Ep. 06-03: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

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Scott Carey’s boat drifts through a strange mist that leaves a metallic residue covering his body. Within a few weeks, he begins to notice that he is losing weight. A visit to the doctor confirms that he is also getting shorter. As he gets smaller and smaller, he determines that his exposure to insecticides and what must have been a radioactive mist has caused a genetic mutation. Soon, he is so small that encounters with the household cat and a spider become potentially life-threatening. What will he do?

Jack Arnold and Richard Matheson met in bar… It sounds like a joke, but when you take a classic genre director like Arnold and pair him with a leading genre writer like Matheson, magic happens. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1975) is one of those all-time classic films that never loses its punch. Join us as we discuss the myriad reasons why this was such a successful collaboration, including the screenplay, special, effects, and cast. Listen, as Johnny Has the Keys goes where man is no longer top of the food chain, and where a vast and terrifying new world awaits us if we’re brave enough to face it.

SHOW LINKS:

• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Original trailer
• Jack Arnold
• The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
• Richard Matheson
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• Land of the Giants (1968)
• Fantastic Voyage (1966)
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Dr. Cyclops (1940)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
• The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The Devil Doll (1936)
• Innerspace (1987)
• The Mist (2007)
• Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
• Tom & Jerry
• The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• The Twilight Zone (1959)
• The Fly (1958)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Ant-Man comic series
• Ant-Man film series
• Animal House (1978)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die! 

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