The Introverted Obelisk
The Introverted Obelisk is a sardonic stroll through the graveyard of classic horror cinema, where monsters are rubber, dialogue is stilted, and logic is optional. Join us as we unravel the plots (and seams) of horror films from the 1930s to the 1960s — the golden age of fog machines, mad scientists, and questionable acting choices. Each episode serves up a dry-witted recap, thematic commentary, and trivia morsels about the strange, charming, and sometimes laughably earnest world of vintage horror. It’s film history with a smirk — perfect for fans of cult classics, spooky nostalgia, and undead absurdity.
Episodes
39 episodes
The Greenhouse Demands a Sacrifice
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, science takes a long, thoughtful look at ethics… and then feeds them to a plant.This episode tackles The Woman Eater, a British oddity where love, desperation, and very bad research h...
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Episode 39
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15:58
Science, But Make It a Relapse
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, science proves once again that it does not understand the meaning of the word “enough.”This episode dives into The Return of Doctor X — a late-1930s cocktail of mad science, ...
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Episode 38
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12:16
Murder Wears a Lab Coat
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, we slip into a laboratory where the lights are low, the morals are flexible, and science has absolutely lost the plot.This is a pre-Code nightmare where mad doctors wear tuxedos, murder invest...
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Episode 37
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22:30
The Ghost You Ordered Is on the Line
Tonight, The Introverted Obelisk invites you to dim the lights, quiet your doubts, and listen closely — because the dead have something to sell.This is a story about love, loss, and the fine art of pretending you can hear the ot...
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Episode 36
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12:12
Step Right Up for Salvation
This is a story about ambition — the kind that starts with applause and ends in a bottle. We follow a drifter who learns the carny trade, masters the con, and mistakes deceit for destiny. He climbs the ladder of showmanship one lie at ...
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Episode 35
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17:30
A Light Going Out Upstairs
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, we step into a house that’s both a home and a trap — where love whispers, doubt grows, and every flickering lamp feels like an accusation.In this story, sanity isn’t lost — it’s stolen
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Episode 34
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19:53
Last Call for the Afterlife
Tonight, The Introverted Obelisk rings in the New Year with a hangover, a curse, and a carriage that never misses a pickup.We’re heading back to 1921 for Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage — a Swedish morality tale ...
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Episode 33
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11:33
A Face Only Terror Could Love
Tonight, The Introverted Obelisk trades the crypt for the catwalks of the Paris Opera House — where chandeliers fall, music swells, and romance dies screaming in the wings.Lon Chaney — the man of a thousand faces — delivers his ...
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Episode 32
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10:00
The Death Ship Has a New Captain
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, we sail back to 1922 for a film that gave vampires their cinematic passport — Nosferatu. It’s the story of Count Orlok, a man who looks like a plague rat in formalwear, and poor Hutter, the ...
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Episode 31
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10:30
Paris, 1482: Now with Extra Judgment
This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we scale the heights of tragedy and stone with The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)—the film that gave Lon Chaney the keys to cinematic immortality and taught audiences that monsters aren’t ...
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Episode 30
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22:01
Matango: The Fungus Among Us
Stranded on an isolated island with nothing to eat except a suspicious buffet of oversized mushrooms, a group of wealthy socialites slowly discovers that hunger isn’t the only thing gnawing at them. In this episode of The Introverted Obelis...
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Episode 29
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12:13
The Night We Checked In and Nearly Didn’t Check Out
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, your host Obie Knox takes you on a rain-soaked detour into James Whale’s The Old Dark House (1932), the pre-code classic that accidentally invented an entire horror subgenre by asking ...
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Episode 28
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23:08
Death at the Altar, Again
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obe slips on his funereal gloves and dives headfirst into the wonderfully bizarre world of bride-snatching, botany, and Bela Lugosi’s increasingly questionable skincare routine. Our st...
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Episode 27
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12:51
Everybody Loves a Good Bat Panic
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we swoop into The Vampire Bat (1933), a film that asks the daring question: what if the vampire menace terrorizing a small European village wasn’t supernatural at all—just the ...
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Episode 26
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14:26
Murder as a Party Game
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we descend into William Castle’s gothic funhouse of greed, ghosts, and marital loathing: House on Haunted Hill (1959). Vincent Price stars as the ever-smiling Frederick Loren, a mill...
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Episode 25
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16:18
How to Stake Your Neighbors and Still Make Dinner on Time
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we shuffle through the empty streets of The Last Man on Earth (1964), the Vincent Price classic that adapted Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend on a budget that looked like it w...
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Episode 24
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14:00
Scream Therapy, Courtesy of William Castle
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dive spine-first into William Castle’s most infamous gimmick spectacular, The Tingler (1959). Vincent Price dons his lab coat once again, this time as Dr. Warren Chapin, a scienti...
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Episode 23
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11:46
Help Me, Help Me: The Most Famous Shriek in Horror
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we buzz straight into The Fly (1958), the cautionary tale about what happens when science moves faster than common sense. David Hedison plays André Delambre, a brilliant scientist wh...
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Episode 22
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15:14
Agnes Moorehead Deserved a Better Movie
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we prowl the drafty halls of The Bat (1959), a murder mystery that promises a terrifying faceless killer but mostly delivers a parade of suspects tripping over blueprints. Agnes Moor...
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Episode 21
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15:06
When the Real Horror Is Medical Malpractice
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we peel back the fur suit on The Ape (1940), a Poverty Row shocker where Boris Karloff proves that even brilliant actors aren’t immune to scripts about monkey costumes and spinal flu...
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Episode 20
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11:53
Bananas, Bullets, and Bela Lugosi
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dive into The Gorilla (1939), a film that can’t decide if it wants to be a horror, mystery, or a comedy routine — so it stumbles into being neither. Starring the Ritz Brothers, wh...
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Episode 19
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17:21
Storms, Wills, and a Whole Lot of Monkey Business
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we wander into the creaky corridors of The Monster Walks (1932), a Poverty Row relic that proves sometimes the scariest thing about a horror movie is its production budget. Promising...
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Episode 18
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10:02
The Paris Blood Drive Nobody Asked For
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we stumble through the foggy backstreets of Paris with Bela Lugosi’s eyebrows leading the way in Murder in the Rue Morgue (1932). Supposedly adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering...
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Episode 17
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14:28