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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Super Infra-Man

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

It’s time to dive back into the Shaw Brothers cinematic treasure chest, this time for the sci-fi action film “The Super Inframan” starring Danny Lee and a whole bunch of monsters and stylish costumes. (originally published 12/03/2021)

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

The podcast and that's what you really missed brings you back to the choir room for a gloriously gleeky rewatch of all six masterfully musical seasons of Glee.

1:19.4

Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.

1:32.9

Listen to and that's what you really missed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:39.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick and today we are bringing you a Weird House cinema rewind this episode originally aired December 3rd 2021 and it's on

1:58.4

the Super Inframan or the Super Inframan, one of the most absolutely frantically enjoyable movies we have ever covered. That's right, this is a whole lot of fun featuring Danny Lee and just a whole bunch of monsters and really stylish costumes, lots of martial arts action and alien mischief. It's a real treat.

2:18.4

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio.

2:31.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick and for today's episode, I feel so excited. I'm literally tingling.

2:42.4

I feel like we have unearthed a holy artifact that was I guess maybe known by many by many others before but this was my first time seeing today's selection and it is filled me with such light and hope and goodwill and cheer.

3:00.4

Today's selection is Inferman, also known as the Super Inframan, a 1975 Hong Kong cinema extravaganza that truly must be seen to be believed. This movie has, I was trying to think, it has an ineffability about the experience of watching it similar to a religious or psychedelic experiences.

3:24.4

I think you can, when you read the words of people who have seen this movie, they're trying to communicate something that just can't be said.

3:33.4

Yeah, yeah, this movie is something special and I had not seen it before either. I was, I think, barely familiar with it.

3:40.4

I think my only real connection to this is that I knew that the Joan Array comedian and actor, it was a big fan of this film and I knew that there were elements, there were these costumes in the most recent narrative.

3:53.4

There were a lot of scenes in the most recent Netflix seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000 that copied the skeleton costumes from this movie, you know, did kind of a riff on them, visual riff.

4:04.4

But that was it. Otherwise, this was all new to me and I'm glad I had not already seen it because I got to appreciate it a new this week.

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