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Taking a look at some of the most bizarre, subversive, intense and boundary pushing films ever made, each week Alex and Dom discuss a different movie: its history, relevance and quality, shedding light on some of the most infamous films in the cult movie cannon.
Not for the faint of heart; this podcast boldly goes where no podcast has gone before. Just keep repeating: it's only a movie, It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie...
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In this, our series final, and second episode of our David Lynch double bill; Alex and Dom discuss David Lynch's work from Wild At Heart all the way up to Twin Peaks: The Return. They also reflect on the season and give their summation of Lynch as one of the most important filmmakers of all time. Thanks for listening to series 2 folks, I hope you all enjoyed it!
In the first Extreme Cinema Podcast two-parter, Alex and Dom discuss the work of one of their favourite directors, the master of surrealism himself, David Lynch. In this first part, they discuss Lynch's place in the popular culture, while talking about his films: Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, and the first two seasons of Twin Peaks. Strap in folks, this is a good one!
If you thought last week's episode was off the rails wait till you hear this week's! Today Dom and Alex take a look at the 1971 fundamentalist Christian propaganda-goresploitation shlock movie If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? Discussing it's idiosyncratic director Ron Ormond, how the concerns of the far right then are still present in their circles today, and generally just lose our minds at all the mental things that happen in this film. This is definitely not an episode to miss!
This week Alex and Dom look at probably the most obscure and possibly the most insane film we've talked about so far, Devil Story!!!! Not gonna lie, this week we just lose our minds over this. I mean I've never seen anything like this, we spend like half the show trying to decipher what on earth actually happens in this film. This'll be a classic episode!!!!
On the first episode back for The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom talk about Alejandro Jodorowsky's acid western El Topo. Discussing its status as a cult classic, it's themes and politics, and about its director, arthouse cinema legend Alejandro Jodorowsky.
We're shaking things up for this mid-season finale. Instead of just talking about one film, we're talking about a whole movement. In the first special episode for The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom talk about the French New Extremity Movement, the origin of the term, notable films and what became of the filmmakers most associated with the movement, such as Gaspa Noé and Claire Denis.
This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex look at one of the most infamous so-bad-it's-good films of the last few years: Glenn Danzig's Verotika. Discussing exactly what makes this film just so terrible and why it's become such an infamous note in its rockstar director's career.
In the first episode of the new season of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom take a look at Takashi Miike's boundary pushing work of horror: Audition. Discussing its themes of gender and Japanese society, as well as its subversion of genre tropes and the mad-man filmmaker at the helm of it, that being Takashi Miike.
In the season finale of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom mount a staunch defence of Jonas Åkerlund's Mayhem biopic 'Lords of Chaos; discussing its themes and historical accuracy, the various responses and backlashes to the film, as well as what it says about the Norwegian Black Metal scene!
We got tired of talking about good movies, so this week we're talking about perhaps the most incompetent video nasty (and that really is saying something), Snuff (1975). Yeah it's Dom and me losing our minds for the whole episode!
This week Alex and Dom talk about the massive horror phenomenon that is Saw (2004); its impact within the horror genre and pop culture in general, as well as discussing the film itself and the ever-weaker batch of sequels that just kept coming.
This week Alex and Dom discuss the cult German film Chrstiane F; its reputation as a teen movie, social realism on film, and of course the late great David Bowie!!!
This week on the podcast Alex and Dom discuss the Hong Kong Category III insanity that is 'Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky', delving into it's place within the cult movie cannon and its artistry, but mainly just trying to our head's around exactly what on earth we just saw!
This week Alex and Dom gush over one of the best films of the 2010s 'Raw', the nuances of the central relationship, its meaning, ideas and its place as a cutting-edge work of modern horror.
In today's episode Alex and Dom lose their minds over Jörg Buttgereit's transgressive work of insanity 'Nekromantik'. Discussing what, if anything, the meaning behind the film is, but largely we just spend half an hour trying to work out what on earth we just watched. This is an absolute classic of an episode!
This week Alex and Dom discuss Wes Craven's boundary pushing debut 'The Last House on the Left', its place in the horror cannon and its importance as a work of politically radical American cinema in the Vietnam era.
In today's episode Alex and Dom discuss the recent TikTok sensation 'Megan is Missing'; the hype surrounding it and it's many many flaws, as well as diving into the pretensions of its exuberant writer-director Michael Goi.
In this episode Alex and Dom tackle one of the most notorious video nasties; Ruggero Deodato's still-to-this-day controversial cannibal film 'Cannibal Holocaust'. Discussing the film's politics, the ethics of its "use" of animals, the history of censorship and litigation against it, and its place as one of the pioneering features in the found-footage genre.
In the first episode of the new Extreme Cinema Podcast hosts Alex and Dom discuss Lars Von Trier's 2009 shocker 'Antichrist'; it's symbolism, meaning, place in the horror genre and to what extent Von Trier is just a massive troll.
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