Leviathan

We close out our theme of “The Ocean Is Vast” this week with 1989’s creature feature Leviathan, about a crew of underwater minors battling a mysterious undersea enemy. Is it a ripoff of Alien and The Thing? Some people think so. Did we?  Tune in to find out!

This film was part of what is known in Hollywood as a “trend cluster”, in which multiple films around the same theme are all released in close proximity. We discuss how trend clusters come to be, the films that were part of THIS trend cluster, and some other notable trends clusters in history. So let’s all cluster around the radio and listen to our latest episode! Do people even listen on radios anymore? Probably not. Bluetooth speaker…cluster around that.