Dr Justin Mullis drops into the Explorers Club to discuss the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island. Topics include:
-Japanese cryptozoology
-The depiction of apes in popular culture
-Kong as a colonial Lost World story?
-the ecology of Skull Island
-The significance of the 70s Vietnam setting
-John Goodman and the Monarch organisation
-Kong’s reinvention as a Kaiju
-Some of the best CGI in a recent creature film?
-The Skullcrawlers’ link to the original 1933 King Kong
-Cryptozoology in the Monsterverse
-The mystical gateway that often guards the Lost Worlds
Links:
-Justin's Notes for the episode (availability pending)
-Justin at Adventures In Poor Taste
-Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, John Rieder
-King Kong Cometh, Paul A. Woods
