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 42 - Starfish (2018)
Episode 41 - Lifeforce (1985)
Episode 40 - The Empty Man (2020)
Episode 39 - Lord of Illusions (1995)
Episode 38 - Society (1989)
Episode 37 - The Endless (2017)
Episode 36 - Resolution (2012)
Episode 35 - WandaVision (2021)
Episode 34 - Annihilation (2018)
Episode 33 - Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
Episode 32 - Cold Skin (2017)
Episode 31 - Black Mountain Side (2014)
Episode 30 - The Call of Cthulhu (2005) with Andrew Leman & Sean Branney
Episode 29 - The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Episode 28 - The Haunted Palace (1963)
Episode 27 - The Crimson Cult (1968)
Episode 26 - In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Episode 25 - Lovecraft Country Review
Episode 24 - Event Horizon (1997)
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