Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: It Conquered the World
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe learn almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. Tune in as they discuss Roger Corman’s 1956 sci-fi horror thriller “It Conquered the World” starring Peter Graves, Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef. (originally published 9/20/2024)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.2 | This is Rob Lamb, and hey, today we're going to be looking back in an episode that originally |
| 0:14.9 | published 920, 2024. |
| 0:17.2 | It is going to be Roger Corman's 1956 sci-fi horror thriller. |
| 0:21.8 | It Conquered the World, starring Peter Graves, Beverly Garland, and Lee Van Cleith. |
| 0:27.4 | This one's a lot of fun. |
| 0:29.0 | Some cool ideas in here and an infamously funny-looking monster. |
| 0:35.0 | So let's check it out. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:49.8 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are finally going to be devoting a full episode to a movie that we have referenced in passing quite a bit over the years. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't know if it's come up as often as Highlander, too, but it's got to be close. |
| 1:08.9 | This is the subject of a fan favorite episode of Mystery Science Theater |
| 1:13.8 | 3000 from season 3 with Joel. |
| 1:16.4 | And another example of one of our favorite niche subgenres, |
| 1:21.0 | low-budget atomic age sci-fi horror thrillers, |
| 1:23.9 | directed by Roger Corman, |
| 1:25.6 | which played as part of a double bill at your local drive-in in the 50s. |
| 1:30.3 | This one, most of these movies are great because they're usually less than 70 minutes long. |
| 1:35.9 | This one's at the longer end of that scale. |
| 1:39.0 | It's like 69, 70 minutes. |
| 1:42.0 | You know, they get even shorter. |
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