Hello, Kaiju Lovers! Our first Patreon episode of season four—courtesy of executive producer Damon Noyes—is also MIFV’s first double feature and includes our first Roger Corman movie! First, we tackle Corman’s 1957 “classic,” Attack of the Crab Monsters, which could be called a “B-movie to a B-movie.” While it starts off as a typical atomic age creature feature, to Nate’s surprise, it goes full-tilt crazy at the halfway point. Then he and Damon get to Island Claws, a 1980 “pseudo-remake” that is so obscure, the internet barely knows it exists. While it’s technically better than “Corman’s Crabs,” it isn’t as memorable—until Nate and Damon rewrite it live! They top off their discussions with a quick overview of carcinisation…because the future is crabs.
Read “Jimmy’s Notes” on this episode.
Additional music:
- “Cybernetic Coelacanth Submarine” by Monobrow
- “Here We Go” by Chris Classic
Sound effects sourced from Freesound.org.
Check out Nathan’s spinoff podcasts, The Henshin Men and The Power Trip.
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Timestamps:
- Introduction: 0:00-5:36
- Main Discussion – Attack of the Crab Monsters: 5:36-1:16:03
- Main Discussion – Island Claws: 1:16:03-2:14:29
- “Toku Topic” – Carcinisation: 2:14:29-2:29:07
- Outro: 2:29:07-2:51:37
- Credits: 2:51:37-end
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
- “Attack of the Crab Monsters.” IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050147/.
- “Attack of the Crab Monsters.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Crab_Monsters.
- Bandsaboutmovies. “Island Claws (1980).” 19 March 2021. https://bandsaboutmovies.com/2021/03/19/island-claws-1980/.
- Barber, Ryne. “Film Review: Island Claws (1980).” HorrorNews.net. 11 Dec. 2018. https://horrornews.net/53147/film-review-island-claws-1980/.
- Bogue, Mike. Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967. McFarland & Company. 2017.
- Brown, Ed. “Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, and Scientists Don’t Know Why.” Newsweek. 14 Oct. 2021. https://www.newsweek.com/crabs-evolved-five-times-carcinization-scientists-dont-know-why-1638921.
- “Carcinisation.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation.
- Fisher, Carl. “Horror Movie Review: Island Claws (1980).” Games, Brrraaains, & a Head-Banging Life. 30 April 2018. https://www.gbhbl.com/horror-movie-review-island-claws-1980/.
- “Island Claws.” IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080933/.
- “Island Claws (1980).” Moria Reviews. https://www.moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/island-claws-1980.htm.
- “Island Claws (1980) – Movie & Blu-ray Review.” Horror and Sons. 7 May 2018. https://horrorandsons.com/2018/05/07/island-claws-1980-movie-blu-ray-review/.
- Keilor, Jonas; Christian S. Wirkner, and Stefan Richter. “One hundred years of carcinization – the evolution of the crab-like habitus in Anomura (Arthropoda: Crustacea).” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, 1 May 2017, Pages 200–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blw031. (https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/121/1/200/3089703).
- “Roger Corman.” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Corman.
- Schoell, William. Creature Features: Nature Turned Nasty in the Movies. McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, 2008.
- Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland. 2016.
- Watson, Claire. “Evolution Keeps Making And Unmaking Crabs, And Nobody Knows Why.” Science Alert. 1 Jan. 2022. https://www.sciencealert.com/evolution-keeps-making-and-unmaking-crabs-and-nobody-knows-why.
- Watson, Sara Kiley. “Why everything eventually becomes a crab.” 14 Dec. 2020. https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/.
- Wolfe, Joanna. “How does a crustacean become a crab?” EurekAlert. 11 March 2021. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/509499.
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