Alex Adams
@gdemonology.bsky.social
Independent Scholar. Author of Kill Box (2024), Death TV (2021), How to Justify Torture (2019), and Political Torture in Popular Culture (2016). Currently writing GODZILLA: A CRITICAL DEMONOLOGY.
Quick reminder that my episode of KAIJU COMICCAST discussing GODZILLA IN HELL is live now: open.spotify.com/episode/5nCQ...
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Quick reminder that my episode of KAIJU COMICCAST discussing GODZILLA IN HELL is live now: open.spotify.com/episode/5nCQ...
One of the things we talked about was katabasis, a template for stories about Hell which emphasizes the trials endured during the journey through Hell. Godzilla in Hell is a katabasis story! 3/
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One of the things we talked about was katabasis, a template for stories about Hell which emphasizes the trials endured during the journey through Hell. Godzilla in Hell is a katabasis story! 3/
We had a really wide-ranging conversation about comics, kaiju, late night discovery of oddball movies, and the iconography of hell! 2/
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
We had a really wide-ranging conversation about comics, kaiju, late night discovery of oddball movies, and the iconography of hell! 2/
I had a great time talking to the lovely Russell at @kaijucomiccast.bsky.social about GODZILLA IN HELL. It would mean a lot if you could have a listen via @kaijuunited.bsky.social here: kaijuunited.com/kaiju-comicc... 1/
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I had a great time talking to the lovely Russell at @kaijucomiccast.bsky.social about GODZILLA IN HELL. It would mean a lot if you could have a listen via @kaijuunited.bsky.social here: kaijuunited.com/kaiju-comicc... 1/
After years of being unable to remember the name of a weird & unsettling movie that I saw way too young, I finally cracked the mystery. It was ALTERED STATES. Though it is dated and pretentious in places, its visions of hell struck me as strongly this week as they did when I was a baffled teenager!
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
After years of being unable to remember the name of a weird & unsettling movie that I saw way too young, I finally cracked the mystery. It was ALTERED STATES. Though it is dated and pretentious in places, its visions of hell struck me as strongly this week as they did when I was a baffled teenager!
Read all my Godzilla work here: www.atadamswriting.com/godzilla-a-c...
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Read all my Godzilla work here: www.atadamswriting.com/godzilla-a-c...
Don't forget that DEVASTATION SONGS, a gorgeous collection of weird, whimsical, and wondrous kaiju writing by loads of amazing writers, is available from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social! Learn more here: www.atadamswriting.com/devastation-...
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Don't forget that DEVASTATION SONGS, a gorgeous collection of weird, whimsical, and wondrous kaiju writing by loads of amazing writers, is available from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social! Learn more here: www.atadamswriting.com/devastation-...
I wrote four blogs for We Are The Mutants, and this essay on Ghidorah is my favourite of them: "the Showa Ghidorah movies are a rich engagement with world-historical themes of Cold War antagonism, first contact, and imperial manipulation." wearethemutants.com/2021/10/06/t...
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I wrote four blogs for We Are The Mutants, and this essay on Ghidorah is my favourite of them: "the Showa Ghidorah movies are a rich engagement with world-historical themes of Cold War antagonism, first contact, and imperial manipulation." wearethemutants.com/2021/10/06/t...
Another essay about colour, aesthetics, politics: The Blackness of the Beast: Godzilla in the Heart of Darkness. "The contemporary incarnation of Godzilla is an embodiment of the natural rightness of violently enforced hierarchy." sftpinstitu.us.es/revistas/est...
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another essay about colour, aesthetics, politics: The Blackness of the Beast: Godzilla in the Heart of Darkness. "The contemporary incarnation of Godzilla is an embodiment of the natural rightness of violently enforced hierarchy." sftpinstitu.us.es/revistas/est...
For anybody who enjoyed my recent @kaijuunited.bsky.social piece, a quick thread of some of my other Godzilla writing! First up: The Colour of Monstrosity, an essay about the MV's use of colour! "Godzilla Vs Kong needs you to know that it likes to party." popmec.hypotheses.org/5186 1/
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For anybody who enjoyed my recent @kaijuunited.bsky.social piece, a quick thread of some of my other Godzilla writing! First up: The Colour of Monstrosity, an essay about the MV's use of colour! "Godzilla Vs Kong needs you to know that it likes to party." popmec.hypotheses.org/5186 1/
NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang!
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...
October 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang!
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...
Excited to see the new Ishiro Honda documentary at a cool cult cinema in Manchester!
September 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Excited to see the new Ishiro Honda documentary at a cool cult cinema in Manchester!
Yet another novelization for the collection - this time the junior novelization of G98. Just waiting on The Luminous Fairies and Mothra...
September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Yet another novelization for the collection - this time the junior novelization of G98. Just waiting on The Luminous Fairies and Mothra...
Novelization collection grows!!
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Novelization collection grows!!
Novelization Day!!
September 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Novelization Day!!
Trashtastic DVD haul: This Island Earth, Piranha, and M3GAN!!
September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trashtastic DVD haul: This Island Earth, Piranha, and M3GAN!!
Today's reading: Edwin Hoyt's biography of Tojo, WARLORD
August 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today's reading: Edwin Hoyt's biography of Tojo, WARLORD
Recommended: Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll. Fantastic short read about fascism and science fiction!
August 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Recommended: Speculative Whiteness by Jordan S. Carroll. Fantastic short read about fascism and science fiction!
Researching an essay on Dirty Harry and catching up with Travis Linnemann's excellent book on police and the horror genre!
July 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Researching an essay on Dirty Harry and catching up with Travis Linnemann's excellent book on police and the horror genre!
Conservative grievances are eternal: "When, apart from today, has such a lazy, soft, idle and sensual manner of living, which overturns the foundations of Christian penitence and banishes the austerity of the New Testament from the world, ever been seen?" (1786)
July 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Conservative grievances are eternal: "When, apart from today, has such a lazy, soft, idle and sensual manner of living, which overturns the foundations of Christian penitence and banishes the austerity of the New Testament from the world, ever been seen?" (1786)
Podcast research...
June 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Podcast research...
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) | Terrifier 3 (2024)
May 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) | Terrifier 3 (2024)
Godzilla Vs SpaceGodzilla (1994) | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Godzilla Vs SpaceGodzilla (1994) | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)