Movie Oubliette

Conrad Chambers and Daniel Goh
  • 4.9 (45)
  • Film History
  • Biweekly

Intrepid film fans Conrad and Dan review obscure and forgotten horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies to decide whether they should be set free or thrown back into the oubliette to be forgotten forever! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 9h ago

    A Boy and His Dog

    Before Mad Max (1979) put the apocalypse in leather and hit the road, L.Q. Jones – one of Sam Peckinpah’s regulars – took the director’s chair to adapt Harlan Ellison’s notorious novella about the last functioning relationship on Earth: a feral teenage scavenger and his telepathic, far better educated dog. Nominated by new Patron Jason T. Anderson, A Boy and His Dog (1975) drops a baby-faced Don Johnson into the radioactive scrub of 2024 (!), where he roams in search of food and women while his trusty sidekick Blood, voiced with lofty disdain by Tim McIntire, does the thinking for both of them. Fifty years on, people still can’t agree whether to cherish it or bury it, and most of that argument comes down to one closing line. Does it deserve to escape the Oubliette? Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    A Boy and His Dog

  2. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

    Conrad's TIFF dispatch rolls on alongside special guest Joe Lipsett as they venture into the neon-soaked underworld of Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – the latest chapter in cinema’s most unlikely franchise, helmed by legendary Japanese auteur Takashi Miike (Audition). Moving the rogue-cop template from Abel Ferrara’s gritty New York and Werner Herzog’s post-Katrina New Orleans to the streets of Japan, the film stars Shun Oguri as a drug-addicted detective drowning in Yakuza debt while investigating a series of gruesome murders. When his path crosses with an ambitious FBI agent played by Lily James, the investigation spirals into a chaotic web of vice, violence, and Miike’s trademark gonzo style. Does this wild neo-noir spin live up to the cult legacy of the Bad Lieutenant moniker, or is it more of a Tokyo drift? Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

  3. Oct 27

    Jason X (with Mikey Neumann)

    Happy Spooky Season! Mikey Neumann, the creator of FilmJoy, joins us for our Halloween special with something he found in the back of his freezer: Jason X (2001)! Ten films and 22 years after a machete first found its way into a camp counsellor, Friday the 13th finally arrived at the setting every tired franchise eventually reaches when the well has truly run dry: outer space. Directed by Jim Isaac, a Cronenberg effects alumnus making only his second feature, and written by then-newcomer Todd Farmer under a New Line regime still working out how Scream's self-aware humour ought to be applied to a decade-old slasher icon, Jason X cryogenically freezes Jason Voorhees at the dawn of the 21st century and thaws him out four and a half centuries later, aboard a research vessel that has returned to a long-abandoned Earth. It is, in the plainest possible terms, Alien with a hockey mask, a film happy to wear its influences on its sleeve while asking, not unreasonably, whether an unstoppable killer is any less unstoppable once you've made him some sort of cyborg. But, as we reach the film's 25th anniversary (!), can we finally decide if it deserves to escape the Oubliette? Find out! Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Jason X (with Mikey Neumann)

  4. Oct 14 ·  Bonus

    A Talent for Murder – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

    Bonus preview time again: for this special, spoiler-free episode as part of our TIFF 2026 coverage, we're joined by Joe Lipsett of Horror Queers to dig into A Talent for Murder. Directed by Anton Corbijn from Joanna Murray-Smith's own adaptation of her play Switzerland, the film imagines a fictional Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren, all barbed wit and Swiss seclusion) visited by a young literary agent, Edward Ridgeway (Alden Ehrenreich), sent to persuade her into writing one final Ripley novel... persuasion that curdles into something considerably more sinister. Olivia Cooke and Juliet Stevenson round out the cast. The film is due for release in US cinemas on 23 October, with reports pointing to a UK release on 20 November. Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    A Talent for Murder – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

  5. Oct 13

    Basket Case

    The next film to emerge from the Oubliette is Basket Case (1981): the debut feature of Frank Henenlotter, a New York exploitation obsessive who spent his youth in the grindhouses of 42nd Street and, with producer Edgar Ievins, put roughly $35,000 of mostly their own money into turning a title he liked into a film he never expected anyone to see. Shot on 16mm over about 6 months of spare weeks and weekends, in the last years of Times Square as the Deuce, it follows a wide-eyed young man (Kevin Van Hentenryck) who carries his formerly conjoined and decidedly ill-tempered twin around town in a wicker basket on a revenge tour of the surgeons who split them apart. It arrived in 1982 amid the slasher boom, with a first distributor keen to trim the blood, before a Texas midnight show, Joe Bob Briggs and a long run at New York's Waverly turned it into a midnight staple and, after a well-timed $19.95 VHS, a fixture of fans' bedrooms. It has since been restored by the Museum of Modern Art, which might be the strangest plot twist in the whole saga. But does the film, which has been on Dan's watchlist since we started the podcast, deserve a place in the world outside the Oubliette? Find out! Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Basket Case

  6. Oct 9 ·  Bonus

    Kick On – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

    Conrad's TIFF adventure with special guest Joe Lipsett continues with Kick On – the sophomore feature from Nick Kozakis, who cut his teeth directing music videos before making Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism. It follows Eden and her three friends, who decide to "kick on" after a big night out, ending up at the opulent, drug-stuffed lair of a mobster's son. Every genre fan knows this is a bad idea. What starts as a party quickly spirals into a siege, with Markella Kavenagh, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Ras-Samuel and Nikita Chronis caught in a web of paranoia, violence and betrayal that critics have been calling an Australian riff on Green Room. But is it worth seeking out? Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Kick On – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

  7. Oct 7 ·  Bonus

    Crystal Lake – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

    Here's another special, spoiler-free episode as part of our TIFF 2026 coverage – and it's particularly apt as we start the countdown to spooky season! Conrad is joined live in the Toronto Metro Convention Centre by Joe Lipsett of Horror Queers and Serge Bodnarchuk of Cold Crash Pictures to talk about Crystal Lake, the Friday the 13th prequel series that finally answers a question nobody actually asked: what was Pamela Voorhees up to before she started decapitating camp counsellors? Linda Cardellini takes on the role, playing Pam as a grieving single mother, unable to move past the drowning of her son Jason months earlier, whose fragile routine is upended when two strangers turn up and start digging into her past. Created by Brad Caleb Kane (It: Welcome to Derry) and produced by A24, the eight-episode series streams on Peacock in the US from 15 October, with Sky and NOW bringing it to the UK and Ireland later the same month. Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Crystal Lake – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

  8. Oct 2 ·  Bonus

    Everybody Wants to F*ck Me – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF

    We're back with another bonus preview from TIFF 2026, and this one's got a title we're not going to be able to say on some podcast directories. Everybody Wants to F**k Me is the feature debut of writer-director Jonathan Schey, and it stars Taron Egerton as Adam, a London softboi running the full nice-guy playbook: love-bombing, performative sensitivity, and then ghosting women the morning after. Then a night with a mysterious stranger flips the premise on its head, and every woman he meets suddenly wants him, inescapably and with mounting menace. Literally. Jessica Henwick, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Charly Clive and Sophie Simnett round out the cast, and the film slides from sex comedy into paranoia thriller and briefly body horror along the way. It picked up strong word of mouth out of Toronto and sparked early reports of a bidding war, though as of our last check nobody's actually bought it yet. Studiocanal already has the UK, with a 2027 release pencilled in and no firm date. This one's going to sit on the shelf a while, but we wanted to get our thoughts down before Toronto fades from memory. And it's one you should have on your radar. Support us on Patreon to nominate films for us to cover, access exclusive bonus content, and vote on the final verdict! Rate and review us on your podcast platform of choice, and tell a friend about us. Follow us on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Bluesky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Everybody Wants to F*ck Me – Spoiler-free bonus review from TIFF
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Intrepid film fans Conrad and Dan review obscure and forgotten horror, sci-fi and fantasy movies to decide whether they should be set free or thrown back into the oubliette to be forgotten forever! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Conrad Chambers and Daniel Goh
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    230
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Conrad Chambers and Daniel Goh
  • Show Website
    Movie Oubliette
  • Provider
    Conrad Chambers

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