In 19802,

In 1982, filmmaker Ridley Scott followed up his hugely successful sci-fi horror film Alien

with another ambitious sci-fi tale. This time, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The story of a Blade Runner, a man tasked with

the job of hunting down a group of dangerous androids or replicants. The story explored the

relationship between man and machine, what it means to have a soul and what it means to be human.

Various other filmmakers, including

Martin Scorsese, had expressed interest in adapting Dick's story, but the job went to Ridley Scott,

a man known for his atmospheric visuals and detailed world building.

Scott's movie took the post-apocalyptic San Francisco setting of the novel and transferred

it to Los Angeles and used a collision of influences from film noir to cyberpunk to

Asian street culture to create a cinematic world the likes of which audiences had never seen before.

While the film received a lukewarm reception in 1982, it grew in popularity and respect

and is now generally regarded as one of the best science fiction films ever made.

35 years later, it got a sequel directed by Denis Villeneuve, which somehow felt every bit

as lavish, thought-provoking, groundbreaking and epic as Scott's original.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we dive deep into the murky,

rainy, dystopian world of Blade Runner.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror.

My name is Mike Munser, and as ever ever I am your host. In this podcast,

we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time.

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