Fly By Films

You Give [Eastern] Orthodoxy a Bad Name


Listen Later

Blamison are back with a great episode on one hell of a film! 1972's Horror Express with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Telly Savalas is what would happen if Hammer tried to make John Carpenter's The Thing ten years earlier. Plus if you want to talk about representation on screen, then one of the under-represented great Christian denominations (which sounds suspiciously Protestant) is shown front and center in this film. Plus Cossacks!

Other thing talked about: skateboarding maths, science's increasingly shady track record and Blake gets Cossacks and Hessians mixed up.

Clip: "The Impossible Dream" by Christopher Lee

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Fly By FilmsBy Blake I. Collier & Jamison Barsotti