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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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Low Stakes Horror

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2024/04/20

This week- a classic gothic horror from England and a, uh, different type of classic for a very dedicated type of audience. In 1885, self proclaimed librarian Jonathan Harker arrives take charge of some books at a lonely castle. Mr. Harker didn't tell anyone that his real job is vampire hunter and the noble whose books he used as cover is named Dracula. Things don't work out as planned and soon Dr. Van Helsing goes to find Harker while Dracula goes to find Harker's friends in England. Hammer's

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Rented by the Hour

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2024/04/13

This week- a pair of films adapted from the stage. 1931, Berlin, while finishing his doctorate a British academic, Brian Roberts, takes residence in a boarding house. Finding his room is too small to teach English lessons, which he must to survive, Brian strikes up a friendship with his neighbor, Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Klub. Soon Brian finds himself caught up in her bohemian lifestyle. One of the first films to be rated X with fiendishly catchy songs, strong performances, plenty

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Neeps & Tatties

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2024/04/06

This week- a pair of films that ask "when is justice served and what is permissible when it isn't?" Shady businessman Daniel Emerson has his partners, and lifelong lackeys. give him an alibi during his trial for raping pianist Gaily Morton which result in his acquittal. Horrified and overwhelmed by the verdict, Gaily takes her own life. Before long each of the false witnesses have fateful encounters with gorgeous women that end in murder and a former courtroom artist tries to figure out just who

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Donner Party

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2024/03/30

This week we talk about four films from a master of mayhem who spent two decades setting the bar across multiple genres. When his biological child dies immediately after birth, diplomat Robert Thorne is persuaded to secretly adopt a child whose mother died giving birth. Keeping the switch a secret from all, even his wife, the Thornes spends five idyllic years together. When Robert is promoted and sent to England, strange event begin to pile up which eventually lead to one terrifying conclusion..

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Lurid Courtship

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2024/03/23

This week- a pair of films with unexpectedly exciting visits to boring people's vacation homes. When Mia first sees Frida it is love at first sight. Tragically, that won't be an easy revelation as both of them are in long term monogamous relationships and their parents are engaged to each other. When they are the first to arrive at a family weekend, long silent stares give way to indiscretion. Can these women return to their daily lives or have they ignited the flames of undying cyberstalking

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(Acid) Bath & Beyond

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2024/03/16

This week- English people get up to some not nice things. A jogger collapses and wakes up an amputee. An Eastern European totalitarian murders his way up the ranks. Finally, the worst cop in London teams with the angriest young pathologist to stop a brutal killer targeting young women. An absurd exercise in science fiction with support from three of horror's favorite sons,Scream and Scream Again. Miriam and her husband take a long trip to visit her sister, Greta, and brother-in-law, Dylan

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S'all About the Bass

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2024/03/09

This week an expedition through the ant infested desert of Kenya, Arizona and a tour through the crime ridden streets of Baltimore, Quebec. In the aftermath of a strange cosmic event, ants begin acting strangely and rapidly changing. A pair of scientists and a 16-year old girl investigate this phenomena. The only feature directed by a legendary graphic artist and an absolute spectacle of macrophotography,Phase IV. On New Years Eve, a sniper begins to shoot random targets. After making an

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Spartan Green

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2024/03/02

This week- a pair of detectives trying to solve puzzling murders in less than friendly environments. While the long range V-1 missiles rain down and an English woman spews Nazi propaganda over the radio, a man dies under mysterious circumstances during a routine operation. While suspicions among the staff spread like wildfire, it is seen as just an accident... until a second body turns up murdered. Based Christianna Brand's book of the same name and the only film adaption featuring her acerbic

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All Killa No Filla

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2024/02/24

This week a super special guest and we keep our free flowing vulgarity to a minimum... try to anyway. Sorta. A chance encounter leads a high school girl to an abandoned part of town, where she discovers a strange door in the middle of the remains of a spa. Next thing she knows, supernatural cats are running away from possessed chairs and a giant worm threatens everything. Makoto Shinkai's latest film about connection, loneliness, and mourning the lost places...Suzume(original title-Suzume no

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Pour Some Sugarbowl on Me

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2024/02/17

This week- two movies about men given a second chance to relive their dreams. When a professional football players strike happens with only four games left in the regular season, the Washington Sentinels call in maverick coach, Jimmy McGinty, and give him free reign to assemble a motley crew of might have-beens and never-weres. Leading the pack is former college All-American, Shane Falco, who lives on a boat that just happens to be floating in the, at the time not yet gentrified, National Harbor

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High as a Comet

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2024/02/10

This week- two films about mind altering events. Bob leads a crew that rods pharmacies in 1971. After a successful job, a local cop picks up after them without any sign of letting up and forces the gang to hit the road for a tour across the Pacific Northwest. Before long, Bob will have to face the worst hex of all and a few difficult life choices. The second feature from Gus Van Sant,Drugstore Cowboy. High School students Taki and Mitsuha switch bodies. Without any known reason or connection

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Reptile Riff

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2024/02/03

This week- two movies about women without a good work-life balance. Angel dreams of fostering a child despite being a danger to herself and others. Simmering rage filled Jo wants to get rid of her recent life complication. Jasmine wants to write poetry but instead fall for an obvious turd of a Nice Guy. Stormy spends her whole time stalking and reminiscing about the partner she definitely shouldn't have started with in the first place. Jesse isn't even barely legal yet. There's also a Russian

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Takashi's Castle

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2024/01/27

This week Japanuary comes to a close with three films by the prolific master Takashi Miike. Leo is a boxer climbing in the middle of a great win streak. When his doctor tells him he has an inoperable brain tumor and only a short time left. Kase, an ambitious yakuza, andŌtomo, a corrupt cop, plan to steal drugs and frame Yuri, a trafficked young woman. When Leo hears Yuri call for help, he figures he has nothing to lose and intervenes. Things spiral from there. A thrill ride through alleys and

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Hospitable Tentacle

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2024/01/20

This week- two films about tentacled fiends who might also be friends. When the moon is blown into a permeant crescent and the monster that claims credit is threatening to do the same to Earth in one year's time... unless the underachieving delinquent misfits of Middle School Class 3-E are able to assassinate it before then. In order to nurture their killer instinct, the multi-limbed monstrosity places itself as their teacher. Will the kids rise to the challenge or will they fail in their duty

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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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