No Gods, No Monsters

Episode 63: Tickets to the Showa Retrospective Featuring Jet Jaguar

We discuss the Showa Era Godzilla and Godzilla-adjacent movies! If you like our episodes that cover those films, and want to hear us nerd out even more and rank them all, then this is the episode for you!

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Episode 62: Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

We discuss the last Godzilla film of the Shōwa Era. Is it a return to the golden age of the early ‘60s entries, or a dud? Does Honda’s humanism have a place in the ‘70s cinema landscape? Does Mechagodzilla still work as a symbol of the modernization and outside forces affecting to Japan? 

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Episode 61: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

We talk conspiracy and paranoia, submission and resistance, cops and psychiatrists, and how conformity to the patriarchy, the mental health system and the state make it really hard to tell if you’re an alien.

New music from Barto:

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Episode 60: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

The final entry in our Cloverfield series (for now!). Some say there’s a message about civilization and technology hidden somewhere beneath the messy narrative and obvious reshoots. Can we find it!?

Episode 59: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Our Cloverfield series continues! We talk preppers, fucked up men, the use of space to tell a story, and how the power dynamics in the bunker parallel those of capital, fundamentalist communities, and the state.

Episode 58: Cloverfield (2008)

The first in our three-episode series on the Cloverfield films. In this episode we talk about the first true post-9/11 American kaiju flick—how the movie was influenced not only by the events and coverage of that day, but by the wars and terror-fueled media landscape that followed.

Episode 57: From Beyond (1986)

The kaiju boys return to the world of H. P. Lovecraft! We discuss the film’s depictions of the mental health system and the pineal gland, its foundation in 17th century philosophy, its incredible practical effects, and why the world beyond our perceived reality is full of super gnarly monsters. 

Episode 56: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974)

We dive deep into doubles, lying as a fetish, space apes, US military bases abroad and replace Rabbit with a superior podcast host. 

Episode 55: Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)

Toho brings nuclear testing back to the Godzilla series, but this time it’s the movie’s villains who are victims of the atomic experiments. What does this reversal mean? And why do the Seatopians have alien friends and a giant bug weapon? What’s it like to be a remote-controlled robot who suddenly gains consciousness? Tune in to maybe find out!

Episode 54: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

We attempt to untangle the wires of this twisted practical effects gem, which Rabbit argues is a direct adaptation of chapter 15 of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1.

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