The Extreme Cinema Podcast

Dec 19 2023 35 mins
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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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Season 2, Episode 8: David Lynch Special (Part 2)

Dec 19 2023 56 mins  
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!

Season 2, Episode 7: David Lynch Special (Part 1)

Dec 12 2023 61 mins  
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

Season 2, Episode 6: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971)

Dec 05 2023 34 mins  
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 g

Season 2, Episode 5: Devil Story (1986)

Nov 28 2023 33 mins  
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!!!!

Season 2, Episode 4: El Topo (1970)

Nov 21 2023 36 mins  
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.

Season 2, Episode 3: French New Extremity Special

May 22 2023 57 mins  
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

Season 2, Episode 2: Verotika (2019)

May 15 2023 32 mins  
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.

Season 2, Episode 1: Audition (1999)

May 08 2023 31 mins  
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.

Episode 13: Lords of Chaos (2018)

Nov 22 2021 49 mins  
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!

No episode this week (sorry)

Oct 11 2021 1 mins  
Sorry everyone :(