In this show we are watching one of the great classics of 1950s science fiction, interstellar monster movie It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958), the movie that later was a direct inspiration for Alien (1979)!
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Saturday, 8 November 2025
COMMENTARY CLUB 118 - It! The Terror From Beyond Space
Thursday, 23 May 2024
COMMENTARY CLUB 094 - Not of This Earth
In a special show, we revisit an early classic from the late great Roger Corman - Not of the Earth (1957)
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Monday, 20 May 2024
HYPNOGORIA 260 - Cormania Part I - Teenage Monsters
We pay tribute to the late great Roger Corman, and in this first part of a retrospective on his life, works and gigantic legacy, we discover how he got started in the film business...
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Sunday, 31 March 2024
HYPNOGORIA 256 - The History of Universal Horror Part XXXIII
In this penultimate chapter of the history of Universal horror we look at two late monsters movies from 1957, the forgotten dinosaur adventure The Land Unknown and the unique alien menace of The Monolith Monsters. We also learn how Universal dealt with new rivals from across the pond, Hammer Films!
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Sunday, 18 February 2024
HYPNOGORIA 253 - The History of Universal Horror Part XXXII
In this chapter we discover the cavalcade of monsters and mutants unleashed by Universal in the mid 1950s! Jack Arnold brings back the Gill-man in in Revenge of the Creature, and brings Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man to the screen. Plus we have the rampages of The Deadly Mantis and the menace of The Mole People!
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Sunday, 23 July 2023
HYPNOGORIA 248 - The History of Universal Horror Part XXIX
This chapter, we learn how two newcomers - producer William Alland and director Jack Arnold - forged a new direction for Universal, bringing horror out of gothic castles and into the space age!
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Thursday, 27 April 2023
COMMENTARY CLUB 076 - Earth Vs. the Spider
For our cult film choice this time, we pay tribute to legendary director Bert I Gordon with a look at this 1958 big bug movie Earth Vs. the Spider!
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Sunday, 26 September 2021
MICROGORIA 103 - Bad Bad Brains
In this final (honest) episode of our brains in jars season we look at a pair of movies featured chaotic cerebellums causing carnage! First from 1986 we have Canadian horror The Brain, and then from that golden age of sci-fi monster movies, the 1950s, we have the legendary Fiend Without a Face!
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Wednesday, 3 June 2020
COMMENTARY CLUB 031 - Robot Monster (1953)
It's crap film time again, and this time we have gone for one of the worst movies of all-time - Robot Monster from 1953! Shot in four days and in 3D, see an incredible alien invader, the Ro-Man - which looks suspiciously like a gorilla in a space helmet - fart about with a bubble machine while pestering the last surviving humans on earth!
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Friday, 27 October 2017
HYPNOGORIA 74 - The Origins of Halloween Part V
Continuing in our annual series on the history of the spookiest night of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes at a look Halloween in the mid-twentieth century. We talks about the works of Ray Bradbury, the horrors of EC comics, and the Disney classic retelling of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949).
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