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
22 episodes
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 21
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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 20
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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 19
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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, who ...
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Episode 18
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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 17
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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 16
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14:28
Buckets of Lies: The Colonel Would Never Approve
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we sink our teeth — or at least pretend to — into I Eat Your Skin (1964, finally released in 1970), the zombie misfire with a title so good it should’ve been arrested for false adver...
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Episode 16
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15:06
Thermite Bombs and Trust Issues
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we pack our thermal underwear, our Geiger counters, and our healthy skepticism as we head north—way north—to a remote Arctic outpost where the coffee’s strong, the tempers are short, and the ...
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Episode 15
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12:48
From Hell It Came, But It Took Its Sweet Time Getting There
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we’re digging deep—literally—into the 1957 cult classic From Hell It Came, a film that dares to ask: “What if your dead enemy came back to life as an angry tree stump?” Set on a fict...
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Episode 14
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27:17
This Sucks: The Motion Picture
This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we wade chest-deep into the murky waters of the 1959 swamp shocker Attack of the Giant Leeches—a film where the real danger isn’t the monsters so much as the humidity, infidelity, and ques...
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Episode 13
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13:05
There’s a Spider in the Auditorium Again
This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we untangle the web of 1958’s Earth vs. The Spider—a film that asks the bold question: what if the real danger wasn’t the giant arachnid terrorizing small-town America, but the jazz band r...
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Episode 12
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15:00
50 Fathoms of Nope
This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we dive headfirst into the salty depths of atomic-age anxiety with It Came From Beneath the Sea—a cautionary tale about the dangers of nuclear testing, hubris, and underestimating how mad ...
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Episode 11
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14:50
Little Green Men and the Big Red Panic
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we beam ourselves back to 1953 and dive into the uncanny, paranoid dreamscape that is Invaders from Mars. Told entirely through the eyes of a young boy named David, this early sci-fi...
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Episode 10
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15:52
Reptile Dysfunction
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we slide headfirst into the low-budget lizard mayhem that is The Giant Gila Monster (1959), a film where the title tells you everything—and yet somehow, not nearly enough. Join me as...
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Episode 9
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11:24
Invasion of the Wobbling Hubcaps
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we crank up the Theremin and hunker down in our Cold War bunkers for 1956’s Earth vs. the Flying Saucers—a film where alien invasion meets government denial with all the subtlety of ...
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Episode 8
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19:26
Monster? I Barely Krilled Her!
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dip our toes—and eventually our entire sanity—into the tepid cinematic waters of Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954), a film that dares to ask: what if a rubbery sea creature and ...
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Episode 7
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11:33
Scuba Doo and the Haunted Sea
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we plunge headfirst into the baffling, burbling waters of Creature from the Haunted Sea—Roger Corman’s 1961 fever dream that somehow mashed together Cold War espionage, mobster slapsti...
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Episode 6
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13:40
13 Ghosts (No, Not the One with Tony Shalhoub)
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we slip on our ghost viewer glasses and stumble through the cobweb-covered corridors of William Castle’s 1960 spookfest 13 Ghosts—not to be confused with the blood-slicked, glass-wal...
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Episode 5
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15:32
Kaiju Custody Battle
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we pack our bags for an ill-advised tropical expedition into the technicolor fever dream that is Gappa: The Triphibian Monster (1967). When a group of journalists and scientists arri...
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Episode 4
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11:32
Claws for Alarm: When the Buffet Bites First
In this crustacean calamity of atomic proportions, The Introverted Obelisk scuttles into the radioactive tidal pool of 1957’s Attack of the Crab Monsters—a movie where the science is shaky, the dialogue is moist, and th...
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Episode 3
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13:31