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Send us Fan Mail Join Obie Knox for another descent into The Introverted Obelisk as the Swarming theme continues with one of the most influential creature features ever made: Them! Released in 1954, this Atomic Age classic transformed ordinary ants into towering predators and helped establish the blueprint for decades of giant monster cinema. In this episode, Obie follows the investigation that begins in the New Mexico desert after a young girl is found wandering in shock and several mysterio...
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Send us Fan Mail Four years after Frankenstein helped define the Universal horror movie, James Whale returned to prove that apparently one trip into the laboratory wasn’t enough. Bride of Frankenstein picks up where the original left off, with Boris Karloff’s Monster surviving the burning windmill and Henry Frankenstein attempting to leave his experiments behind. That plan lasts until the wonderfully unsettling Dr. Pretorius arrives with an offer Henry can’t easily refuse: if creating one art...
Send us Fan Mail James Whale’s Frankenstein didn’t invent the mad scientist, the laboratory full of questionable equipment, or the idea of creating life where nature probably intended otherwise, but it brought them together so perfectly that horror movies have been borrowing from it ever since. Released by Universal in 1931, Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, a young scientist determined to discover the secret of life, and Boris Karloff in the role that transformed both his...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox digs into 1941’s The Wolf Man, one of Universal’s defining monster movies and one of the most influential werewolf films ever made. After an encounter with a mysterious wolf leaves Larry wounded and Bela the fortune teller dead, Larry begins to fear that the old legends are true and that he has become a werewolf. We look at Lon Chaney Jr.’s sympathetic performance as the doomed Larry Talbot, Claude Rains as his father Sir ...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we venture into the Amazon to revisit Universal's 1954 classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon. After exploring the fascinating history behind the creation of the Gill-man—including Milicent Patrick's long-overlooked contribution to the creature's iconic design—we dive into the film itself, following an expedition that discovers far more than a fossilized claw. As scientists push deeper into the mysterious Black Lagoon in search of ...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox journeys back to 1932 to explore one of the films that helped define classic horror: The Mummy. Long before shambling bandaged monsters became Halloween staples, Universal introduced audiences to a far more unsettling vision of the undead—an ancient Egyptian priest whose greatest weapon isn't brute strength, but patience. The story begins when an archaeological expedition uncovers the tomb of Imhotep, an ancient priest bur...