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&#39;s only a movie, It&#39;s only a movie, only a movie, only a movie...

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/9/2/11/98821f84-2fb6-4a73-9c53-9d34cc92decc_season_3__episode_7__elves__1989_.mp3

It&#39;s the season 3 finale! So what better way to celebrate than watching the obscure straight-to-video shlock horror movie &#39;Elves&#39;. This movie is completely unhinged, Dom and Alex desperately try to make sense of it, discussing it&#39;s incomprehensible plot, nonsensical script and lazy directing. If you&#39;ve not heard of this so-bad-it&#39;s-good holiday classic, you&#39;re in for a treat!

Season 3, Episode 7: Elves (1989)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/8/30/16/200d7663-93a2-4e95-8313-c5ebc7262595_season_3__episode_6_-_thundercrack__1975_.mp3

This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex tackle perhaps the most bonkers film ever made, &#39;Thundercrack!&#39; 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!

Season 3, Episode 6: Thundercrack! (1975)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/8/5/16/597a634c-198a-4565-969f-ba9e5f72884d_season_3__episdoe_5__frenzy__1972_.mp3

This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex talk about one of Hitchcock&#39;s most underrated movies, &#39;Frenzy&#39;. 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.

Season 3, Episode 5: Frenzy (1972)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/6/17/16/33532f07-cd99-4081-87c2-2d35d9d12f84_season_3__episode_4__the_piano_teacher__2001_.mp3

This week, Alex and Dom look at what could be master-director Michael Hanake&#39;s best work, that being &#39;The Piano Teacher&#39;. Discussing the movie&#39;s themes, its all time great performances, and just why this film manages to be so provocative while still remaining a beloved arthouse classic.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Piano Teacher (2001)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/5/17/11/babaf26a-8b8a-433e-9389-e067797cd5c7__episode_3__guinea_pig_6__mermaid_in_a_manhole.mp3

Well, we had to do a Guinea Pig film at some point didn&#39;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.

Season 3, Episode 3: Guinea Pig: Mermaid in the Manhole (1988)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/4/24/16/8195b23b-f0f5-47c9-9842-c4135fd84b83_de_2__the_cook__the_thief__his_wife__her_lover.mp3

In this episode of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom discuss one of the best British films ever made,&#39;The Cook, the Thief, His Wife &amp; Her Lover&#39;; directed by the iconic Peter Greenway. Discussing the film&#39;s use of colour and costume, which makes the film so unique, as well as the movie&#39;s political allegory. If you&#39;re a film fan of any kind you need to see this!

Season 3, Episode 2: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2024/1/25/15/bb3de3ba-403c-4d15-be36-ed96e44e13db_season_3__episode_1__caligula__1979_.mp3

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 &#39;Ultimate Cut&#39; 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!!!

Season 3, Episode 1: Caligula (1979)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/11/24/11/5f576d63-39de-437f-8041-c39d025ea643_episode_8__david_lynch_special__part_2_.mp3

In this, our series final, and second episode of our David Lynch double bill; Alex and Dom discuss David Lynch&#39;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 8: David Lynch Special (Part 2)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/11/13/13/468a793e-bf89-4d7c-81ef-d9f30904a6d0_episode_7__david_lynch_special__part_1_.mp3

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&#39;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!

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

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/10/3/10/afbc5479-df2e-4cfc-a7ae-98c260c010c8_if_footmen_tire_you_what_will_horses_do__1971_.mp3

If you thought last week&#39;s episode was off the rails wait till you hear this week&#39;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&#39;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!

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

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/8/24/16/d1eca262-22ac-456e-9516-64715799d5d8_devil_story_draft_2.mp3

This week Alex and Dom look at probably the most obscure and possibly the most insane film we&#39;ve talked about so far, Devil Story!!!! Not gonna lie, this week we just lose our minds over this. I mean I&#39;ve never seen anything like this, we spend like half the show trying to decipher what on earth actually happens in this film. This&#39;ll be a classic episode!!!!

Season 2, Episode 5: Devil Story (1986)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/8/15/14/b5dff490-625e-4d92-acac-ea1e6fc93461_season_2__episode_4__el_topo__1971_.mp3

On the first episode back for The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom talk about Alejandro Jodorowsky&#39;s acid western El Topo. Discussing its status as a cult classic, it&#39;s themes and politics, and about its director, arthouse cinema legend Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Season 2, Episode 4: El Topo (1970)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/4/17/14/5852c2f1-de18-4dd0-aae6-fb9b0b6a2f57_n_2__episode_3_-_french_new_extremity_special_.mp3

We&#39;re shaking things up for this mid-season finale. Instead of just talking about one film, we&#39;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.

Season 2, Episode 3: French New Extremity Special

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/4/5/12/f010b6ac-10c2-4031-a954-b146c287ef29_season_2__episode_2_-_verotika.mp3

This week on the Extreme Cinema Podcast, Dom and Alex look at one of the most infamous so-bad-it&#39;s-good films of the last few years: Glenn Danzig&#39;s Verotika. Discussing exactly what makes this film just so terrible and why it&#39;s become such an infamous note in its rockstar director&#39;s career.

Season 2, Episode 2: Verotika (2019)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2023/1/24/15/897d57b2-631a-48c1-98a8-8b11625bb047_season_2_-_episode_1__audition.mp3

In the first episode of the new season of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom take a look at Takashi Miike&#39;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.

Season 2, Episode 1: Audition (1999)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/11/20/17/f96811fe-a442-4b7d-afb7-825d8805bbcd_episode_13__lords_of_chaos__2018_.mp3

In the season finale of The Extreme Cinema Podcast, Alex and Dom mount a staunch defence of Jonas Åkerlund&#39;s Mayhem biopic &#39;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!

Episode 13: Lords of Chaos (2018)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/10/11/17/e12b3f1a-12ad-4ddd-8c16-43b267c53870_no_podcast_this_week.mp3

No episode this week (sorry)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/10/4/18/854c6f4f-704e-4027-ba20-ec26565fe85c_episode_12__snuff__1975_.mp3

We got tired of talking about good movies, so this week we&#39;re talking about perhaps the most incompetent video nasty (and that really is saying something), Snuff (1975). Yeah it&#39;s Dom and me losing our minds for the whole episode!

Episode 12: Snuff (1975)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/9/20/16/0d83dc81-678c-46d5-8838-93b5e6014652_episode_11__possession__1981_.mp3

On today&#39;s episode Alex and Dom discuss Andrzej Żuławski&#39;s cult classic Possession; it&#39;s categorisation as a video nasty and what makes its performances and cinematography so great.

Episode 11: Possession (1981)

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pod-public-media-files/2021/9/19/13/fc6a65d0-72cc-4acd-898e-6de6b0b0a756_episode_10__the_devils__1971_.mp3

On today&#39;s episode Alex and Dom discuss Ken Russell&#39;s masterpiece The Devil&#39;s; censorship, fundamentalist religion, fascism, the factors leading up to the French revolution, and of course the most extreme thing we&#39;ve ever talked about: Space Jam 2. We kinda just lose our minds in this one too, it&#39;s probably our best episode yet!

Episode 10: The Devils (1971)

A podcast about the most bizarre, subversive, intense and boundary pushing films ever made

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...* **