Johnny Has the Keys

Ep. 06-03: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

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Scott Carey’s boat drifts through a strange mist that leaves a metallic residue covering his body. Within a few weeks, he begins to notice that he is losing weight. A visit to the doctor confirms that he is also getting shorter. As he gets smaller and smaller, he determines that his exposure to insecticides and what must have been a radioactive mist has caused a genetic mutation. Soon, he is so small that encounters with the household cat and a spider become potentially life-threatening. What will he do?

Jack Arnold and Richard Matheson met in bar… It sounds like a joke, but when you take a classic genre director like Arnold and pair him with a leading genre writer like Matheson, magic happens. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1975) is one of those all-time classic films that never loses its punch. Join us as we discuss the myriad reasons why this was such a successful collaboration, including the screenplay, special, effects, and cast. Listen, as Johnny Has the Keys goes where man is no longer top of the food chain, and where a vast and terrifying new world awaits us if we’re brave enough to face it.

SHOW LINKS:

  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
  • Original trailer
  • Jack Arnold
  • The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
  • Richard Matheson
  • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • Land of the Giants (1968)
  • Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Dr. Cyclops (1940)
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
  • Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
  • Army of Darkness (1992)
  • The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  • The Devil Doll (1936)
  • Innerspace (1987)
  • The Mist (2007)
  • Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
  • Tom & Jerry
  • The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
  • The Twilight Zone (1959)
  • The Fly (1958)
  • Men in Black (1997)
  • Ant-Man comic series
  • Ant-Man film series
  • Animal House (1978)
  • Written on the Wind (1956)
  • 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die! 

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