Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.
We live in a polarized, deeply divided nation, something that s obvious in our politics but also in the way we all individually experience the world. The internet, and social media, in particular, have splintered us from any collective, making any sort of universal appreciation of anything next to impossible. You see this constantly in the movies too. Every movie, no matter how lauded and critically acclaimed, will end up with a backlash against it (there were people who didn t like