146. Island of Lost Souls
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Clay and Amanda explore the influential horror film 'Island of Lost Souls' and its themes of science and monstrosity.
Welcome back to The Rotten Horror Picture Show Podcast , where this week Clay and Amanda set sail for one of the strangest, most influential horror films of the 1930s: Island of Lost Souls , the classic adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau . Starring Charles Laughton as the delightfully unsettling Doctor Moreau, the film tells the story of a remote tropical outpost where science has gone horribly, horribly wrong. Human-animal hybrids roam the jungle, strange laws govern the land, and civilization is hanging by the thinnest of threads. Clay and Amanda dig into the film's legacy, its pre-Code weirdness, and why it remains one of the most fascinating monster movies ever made. Now, before we go any further, I need to address something that's been bothering me. Is it really an island ? Everyone keeps calling it an island. The title says it's an island. The characters say it's an island. But has anyone actually checked? What if it's a peninsula? Has anyone gotten out there with proper surveying equipment? Because if there's even a narrow strip of land connecting it to a larger landmass, then the whole thing falls apart. We'd have to call it Peninsula of Lost Souls…
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