The Extreme Cinema Podcast

It's the season 3 finale! So what better way to celebrate than watching the obscure straight-to-video shlock horror movie 'Elves'. This movie is completely unhinged, Dom and Alex desperately try to make sense of it, discussing it's incomprehensible plot, nonsensical script and lazy directing. If you've not heard of this so-bad-it's-good holiday classic, you're in for a treat!

This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex tackle perhaps the most bonkers film ever made, 'Thundercrack!' This movie has to be seen to be believed, and of course we just lose our minds over it; discussing its increasing cult status, idiosyncratic dialogue and how we absolutely have the make this movie a thing!

This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex talk about one of Hitchcock's most underrated movies, 'Frenzy'. Discussing its dark humour, on location shooting and superb directing, but also picking apart the unparalleled career of the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.

This week, Alex and Dom look at what could be master-director Michael Hanake's best work, that being 'The Piano Teacher'. Discussing the movie's themes, its all time great performances, and just why this film manages to be so provocative while still remaining a beloved arthouse classic.

Well, we had to do a Guinea Pig film at some point didn't we. This week Dom and Alex tackle the infamous Japanese shocker Mermaid in the Manhole. Discussing its attempts to be more of an actual film than its predecessors, as well as the series as a whole, its legacy, and connection with horror manga.

In this episode of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom discuss one of the best British films ever made,'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover'; directed by the iconic Peter Greenway. Discussing the film's use of colour and costume, which makes the film so unique, as well as the movie's political allegory. If you're a film fan of any kind you need to see this!

Welcome back to the Extreme Cinema Podcast! In the season premiere Dom and Alex tackle one of the most infamous cult movies ever made, Caligula. Discussing its many iterations, including the new 'Ultimate Cut' and its mad backstory, but also its themes and whether or not a masterpiece has actually been salvaged from this wreck. Get ready, season 3 of the Extreme Cinema Podcast starts now!!!

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!

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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!

On today's episode Alex and Dom discuss Andrzej Żuławski's cult classic Possession; it's categorisation as a video nasty and what makes its performances and cinematography so great.

On today's episode Alex and Dom discuss Ken Russell's masterpiece The Devil's; censorship, fundamentalist religion, fascism, the factors leading up to the French revolution, and of course the most extreme thing we've ever talked about: Space Jam 2. We kinda just lose our minds in this one too, it's probably our best episode yet!

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.