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The Introverted Obelisk is a sardonic stroll through the graveyard of classic horror cinema, where monsters are rubber, dialogue is stilted, and logic is optional. Join us as we unravel the plots (and seams) of horror films from the 1930s to the 1960s — the golden age of fog machines, mad scientists, and questionable acting choices. Each episode serves up a dry-witted recap, thematic commentary, and trivia morsels about the strange, charming, and sometimes laughably earnest world of vintage ...
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In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we plunge headfirst into the baffling, burbling waters of Creature from the Haunted Sea—Roger Corman’s 1961 fever dream that somehow mashed together Cold War espionage, mobster slapstick, and a sea monster made of mop heads. We walk through the film’s paper-thin plot, where an American conman fakes a sea …
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In this episode, we're cracking open the not-so-well-preserved corpse of Bloodlust (1961), a film that dares to ask the question: “What if rich guys hunted people and everyone was just kind of chill about it?” Before The Most Dangerous Game had a Hulu reboot and before “eat the rich” became a social media aesthetic, there was Bloodlust, a charming …
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In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we descend into the fever-dream logic of Robot Monster (1953), a film where humanity is annihilated by a gorilla in a diving helmet with Wi-Fi issues. Join us as we unravel a plot held together by bubble machines, philosophical monologues about murder, and an ape-creature named Ro-Man who falls in love, d…
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Claws for Alarm: When the Buffet Bites First
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In this crustacean calamity of atomic proportions, The Introverted Obelisk scuttles into the radioactive tidal pool of 1957’s Attack of the Crab Monsters—a movie where the science is shaky, the dialogue is moist, and the crabs are psychic. Join us as we unpack the radioactive fever dream of an island expedition that goes from scientific to suicidal…
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In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we pack our bags for an ill-advised tropical expedition into the technicolor fever dream that is Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (1967). When a group of journalists and scientists arrive on a remote island owned by a deeply unethical corporation, they discover a baby kaiju nestled in a cavern filled with gl…
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13 Ghosts (No, Not the One with Tony Shalhoub)
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In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we slip on our ghost viewer glasses and stumble through the cobweb-covered corridors of William Castle’s 1960 spookfest 13 Ghosts—not to be confused with the blood-slicked, glass-walled 2001 remake that somehow starred both Tony Shalhoub and a jug of ectoplasmic rage. We follow the ill-fated Zorba family,…
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