By the 1980s, a whole new generation of filmmakers were emerging who had grown up watching

monster movies of the fifties. As such, we got a surge of remakes and reimagining of fifties

classics such as the thing, the fly, and the blob. But other genre filmmakers of the 80s were

drawing on British and European horror of the past. In 1982, director Harry Bromley Davenport

made EXTRO, an alien horror film that owed as much to hammer horror and surreal Italian horror,

as it did American sci-fi. While in 1985, Texas Chantal director Toby Hooper was also taking

direct inspiration from British horror and sci-fi writers like Nigel Neal to direct a bonkers

coke-fueled horror adaptation of 70s British sci-fi novel The Space Vampires.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of alien horror and we discuss two schlocky 80s

classics, EXTRO and LIFE FORCE.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munster and as ever, I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular sub-jummer as one

series at a time. We are currently in our seventh series exploring the evolution of alien,

sci-fi and cosmic horror, and this is part 16. This week's episode is sponsored by $20

Patreon subscriber Eric J. Stone, and in this week's episode, as that intro suggested,

we're going to be looking at two little, I suppose, relatively lesser known 80s gems.

That's EXTRO from 1982 and LIFE FORCE from 1985. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific.

I would urge you guys to watch both these movies before listening to our discussion,

because these discussions really won't make any sense if you haven't seen the films. Plus,

these movies are absolute bangers both need to be seen to be believed. So joining me to discuss

these two schlocky 80s classics, well, who else was going to get to join me for these two movies?

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