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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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A Nihilist and a Dancer Walk into a Bar

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2025/11/16

This week- a pair of films with strong female characters and their lovers being caught up in another man's violence. Driving home from a club, Amy and Jordan pick up magnetic drifter X. Soon they find themselves on the run through a deadpan pastiche of early 90s America. The 2023 director's cut of a totally heterosexual film by Gregg Araki that already left a massive transgressive shadow over generations of indie filmmakers, The Doom Generation. Violeta, a popular featured dancer at a Mexico

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Pup Tent

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2025/11/09

This week the inmates try to run the asylum to varying degrees of success. Randle McMurphy is moved from a hard labor prison farm for a psychological evaluation. Nurse Ratched maintains strict control, through fear and intimidation, over the ward he is placed. McMurphy's lively and rebellious nature immediately put them at odd to dire consequences. Winner of Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay at the 1976 Academy Awards, inducted into the US Library of Congress National

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Slash Fiction

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2025/11/02

This week we bring October to a close with four slashers that did not spawn franchises. When students at experimental athletic drug enhancement focused Falcon Academy begin to disappear, no one seems to really think that much of it. They are too focused on Regionals, then Nationals, and finally their shot at the Olympics. Assuming all those drugs are ignored in testing. It's not a quarter as good as that sounds. Our first feature starring Sally Kirkland, take that as you will, Fatal Games. A

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Dark Night at the Opera

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2025/10/26

This week- Four(ish) tales of terrible men doing terrible things and a tiny little mix-up. The lavish Collinswood estate's handyman accidentally unleashes a 175-year-old vampire. The newly freed nocturnal predator takes up residence in an abandoned building on the grounds, insinuates himself back into the family, and begins to target the governess, who bares a striking resemblance to his long lost fiancée. The first feature adaption of a cult classis soap opera and using much of the original

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Skeleton Gelatin (and Further Tales from the Hood)

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2025/10/19

This week- four tales of shivering fright to carry you through a chilly autumn night. Kayako Saeki, with her son Toshio and cat Mar, is murdered by her jealous husband. Her anger and sorrow turn them all as onryo and place an insatiable curse on the house. Soon Toshio's teacherKobayashi, the Murakami family, and all others who venture in will find nothing but misery. The first feature length entry in a thirteen entry franchise with entries on both sides of the globe, Takashi Shimizu'sJu-on: The

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Womb with a View (And Other Assorted Tales)

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2025/10/12

This week- three horror movies about identity and society. Corky is a magician and ventriloquist about to break into the mainstream. When the network backing his major debut asks for a standard medical examination for insurance reasons, he fears his deeply held secret will be revealed. Corky flees to his hometown in the Catskills. Will Corky be able to pull himself out of his spiraling mental health crisis? Will the beautiful resort owner, and former classmate, accept Corky as he is or will she

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Holy Frond and Wholly Desire

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2025/10/05

This week- four films about people driven to extremes. When Harry Graham learns he had blown through his entire trust fund, he makes a desperate gamble to secure his future. Giving himself only 5 weeks to find, court, and wed a rich woman before he loses everything. Fortunately, he soon meets guileless botany professor Henrietta Lowell, whose only dream is to discover a new species of fern. Will Henrietta realize her dream? Will Harry get away with his nefarious plot? Why isn't there more James

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Best Hauntings to Some

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2025/09/28

This week October comes early as we watch three ghoulish offerings for Spooky Season. Jimmy Bones was murdered and buried in the basement of his house. A house left abandoned as the neighborhood he loved rotted with it. Twenty-two years later a group of unexpected young entrepreneurs take the property and release Jimmy's vengeful spirit on those who betrayed him long ago. Ernest Dickerson's campy social commentating love letter to 70s blaxploitation,Bones. Single mother Carla Moran is repeatedly

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Ventre

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2025/09/21

This week- two films about men who live violently and do crime. After a long absence from his native Sicily, Tony Aniante finally returns to settle some old debts. Soon the two families that control the area begin to compete for his services. Services rendered in brutal and bloody fashion. Will Tony get the closure he desires? Will the local families realize what really motivates Tony? How long can they keep the higher ups from discovering the tangled web they have made? The third feature from

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Rising Dobermans

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2025/09/14

This week- a pair of films about unexpected criminals. Three less than competent criminals come up the perfect plan- train a pack of Dobermans to rob a bank. Posing as a journalist one recruits an Air Force dog handler to assist in their training and a waitress to assist in their care. Will the handler realize there's something no quiet right going on? Will the bestest boy robbers be able to pull off the heist and make a clean getaway? Was this all just a waste of time for our original trio? The

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Kicking the Habit

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2025/09/07

This week- a young people finding themselves while facing criminal forces of varying types. After her parent's divorce, Jane finds herself in a new homes at a new school and completely isolated from her family and peers without anyone who seems to care at all. That all changes after she encounters a group of teens surrounding Irish drug dealer Jamie. Soon Jane finds herself falling in love with Jamie who is more than happy to exploit the situation. The debut feature from writer-director Sarah

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Night of the Pregnant Buddy Gen-Zpires

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2025/08/31

This week- four pack of gigglefests Kevin uses to invalidate the claim comedy left us. A renegade cop. An eccentric old man with an accent. A special breed ofnightwalking bloodsucker. As the forces of darkness draw in, will Chuck Stee, the manliest cop to ever ignore people's rights, find and protect The Puritan? Will the Master bring about the Lock-In and an endless night for the city? A stop motion homage to the lost art of 1986 action films...Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires. After the

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Eva Brauhhhhhhhn

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2025/08/24

This week a pair of films about desperate men who seek the most toxic relationships with women possible. Marcus is 30-years old and considers himself "a lonely, desperate man". He spends his nights as a security guard alone in an empty location, his days looking at pornography and peeping in windows. Slightly overweight and unable to create relationships, Marcus turns to secretly recording his encounters with prostitutes and losing his grip on reality. A black comedy from experimental filmmaker

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To the Victor Goes the Spoils

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2025/08/17

This week- two films about men driven to their breaking points by obsession and cognitive issues. As bombs fall on England, a once famous Shakespearean actor still takes to the boards every night, knowing ever line of The Bard by heart. While Sir may still be a commanding presence on stage, off he is beginning to succumb to his age and slowly progressing dementia. His life is managed by his dresser, Norman, who has taken Sir's tirades and rants for decades. Can the pair find new ground and accept

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I Still Vaguely Know What You Did Last Summer

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2025/08/10

This week- a pair of summer vacations gone wrong. The city of Minitropolis is drowning in violence and corruption. There is only one police officer who is still willing to stand up to the undisputed king of organized crime. Shot on video tape with a cast of children made by prolific no budget filmmaker Richard Lowery- Hawk Jones. A year has passed since Julie and Ray survived the brutal revenge of Ben Willis. This Fourth of July, Julie and her friends win a trip for a weekend of sunny fun in the

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Ballad of Vengeance

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2025/08/03

This week- films about people escaping prisons of both the emotional and physical varieties. Herb McGwyer arrives at a remote island off the coast of Wales for a lucrative gig for a small group of fans. When he arrives he finds a stage that is just a pallet on the beach and the group consists solely of widowed superfan Charles Heath. Soon Herb will learn that isn't the only surprise Charles has planned... he's forcing a surprise reunion show with Herb's former partner, Nell Mortimer. Will the

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Sweatin' to the Moldys

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2025/07/27

This week- a quaternion of films selected by the composer of our new theme, Linus Fitness-Centre. When an amnesiac sex slave cyborg can't do his job, he gets discarded in the street. Soon he is taken under the wing of a girl who draws maps for other memory-wiped people. Hunted by his manufacture and undergoing an unprecedented transformation in the tunnels beneath Tokyo. One of the crowning works of the Japanese underground cyberpunk genre,964 Pinocchio. Crossley, a hungry traveler, forces

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Catfishing Cannibals

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2025/07/20

This week two movies about young people trying to escape their dead end homelives only to end up in harrowing situations. When a nonverbal boy and beloved pet duck, Mr. Quack Quack, is threatened, the pair run away by boat. Before too long, they find themselves on a strange island. Captured by The Swampies, a group of crocodile pirates, the pair have no choice but to seek help from the island's other inhabitants, the Rare Blue Apes. A psychotronic kids musical adventure made by a 1970s

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Amish Paradise

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2025/07/13

This week- Two English find something special with among the Amish and a standardization of a theme. After a young Amish boy sees the murder of an undercover police officer in a Philadelphia train station. Detective Captain John Book takes the case. Soon he, the boy, and the boy's mother find themselves the target of a conspiracy in the very halls of justice. Will Book be able to protect them? Will they be able to find refuge among the Swiss Anabaptists? What will be the consequence of Book's

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Interstellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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2025/07/06

This week- a pair of films featuring men embracing new career opportunities. Picking up a couple years after the events of the first film- Adam and Inez's relationship is falling apart from the pressure of children and adulthood. Miguel returns home after several years in prison to find his girlfriend has given birth to another man's child. Marfa Girl is struggling with connecting to her child, the lingering reminder of a brutal sexual assault. Will Adam accept his responsibilities? Can Inez find

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