Dark Discussions Podcast

Welcome the newest episode of Dark Discussions, your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that’s fantastic. Not much unlike today, people in the 1970's had fear and concerns of the government ... of the medical community ... of big business ... of the judicious system. The Summer of Love was only a few years prior; upheaval of society was not uncommon; the Vietnam War was carry on. Things like food additives were a concern, did they cause cancer? Mercury in our seafood? You name it, concerns were abound. In 1974, the film, It's Alive, took the paranoia against the medical community, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the pharmaceutical industry and brought them into your neighborhood cinema. What is worse than having your unborn child be harmed by heartless bureaucrats who give a pregnant woman medicines that were either untested or considered harmful? It's Alive takes a very relevant topic of its time as the premise for a horror film. Talents on the film include direct