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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Weirdhouse Cinema: Tarantula

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Yes, this week on Weirdhouse Cinema, the 1955 film “Tarantula” takes to the hills. Join Rob and Joe as they discuss this atomic-age sci-fi thriller’s titular giant spider, a mutating Leo G. Carrol and Mara Corday’s “lady scientist” character Steve.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.5

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0:10.1

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0:12.6

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0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

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0:26.6

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0:28.4

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0:58.4

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1:19.4

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1:32.9

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1:39.4

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

1:46.4

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lam.

1:56.4

And this is Joe McCormack and today we're doing a classic heat hampered in God's domain movie. It's a 1955 atomic age creature feature called Tarantula.

2:09.4

Rob, this movie was your pick and I'm so glad you picked it. I've never seen it before. But it is both hilarious and pretty good for what it is.

2:18.4

Yeah, I absolutely agree. And it's one that I hadn't seen either, but I've been I've been familiar with it for ages because of course this is one of many films, classic sci-fi and horror films that's referenced in the lyrics to science fiction double feature from the Rocky R picture show.

2:35.4

It goes a little like this. It goes high new Leo G Carol was over a barrel when Tarantula took to the hills. And that's Leo G Carol's will discuss is in this film and the Tarantula does in fact take to the hills.

2:52.4

Now Leo G Carol was much more famous for being an Alfred Hitchcock thrillers at a funny coincidence.

2:59.4

Just last week I watched North by Northwest for the very first time and he's in that playing a character called the professor, which is what he's called in this movie.

3:08.4

Yeah, he has he has a great vibe. Yeah, he has a very scholarly atmosphere to him, British actor move to Hollywood.

3:17.4

But yeah, this is interesting because he's not one of these. Even though his name is now synonymous with science fiction double feature, he's not one of these actors that that was really in a ton of beam movies.

3:29.4

He's really really should be more well known for these Hitchcock films, but yeah, Rocky Harpic Tucho has immortalized him in another direction as well.

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