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.
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BERGCAST – Episode 14 – The Lost Kneales, Part 2
BERGCAST – Episode 13 – The Lost Kneales, Part 1
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BERGCAST – Episode 12 – The Year of the Sex Olympics
BERGCAST Ghost Stories, Episode 1: The Austringer (1969)
BERGCAST – Episode 11 – Quatermass and the Pit AKA Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
BERGCAST - Episode 10 - Quatermass and the Pit (1958) - Part Two
BERGCAST - Episode 9 - Quatermass and the Pit (1958) - Part One
BERGCAST - Episode 8 - Quatermass 2 (1957) - Part Two
BERGCAST - Episode 7 - Quatermass 2 (1957) - Part One
BERGCAST - Episode 6 - X The Unknown
BERGCAST - Episode 5 - Quatermass II (1955) - Part Two
BERGCAST - Episode 4 - Quatermass II (1955) - Part One
BERGCAST - Episode 3 - The Quatermass Xperiment
BERGCAST - Episode 2 - The Quatermass Experiment, Part Two
BERGCAST - Episode 1 - The Quatermass Experiment, Part One
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