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In this week’s episode, dear listeners, we are joined once again by Matt Kessen for a discussion of Planet of the Apes! Matt Kessen, as you may recall, is the gentleman behind Reverend Matt’s Monster Science, and he is also a complete and total Planet of the Apes nerd.
If you would like to drink along, we vastly enjoyed a bottle of Lagavulin 16 during the episode. We highly recommend doing the same.
Show notes behind the cut!
Planet of the Apes movies mentioned:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Planet of the Apes TV series (1974)
Return to the Planet of the Apes TV series (1975)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Other movies mentioned:
Fright Night
Nightmare on Elm Street II
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Star Wars
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
King Kong
Star Crystal
People mentioned:
Pierre Boulle
Tim Burton
Tim Roth
Rod Serling
Charlton Heston
Kim Hunter
Roddy McDowall
Paul Williams
James Franco
John Lithgow
Andy Sirkis
Shemp
1 comment
I’ve seen Beneath far too many times, probably for the same reason I’ve seen Megaforce and The Pirate Movie and something called Superfuzz (…oh, poor Ernest Borgnine) a bunch of times: Back when HBO and Cinemax were the cable movie channels you could get in rural Washington state (on your 13-channel TV) they would run certain movies over. And over. And over. It’d be Megaforce in the mix for a month, then it’d be back again a few months later, and so on. For some reason they really liked using Beneath more than any of the others.
Basically, I grew up thinking that the bomb cult was the most important part of the Apes movie canon. Sad, no?