Weirdhouse Cinema: Clash of the Titans (1981)
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1981 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion epic “Clash of the Titans,” which also happens to star a bunch of notable human actors as well.
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| 0:24.0 | Listen to Let's Start A coup on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you find your favorite shows. |
| 0:31.0 | What if I told you that much of the forensic science you see on shows like CSI isn't based on actual science. |
| 0:40.0 | And the wrongly convicted pay a horrific price. |
| 0:44.0 | Two disadvantages in a life without parole. |
| 0:47.0 | My youngest, I was incarcerated two days after her first birthday. |
| 0:51.0 | Listen to CSI on trial on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.0 | Did you know Lance Bass is a Russian trained astronaut that he went through training in a secret facility outside Moscow hoping to become the youngest person to go to space? |
| 1:11.0 | Well, I ought to know because I'm Lance Bass. |
| 1:16.0 | And I'm hosting a new podcast that tells my crazy story and an even crazier story about a Russian astronaut who found himself stuck in space with no country to bring him down. |
| 1:27.0 | With the Soviet Union collapsing around him, he orbited the earth for 313 days that changed the world. |
| 1:35.0 | Listen to the last Soviet on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:44.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:54.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lam. |
| 1:57.0 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today, ooh, ooh, I got an itch for some stop motion animation. |
| 2:04.0 | That was what I was craving this week. I... Rob, I don't know if you're the same way I am. |
| 2:10.0 | I think stop motion monsters are one of my most nostalgic film elements. They remind me of when I was a kid, I had a VHS tape. |
| 2:20.0 | I think recorded in EP mode. It's a very grainy and low quality. But I had a tape of the Ray Harryhausen movie Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, which featured battles with stop motion skeletons, a stop motion robotic minotaur called the Minoton. |
| 2:39.0 | All kinds of great monsters in it. And so that's what I was in the mood for this week. And that led us to the selection of Clash of the Titans, another Harry housing classic, not directed by Ray Harryhausen. |
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