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Colossal Kong and The Creature Feature - TWB76

December 5, 2017 • 37 mins

The 80’s welcomed in a different type of horror movie which steered away from the fear of the atomic 50’s and the boujee-ness of the 1960’s Euporean bloodsuckers. Horror did not necessarily include monsters but monstrous figures committing monstrous acts.

In the late 70’s and 80’s, the movie monster replaced cheesy storylines with utter suspense and terror, like, Jaws (1975) and Alien (1979). Long were the days of monsters coming from far outer space to terrorize earth. Now the monsters were next door in your own neighborhood and not so easy to dispose of.

As a kid, I watched (whenever permissible) creature features on television and sometimes those “creature features” were more Sci-Fi than epic monsters. The King Kong movies, Godzilla, gigantic mutant insect films, and aliens were a common staple of this genre but then there was Dracula and Werewolves sprinkled into the play mix. These were all considered horror movies at the time before they were all lumped into the distinctive category of The Creature Feature.

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EPISODE MENU

[3:58] - Colossal is the creature feature of this era of humanization in creature feature films. [9:06] - King Kong, Godzilla, Them!, are these films horror movies or creature features? [10:27] - Kong: Skull Island is just Moby Dick with a large ape instead of a whale. [18:43] - King Kong is a good example of the imbalance of nature vs man. [23:3] - Nature's wonderful miracles will eat your face off. [26:30] - Hunting on the Oregon Trail; fend for yourself or die of starvation or disease. [33:3o] - Hunting is taking a knife into the woods and seeing what happens. [35:52] - In the movies, Kong and Godzilla are nature's way of balancing things. What's keeping us in check?

FOR STARTERS

Ann Hathaway plays party girl Gloria who has to move back to her hometown when her fed-up boyfriend kicks her out of his apartment. Things quickly get weird when she discovers that she — by matters of pure obscure coincidence— controls a monster that terrorizes South Korea every evening after one of Gloria’s binge drinking fits. read review

SCOOP DU JOUR : The Natural Balance and Godzilla

The natural balance of nature was disrupted by the presence of an ancient creature. This event awakens Godzilla who must restore the balance set awry by the presence of this other beast. That’s why Kong was based in the seventies and not today. It wasn’t that Godzilla wanted to save mankind, he just wanted to eradicate that thing which should not exist within nature without a counterbalance. With Warner Bros. and it’s Monsterverse now established, it will be interesting to see if the next set of movies within this franchise focuses less on the humanization of the monsters and more on their need to exist because nature requires them to live.

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LINKS MENTIONED IN THE SHOW

Picture of the baby rhino who lost its mother to poachers
Wildlife conservation and saving to kill
The attempt to lift sanctions on hunting endangered species, like, the grizzly bear.
Poachers take rhino horns at a French zoo.
The killing of a white wolf in one of our national parks