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The Introverted Obelisk

The Introverted Obelisk is a sardonic stroll through the graveyard of classic horror cinema, where monsters are rubber, dialogue is stilted, and logic is optional. Join us as we unravel the plots (and seams) of horror films from the 1930s to the 1960s — the golden age of fog machines, mad scientists, and questionable acting choices. Each episode serves up a dry-witted recap, thematic commentary, and trivia morsels about the strange, charming, and sometimes laughably earnest world of vintage horror

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12:13

Matango: The Fungus Among Us

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2025/11/28

Send us a text Stranded on an isolated island with nothing to eat except a suspicious buffet of oversized mushrooms, a group of wealthy socialites slowly discovers that hunger isn’t the only thing gnawing at them. In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, host Obie Knox dives into Matango, Ishirō Honda’s eerie, slow-burn descent into fungal madness. We follow a pleasure cruise gone catastrophically wrong, a derelict research vessel covered in mold, tempers shredding under starvation, and th...

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23:08

The Night We Checked In and Nearly Didn’t Check Out

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2025/11/21

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, your host Obie Knox takes you on a rain-soaked detour into James Whale’s The Old Dark House (1932), the pre-code classic that accidentally invented an entire horror subgenre by asking the bold cinematic question: What if a house was both haunted… and also just full of horrible people? Stranded travelers Philip, Margaret, and Roger stumble into a Welsh mansion where the décor is dust, the lighting is lightning, and the hosts are one ne...

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12:51

Death at the Altar, Again

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2025/11/18

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obe slips on his funereal gloves and dives headfirst into the wonderfully bizarre world of bride-snatching, botany, and Bela Lugosi’s increasingly questionable skincare routine. Our story begins with brides dropping dead at the altar—romantic, I know—and disappearing before anyone can even say “refund the caterer.” Obe guides listeners through the tangled mystery with his usual blend of dry commentary and affectionate mockery, followi...

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14:26

Death at the Altar, Again

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2025/11/14

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obe slips on his funereal gloves and dives headfirst into the wonderfully bizarre world of bride-snatching, botany, and Bela Lugosi’s increasingly questionable skincare routine. Our story begins with brides dropping dead at the altar—romantic, I know—and disappearing before anyone can even say “refund the caterer.” Obe guides listeners through the tangled mystery with his usual blend of dry commentary and affectionate mockery, followi...

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14:26

Everybody Loves a Good Bat Panic

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2025/11/07

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we swoop into The Vampire Bat (1933), a film that asks the daring question: what if the vampire menace terrorizing a small European village wasn’t supernatural at all—just the work of an overzealous mad scientist with a blood fetish and questionable ethics? Set in the eternally torch-lit town of Kleinschloss, the movie mixes gothic paranoia, mob mentality, and early-’30s science-gone-mad melodrama. I walk through the story of Li...

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16:18

Murder as a Party Game

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2025/10/31

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we descend into William Castle’s gothic funhouse of greed, ghosts, and marital loathing: House on Haunted Hill (1959). Vincent Price stars as the ever-smiling Frederick Loren, a millionaire who invites five strangers to spend the night in a supposedly haunted mansion with the promise of $10,000 each—provided they survive until morning. The house is less “haunted” and more “booby-trapped death trap,” complete with severed heads, ghostl...

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14:00

How to Stake Your Neighbors and Still Make Dinner on...

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2025/10/24

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we shuffle through the empty streets of The Last Man on Earth (1964), the Vincent Price classic that adapted Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend on a budget that looked like it was borrowed from the props department’s coffee fund. Price stars as Dr. Robert Morgan, the sole survivor of a plague that’s turned humanity into a shambling horde of vampires — though these vampires mostly stand outside his house half-heartedly groaning, as if wait...

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11:46

Scream Therapy, Courtesy of William Castle

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2025/10/17

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dive spine-first into William Castle’s most infamous gimmick spectacular, The Tingler (1959). Vincent Price dons his lab coat once again, this time as Dr. Warren Chapin, a scientist who discovers that fear itself takes the form of a parasitic centipede living in your spinal column. The only cure? Screaming. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, screaming is literally what keeps you alive here. Castle knew this was nonsense, of course, but tha...

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15:14

Help Me, Help Me: The Most Famous Shriek in Horror

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2025/10/10

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we buzz straight into The Fly (1958), the cautionary tale about what happens when science moves faster than common sense. David Hedison plays André Delambre, a brilliant scientist who builds a teleportation device but forgets to check the passenger list before stepping inside. One fly later, and we’re dealing with a man sporting the worst lab accident since Dr. Jekyll misplaced his prescription. I’ll guide you through the tragic unrav...

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15:06

Agnes Moorehead Deserved a Better Movie

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2025/10/03

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we prowl the drafty halls of The Bat (1959), a murder mystery that promises a terrifying faceless killer but mostly delivers a parade of suspects tripping over blueprints. Agnes Moorehead stars as Cornelia Van Gorder, a sharp-witted mystery novelist renting a sprawling mansion called The Oaks — which comes furnished with hidden rooms, suspicious servants, and a serial killer with a steel claw for a hand. Vincent Price also shows up as...

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11:53

When the Real Horror Is Medical Malpractice

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2025/09/26

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we peel back the fur suit on The Ape (1940), a Poverty Row shocker where Boris Karloff proves that even brilliant actors aren’t immune to scripts about monkey costumes and spinal fluid theft. Karloff plays Dr. Bernard Adrian, a kindly small-town physician with a big dream: curing a young woman of paralysis. Admirable, except his method involves breaking the Hippocratic oath in half, stitching it back together with ape hair, and prowli...

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17:21

Bananas, Bullets, and Bela Lugosi

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2025/09/19

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we dive into The Gorilla (1939), a film that can’t decide if it wants to be a horror mystery or a comedy routine — so it stumbles into being neither. Starring the Ritz Brothers, who spend most of the runtime mugging for the camera, and poor Bela Lugosi, who looks like he’d rather be anywhere else, the movie offers a killer gorilla that spends less time on screen than the family butler. I take you through the paper-thin plot: a wealthy...

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10:02

Storms, Wills, and a Whole Lot of Monkey Business

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2025/09/12

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we wander into the creaky corridors of The Monster Walks (1932), a Poverty Row relic that proves sometimes the scariest thing about a horror movie is its production budget. Promising a terrifying beast on the loose, the film delivers…a chimpanzee in a cage, a thunderstorm soundtrack on repeat, and a script that stumbles more than it walks. I walk you through the usual “old dark house” playbook: the stormy night, the reading of the wil...

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14:28

The Paris Blood Drive Nobody Asked For

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2025/09/05

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we stumble through the foggy backstreets of Paris with Bela Lugosi’s eyebrows leading the way in Murder in the Rue Morgue (1932). Supposedly adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s pioneering detective tale, the movie tosses out logic and deduction in favor of mad science, ape costumes, and enough bad biology to make Darwin claw his way out of the grave. I break down Lugosi’s turn as Dr. Mirakle, a carnival sideshow scientist who kidnaps women...

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15:06

Buckets of Lies: The Colonel Would Never Approve

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2025/08/29

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we sink our teeth — or at least pretend to — into I Eat Your Skin (1964, finally released in 1970), the zombie misfire with a title so good it should’ve been arrested for false advertising. Promising cannibalistic horror and flesh-ripping mayhem, the film instead delivers papier-mâché zombies, voodoo rituals filmed on the cheap in Florida, and dialogue so stilted it feels imported from another planet. I walk you through the decade-lon...

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12:48

Thermite Bombs and Trust Issues

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2025/08/22

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we pack our thermal underwear, our Geiger counters, and our healthy skepticism as we head north—way north—to a remote Arctic outpost where the coffee’s strong, the tempers are short, and the science is suspiciously well-funded. We’re talking about The Thing From Another World (1951), a Cold War-era creature feature where the invader isn’t just from space—it’s from a garden you should never, ever water. We follow a crew of square-jawed...

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From Hell It Came, But It Took Its Sweet Time Getting...

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2025/08/15

Send us a text In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we’re digging deep—literally—into the 1957 cult classic From Hell It Came, a film that dares to ask: “What if your dead enemy came back to life as an angry tree stump?” Set on a fictional South Pacific island where science, superstition, and slow-moving bark monsters collide, this movie features radiation, voodoo, and one of the most unintentionally hilarious creature designs in all of horror history—the infamous Tabanga. Yes, it’s a ...

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13:05

This Sucks: The Motion Picture

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2025/08/08

Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we wade chest-deep into the murky waters of the 1959 swamp shocker Attack of the Giant Leeches—a film where the real danger isn’t the monsters so much as the humidity, infidelity, and questionable law enforcement. When townsfolk in the Florida Everglades start disappearing, the local authorities blame gators, bad luck, or perhaps a diet rich in moonshine. But game warden Steve Benton smells something fishy—and it's not just the bait shack. ...

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15:00

There’s a Spider in the Auditorium Again

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2025/08/01

Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we untangle the web of 1958’s Earth vs. The Spider—a film that asks the bold question: what if the real danger wasn’t the giant arachnid terrorizing small-town America, but the jazz band rehearsing inside the high school auditorium? Join us as we scuttle into a story featuring teenage sleuths, a high school science teacher who moonlights as a monster hunter, and a tarantula the size of a Buick with a serious grudge against stage lighting. W...

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14:50

50 Fathoms of Nope

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2025/07/25

Send us a text This week on The Introverted Obelisk, we dive headfirst into the salty depths of atomic-age anxiety with It Came From Beneath the Sea—a cautionary tale about the dangers of nuclear testing, hubris, and underestimating how mad a giant radioactive octopus can get when you only give it six tentacles. Join us as we follow a square-jawed submarine commander, a trailblazing female scientist, and a dude who exists solely to wear a lab coat and point at things, as they attempt to stop ...

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