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The Evolution of Horror

NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 4: Godzilla & Kong Also Rans (1933-2024)

The Evolution of Horror

Mike Muncer

Tv & Film, Film History

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This week, things get MONSTROUS as Mike and Kevin Lyons run through the history of cinema's two biggest titans: Godzilla and Kong! In this spoiler-free episode, Kevin Lyons runs through his thoughts on a bunch of other King Kong and Godzilla movies, including remakes, sequels, reboots, requels and everything in between...

Hosted, Produced and Edited by Mike Muncer

Music by Jack Whitney.

Artwork by Mike Lee-Graham

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0:00.0

The Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Muncer and as ever I am your host. In this podcast we explore and

0:25.2

dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. We are currently in the middle of our

0:31.4

10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting back in horror and this is part 4

0:38.7

This is going to be a particularly fun episode over the last couple of weeks we covered Godzilla from

0:44.2

1954 and before that King Kong from 1933 and we thought it would be a good

0:49.6

opportunity to take a little chance to recommend some other Godzilla and Kong movies that followed because

0:56.6

of course there are so many out there it's quite an intimidating list of kind of

1:00.7

monster movies featuring these two.

1:02.6

So what I thought might be nice to do this week

1:05.4

is just run through and recommend

1:07.4

some of the best and most interesting movies

1:10.0

featuring these two Titans of Monster movie mayhem.

1:15.0

So this is going to be a kind of also-Rans style episode.

1:19.0

We will not be spoiling any movies in this one.

1:21.5

It will be a completely spoiler-free episode. it's just going to be a series of quick fire

1:26.4

recommendations so joining me to discuss Godzilla and Kong

1:31.0

He was here only a couple of weeks ago for our introduction episode, but I know

1:36.0

he's such a big fan of these movies. I had to invite him back. His knowledge, of course, when

1:40.9

it comes to the history of genre movies is second to none.

1:44.4

A big welcome back to Kevin Lyons. Hello Kevin Lyons. Hello, how are you? I'm good. I'm good. It's

1:50.2

lovely to have you back again, Kev, this quickly, but you know I had to get you back for even more King Kong chair.

1:55.1

Oh yeah, I can talk King Kong forever.

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