Episode 156: War of the Worlds (2025)

In 2018 the Nighthawks took a deep granular dive into the 1938 radio adaptation of War of the Worlds , that famously made Orson Welles a household name and (allegedly) scared some undetermined number of people into thinking that the United States was being invaded by an outside force. In 2020, a movie was made based on the same Public Domain story that sought to imagine the end of the world, not…