Guest Co-Hosts: Bill Ackerman, Ben BuckinghamWhat kind of man doesn't drink, avoids women, and prefers the company of other strange men in the park? Gene Fowler Jr.'s I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) plays the alien-infiltration premise with surprising melancholy and remarkable restraint for a film with such a lurid title. Mike, Bill Ackerman, and Ben Buckingham dig into the film's overlapping readings — Cold War paranoia, the Lavender Scare, queer coding, and a feminist critique the film simultaneously makes and undermines.
They also take on the 1998 UPN TV remake directed by Nancy Malone (with a clever cameo from the original stars) and Rand Ravich's The Astronaut's Wife (1999), tracing how the same essential story mutates across four decades of American anxiety.
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"(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space" - John Cooper Clarke
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