http://www.mondomovie.com Cult movies, horror, exploitation, world cinema and other genre treats on DVD and in theatres. Ben Howard and Dan Auty cast their square eyes over some of the strangest, coolest and scariest movies from around the world en-uk Mondo Movie 2005 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:00:00 GMT podcast@mondomovie.com 4 We return with a double-length show, featuring a review of Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell and a look at a trio of recent Hollywood horror remakes - Friday The 13th, My Bloody Valentine and The Last House On The Left. Plus an interview with Film Noir director Srdjan Penezic, a competition and interactive Twitter fun! Sat, 27 June 2009 09:00:00 GMT There's pint-size terror this week we take a look at British horror The Children, plus Jimmy Wang Yu takes on George Lazenby in the Ozploitation favourite The Man From Hong Kong. Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa returns with the historical fightfest Ong Bak 2, and we take a look at Michael Mann's curious wartime chiller The Keep. Plus we announce the first Mondo Twitter screening! Mon, 4 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT We return to the work of Dario Argento this week, as Four Flies On Grey Velvet finally arrives on DVD. There's also a double bill from British '70s horror favourite Pete Walker - Frightmare and House Of The Long Shadows. Plus more question of the week Twitter fun! Fri, 10 April 2009 09:00:00 GMT On this week's show we see take a look at all the movies we watched at Frightfest's one-day Spring event, including Coffin Joe's Embodiment Of Evil, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Not Quite Hollywood and Lesbian Vampire Killers. Plus a chat with the creators of Repo! Fri, 20 March 2009 09:00:00 GMT This week we take a look at Jennifer Lynch's first film for 15 years, the dark horror thriller Surveillance, plus a welcome uncut DVD release of the original My Bloody Valentine. Mon, 2 March 2009 09:00:00 GMT In an exclusive interview we talk to genre legend Stuart Gordon about his career, from Re-animator to his latest movie Stuck. There's also a review of bonkers Korean western The Good The Bad The Weird... and a surprise appearance by Werner Herzog! Er, sort of. Fri, 13 February 2009 09:00:00 GMT On our first show of 2009, we explore Jean-Claude Van Damme's post-modern action-thriller JCVD and take a look at some of the movies we're looking forward to most in the upcoming year. Tue, 20 January 2009 09:00:00 GMT On our last show of the year, we count down our top 10 movies of the last 12 months... plus our least favourite! Happy New Year everyone! Wed, 31 December 2008 09:00:00 GMT It's our Christmas show and we celebrate by reviewing two decidedly un-seasonal movies - brutal Italian crime drama Gomorra and punk rock shockumentary Hated. Plus live present swapping! Tue, 23 December 2008 09:00:00 GMT This week we take a look at Stuart Gordon's dark melodrama Stuck and revisit a favourite from the 1980s, Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist. Fri, 12 December 2008 09:00:00 GMT Guillermo Del Toro delivers more lavish fantasy action and demonic quips with Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and we pop our Bollywood cherries with the 1975 classic Sholay. Plus question of the week, listener mail and the winner of last show's Last House On The Left competition. Thu, 20 November 2008 09:00:00 GMT This week we take a look at the historical Chinese war epic Red Cliff, John Woo's much anticipated return to Asian film-making, plus the new three-disc edition of Wes Craven's seminal 70s shocker last House On the Left. Wed, 5 November 2008 09:00:00 GMT It's a Frank Henenlotter special this week, as we look at a quartet of weird and wonderful movies from the godfather of New York sleaze - Basket Case, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker and Basket Case 2. Plus listener mail, question of the week and the Movie War winner. And thanks to Paul Fricker for the ker-azy intro! Thu, 16 October 2008 09:00:00 GMT We wrap up our look at this year's Frightfest with reviews of two of the year's most anticipated horror releases - Swedish vampire drama Let the Right One In and the highly controversial French shocker Martyrs. Plus Tokyo Gore Police, Midnight Meat Train, Mirrors and The Dead Outside Sun, 28 September 2008 09:00:00 GMT In part one of our Frightfest special we take a look at the movies we saw on the first couple of days at the UK horror fest, including Eden Lake, Time Crimes, Mum And Dad, Dance Of The Dead and Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology. Plus... the Movie War final!! Sun, 7 September 2008 09:00:00 GMT There's a double bill of Asian revenge this week, as we tackle gore-laden Japanese romp The Machine Girl and classic horror melodrama from Indonesia, The Queen Of Black Magic Sun, 10 August 2008 09:00:00 GMT Legendary Roman sleazefest Caligula is under discussion this week, along with gritty '60s crime thriller Blast Of Silence. Plus, we pay our respects to Stan Winston and edge ever closer to the Movie War final...! Fri, 25 July 2008 09:00:00 GMT There's more French horror this week, as we take a look at Xavier Gens' splattery Frontiere(s). We also finally review Coffin Joe's freaky 1970s classic Awakening Of The Beast. Sat, 5 July 2008 09:00:00 GMT It's an all Argento show this week, as we take take a look at five movies from the master of modern Italian horror - Deep Red, Inferno, Phenomena, Opera and The Stendahl Syndrome. Plus, what we thought of the new Indiana Jones movie... Thu, 19 June 2008 09:00:00 GMT Ultra-violent French shocker Inside and Italian crime drama Ricco The Mean Machine come under the spotlight this week, together with the usual doses of listener feedback and movie war Wed, 4 June 2008 09:00:00 GMT It's a slightly less structured show than usual this week, as we tinker with the Mondo Movie format. Neil Marshall's futuristic actionfest Doomsday comes under our post-apocalyptic gaze, together with some movie news and listener feedback. Wed, 21 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT On this week's show we take look at the movies we watched at last weekend's Optimum/Frightfest one-day special - Dario Argento's long-awaited Mother Of Tears, Aussie shocker Storm Warning and teen cannibal romp Welcome To The jungle. Plus we wrap up our Ingmar Bergman festival with the disturbing Hour Of The Wolf Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:00:00 GMT Frank Darabont's scary adaptation of Stephen King The Mist leads this week's reviews, plus bruising Brazilian cop drama Elite Squad and Ingmar Bergman's freaky Persona Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT This week we take a look at Paul Thomas Anderson's acclaimed oil epic There Will be Blood, hairy 70s monsterfest Grizzly, and in the second part of our Ingmar Bergman festival, slapstick laugh-riot The Virgin Spring. Plus, round one of Movie War finally comes to an end! Sun, 2 Mar 2008 09:00:00 GMT On the first show of 2008, the Coen brothers return with their tough crime thriller No Country For Old Men and George Romero delivers more undead action in Diary Of The Dead. Plus we look forward to our most anticipated movies of the year Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT On this week's bumper-length show we take a look back over the last 12 months - our favourite movies and not-so-favourite. Plus your mail and movie war. Happy Christmas to all our listeners!! Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:00:00 GMT We return with reviews of Brian De Palma's controversial Iraq war drama Redacted and Chan-wook Park's oddball fantasy romance I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK. We also kick off our Ingmar Bergman festival with his classic The Seventh Seal Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:00:00 GMT Join us as we celebrate the '80s horror scene with a quartet of splattery favourites from that decade - backwoods slasher The Burning, zombie romp Return Of The Living Dead, Stuart Gordon's trippy gorefest From Beyond and the creepy oddity Scarecrows. Plus movie war, listener feedback and a new competition Thu, 8 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT It might be old news, but we finally get round to reviewing Tarantino and Rodriguez's Grindhouse, plus Rob Zombie's Halloween remake and in the last part of our carsploitation festival, the classic Two-lane Blacktop Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMT Fresh from our holidays we tackle the movies we watched at last month's Frightfest, including Kiwi killer sheep comedy Black Sheep, snow-bound Norweigian slasher Cold Prey, splat-tastic backwoods horror sequel Wrong Turn 2 and the moving Spanish chiller The Orphanage. Plus movie war, listener feedback and music from Goblin-loving synth-rock duo Zombi! Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT This week we seek enlightenment and immortality on Alejandro Jodorowsky's bonkers-but-brilliant Holy Mountain and in Darren Aronofsky's much-malinged Fountain. Plus Kowalski attempts to outrun The Man in the third part of our Carsploitation festival, Vanishing Point Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:00:00 GMT There's sex, blues, chains and Southern redemption this week as we review Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan. Elsewhere we attempt to decipher Jodorowsky's cult classic El Topo and gun our engines for the second part of our Carsploitation festival, Death Race 2000 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:00:00 GMT The Korean actionfest The City Of Violence leads this week's reviews, along with notorious 70s exploitation thriller Fight For Your Life and in the first part of our Carsploitation festival, the Peter Fonda-starring chase classic Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry Thu, 19 July 2007 09:00:00 GMT It's an all Mario Bava special this week, as we celebrate the godfather of Italian horror and look at three of his classics - Black Sunday, Black Sabbath and Kill, Baby... Kill! Plus movie war and listener feedback Sat, 7 July 2007 09:00:00 GMT Paul Verhoeven's wartime thriller Black Book leads this week's reviews, together with John Hillcoat's dark melodrama To Have And To Hold, and in the final part of our Jack Hill festival, the female gangland epic Switchblade Sister Mon, 11 June 2007 09:00:00 GMT This week we dissect the new special edition DVD of Stuart Gordon's splatter classic Re-Animator, fight deadly ninjas in the samuari swordfest Shogun Assassin and in the third part of our Jack Hill festival, celebrate Pam Grier and her kick-ass vigilante Coffy! Sun, 20 May 2007 09:00:00 GMT