Well, it's our first episode of the new year and boy, do we have a kick ass guest to help ring in 2022! Stopping by to drop some knowledge on us about Mycenaean architecture and Lovecraftian horror is author, film critic, and desktop game designer, Josephine Maria Yanasak-Leszczynski! Dark City may not seem like your standard Lovecraft-inspired genre film at first, but Josephine lays out the case for how it effectively the 1998 sci-fi/noir film incorporates Lovecraft's penchant for pulling from multiple sources and how it plays with the concept of cyclopean environments.
It's easy to forget that Dark City after came before The Matrix, seeing as how oddly similar the seminal and influential film from the Wachowskis was whereas Dark City was just kind of...forgotten (unless you're Roger Ebert). Sure, the city may be one of the most poorly thought out science experiments in the history of movies brought down by a half-baked Neo, but it was great to think that studios once spent money on weird, original ideas -- even if they did ultimately end up tinkering with them too much.
Follow Josephine on Twitter @JMYales and check out their website where you can find their prequel to "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "A Coven in Essex County."
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Episode 80 - Interview with Sam Liu
Episode 79 - Lily C.A.T. (1987)
Episode 78 - Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
Episode 77- Dark Sea (2013)
Episode 76 - The Deep Ones (2020)
Episode 75 - Harbinger Down (2015)
Episode 74 - Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Episode 73 - The Thing (2011)
Episode 72 - Prometheus (2012)
Episode 71- Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
Episode 70 - Colour From the Dark (2003)
Episode 69 - The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
Episode 68 - Apostle (2018)
Episode 67 - Dreams in the Witch House (2022)
Episode 66 - Pickman’s Model (2022)
Episode 65 - Hellraiser (2022)
Episode 63 - Interview with H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Co-Director Gwen Callahan
Episode 63 - Glorious (2022)
Episode 62 - The Innsmouth Book Club
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