Apocalypse Kong: Kong Skull Island (with Dr Justin Mullis)

Dr Justin Mullis drops into the Explorers Club to discuss the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island. Topics include: -Japanese cryptozoology -The depiction of apes in popular culture -Kong as a colonial Lost World story? -the ecology of Skull Island -The significance of the 70s Vietnam setting -John Goodman and the Monarch organisation -Kong’s reinvention as a Kaiju -Some of the best CGI in a recent creature film? -The Skullcrawlers’ link to the original 1933 King Kong -Cryptozoology in the Monsterverse -The mystical gateway that often guards the Lost Worlds Links: -Justin’s academia edu -Justin's Notes for the episode (availability pending) -Justin at Adventures In Poor Taste -From Cryptids to Kaiju -Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, John Rieder -Kaiju Transmissions episode -G-Fest 2024 -King Kong Cometh, Paul A. Woods -Kong Unmade, John Lemay -Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories, Paul Green -The Great War and Prehistoric Memory, Ross J Wilson