Oh, The Humanity!

Oh, The Humanity!

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Oh, The Humanity! episodes

  • Dead of Night (1945)

    An architect visits a country estate and feels like he’s been there before, the other guests share incidents about odd happenings in their own lives. Also discussed: do dolls have sex? What’s the most dramatic sport to use to decide who gets a girl and why is it somehow golf? Horror anthology movies should come back into style.

    Trigger Warnings: unreality, violence
    Next Week: Hausu (1977)

    1 hr 2 min
  • Independence Day (1996)

    USA! USA! Okay that’s enough patriotism for this summery. You know it, you love it, Will Smith saves humanity with Jeff Goldblum with jingoism and American Superiority against slimy aliens who blew up the White House. Also, 90s individualism as family politics, tentacles, and absolute exhilarating joy! 💥💥💥 Enjoy this, the Barbecue of Summer Movies.

    Trigger warnings: bombs, major character death, guns, explosions, military presence, choking, flashing lights
    Next Week: We’re dropping this in before it strictly speaking was supposed to air so it will be Dead of Night (1945) next week

    1 hr 10 min
  • It Follows (2015)

    A magical STD stalks a young woman trying to become an adult and cope with a violation of intimacy. Discussion points include: water symbolism, soundtrack parallels, and a clamshell shaped e-reader.

    Trigger Warnings: sexual violence, incest, rape, violence, implied incest, drowning, hospitals, stalking behavior

    Next week: Independence Day (1996) is getting dropped in the feed! Happy Fourth of July and remember that we all live on stolen land

    1 hr 5 min
  • Babadook (2014)

    Coping with the violent death of her husband, a single mother is haunted by a children’s monster. Also talked about is the stages of grief, gay rights, and hands to suffocate.
    Trigger Warnings: child abuse, child endangerment, depression, grief, attempted murder, gore, animal death

    1 hr 11 min
  • Hogzilla (2014)

    Some people are allegedly hunted by a feral hog while deep in a Florida nature preserve, and there might have been a ghost. Featuring a guest star and Florida Resident. Also discussed is absolutely anything we could find to avoid talking about this movie, bombs on the border of Canada, and the different ways Florida wilderness can hurt you.

    Trigger Warnings: fat phobia, guns

    Next week: Ba Ba Dook (2014)


    1 hr 13 min
  • The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

    The third installment of the Hammer Frankenstein series, it has a very basic caveman plot with some hypnosis thrown in for color.  Discussed are Monster rights, gay subtext, and hypnosis discourse. 

    Trigger Warnings: attempted sexual assault, arson, violence, hypnosis
    Next Week: Hogzilla (2007) 

    1 hr 9 min
  • Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    Two boyfriends and their girlfriend go to the fair to see a sleepwalker turned into a sideshow by our titular doctor, before dragging everyone into a nightmare. Discussion topics: contrasting points of therapy in the Weimar Republic, hypnosis crimes, and unnecessary poetry perpetrated by the host. 

    Trigger Warnings: Psychiatric Abuse, Violence, Unreality
     Next Week: The Evil of Frankestien (1964)

    1 hr 11 min
  • The Monster That Challenged The World (1957)

    Hello we are back from our hiatus because of some life related things,  with a B Monster movie about a large mollusk who threatens a small navy base and presumably a truck stop. Also discussed, Eisenhower and his friend Walt Disney and HIS friend and yours: the Atom, a circumcised penis, and the never-ending injustices of the imdb pages. 

    Trigger Warnings: hydrophobia, guns, child endangerment
    Next Week: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    1 hr 3 min
  • Lilo and Stitch (2002)

    An alien mini kaiju crash lands in Hawaii and learns the true meaning of family from a pair of sisters learning to be a new kind of family themselves. Also discussed: Bantu is thicc, Hawaiian perspectives, the concept of ohana and misrepresented cultural concepts, and how an alien is shaped like a rascal 

    Trigger warning: drowning, wide ocean, mild violence, 

    Next week sorry that this is late: The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)

    1 hr 8 min
  • Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

    Its uhhhhhh, a sequel, and in twenty sixteen this movie is espousing that the War on Terror is Good actually. A mystery cube is exploded on the moon and it turns out it was a warning, the aliens from the first one are coming back, and this time they're twice as big and twice as bad! Also discussed: Battleship the Movie (you know, with Rihanna), race and terrorism, and the awards this movie won for being bad.

    Trigger Warnings: Guns, Racism, Violence, Jumpscares, Flashing Lights, Unreality

    In Two Weeks: Lilo and Stitch (2002)

    1 hr 8 min

About Oh, The Humanity!

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A podcast examining the historical contexts of monster movies and monster design from the beginning of film, hosted by a folklorist/public historian and another person who loves monsters.