#42 - The Horror of James Whale

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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It's SHOCKTOBER! Justin and Will are joined by special guest John Semley to discuss the career of Frankenstein director James Whale. Why is the sequel better than the original? What are our thoughts on the Frankenstein legacy? Why did James Whale stop directing? All the answers can be discovered with one listen!

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:10.3	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.
0:12.5	And it's our favorite time of year.
0:15.1	It's Shocktoberfest.
0:16.5	Oh!
0:17.2	I guess I'm a howling wolf as well.
0:24.3	And... I guess I'm a howling wolf as well. And we're going to be doing James Whale today, and we have a very special guest, John Semley.
0:30.5	Hello.
0:31.6	John Semley, who are you?
0:33.2	Sell yourself like a job interview.
0:34.5	Well, I would say that I'm foremost a big fan of the important
0:38.4	cinema. Oh, thank you. Um, not just a contributor, but a fan. But, uh, I'm a journalist and
0:44.8	about films for McLean's magazine and the Globe and Mail and some other places. Uh, but pertaining
0:50.6	to old Jimmy Whale, uh, I suppose my expertise is that I'm a big fan of his, and I teach a class on horror movies at U of T where I teach Bride of Frankenstein, which is I think Whale's masterpiece. You've probably got a lot of dilettantes coming into that class, right? I don't know if you could be a dilettant when you're 18. Yeah, I'm going to say, are we going to get more emails, Will, about people being like, I can't believe we'll use the word dilatant in the podcast. Oh, come on. I mean, I get some people, I get students who will come during final paper time and being like, I don't know what to write about. Like, well, there's, you know, 20 suggested topics plus an option of creating one of your own. like, well, I don't really find anything scary. They're just numb to the world.
1:31.2	These are some pretty big kids, right? Yeah. They don't get scared easily. Yeah. Oh, God. Yeah. They're fully grown. But no, I mean, a lot of people like it. The people who tend to not like the class are the ones who are like super hardcore horror fans
1:44.3	who already know everything to the point that they've exhausted their Fangoria's and are already
1:49.3	looking at academic literature around horror films.
1:52.6	And that's the pits, the academic text about horror films.
1:56.0	Well, there's so much.
1:57.3	Yeah.
1:58.5	Nighting women in chainsaws.
2:00.6	Why did you pick Jimmy Whale, as his friends like to call him?
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