Talking with us about 1964's First Men in the Moon, we're honoured to have as our guest horror legend Stephen R. Bissette, who although perhaps best known one as of the primary collaborators with Alan Moore on the seminal 80s run of Swamp Thing, has produced a significant corpus of writing on the horror genre in all media over the space of several decades, including, most recently, an exhaustive study of David Cronenberg's early highlight The Brood.
We discuss the one time Nigel Kneale shared a credit with Ray Harryhausen, why these films have resonated with us since childhood, how stop motion animation takes us right into the uncanny valley, and whether First Men in the Moon is really the first fully realised alien culture in cinema.
And by the way, you can find Jon's other podcast, Due Signori in Giallo, at duesignori.cast.rocks.
BERGCAST– Episode 35 – Quatermass 70
BERGCAST - Episode 34 - Things Recorded in the Walls, feat Brontë Schiltz
BERGCAST – Episode 33 – Kinvig, feat. Gemma Arrowsmith
BERGCAST – Episode 32 – Back to the Woman in Black
BERGCAST – Episode 31 – Bringing Back Tomato Cain
BERGCAST – Episode 30 – Restoring Nigel Kneale at the BFI
BERGCAST – Episode 29 – The Nigel Kneale Century
BERGCAST – Episode 28 – The Woman in Black (1989)
BERGCAST – Episode 27 – HMS Defiant (1962)
BERGCAST – Episode 26b – Stephen Bissette on The Witches
BERGCAST – Episode 25 – The Abominable Snowman, with John J. Johnston
BERGCAST – Episode 24 – Stephen Volk
BERGCAST – Episode 23 – Stephen Gallagher
BERGCAST Holiday Special – The Witches (1966), live
BERGCAST – Episode 21 – The Quatermass Conclusion, Part Two
BERGCAST – Episode 20 – The Quatermass Conclusion, Part One
BERGCAST – Episode 19 – Nigel Kneale and Woodfall, featuring Samira Ahmed
BERGCAST - Episode 18 - Beasts, Part 2
BERGCAST – Episode 17 – Beasts, Part 1
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