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Raiders of the Podcast

We are a weekly podcast about movies. Sometimes new ones, often older ones, frequently bad ones. We like cowboy hats, face hugs, strangely sexual automaton interactions, and listeners like you.

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Fetish Zoomie Doll

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2024/01/13

This week- a pair of films where men nearly bring ruin to their closest female family member by not checking in during extended work trips. While Saeko's husband is out of the country for work, she immediately starts a torrid affair with the piano tuner who also lives in her apartment complex. Meanwhile, their complex is being stalked by a serial murdering rapist who burns his victims to death. The second entry in Nikkatsu's violent pinku series Zoom Up opts for a more surreal giallo

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Bay of Witches

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2024/01/06

This week Japanuary 2024 kicks off with a pair of films about bold, strong women who refuse to compromise to their oppressive societies and the idiots they love. Kinta is put in charge of his Yakuza gang's pig farm and dreams of the large paydays that were vaguely promised. Haruko, his girlfriend, works as a waitress and dreams of getting away from their port city that only lives on the whim of the nearby American Navy base. When Kinta's bosses push him to be the fall guy in a murder and Haruko'

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That's No Moon

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2023/12/30

This week we bring 2023 to a close with our most topical episode yet... After Augie Steenbeck and his family arrive for the Junior Stargazers Convention, he is convinced to finally tell his four children about the death of their mother. Soon Midge Campbell, a weary actress, and her daughter occupy the cabin next door as the little roadside destination is full of kids, singing cowboys, and high ranking military personnel. All of which will be dwarfed by a close encounter and the metafictional

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Go Gift Yourself

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2023/12/23

This week we celebrate the holiday with three films set in mid to late December. With the holidays around the corner, nine 20-somethings have a crazy night. Ronna and her two friends got to a Santa rave and try to get into dealing to pay her rent. Simon takes his three friends to Vega and shenanigans ensue. Adam and Zach are actors helping a cop with some undercover buys and then they try to get revenge on the show crew member that seduced them both. A late-90s studio cult classic that attempts

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Is That a Baton in Your Pocket

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2023/12/16

This week someone attempts to subvert a democratic process and a weekend trip goes very wrong. When Big D, a candidate for Wo Ling Shing triad's biennial chairman election, refuses to accept the outcome things take an immediate turn to the violent. Loyalties shift quickly and without warning as the two sides search desperately for the dragonhead baton, the symbol of the chairman's authority. Can Lok, the winner of the Uncle's vote, bring them all together or will everything rupture under him

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Hairy Yutes

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2023/12/09

This week- a pair of men who claim to forge their own paths while desperate from acknowledgment from the establishment. When his ICP derivative rap career fails to take off and his girlfriend leaves him, Jason he takes up stalking. Like all stalking, it isn't long before it evolves into full on murder plots. The second feature from writer/director Michael Curtis Johnson, an attempt to bring pathos to a crime without any of the real details that might get in the way,Savage Youth. When a Sir

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Down and Dirty

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2023/12/02

This week- a pair of comedies. When two high schools are consolidated a senior, Alan Musgrave, dedicates his life to making sure a new schoolmate, Barbara Ann Greene, gets everything she desires. From sweaters to matricide, Alan is happy to oblige. A buckshot satire of 1960s pop culture directed by one of the era's best comedy writers, Lord Love a Duck. When two con men, Lawrence Jamieson and Freddy Benson, find themselves at odds with each other, they settle it the only way they can- with

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Miraculous Mouse Meds

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2023/11/25

This week we end November with a trio of movies that make us feel good. What happens when the world's most beautiful girl marries the world's most handsomest prince- and he turns out to be a real piece of shit? A tale of True Love, high adventure, miracles, fencing, giants, and torture. Rob Reiner's film based on William Goldman's adaption of S. Morgenstern's history of his native Florin,The Princess Bride. What happens when a once rich string magnate leaves his sons nothing but a rundown

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French Pressed

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2023/11/18

This week- we like French films, a pair of pretentious boring French films, we like French films, three tickets s'il vous plaît. Monsieur Hulot, the legendary signature character of Jacques Tati, is a man overwhelmed and confused by the new modernity of Paris, as he and others stumble through six segments both lampooning and celebrating modernist life, and repeatedly encounters, Barbara, a young American tourist who longs to see the old romantic soul of Paris under its gleaming glass and steel

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Catastrophic Corrosion

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2023/11/11

This week two movies about people making violent choices. The body of a young woman is dumped on Hampstead Heath. It falls to Police Superintendent Hazard, the only not massively racist cop in London, to find the killer. Before long, he and his casually racist Inspector look through jazz clubs and middle class workshops for who might have murdered the biracial victim and realizing that "Hey, there's a lot of racism, isn't there?". Winner of the 1960 Edgar Award for Best Foreign

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Ways of Bushi

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2023/11/04

This week two movies about modern versions of ancient codes and professions just trying to survive. Martha only gets through every day without any thought to what else there could be in her life. The new girl, Nandia, only dreams of something more and how to move up the ladder. Soon they are drawn together but what happens when one starts to be left behind as the other never stops looking for what is next? How far can they go before one is just a lingering reminder of earlier times? How will they

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Burying the Hatchet

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2023/10/28

This week we close out the October Horror Challenge with three movies featuring derailed travel plans. It is Christmas Eve and Frank has decided to take a short cut through remote back roads to his mother-in-law's house. Late at night, in a Jeep Grand Cherokee loaded down with goodies, his wife, son, daughter, and daughter's boyfriend, they have a near miss accident. Soon the group finds themselves being picked off one by one, taken by a large black hearse. Will Frank get his family to safety

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Franchising! The Sequel! Part VIII The Musical

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2023/10/21

This week- two films that franchise unlikely originals, an inevitable sequel, and a frustrated Scotsman only out for revenge at this point. After surviving her second night in Honey Island Swamp, Marybeth Dunston walks into a police station with the scalp of Victor Crowley. Now Sheriff Fowler leads a team out to see the carnage but it's only a matter of time until Victor returns. The only entry not directed by franchise creator, Adam Green,Hatchet III. The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas and

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Swamps for the Sweet

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2023/10/14

This week some movies with film directors slaughtered, coitus interruptus, and not enough Tony Todd (but, really, is it ever?). Arletty's artist father has vanished. So she goes to his small California coastal town to find him. Instead all she finds is his journal, a trio of wonderers, and some nightly moonbathers awaiting a return from the sea. An atmospheric curiosity from the decade of feathered hair and oil crises... Messiah of Evil. A ridiculously creepy German photographer has absolutely

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Boonie Respite Pad

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2023/10/07

Starting October with three trips deep into some backwoods. A gaggle of Mardi Gras tourists take a haunted boat tour through the bayou outside of New Orleans. Unfortunately, the boat soon sinks and the tour group find themselves stranded right in front of the home of Victor Crowley, a violent spirit of revenge. Will anyone make it back to the bright lights, plastic beads of the city? Will they all be picked off in cartoonishly violent ways before dawn? Will Victor Crowley ever stay down? All

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In a Blink

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2023/09/30

This week we cap off September with four sweetly brief movies holding runtimes under 80 minutes. England, 1941, German planes fill the night skies and the Angel of Portobello is giving accurate warnings to the public, keeping casualties to a minimum. Broadcasting secretly, the Hanbury sisters have built an incredible machine that can and will change history as we are aware of it. A feature debut of impressive technical mastery, LOLA. Philip Winthrop travels to his fiancée's childhood home, a

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Mass Rockogenic Illness

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2023/09/23

This week a pair of films about finding acceptance and artistic expression in Ohio. Introverted and shy 11-year old Toni decides to stop boxing and try out for a local dance team that practices in the same building. Soon afterwards, a mysterious illness begins sweeping through the girls. As the violent seizure epidemic continues, Toni tries to find acceptance. A devastatingly powerful directorial debut with an amazing performance at its center,The Fits. Single mother Patti and her brother Joe,

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A Fistful of Pamphlets

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2023/09/16

This week- a pair of films about love and how it can go bad, especially under extreme circumstances. When 90s Emo Kid Jamie's father passes away, she is shipped off to live with her aunt and uncle, a pair of devout Jehovah's Witnesses, living in a devout religious enclave. When Jamie catches the eye of the religious leader's daughter, Marike, a tender romance begins. Stolen glances and awkward casual intimacy can only last for so long under strictly intolerant conditions. The feature debut from

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Coyote Enfeeblement

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2023/09/09

This week a pair of horror thrillers that have somehow skipped many people's radar. When Nina, Hesty, and Pono decide to go camping on a lake for the weekend, they never expected to meet a pair of hunky divers. When Caroko hired Johan and Tommy to dive for a missing treasure, totally expecting they would be picked off one by one if they didn't work fast enough. An Indonesian thriller that takes a hard left in its last act to become a semi-remake of an 80s slasher classic- Srigala (aka Wolf). In

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Greeting Knoll

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2023/09/02

This week- a piercer gone too far and ten attempts to summit an incline. The 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division receive five fresh replacements. They are placed under battle-weary Frantz, who has only a brief amount of time to get them ready for a major operation in the A Shau Valley. The battalion faces unexpected resistance while trying to take Hill 937. Over the course of ten days, Hill 937 would become a pivotal battle that lead to a massive shift in the US strategy,

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