Monsters : Human Monsters - Pod of the Damned

“The real monster was humanity all along!”

We all love a good metaphor, but in today’s episode the human monsters are literal.

You better watch your back!

Films covered in this episode.

Misery (1990)

Timestamp : 6:20

Directed by Rob Reiner & written by William Goldman, based off the novel by Stephen King

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Timestamp : 21:20

Directed by Jonathan Demme & written by Ted Tally, based off the novel by Thomas Harris

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Freaks (1932)

Timestamp : 40:00

Directed by Tod Browning, Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon, suggested by the story Spurs by Clarence Aaron ‘Tod’ Robbins

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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