Movie Oubliette

Conrad plucks Saturn 3 out of the oubliette and Dan has to contend with Harvey Keitel with his voice dubbed, Farrah Fawcett turning on a homicidal robot and Kirk Douglas getting into naked fist fights. Neither of them notice they've picked a film with '3' in the title as their third episode. Will they give this sci-fi oddity access to the escape pod?

Conrad introduces Dan to Society, and it's quite the coming out party. Our antipodean adventurer has to contend with 1989 hairstyles, tea with a splash of urine, and yuppies taking the concept of mergers to a whole new level. Blanchard! Will our heroes allow Brian Yuzna's film to go forth and shunt the world?

We're revisiting the big budget adaptation of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher at long last! Not only is the film celebrating its 20th anniversary, it's also a movie Dan's been wanting to cover since he started reading the book 5 years ago when we started this podcast! He's finally finished it, despite a canine mishap midway through, so here we are... And what a spectacle it is. An isolated snowy landscape, an alien invasion, possession, red fungal infections, a group of friends with psychic powers... there's a lot going on in this one! And the pedigree of the artists behind it is astonishing: Lawrence Kasdan, the writer of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back, directs and co-scripts with Misery adapter and The Princess Bride scribe William Goldman, with a cast that includes Morgan Freeman, Damian Lewis, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, Thomas Jane, Tom Sizemore and Donnie Wahlberg. And special effects by ILM! What could possibly go wrong?! A lot, it turns out. But is it still worthy of freedom from the oubliette? Find out!

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Conrad is joined by Joe Lipsett live and in-person at the Toronto International Film Festival to give early reviews of the horror, sci-fi and fantasy films that premiered at TIFF this year. In this first bonus episode, we're looking at the body horror films on the programme: including Coralie Fargeat's The Substance (winner of the People's Choice Award), Max Minghella's Shell, Marielle Heller's Nightbitch and Thibault Emin's debut Else.

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In their first childhood nostalgia special, Conrad and Dan take a look at Willow – a 1988 fantasy adventure directed by Ron 'Solo' Howard. It has everything: robotic baby stand-ins, the first ever CGI morphing effect and Val Kilmer. Is it a classic deserving release from the oubliette or a travesty best viewed through nostalgia goggles?