Ghidorah Promo (long play version)
Posted in kitsch, retro on Oct 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Is it self-indulgent of me to post a promo that is over two minutes long? I can make a shorter version, but I love the song (from the Sixties cult film, Danger: Diabolik, which I’ve yet to see) and thought maybe you’d like to hear more of it once my gabbing was over. Please share your comments, critiques, etc. on whether this promo should actually be promulgated throughout the world, to distant lands where people are struggling to reconcile their love for God and for Ed Wood movies. At any rate, if you like it feel free to pepper it throughout your own podcast, blip playlist, etc.
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It’s our 2008 Halloween special, comparing classic and modern horrors and hearkening back to the glory days of monster fandom: the years when Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine could still be found on the magazine shelf at your local drugstore. God bless Uncle Forry, editor of FM, and Basil Gogos, frequent cover artist, both of whom are still with us so far as I know. (The image to the right here borrows from James Bama, I think, who did the art for the Aurora monster model kits.) I sort of trounce modern horror in this episode. Perhaps I should do a little more thinking about the subject, particularly the modern zombie film with reference to Kim Paffenroth’s book Gospel of the Living Dead and the essay collection The Undead and Philosophy edited by Green and Mohammad. Certainly the zombie has become the iconic monster of the late twentieth, early twenty-first century. Strange, though, that there is no particular actor celebrated for his or her performance as a zombie (isn’t that kind of strange?) as Karloff or Lugosi are still celebrated for their portrayals of the Frankenstein Monster and Dracula. It’s practically impossible to be a horror fan without a fave actor to hang your hat on — like Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, or even Angus Scrimm! Lord willing, a real horror revival will occur in years to come based on talented performers and directors.
