Monster Craze Memoirs

Having been hired by RKO head Charles Koerner to command the studio's brand new "B" horror unit, producer Val Lewton authored a series of low-budget programmers that went above and beyond the call of his contemporaries, and often against the express intentions of his employers. His second film, I Walked With a Zombie, takes cues from the traditions of dark romantic literature to weave a disturbing tale of tainted love, possession, fatalism, and the lingering ghosts of slavery.Works cited:Edmund G. Bansak, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career (1995)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Winding down our review of Boris Karloff's cycle of "mad doctor" films for Columbia, we delve into The Devil Commands, another surprisingly prescient work of science fiction and, perhaps, one of the first cinematic examples of "cosmic horror." We also compare and contrast the film to its source material, William Sloane's 1939 novel The Edge of Running Water.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Happy Halloween, ya'll! This spooky season, we're indulging another of pop's childhood favorites, one he hasn't seen in decades: Edward and Mildred Dein's Curse of the Undead (1959). Often cited as the first canonical "horror Western," this latter U-I shocker goes a little further than just putting a vampire in the Old West. Indeed, in an appropriate follow-up to our Season One episode on Dracula's Daughter, this story of passion, vengeance, and bloodlust goes in some... let's say queer directions.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

This 1939 programmer from Columbia Pictures starring Boris Karloff fuses sci-fi and old dark house revenge story. Though commendable as a tight pulp story, it also exceeds as a surprisingly evocative exploration of the scientific and medical ethics, how much we allow social and legal conventions to restrict progress, and who we entrust to be the architects of that progress.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Upcoming bonus episode on Van Helsing (2004) went a little long, so I decided to extract 20 minutes and put it up for free.Become a patron to listen to the whole episode!https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

The on-going saga of "Schmuck Dracula" continues with this less sophisticated retread of House of Frankenstein. Dad and I discuss this lowly send-off to Universal's second cycle of classic horror films.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Who's idea was it to cast Lon Chaney, Jr. as Dracula, anyway? Dad and I tackle the late-coming indeed, third installment of Universal's Dracula franchise, Son of Dracula -- a return to Gothic horror form compromised by mercenary studio logic and extreme censorship.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

The Ghost of Frankenstein has picked up a few more supporters over the years, but I am not one of them. Hear me grouse about the fourth entry in the Universal Frankenstein franchise.Works cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi (2003)Don G. Smith, Lon Chaney, Jr.: Horror Film Star, 1906 – 1973 (1996)Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas, Universal Horrors: The Studios Classic Films, 1931 – 1946 (1990)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

We finally return to the Universal House of Horrors! In this episode, we explore Rowland V. Lee's 1939 masterpiece Son of Frankenstein, the studio's first horror film since the Laemmles were given the boot in 1936. We also pay homage to the waning era of the "prestige horror film," ever prescient of the rebirth of the once novel genre as the almost exclusive terrain of B-pictures.Works cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Times of Bela Lugosi (2003)Bryan Senn, Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 – 1939 (1996)Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas, Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931 – 1946 (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Our third week of big bug movies takes us south of the border for another Warner Bros. joint. From 1957, it's The Black Scorpion, a pretty crappy movie distinguished if only by some pretty neat stop-motion special effects courtesy of master Willis O'Brien and his less famous protege, Pete Peterson.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Unlocking because this week's episode on The Black Scorpion overlaps as an American sci-fi movie shot in Mexico.It's cowboys vs. dinosaurs! We weigh the tragic amateurishness of Edward Nassour's "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" vs. the poetic naturalism of Ray Harryhausen's "The Valley of Gwangi." Along the way, we unpack the uncanny history of dinosaurs and cowboys as totems of American collective identity.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/bPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

We're back, baby, and kickin' things off with a month of Big Bug movies, starting with the forefather of 'em all: Them!. This Warner Bros. feature blends together Atom Age anxiety, anti-Communist hysteria, veiled law-and-order propaganda, and even a little bit of U.F.O. lore. But there's also an environmental angle, here, with Big Bug movies not only reflecting general fears about insects, but also distilling the pathological drive of the American state to treat the balance of powers between man and nature like a constantly escalating Cold War itself.Works Cited:Joshua David Bellin, “Us or Them!”: Silent Spring and the “Big Bug” Films of the 1950s,” Extrapolation, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 2009)Bill Warren, Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, 21st Century Edition (2010)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Our In Memoriam to Monte Hellman soldiers on with his second feature, which also happens to mark this podcast's first foray into B-cinema outside of the horror and sci-fi standard bearers. Specifically, we're talking B-war films, and Hellman's bleak, prescient revision of the Second World War myth: "Back Door to Hell."Sources for this episode:Kent Jones, ““The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman,” The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Thoams Elsaesser et al. (2004)Monte Hellman, interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, originally published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2005), eventually published in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/monPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

So in our last memo we made the mistake of promising a two-part memoriam on Monte Hellman -- we decided to expand it to a five-part memoriam. Here's part one, you sickos.R.I.P. Monte,July 12, 1929 - April 20, 2021Sources for this episode:Charles B. Griffith, interview with Dennis Fischer, Midnight Marquee, No. 33 (1984)Gene Corman, interviewed by Tom Weaver, from Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Directors, Producers, Actors, Moguls and Makeup (1988)Kent Jones, ““The Cylinders Were Whispering My Name”: The Films of Monte Hellman,” The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s, ed. Thoams Elsaesser et al. (2004)Monte Hellman, interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, originally published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2005), eventually published in Wheeler Winston Dixon’s Film Talk: Directors at Work (2007)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

They say kill your darlings and that's exactly what we're doing with this episode on "Kong: Skull Island" -- a movie I genuinely loved when I first saw it, but, god help me... it's kinda terrible!Link to R. S. Benedict's "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny," Blood Knife, 14 Feb 2021, https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Here's a teaser for our episode on Gareth Edwards' "Godzilla."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/goPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

"Godzilla vs. Kong" comes out this month, so dad and I are gonna be watching through the so-called MonsterVerse produced by Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. Before that, though, I thought we might shine a little love on a new genre classic, a movie so good that of course nobody in Hollywood could learn from it: Gareth Edwards' indie debut "Monsters."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Here's the first half of a commentary track my father and I recorded for "Jurassic Park." Want the full experience? Why not become a patron?All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Today's episode sees us catching up with producer Jack H. Harris and Irvin Yeaworth, Jr. for their first major studio production -- 1960's "Dinosaurus!"All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Here's a meaty teaser for our Season 2, Episode 19 double-feature of "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" and "The Valley of Gwangi."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

By popular request, dad and I were just gonna do "Journey to the Center of the Earth" this week, but decided to supplement it by double-featuring Twentieth Century-Fox's follow-up fantasy-adventure film from 1960, "The Lost World." We talk the clean-teen charms of Pat Boone, and the absolute bummer that is using lizards as dinosaurs.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Even minor changes can make a world of difference. Me and Dad get into it comparing and contrasting the Mercian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's "The Most Dangerous Game" with the original short story by Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Independent-turned-major studio contender Warner Bros. pioneered the use of two-strip technicolor. They also produced the last two films made in the process. First up is "Doctor X." In case you're wondering, no, he does not in fact "build a creature."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Unlike their main rival M-G-M, Paramount was much more used to pushing the boundaries of moral decency when it came to movies. So it should come as no surprise that their forays into horror were some of the most lurid and impactful that the golden age offered. In the case of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," it also turned out to be one of the most acclaimed.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Legend has it that as soon as head of production Irving Thalberg saw the receipts for "Dracula," he wanted M-G-M to throw its own hat into the ring with the most horrific film ever made. The result was an unmitigated financial and public relations disaster, only remembered in time as a cult masterpiece.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Unlocking this between-season break episode because it'll dove-tail nicely with our bonus episode this month on "The Raven" (1935): Instituted in 1936, the British Board of Film Censors' "H" certificate effectively banned horror films in the United Kingdom, which directly led to the end of the Golden Age of Horror, and the financial ruin of struggling actor Bela Lugosi. Three years later, Lugosi himself starred in "The Dark Eyes of London," the first British film to receive the "H" certificate.Works Cited:Arthur Lennig, The Immortal Count: The Life and Times of Bela Lugosi (2003)Bryan Senn, Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 - 1939 (1996)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Bela Lugosi gives the performance of his career in Edgar G. Ulmer's "The Black Cat," an incredibly loose 'suggestion' by the Edgar Allan Poe story that foregrounds Satanism, necrophilia, and incest as a surreal allegory for the lingering trauma of the First World War.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Director James Whale made his return to Universal horror with this 1933 adaptation of H. G. Wells' "The Invisible Man." Though offering a more pessimistic spin on the melodramatic formula of "Frankenstein," it nonetheless displays the auteur's progression away from straight shockers to a more distinctive, black comic sensibility.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Happy Halloween, you sickos! Let's talk about "Creepshow"!! Part one of two.Bibliography:Paul R. Gagne, The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: The Films of George A. Romero (1987)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

The fear of evolutionary theory undergirds the horror of Robert Florey's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" from 1932. Dad and I discuss scientific racism, apes in film horror, and the under-appreciation of Bela Lugosi.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Second of two supplements in the lead up to our Patron-only episode on James Whale's "Frankenstein."Works cited:Arthur Lennig, "The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi" (2003)Scott Allen Nollen, "Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life" (2018)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

First of two "Monster Craze Memoirs" supplements leading up to our Patron-only episode on James Whale's "Frankenstein."Works cited:Scott Allen Nolen, "Boris Karloff: A Gentleman's Life" (2018)All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

We're officially back for a second season of "Monster Craze Memoirs," and we're starting off with a bang by tracing our steps back to the origins of modern film horror in Carl Laemmle, Jr.'s bid to right Universal Picture's financial ship with a prestigious new kind of film that treated the supernatural seriously: Tod Browning's "Dracula."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Second of two supplements for the first episode of season two on Universal Pictures' "Dracula."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

First of two supplements for the first episode of season two on Universal Picture's "Dracula."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Eli makes his long awaited return to "Monster Craze Memoirs" to discuss the 1978 remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

In 1956, Allied Artists released a "B-plus" picture adapted from Jack Finney's acclaimed novel. To this day, despite its inherent compromises to the original vision of its producer, director, and screenwriter, it remains one of the most evocative and precise distillations of American cold war paranoia.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Adapted four times as a film, Jack Finney's "The Body Snatchers" is a cut above the pulpier fare lit we've previous covered; a bitingly satiric, nuanced thriller that profoundly conveys the psychological dread and fatalistic impact of modernity of the human condition.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Majestic Pictures founder and executive producer Larry Darmour leased out the struggling Universal City's standing sets and stacked a cast of recognizable freelancers for his own knock-off of major studio fare. This macabre mystery film epitomizes the platonic ideal of the "borderline horror," at a time when the genre itself was still largely nascent.Bigliography:Bryan Senn, Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 - 1939 (1996)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

When Universal hit it big with "Dracula" and "Frankenstein," and most other major studios were getting in on the racket, Columbia was caught flat-footed. Their first horror film, "Night of Terror," is really more of a murder mystery and black comedy.Works cited:Bryan Senn, "Golden Horrors: An Illustrated Critical Filmography of Terror Cinema, 1931 - 1939" (1996)Arthur Lenning, "The Immortal Count" (2003)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Bel-Air Productions mostly made Westerns throughout the '50s, but producer Howard W. Koch also dipped his toes into horror. We already talked about one of those films, "The Black Sleep," quite a while ago. This week, we're talking about the second horror flick the company made -- "Pharaoh's Curse" from 1957.Works cited:Tom Weaver, A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers (2010)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

We round out a month of "feminine monster" movies with one of my personal favorites, and our belated return to Toho Studios' house of destruction spectacle. Today's topic is "Mothra," a deceptively flamboyant fantasy flick that's jam-packed with political and religious imagery.Bibliography:Susan Sontag, "The Imagination of Disaster" (1965)Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski, "Ishiro Honda: A Life In Film - From Godzilla to Kurosawa" (2017)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

"Unknown World" is special effects artists and newbie producers Irving Block and Jack Rabin's spiritual follow-up to "Rocketship X-M." Consistently underrated, I found it a pretty sublime meditation on the allure of escapism at times of existential crisis, perhaps just as relevant to our current moment as it was to the dawn of the so-called "Atomic Age."Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Texas millionaire Gordon McLendon produced this regional two-fer in 1959, and ushered himself into those always problematic "worst of all time" movie annals. But Rocco and I opt to disagree with that hyperbolic reputation, and instead appreciate the films as relatively well-made examples of their genre and time, as well as uniquely relevant distillations of American conservative ideology.Cited in this episode:Cynthia J. Miller & A. Bowdoin Van Riper, "Marketing, Monsters, and Music: Teensploitation Horror Films," The Journal of American Culture, Volume 38, Number 2 (June 2015) All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

I’m flying solo for this bonus episode and digging down deep in praise of “The Mole People,” that modest, deceptively advertised B-movie that has a lot to say about history, race, and philosophy. Fair warning that, somewhere along the way, I do get lost on another of what I promise will be my final rant about “so bad, it’s good” film culture.All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

With "How to Make a Monster," Herman Cohen attempted to dramatize the effect of corporate conglomeration on the marginalization of the "B" movies' invaluable technicians and artists. In the process, it allegorized American International Pictures' own exploitation of the over-worked and under-appreciated Paul Blaisdell.Bibliography:Randy Palmer, Paul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist (1997)Bryan Senn, "Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills!" Horror and Science Fiction Double Features, 1955 - 1974 (2019)Tom Weaver, Attack of the Monster Movie Makers (1994)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

We're talking shrinking, growing - people growing and shrinking! So we of course had to start off with this undisputed classic written by weird fiction titan Richard Matheson and directed by Jack Arnold: From 1957, it's the existentialist melodrama-cum-adventure thriller "The Incredible Shrinking Man"! Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Here's part one of an epic, month-rounding two-parter, starting with one of the most influential and revered sci-fi films of all time, "The Day the Earth Stood Still."Summary: It's so god damn good but, also, it's kinda fascist, yo!All original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

First episode of our break takes on Bert I. Gordon's debut Z-feature "King Dinosaur," and explores questions of animal cruelty in commercial cinema.Works Cited:Glenn Erickson, "King Dinosaur," review for DVD Savant (2002)Dennis Fischer, "Science Fiction Film Directors, 1895 - 1998" (2011)Mark Thomas McGee, "Talk's Cheap, Action's Expensive: The Films of Robert L. Lippert" (2014)W.J.T. Mitchell, "The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon" (1998)Courtney E. White, " "The Utmost Care, Kindness, and Consideration": The MPPDA versus Allegations of Animal Abuse, 1923 - 1925," Cinema Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Fall 2016)Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bailfundsgeorge_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGcDWtQj2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2

Who likes more mad scientists?Well, okay, Doc Quatermass isn't so much mad as he is really, really some kind of right populist anti-hero.Basil Rathbone on the other hand? Yo, straight up bananas.Donate to 70+ community bail, mutual aid, and racial justice organizing funds across the country: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floydAll original music courtesy of Niel Jakobyhttps://nieljacoby.bandcamp.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MonsterCrazeMemoirsOfficialiTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monster-craze-memoirs/id1491963648Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3aSrQ5JFez33XuVanaFYIwPocket Casts: https://pca.st/lkra63chSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-3949861YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_GcDWtQj_2wGEnlAB7P4AFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Monster-Craze-Memoirs-106199087480182/Twitter: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2