Cosmic Slop, 1994, USA, Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin & Kevin Rodney Sullivan(George Clinton /Funkadelic)
A trilogy of Black horror and science fiction tales, hosted by the disembodied floating head of funk legend George Clinton? It happened! Kicking off Pop Screen’s Halloween month, Geek Show kingpin Rob joins us once again to look at one of the stranger products of HBO’s post-Tales from the Crypt hunt for a new anthology series – Reginald D Hudlin’s Cosmic Slop.
Quickly forgotten, it was edited into a three-part feature for the home video market, and was rediscovered in the run-up to Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone reboot. Rob and Graham discuss how Cosmic Slop matches up to more modern attempts at racial commentary in genre film, as well as the lost world of pre-Sopranos HBO, George Clinton’s unforgettable – no matter how hard you try – role in Flying Lotus’s film Kuso, the folk horror themes of the haunting middle section and the unexpected role the first story played in the 2012 American election. Thanks, Obama!
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