Outskirts Film Podcast

Outskirts Film Podcast’s Shocktober series concludes with a homage to the master of nightmares, the scream king of the waking dream, the one and only Wes Craven. Starting with a discussion of his groundbreaking slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street, we trace his bumpy trajectory through the film industry. Follow Outskirts on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop.

In this Shocktober episode, we enter into the spooky but always wacky world of Hong Kong horror films made between the 1970s and early 1990s, discussing the likes of The Boxer's Omen, A Chinese Ghost Story, and The Seventh Curse. Follow Outskirts on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop.

As the month of October kicks off, Outskirts Film Podcast starts its mini-Shocktober focus by delving into Jean Rollin's lyrical and eerie universe, often populated by sexy, melancholic vampires and other beautiful creatures from the world of the undead. Follow Outskirts on Instagram / Letterboxd / Twitter / Bluesky / Facebook Buy the magazine at our online shop.

Lusty wolves, sadistic squirrels, neurotic pigs… This week on the podcast, we're diving into the gleefully deranged universe of Tex Avery. If it was Disney who built the church of animation, it was Avery who spent his whole career slinging eggs at it. As a creative force, Tex Avery didn't care about character, didn't care about plot, didn't even really care about the rules of cinematic continuity. He cared about one thing and one thing only: landing the laff. We trace the evolution of t...

As we kick off our second season, we're tackling the bizarre and beguiling career of the filmmaker who built one of hardcore cinema's most serious and ambitious bodies of work. A Navy veteran and Queens hairdresser turned director, Gerard Damiano is regrettably best remembered today for the adult film that became a controversial cultural touchstone of the 1970s, Deep Throat (1972). But across the so-called "porno chic" boom of that decade and into the '80s, Damiano produced a run of lo...