“M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Linda!”
After kicking off May with the Robin Williams-starring character study One Hour Photo (listen) and the forgotten Leopold and Loeb-style thriller Like Minds (listen), we’re heading overseas to check in with the survivors of Irwin Allen‘s production of Ronald Neame‘s seminal disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure (1972)! Or, a slasher movie where the slasher is mother nature, as Trace puts it.
In The Poseidon Adventure, a mountainous tidal wave strikes the SS Poseidon on her last voyage to the shipbreakers in Athens, capsizing it in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea on New Year’s Eve. A group of ten survivors, led by the renegade reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman), attempt to climb their way up to the bottom (now top) of the ship in the hopes of being rescued. Who will survive this “adventure” that promotional materials referred to as “hell, upside down?”
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Episode 386: The Poseidon Adventure (1972) feat. Stacie Ponder
Climb that metallic Christmas tree and follow that renegade reverend because we’re going to Hell (upside down!) in Irwin Allen’s production of Ronald Neame’s The Poseidon Adventure (1972)! Tagging in for the conversation is horror blogger and Final Girl After Dark podcast host Stacie Ponder.
Join us as we tackle a movie filled with Academy Award winners both in front of and behind the camera. We laud its era-defining (and Oscar-winning) special effects, while sobbing over all things Shelley Winters. No one phones it in in this disasterpiece from Master of Disaster Irwin Allen.
Plus: “My Linda!”, the shocking adaptation change made to Paul Gallico’s 1969 source novel, a semi-positive portrayal of sex work in a ’70s film and emphasizing the importance of grieving dead characters in a disaster movie.
Cross out The Poseidon Adventure!
Coming Up Next: We’re headed to 1980s New York to check in with twink Michael Biehn and diva Lauren Bacall in Edward Bianchi’s cult thriller The Fan (1981).
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