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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Retro Film Analysis Podcasts
Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair classic and modern horror films to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Inspired by the legendary BBC2 horror double bills of the 1970s and 1980s, each week we discuss two films that share twisted themes, unsettling atmospheres, or strange connections From the shadowy corridors of black and white classics to the paranoia-fueled chaos of the 21st-century, we take a deep dive into what makes these films memor ...
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Episode 16: Livid (2011) & Suspiria (1977)
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Welcome to episode 16 of the horror double bill the podcast where each week we pair 2 movies to create something far greater than the sum of their parts This week we are exploring the terrors of ballet school with two European horror films that are connected through more than just the depiction of dance. First up we Head to France and 2011 for Livi…
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Buckets of Lies: The Colonel Would Never Approve
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we sink our teeth — or at least pretend to — into I Eat Your Skin (1964, finally released in 1970), the zombie misfire with a title so good it should’ve been arrested for false advertising. Promising cannibalistic horror and flesh-ripping mayhem, the film instead delivers papier-mâché zombi…
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Episode 15: Sleep Tight (2011) & Them (2006)
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Episode 15: Sleep Tight (2011) & Them (2006): There's no place like home..... Welcome to episode 15 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two films to create something greater than the sum of their parts. This week we are exploring the horrors that lurk in the home, with two movies that depict our safest spaces as places of…
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we pack our thermal underwear, our Geiger counters, and our healthy skepticism as we head north—way north—to a remote Arctic outpost where the coffee’s strong, the tempers are short, and the science is suspiciously well-funded. We’re talking about The Thing From Another World (1951), a Cold…
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Episode 14: Messiah of Evil (1973) & The Fog (1980)
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Episode 14: Messiah of Evil (1973) & The Fog (1980): "Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....." Welcome To episode 14 of the horror double bill the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something far greater than the sum of their parts This week we are exploring coastal horrors and the terrors that lurk in the liminal space between…
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From Hell It Came, But It Took Its Sweet Time Getting There
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we’re digging deep—literally—into the 1957 cult classic From Hell It Came, a film that dares to ask: “What if your dead enemy came back to life as an angry tree stump?” Set on a fictional South Pacific island where science, superstition, and slow-moving bark monsters collide, this movie fea…
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Episode 13: Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943) & An American Werewolf in London (1981)
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Welcome to episode 13 of The Horror Double Bill. This week we are exploring the horrors of lycanthropy and the legend of the werewolf, a creature that has been used for centuries as a metaphor for themes including sexual repression, puberty, male violence, insanity and the beats within. An we are starting off this week with the first horror movie t…
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Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we wade chest-deep into the murky waters of the 1959 swamp shocker Attack of the Giant Leeches—a film where the real danger isn’t the monsters so much as the humidity, infidelity, and questionable law enforcement. When townsfolk in the Florida Everglades start disappearing, the local authorities …
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Episode 12: The Cat and The Canary (1939) & The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
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Welcome to episode 12 of the horror double bill the podcast where each week we combine 2 films to create something far greater than the sum of their parts. This week we are exploring the horrors of the old dark house, and the enduring influence of its many tropes on horror cinema. First up is The Cat and the Canary from 1939 — a horror comedy starr…
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Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we untangle the web of 1958’s Earth vs. The Spider—a film that asks the bold question: what if the real danger wasn’t the giant arachnid terrorizing small-town America, but the jazz band rehearsing inside the high school auditorium? Join us as we scuttle into a story featuring teenage sleuths, a …
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Episode 11: The Ghoul (2016) & Triangle (2009)
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Episode Eleven: The Ghoul (2016) & Triangle (2009) : Time loops, mobius strips and the nature of reality Welcome to episode 11 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we combine two films to create something far greater than the sum of their parts. This week are exploring two movies that play with our perceptions of reality, with the…
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Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we dive headfirst into the salty depths of atomic-age anxiety with It Came From Beneath the Sea—a cautionary tale about the dangers of nuclear testing, hubris, and underestimating how mad a giant radioactive octopus can get when you only give it six tentacles. Join us as we follow a square-jawed …
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Episode 10: We Are What We Are (2010) & Raw (2016)
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Welcome to episode 10 of The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we combine two films to create something far greater than the sum of their parts. This week we are exploring the horrors of cannibalism – a subject that was once regarded as one of the ultimate cinematic taboos but which has now become a strangely prevalent sub-genre , and…
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we beam ourselves back to 1953 and dive into the uncanny, paranoid dreamscape that is Invaders from Mars. Told entirely through the eyes of a young boy named David, this early sci-fi thriller offers a Cold War allegory with a sandpit twist—and we’re here for every bizarre moment. We break d…
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Episode 9: They Look Like People (2015) & The Invitation (2015)
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Episode Nine: The Look Like People (2015) & The Invitation (2015). Urban paranoia, independent cinema and the horrors of friendship Welcome to episode 9 of the Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we put two films together to create something far greater than the sum of its parts. This week we are unwrapping the horrors of friendship, wi…
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we slide headfirst into the low-budget lizard mayhem that is The Giant Gila Monster (1959), a film where the title tells you everything—and yet somehow, not nearly enough. Join me as we unravel the story of a sleepy Texas town besieged by a shockingly chill giant lizard with a taste for hot…
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Episode 8: Isle of the Dead (1945) & Martin (1977)
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Episode Eight: Isle of the Dead (1945) & Martin (1977) : There's no such thing as a vampire. Welcome to episode 8 of The Horror Double Bill – the podcast where we put two films together to create something greater than the sum its parts. This week we are unpacking 2 rather unusual takes on vampire mythology. First up is Isle of the Dead from 1945, …
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we crank up the Theremin and hunker down in our Cold War bunkers for 1956’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers—a film where alien invasion meets government denial with all the subtlety of a brick through a window. We’ll walk through the plot, such as it is, as alien ships descend upon Earth like …
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Episode 7: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976)
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Episode Seven: Village of the Damned (1960) & Who Can Kill a Child (1976). There's something very wrong with the children.... Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where we combine two films, and fall down several rabbit holes, to create something greater than the sum of its parts. First up is Village of the Damned, from 1960 starring Geor…
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Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dip our toes—and eventually our entire sanity—into the tepid cinematic waters of Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954), a film that dares to ask: what if a rubbery sea creature and a questionable romance plot tried to co-exist on a shoestring budget? Spoiler alert: they mostly get in each …
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Episode 6: Night of the Eagle (1962) & The Devil Rides Out (1968)
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Episode Six: Night of the Eagle (1962) & The Devil Rides Out (1968). Must be the season of the witch...... Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, the podcast where we combine two films, and fall down several rabbit holes, to create something greater than the sum of its parts. First up is Night of the Eagle, from 1962, released in the US as Burn Witch B…
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Send us a text 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 conm…
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Episode 5: The House With Laughing Windows (1976) & Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
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Episode 5: The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) : Rural Giallo, Postwar Italy, and the Haunted Landscape In this episode of The Horror Double Bill, we journey deep into the unsettling beauty of the Italian countryside to explore The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972). These t…
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13 Ghosts (No, Not the One with Tony Shalhoub)
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Send us a text 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-fate…
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Send us a text 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 Bloodlu…
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Send us a text 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 f…
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Claws for Alarm: When the Buffet Bites First
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Send us a text 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 scienti…
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Send us a text 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…
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Episode 4: And Soon The Darkness (1970) & The Hitcher (1986)
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Episode 4 – The Horror Double Bill: And Soon the Darkness (1970) & The Hitcher (1986) In this episode of The Horror Double Bill, we explore two chilling roadbound nightmares that turn travel into terror. First, we examine And Soon the Darkness (1970), a sun-drenched British thriller where isolation in the French countryside gives way to dread. Then…
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Episode 3: Frightmare (1974) & Possum (2018)
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The Horror Double Bill Episode Three: Frightmare (1974) & Possum (2018) British suburban gothic, moral outrage, and the horror of family values. This week on The Horror Double Bill, we’re digging into the unsettling world of British horror with a pairing that’s as psychologically disturbing as it is politically charged: Frightmare (1974), directed …
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Episode 2: The Leopard Man (1943) & Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
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The Horror Double Bill Episode 2: The Leopard Man (1943) & Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971) Guilt, madness and the Italian Giallo Welcome to The Horror Double Bill, where horror is a feeling, not just a genre. In this episode, we delve into The Leopard Man (1943), a moody psychological thriller from producer Val Lewton. Then we leap into the stylis…
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Episode 1: La Cabina (1972) & El Bar (2017)
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Episode One: La Cabina (1974) and El Bar (2017) - claustrophobia and paranoia in Madrid Welcome to the debut episode of The Horror Double Bill, a podcast that celebrates horror in all its unsettling, uncanny, and occasionally absurd forms. Inspired by the BBC2 double bills of the 1970s and early ’80s, each week we pair two films that share themes, …
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