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Film History · Alex and Dom

The Extreme Cinema Podcast

by Alex and Dom

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 3, Episode 7: Elves (1989)

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

Oct 22 2024
31 min

Season 3, Episode 6: Thundercrack! (1975)

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 cou

Oct 15 2024
41 min

Season 3, Episode 5: Frenzy (1972)

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

Oct 8 2024
35 min

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

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 grea

Oct 1 2024
35 min

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

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

Sep 24 2024
33 min

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

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 i

Sep 17 2024
33 min

Season 3, Episode 1: Caligula (1979)

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 itera

Sep 10 2024
43 min

Season 2, Episode 8: David Lynch Special (Part 2)

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

Dec 19 2023
56 min

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

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

Dec 12 2023
1 h 01 min

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

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-goresp

Dec 5 2023
34 min

Season 2, Episode 5: Devil Story (1986)

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 los

Nov 28 2023
33 min

Season 2, Episode 4: El Topo (1970)

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

Nov 21 2023
36 min

Season 2, Episode 3: French New Extremity Special

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 Ext

May 22 2023
57 min

Season 2, Episode 2: Verotika (2019)

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 e

May 15 2023
32 min

Season 2, Episode 1: Audition (1999)

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 it

May 8 2023
31 min

Episode 13: Lords of Chaos (2018)

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 hist

Nov 23 2021
49 min

No episode this week (sorry)

Sorry everyone :(

Oct 11 2021
1 min

Episode 12: Snuff (1975)

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).

Oct 4 2021
31 min

Episode 11: Possession (1981)

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 cinematograph

Sep 27 2021
32 min

Episode 10: The Devils (1971)

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 revoluti

Sep 20 2021
36 min

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