Caliber 9 From Outer Space

Mar 27 2025 67 ep. 115 mins 6

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Cult movie fanatics Rob Spencer and Joe Odber dive deep into a double feature every episode, discussing the wonderful world of cult, psychotronic and exploitation cinema along with the films themselves. Play along, watch the films at home and join us for a full post mortem into whatever madness we have just witnessed on screen.

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Episode 66: Rififi + The Cat O' Nine Tails

Mar 27 2025 116 mins

Marek Turner stops by to tell tales of Gigi the Loser, as we pair another classic Italian giallo with one of the great classics of film noir. We check out Rififi (1955), directed by Jules Dassin, and The Cat O' Nine Tails (1971), directed by Dario Argento. We will be announcing a Spoiler Territory section for both films, so if you haven't seen them before you listen, you can neve

Episode 65: Marketa Lazarova + I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen

Mar 20 2025 126 mins

Jonathan Owen joins us this week as we venture into Eastern Europe to lift the lid on the greatest cinema you've probably never heard of. Together we Czech out (see what I did there? And sorry about that) Marketa Lazarova (1967), directed by František Vláčil, and I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970), directed by Oldřich Lipský. Sublime dark-age psychedelic freak-out paired with

Episode 64: Demolition Man + The Iceman Cometh

Mar 13 2025 109 mins

Samm Deighan is back to chat with us about one of our favourite niche subgenres: the Two-Mortal-Enemies-From-The-Past-Get-Frozen-In-Ice-And-Reanimated-In-The-Future-So-They-Can-Chase-Each-Other-Around-And-Smash-Stuff-to-Bits movie. We check out Demolition Man (1993), directed by Marco Brambilla, and The Iceman Cometh (1989), directed by Clarence Fok. We won't be announcing a Spoil

Episode 63: Fortress + Fortress

Mar 06 2025 129 mins

It's 8 o'clock in the F#%KING MORNING and we are joined by full grown sandgroper, Adam Trainer to dig up a couple of unsung antipodean gems. We discuss Fortress (1985), directed by Arch Nicholson, and then Fortress (1992 - no relation), directed by Stuart Gordon. Deep kindertrauma in the bush and dystopian prisonbreak glory - this week's episode is a psychedelic trip down some very

Episode 62: Blame It On Rio + On Deadly Ground

Feb 27 2025 140 mins

Sammy joins us this week to check out a couple of films which (a) feature Michael Caine in less-than-flattering roles and (b) may have been regretted by their directors in later years. We discuss Blame It On Rio (1984), directed by Stanley Donen, and then On Deadly Ground (1994), directed by Steven Seagal. This week's episode is brought to you by the letter P - for Problematic. Yik

Episode 61: Phase IV + Destroy All Monsters

Feb 20 2025 128 mins

The Walking Dead's Charlie Adlard joins us this week to talk comic books, kaiju and the iconic art of Saul Bass. Together we check out Bass' sole feature as a director, Phase IV (1974), followed by Destroy All Monsters (1968), directed by Ishiro Honda. It's not really possible to spoil Destroy All Monsters but we will call out Spoiler Territory for Phase IV. If you want to skip ah

Episode 60: Identikit + Boom!

Feb 13 2025 131 mins

This week we are celebrating the diva that was Elizabeth Taylor! Sakana joins us once again to celebrate the work of this prodigious star - with a close look at two of her most bizarre and off-kilter projects: the Italian psychosexual thriller, Identikit (1974), directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, and Tennessee Williams' Boom! (1968), directed by Joseph Losey. Macrobiotic orgasms,

Episode 59: Madhouse + Watch Out, We're Mad

Feb 06 2025 118 mins

There's mad, and then there's MAD. John Horgan joins us this week to check out Madhouse (1981), directed by Ovidio Assonitis, and then Watch Out, We're Mad (1974), directed by Marcello Fondato. Sheer slasher insanity from the deep south, followed by chases and fights a-plenty with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. It's not really possible to spoil Watch Out, We're Mad as the plot does

Episode 58: Border + The Rift

Jan 30 2025 141 mins

Mike White from The Projection Booth podcast stops by to venture across the boundaries of normality, into the weird, the disturbing, the monstrous and the sometimes hilarious. We check out Border (2018), directed by Ali Abbasi, and The Rift (1990), directed by Juan Piquer Simon. A portrait of personal loneliness and dispossession both sensitive and shocking, followed by a ramshackl

Episode 57: Bad Lieutenant + Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

Jan 23 2025 116 mins

Jerry joins us once again to discuss Bad Lieutenant (1992) directed by Abel Ferrara and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009), directed by Werner Herzog. Two very different takes on utter corruption and the possibility (or not) of redemption, from two very different, but both visionary film-makers. A double feature for the ages with two towering central performances tr