Listen as Nathan Marchand, co-creator and season one co-host of the Kaijuvision Radio, regales you with the origin story of his new podcast. It includes a vacation to a resort on the fabled Monster Island (formerly Monsterland), where he met his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), and got a new job as the curator of the Island’s film vault. Between bantering sessions with his detail-obsessed, fact-checking interrupter of a producer, Nathan explains the podcast’s philosophy of film appreciation and lays the groundwork for the upcoming episodes.
And what will Nathan,
Jimmy, and their many guests be discussing first? The filmography of Monster
Island’s other most famous resident: KING KONG!
Hold onto your butts!
The Monster Island Film Vault: A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu.
With the premiere of The
Monster Island Film Vault just a few weeks away, I thought I’d give you a
preview of the upcoming (extended) first season. Since I’m starting in
September 2019, this season will go until December 2020. Future seasons will
start in January and run through the entire year.
The theme for this season is twofold: 1) Cover the other big names in the kaiju genre who aren’t Godzilla, and 2) pick up where I left off on Kaijuvision Radio. To that end, the primary episodes will focus on the likes of King Kong and Mothra, among others, and the minisodes will cover the films discussed in season two of KVR (I’d already the research before I left, so I figure I may as well use it).
September 2019 Welcome…to Monster Island! (minisode)
October 2019 King
Kong (1933)
The Godzilla Anime Trilogy (mini-analysis)
November 2019 Son
of Kong John LeMay Presents King Kong vs. Frankenstein and Continuation: King Kong vs. Godzilla (minisode)
December 2019 King
Kong Escapes
Half-Human (mini-analysis)
January 2020 King
Kong (1976) King Kong Lives
February 2020 King
Kong (2005) Kong: Skull Island
March 2020 Godzilla:
King of the Monsters (2019)
(mini-analysis) Godzilla vs. Kong
April 2020 The Mysterians (mini-analysis) Varan the Unbelievable (mini-analysis)
May 2020 3 Treasures (mini-analysis) Battle in Outer Space (mini-analysis)
June 2020 The
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Last War (mini-analysis)
July 2020 Rebirth
of Mothra
Gorath (mini-analysis)
August 2020 Rebirth
of Mothra II
Matango (mini-analysis)
September 2020 Rebirth
of Mothra III
Atragon (mini-analysis)
October 2020 Daimajin
Dogora, the Space Monster (mini-analysis)
November 2020 Return
of Daimajin
Frankenstein Conquers the World (mini-analysis)
December 2020 Daimajin
Strikes Back
War of the Gargantuas (mini-analysis)
You may have noticed that I’m skipping 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. That’s because I covered it on KVR. My opinions on it are unchanged, and the Toku Topic I would’ve discussed would be the same. I recommend listening to it now or in conjunction with the new show (KVR, Episode 8: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) (The Japanese Economic Miracle [The Golden 60s]). In place of that, I’ll have kaiju author John LeMay on to talk about two lost Kong films associated with King Kong vs. Godzilla that he wrote about in his new book, Kong Unmade.
As I said, this is tentative. I’ve already had to change it once to accommodate the new release date of Godzilla vs. Kong (hence why there are several months in a row with full-length episodes followed by several with minisodes). While I intend to keep the main episode schedule set, the minisodes will change depending on how much listener feedback I receive (they’ll be answered on the air) and any interviews/content I get at conventions like G-Fest.
If all goes well, I have
a second season planned. What will it be about? Stay tuned!
A podcast seeking entertainment and enlightenment through tokusatsu.
Join host/curator Nathan Marchand and his intrepid producer, Jimmy From NASA (who miraculously survived the infamous War in Space), as they and a rotating roster of Monster Island’s best and brightest Tourists dive deep into the films starring the Island’s most famous kaiju residents!
This is a film appreciation podcast that chronologically and critically examines films from the kaiju and tokusatsu genres. Episodes rotate between round table discussions that feature the film’s production info and an explanation of its historical and cultural contexts; and “mini-sodes” that will include interviews, comedy sketches, and audio essays, among other things. Episodes will drop the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, starting in September 2019. Listeners have a fun and fascinating journey ahead of them.
