Joseph Zito

um and this song is by pseudo echo um and it's called his eyes um there's a great uh live version which i think is from the viper room um but the remaster is good every version is good i just think the the live version is a little more driving but it was uh in friday the 13th part five uh in the scene where the, uh, punk rock woman who was in the halfway house was, um, dancing the robot in her underwear.

Uh, and Jason, uh, notoriously, even though they changed it and reshot it and edited it out, uh, Joseph Zito, who directed that film, um, had the, uh, the, uh, We'll say Jason standing, stab her in the wall, and pin her to the wall that way.

But, you know, they edited it so it didn't look that way.

But she was dancing to Pseudo Echoes, his eyes.

Frank Spinell or anything Joe Spinell, Frank's the character's name I'm sorry to say that,

yeah His name is Frank Zito which is actually confusing to me because I keep almost saying Joseph Zito because that's the director of Friday the 13th Part 4 which is a combination of his two names which

just has thrown me off

yeah people are maybe a little bit too trusting of them uh and this i think that's very same this is an era before everyone knew what a serial killer was maybe i don't know i say that

Welcome to Movie Dumpster Season 9, Episode 12.

Today we're talking about The Prowler from 1981, directed by Joseph Zito.

And is this cult classic slasher the best showcase of Tom Savini's special effects? We're going to find out.

I'm Joe Lascola.

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So that's it.

That's The Prowler from 1981, directed by Joseph Zito.

I'm Joe La Scola.

You take Chuck Norris, you give him an unresolved military mission, place several governments in his way, and just sit back and quietly wait for diplomacy to leave the building.

Next up is 1984's Missing in Action, directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock, a Vietnam veteran who survived years as a prisoner of war.

And when reports suggest that American soldiers are still being held captive, Braddock returns to Vietnam as part of an investigation.

Now, the government wants meetings and negotiations.

And America's last line of defense is Chuck Norris in a Canadian tuxedo sized extra medium.

America has not been invaded by a foreign enemy in nearly 200 years.

Our final movie in tonight's action lineup is 1985's Invasion USA, directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris as Matt Hunter, a former CIA operative living a quiet life in the Florida Everglades.

But when those pesky Soviet terrorists launch a coordinated series of attacks against the United States, Hunter is pulled out of retirement to to stop them all on his own.

there's a sort of, I think, abduction.

Going back to those Patty Hearst films, that was a Joseph Zito film.

He made a film in the US called, I think it was Invasion USA.

I think that's a Joseph Zito film.

And he rushes out abduction to take advantage of the sort of whole hype around Patty Hearst.

And...

I just recently covered The Prowler on this show in long form.

It's directed by Joseph Zito, who also did Friday the 13th Final Chapter and the movie Invasion USA.

This movie is really fucking cool.

Like it is a really good slasher.