Discussing The War of the Worlds

About this episode

The episode discusses H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds' and its various adaptations.

In part due to the unplanned hiatus during May and June, horror podcast episodes are not on the menu this year. But this episode is close, because H.G. Wells's is one of the most terrifying stories in the annals of science fiction. Much like we did a couple of years ago regarding Dracula, Phil Fasso and I look at Wells's classic through the perspective of some of its most famous iterations. We begin with Orson Welles's infamous radio play version, then go to Byron Haskins's 1953 film, Steven Spielberg's 2005 adaptation, and finally, this year's hideous adaptation. I hope you enjoy!

People in this episode

Host: Brian Skutle

Guest: Phil Fasso

Topics covered

• H.G. Wells
• science fiction
• horror
• adaptations
• radio play
• film analysis

Keywords

• H.G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds
• Orson Welles
• adaptation
• horror
• science fiction
• film
• radio play

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The War of the Worlds, Dracula, Orson Welles's radio play, Byron Haskins's 1953 film, Steven Spielberg's 2005 adaptation, this year's hideous adaptation

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