror films that impressed him recently, and he gave great advice on what makes a great Horror sequel. Go checkout Joe Dante's podcast called The Movies That Made Me, it is available on all podcasting platforms: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.... Follow Joe Dante on Twitter: @joe_dante Follow me on Instagram and Twitter: @thereelmax. Website: https://maxcoughlan.com/index.html. Website live show streaming link: https://maxcoughlan.com/sports-and-hi.... MAD MAX Radio on Live 365: https://live365.com/station/MAD-MAX-R.... Subscribe to my YouTube channel Sports and Hip Hop with DJ Mad Max:    / @sportsandhiphopwithdjmadmax  .