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
59 episodes
Your Demon Is Out for Delivery
What happens when a committed skeptic discovers that the supernatural doesn't particularly care whether he believes in it?This time on The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox takes a trip to 1957 for Jacques Tourneur's wonderfully at...
This Is Why We Stay Indoors
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox ventures into the African jungle for Monster from Green Hell (1957), a creature feature that asks one very important question: what if giant radioactive wasps decided human...
Because Regular Scorpions Weren’t Terrifying Enough
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox heads deep beneath the earth for a creature feature where the biggest problem facing humanity is not aliens, mad scientists, or mysterious experiments gone wrong, but a group of pre...
The World's Worst Picnic
Join Obie Knox for another descent into The Introverted Obelisk as the Swarming theme continues with one of the most influential creature features ever made: Them! Released in 1954, this Atomic Age classic transformed ord...
Atomic Arachnophobia
Join Obie Knox for another journey into the strange world of Atomic Age horror as The Introverted Obelisk spins a web around the 1955 science fiction classic Tarantula. This week, a quiet Arizona desert community becomes the unl...
Monster Season at the Beach
Dive beneath the waves with The Introverted Obelisk as we journey into the Atomic Age for Phantom from 10,000 Leagues, a creature feature where radiation once again proves to be humanity's worst traveling companion. This 1955 sc...
The Beast Who Slept Too Long
Journey back to the dawn of giant monster cinema with The Introverted Obelisk as Obie Knox explores The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, the landmark 1953 creature feature that helped shape the future of monster movies for decades to ...
Next Stop: Paranoia
This week on The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox climbs aboard one of Alfred Hitchcock's finest suspense films, The Lady Vanishes. What begins as an ordinary train ride across Europe quickly transforms into a twisting mystery w...
The Day Los Angeles Lost to Pudding
Heatwave Horror Month continues as Obie Knox descends beneath the streets of Los Angeles to revisit one of the strangest creature features of the 1960s: The Slime People. This low-budget sci-fi horror oddity wastes absolutely no time i...
Beach, Please... Also There's a Monster
This month, The Introverted Obelisk kicks off Heatwave Horror Month with the 1964 drive-in cult classic The Horror of Party Beach. What starts as a carefree day of sun, surf, and dancing quickly turns into chaos when a ...
The Atomic Ghost of Japan
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we travel back to 1954 and descend into the radioactive nightmare of Godzilla — the film that didn’t just create a monster, but transformed grief, fear, and national trauma into one of the most enduri...
What the Cat Brought Back
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we wander into the moonlit nightmare world of Kuroneko, Kaneto Shindō’s hypnotic ghost story about war, grief, vengeance, and the terrible persistence of love. Released just a few years after his mast...
Everybody Falls Into the Hole Eventually
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we descend into the sweltering nightmare world of Onibaba, Kaneto Shindō’s haunting masterpiece of war, hunger, jealousy, and survival. Set during the chaos of civil war in medieval Japan, the film fo...
The Corridor With No Door
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we step into the fog-covered streets of Paris and unravel the eerie mystery of So Long at the Fair, a psychological thriller that turns one missing person into a waking nightmare. Set during the 1889 ...
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie descends into the quiet, suffocating paranoia of My Name Is Julia Ross, a Gothic psychological thriller where the greatest danger isn’t violence, but the terrifying realization that ever...
Whispers, Lies, and Southern Gothic Vibes
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie heads deep into the collapsing world of Southern Gothic horror with Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, a film where the hallways are long, the family grudges are longer, and absolutely nobody...
Ghosts With Theatrical Lighting and Emotional Damage
In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie descends into the painted nightmare world of Kwaidan — a haunting anthology film directed by Masaki Kobayashi that transforms traditional Japanese ghost stories into one of the most visu...
Denial in a Lab Coat
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, we confront a familiar fantasy: the belief that science can fix grief if we just push it hard enough.The Colossus of New York begins with tragedy — a brilliant scientist dies far too ...
Forever Young, Briefly Human
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, science puts on a lab coat, sharpens its scalpel, and decides that ethics are optional.In Atomic Age Vampire, a brilliant but broken scientist sets out to save the woman he loves from...
Love Is Not a Medical Procedure
Tonight on The Introverted Obelisk, love refuses to let go, science refuses to listen, and a severed head develops opinions.This episode dives into The Brain That Wouldn’t Die — a film that asks the eternal question:
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...
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, ...
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...