Ep. 114 Too Much Val Lewton

We get high-vallewton* with Tim Quirk, longtime cinephile and
frontman of one of The Pink Smoke's favorite bands, Too Much Joy.
At the height of the pandemic, Quirk initiated a binge of great
movies that led him to Val Lewton's legendary run of low-budget
horror films produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940's. Quirk was
captivated by these deep philosophical explorations of darkness and
isolation, which directly inspired songs on the latest Too Much Joy
albums, Mistakes Were Made and All These Fucking Feelings. Focusing
on The Seventh Victim and I Walked with a Zombie (both released in
1943), we tap into Tim's enthusiasm for the economical creepiness,
profound purple dialogue and "the glitter of putrescence" that
preoccupies those who inhabit the shadows of Lewton's screen. Are
they the real monsters? Do we as a society have a collective death
wish? Are these complex explorations of loneliness, fear and
self-destruction even really horror movies? However you define
them, there's no question that Lewton's films are unlike anything
else. * Like, highfalutin.** ** We would at least task any other
lyricists inspired by these movies to write a song that rhymes
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twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro/Outro Music: Too Much Joy "I Met a
Ghost."