Episode 26: Tarantula (1955)

tarantula um well again kind of wait initial thoughts you mean before i started watching the movie or after well initial thoughts like

afterwards and then we'll get into the bits by bits

all right so similar to plan nine from outer space i felt like this one had an interesting message that gets lost in all the other okay that happens um As I said before we went on the air, I went back because I had started watching the film previously and then the back injury thing happened and so I didn't finish.

But the parts of the movies that I had watched were still very strong in my mind because I kept thinking, i gotta take the you know i gotta do notes i gotta do notes and so um i remember when uh last weekend before i hurt my back when i was watching it there was a scene between the professor and his beautiful little scientific assistant and he was where he was explaining to someone something about um the population growth of the world and i really wanted to go back today to to look up those statistics but i didn't have time hoping that Noel, who's always, you know, chiming in with all the statistics, hoping that Noel would help provide those for us.

But I think, so he, he had said that

he is here.

Yep.

The, the, the experiment that he was doing was somehow supposed to help cure world hunger that was expected to occur by the world by the year 2020.

But yeah, so anyway so that was the the little hidden message that didn't really come through and um overall thoughts i i i you know i know that they didn't hurt any animals but even the implication that animals were being hurt was really kind of difficult i'll be honest

yeah go

ahead

Oh, I was going to say, yeah, in 1955, they did not hide the fact that there was animal experimentation when it came to drugs and just anything like that.

So it's nice to see how things have changed, you know, since 1955.

But yeah, especially like you said, when in the text message, like the scene with the monkey, like you could tell that that little monkey was not happy to be on that set at

all.

Oh, right.

And I'm sure, you know, I'm curious as to... uh what the contracts were like back then i when i was doing my show raw talk and my host was scotty schwartz you know he is an advocate for um protecting child actors and um one episode that we did he he brought in a whole bunch of former child actors from different sitcoms and movies and stuff and one of the things that they said of course this was in So, you know, things might have changed, but they had said that animals are more protected on film or, you know, in the industry than the children are.

So I don't know if that's still true, but I'm wondering how, if that, how true that was in 1955.

Now I'm sure obviously they had animal wranglers, but I mean, this is also during the time when bears are balancing on balls, you know,

Exactly.

Yeah, it makes sense, too.

You know, animals definitely are always look to be overprotected than human actors.

And that's kind of like how it looks like in horror movies in general.

You know, there's that meme that goes around, you know, when a kid dies in horror movies, you know, no one bats an eye.

But like if a dog or a cat gets hurt, you know, that's everyone's up in arms and it makes sense.