{"id":18856,"date":"2025-10-16T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/?p=18856"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:01:53","slug":"episode-174-discussing-the-war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/2025\/10\/episode-174-discussing-the-war-of-the-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 174 &#8211; Discussing The War of the Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In part due to the unplanned hiatus during May and June, horror podcast episodes are not on the menu this year. But this episode is close, because H.G. Wells&#8217;s <u>The War of the Worlds<\/u> is one of the most terrifying stories in the annals of science fiction. Much like we did a couple of years ago regarding Dracula, Phil Fasso and I look at Wells&#8217;s classic through the perspective of some of its most famous iterations. We begin with Orson Welles&#8217;s infamous radio play version, then go to Byron Haskins&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/movie\/the-war-of-the-worlds\/\">1953<\/a> film, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/movie\/war-of-the-worlds\/\">2005<\/a> adaptation, and finally, this year&#8217;s hideous adaptation. I hope you enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Episode 174 &#8211; Discussing The War of the Worlds<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKFRbeyi0Mo?si=bswruTdWrUKTmHj1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening,<\/p>\n<p>Brian Skutle<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonic-cinema.com\">www.sonic-cinema.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to the Sonic Cinema Podcast Below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/sonic-cinema-podcast\/id1517240092?fbclid=IwAR2SQjRFKtVRgHXXvQCXskcOuoJL0jC4StOkspYP_Dah0CiFzwhjp2HlkOw\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goodpods.app.link\/pNgKOtWO2tb\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/goodpods-images-bucket\/badges\/generic-badge-3.svg\" alt=\"Listen On Goodpods\" style=\"width: 150px\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In part due to the unplanned hiatus during May and June, horror podcast episodes are not on the menu this year. But this episode is close, because H.G. Wells&#8217;s The War of the Worlds is one of the most terrifying stories in the annals of science fiction. Much like we did a couple of years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/189FF03D-5A4A-4C72-838C-01DD4E819C40.jpeg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18882,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18856\/revisions\/18882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonic-cinema.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}