Raiders of the Podcast
259 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe 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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The Butler Did It
April 27, 2024 12:01 - 77.4 MBThis week- four films starring a tartan typhoon called Gerry. After being locked away in a vault for 120 years, a heist unleashes a vampiric nightmare on New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras (as if a movie would acknowledge the city for the other 11 months of the year). Mary, a young record store employee with questionable mental health, finds herself in the bloodsucker's sights. Will she escape the eternal night of Dracula 2000 (aka Dracula 2001 aka Wes Craven Presents Dracula ...
Low Stakes Horror
April 20, 2024 12:30 - 49.7 MBThis 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 Engla...
Rented by the Hour
April 13, 2024 11:29 - 57.5 MBThis 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 perfo...
Neeps & Tatties
April 06, 2024 11:48 - 63.7 MBThis 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 figur...
Donner Party
March 30, 2024 11:49 - 97.3 MBThis 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 terrifyin...
Lurid Courtship
March 23, 2024 11:27 - 59.3 MBThis 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 cy...
(Acid) Bath & Beyond
March 16, 2024 11:27 - 37 MBThis 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-...
S'all About the Bass
March 09, 2024 12:37 - 66.1 MBThis 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. Af...
Spartan Green
March 02, 2024 13:14 - 52 MBThis 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 featurin...
All Killa No Filla
February 24, 2024 14:01 - 46.3 MBThis 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 tit...
Pour Some Sugarbowl on Me
February 17, 2024 13:47 - 36.4 MBThis 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, N...
High as a Comet
February 10, 2024 12:55 - 42.9 MBThis 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 reas...
Reptile Riff
February 03, 2024 12:53 - 43.9 MBThis 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 als...
Takashi's Castle
January 27, 2024 13:24 - 47.7 MBThis 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, and Ōtomo, 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 throug...
Hospitable Tentacle
January 20, 2024 13:24 - 39.7 MBThis 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 i...
Fetish Zoomie Doll
January 13, 2024 13:28 - 39.5 MBThis 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 gial...
Bay of Witches
January 06, 2024 14:05 - 51.4 MBThis 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 murd...
That's No Moon
December 30, 2023 13:46 - 68.9 MBThis 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 me...
Go Gift Yourself
December 23, 2023 13:40 - 79.3 MBThis 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 ...
Is That a Baton in Your Pocket
December 16, 2023 13:25 - 53.7 MBThis 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...
Hairy Yutes
December 09, 2023 14:08 - 62.8 MBThis 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. ...
Down and Dirty
December 02, 2023 13:31 - 59.2 MBThis 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 ...
Miraculous Mouse Meds
November 25, 2023 14:12 - 71.5 MBThis 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 ...
French Pressed
November 18, 2023 13:30 - 35.2 MBThis 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 gl...
Catastrophic Corrosion
November 11, 2023 13:16 - 53.8 MBThis 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 Sc...
Ways of Bushi
November 04, 2023 12:39 - 45.4 MBThis 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 time...
Burying the Hatchet
October 28, 2023 13:28 - 50.6 MBThis 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 famil...
Franchising! The Sequel! Part VIII The Musical
October 21, 2023 12:54 - 69.3 MBThis 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 Texa...
Swamps for the Sweet
October 14, 2023 12:05 - 63.6 MBThis 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 photograph...
Boonie Respite Pad
October 07, 2023 13:23 - 84.5 MBStarting 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 sta...
In a Blink
September 30, 2023 13:11 - 66.9 MBThis 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 ch...
Mass Rockogenic Illness
September 23, 2023 13:42 - 60.7 MBThis 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 an...
A Fistful of Pamphlets
September 16, 2023 12:53 - 83.6 MBThis 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 featu...
Coyote Enfeeblement
September 09, 2023 12:56 - 55.3 MBThis 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 ...
Greeting Knoll
September 02, 2023 13:05 - 73.6 MBThis 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...
Steven Seagal: Worse Than A Stroke
August 26, 2023 12:00 - 97.4 MBThis week we close the month with a four pack of Steve Seagal in the 21st Century. When ICE arrest a pair of OTMs (Other Than Mexican) who are affiliated with both AQAP AND Daesh (which would never happen) blows open a conspiracy of the (long defunct) Sonora Cartel smuggling in terrorists. A collaboration for reasons that aren't made very clear. The federal government has only one man to turn to, former DEA/CIA/FBI/USASF asset John Harmon. Harmon once was in a Sonora compound and...
Party by Gaslight
August 19, 2023 12:23 - 36 MBThis week- a missing child might never have existed and a deadly game that could destroy the global economy. Ann and her daughter have just moved from New York to London to be close to the only family they have, Ann's brother Steven. Tragedy strikes when Ann goes to pick the child up from her first day at pre-school but her child is nowhere to be seen. To make things worse, it seems no one but the family claims to have ever even seen the girl. Soon a tangled web of mental illness a...
Beatroot, Texas
August 12, 2023 13:42 - 59.1 MBThis week- two trips into unfamiliar territory in vans that become crime scenes. When Dean, Duncan, DJ Beatroot, and Ian are dropped off along the road to hike through the highlands for a the Duke of Edinburgh Award, they never dreamed they would be hunted by an older couple wearing masks. Soon the boys are in a desperate fight for their lives with only their limited wits and local fauna excrement to save them. Meanwhile, Sargent Morag hunts a notorious thief. A darling of the 2019...
Work Life Unbalanced
August 05, 2023 13:03 - 59.3 MBThis week- two films about women at work and the strains it brings. May is an awkward and lonely woman whose only friend is a doll in a glass case. Adam, a mechanic with pretty hands, and Polly, the most aggressively predatory lesbian in a 2000s movie, enter her life she begins to take steps into the wider world. Entering a romantic relationship with Adam and endless flirting with Polly at work. When neither relationship works out as May hoped, she decides to make a friend herself....
Mexican Sausage
July 29, 2023 13:35 - 89.2 MBThis week- four films from Mexico. Immediately before setting off to Europe for an extended trip, Doctor Alejandro Mangino stumbles on a former lover, Lucia, posing as a nude art model. His time on the other side of the Atlantic becomes a fog of booze as the good doctor begins to obsess over his former flame. Upon his return, he discovers Lucia has married his good friend Ricardo. Can the good doctor find his way out or will he be claimed by Crepúsculo (aka Twilight, 1945)? Ele...
Better Than Scarlet Diva?
July 22, 2023 12:10 - 47 MBThis week a pair of European movies about women finding themselves. Anna Battista, a young and beautiful award winning actress, is desperate to spread her creative wings. Tragically, everyone tries to keep her down despite everyone around her totally seeing how brilliant she is and how great her movie would be. Even more tragically, Anna has a taste for massive amounts of recreational narcotics, a penchant for racism, and is quick to obsess over the worst musicians she can find. Th...
Hill Street Boos
July 15, 2023 12:17 - 40.7 MBThis week- a couple of scam artists and a fistful of cops. Rookie cop Roy reports for duty in East LA. He is partnered with Andy, a veteran quickly approaching mandatory retirement. Roy thinks he will only be a cop long enough to make it through law school but, for some, the job becomes their all consuming obsession. Based on the novel by Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions. George and Kathy Lutz, with Kathy's three children, move into a beautiful home with enough room for all,...
Tunnel of Swole
July 08, 2023 12:35 - 56.6 MBThis week- two movies with surprise orgies and appreciations for the male form in different sizes. Simon is a cold call scam employee in a dying relationship without any direction or joy. His last ditch effort to change his life trajectory is to join a gym and try and reclaim his body from desk degradation. He soon meets trainer Terry and everything changes. Centered by a powerhouse performance from Craig Fairbrass in a pitch black comedy about toxic masculinity and how far one can...
Behemoth Meat
July 01, 2023 13:26 - 51.9 MBThis week a pair of grounded fantasies with people living their own realities. An Italian noble uses mercenaries to retake his city. In order to spur on his troops, he promises them 24 hours free reign to plunder as they see fit. Being as that is a stupid promise, it doesn't go well and soon the noble has the mercenaries routed from the city without their promised loot. Lost and without direction, some of them reform into a bandit group led by Martin and a statue of St. Martin. Soo...
Perturbing Behaviour
June 24, 2023 14:04 - 63.5 MBThis week three films about moral panics, the imagined threats lurking to upset social order from morality police happy to stoke public fear for a payout. A harmless game played by a group of college students. Nothing wrong with any of it... except... what if the game goes too far? What if an obviously schizophrenic player with a history of unresolved family trauma has a sudden and immediate break from reality while playing? It MUST be the game's fault and not anything else. I sai...
Reasonable Charges
June 17, 2023 12:33 - 50.3 MBThis week- a pair of films about lawbreakers who might be more than they appear. 17-year-old Isabelle decides to start a side hustle after losing her virginity on vacation. When her favorite client, Georges, does something deeply traumatizing, Isabelle's secret life will soon be revealed. A more recent entry from Francois Ozon, one of France's most important modern filmmakers, Young & Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie). Early in the morning, two police detectives breakdown the door of ...
Emerald Emotions
June 10, 2023 14:23 - 41.7 MBThis week green men of various sizes and the ladies who love them. When Bruce Banner is accidentally exposed to massive amounts of gamma radiation and exploding medical nanobots, it awakens a secret buried deep inside of him by his mad scientist father, David. Now whenever Bruce gets angry he becomes a green rage monster. Meanwhile, two estranged fathers try to use this as a way to reconnect with their children. Chaos ensues. Ang Lee's ambitious comic book adaption- Hulk. It's...
Boards & Bars
June 03, 2023 12:11 - 35.9 MBThis week- a pair of nightmares. For Michael's seventeenth birthday, his bestie Tony gifts him one of Hasbro's most popular board games and a pair of supernatural bonus gifts that apparently come with it. Now Michael has to try and save people we have to assume are his friends, despite how much believing he has friends breaks suspension of disbelief, from a serial killer. Why is Michael having these visions? Who is killing his circle of distant acquaintances? How much extra did the...
Property Cowherd: 3 with Udo Kier
May 27, 2023 12:20 - 61.4 MBThis week we bring May to a close with a celebration of the most character of actors- Udo Kier! Two from his early days in 70s European art films and one of more recent vintage as a face among genre enthusiasts. When Count Dracula, last of his line and quickly declining in health, must leave his ancestral home looking for a virgin bride for a quick sip to regain his lost strength. He travels to pre-Fascist Italy and becomes involved with the di Fiore family, impoverished landowner...
Diagnosis: Samurai Night Fever
May 20, 2023 12:50 - 41.7 MBThis week two films about Chinese-Americans and cross cultural experiences. Billi maintains a close relationship with her Nai Nai (paternal grandmother), despite there being half a planet between them. When Nai Nai is diagnosed with late stage terminal lung cancer, which the rest of their family have decided to keep secret from Nai Nai. The whole family gathers under false pretenses to have The Farewell. Jo and Steve are purchasing their taxi medallion. Their friend, Chan, ...