About this episode

The episode discusses Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires, comparing it to Star Trek and highlighting its unique design elements.

This one is basically a long episode of Star Trek with rad costumes, wild set design, huge donut-with-a-bite-taken-out spaceships, and some gigantic alien cadavers of a long-lost species. Oh yeah, and a tuning fork. It's Loathsome Things: A Horror Movie Podcast IN SPACE!

People in this episode

Host: loathsomethings

Topics covered

• horror
• sci-fi
• film analysis
• set design
• costume design

Keywords

• Mario Bava
• Planet of the Vampires
• horror movie
• sci-fi
• set design
• costumes
• alien cadavers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires

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