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Dead Formats: An Obscure Movie Podcast

Dead Formats

Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 37

A movie podcast dedicated to breathing new life into dead formats – interactive movies, made-for-TV stuff, shot-on-video films, that sort of thing. If it’s obscure, bizarre, or almost unwatchable, we want to talk about it.

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🇺🇸 USA - Film History
24/06/2026
#74
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
19/06/2026
#94
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
27/05/2026
#95
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
21/05/2026
#95
🇩🇪 Germany - Film History
22/04/2026
#91
🇩🇪 Germany - Film History
21/04/2026
#68
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
24/03/2026
#92
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
23/03/2026
#68
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
27/02/2026
#93
🇺🇸 USA - Film History
16/01/2026
#94

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https://letterboxd.com/DeadFormats/
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https://videoh8.ticketspice.com/videoh8-presents-pulgasari-3d-1985
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https://videoh8.ticketspice.com/videoh8-presents-the-wraith-1986
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https://www.instagram.com/deadformatspod
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https://www.instagram.com/weeklymassacre
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https://www.instagram.com/dakotanoot
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Psycho Hypnosis Ecstasy Part 1 (1985) and Female Criminal Ten-Handed Punishment (1994) with Two in the Pinku

Season 2 · Episode 36

Monday, June 15, 2026 • Duration 01:19:11

Dead Formats welcomes back Dakota and Chris from the Two in the Pinku for this very strange episode. They discuss Psycho Hypnosis Ecstasy Part 1 (サイコ　催眠　エクスタシー　Part 1), Psycho Trip Ecstasy (サイコ・トリップ・エクスタシー), and Female Criminal Ten-Handed Punishment (女犯十手裏仕置). The first two are part of an erotic hypnosis series created by JAV legend Tadashi Yoyogi and the second is a surprisingly well-crafted Edo period noir action film from King Records.

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Instagram: Dakota and Chris
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The Mask (1961) with The Weekly Pocast Massacre

Season 2 · Episode 35

Monday, June 1, 2026 • Duration 02:09:56

Chris is joined by Greg and Murph from The Weekly Podcast Massacre to talk The Mask (1961). Chris had a busy weekend and will update the description later. P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

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Lone Tiger (1996) with 5 Day Rentals

Season 2 · Episode 34

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 01:36:00

Chris is joined by Bones, Dan, and Kron from the 5 Day Rentals podcast to discuss Lone Tiger (1996), an unofficial American adaptation of the Tiger Mask manga starring low budget stalwarts Richard Lynch, Robert Z'Dar, and Matthias Hues. If you love to piss, you won't want to miss out on this one!

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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994) with Nerds, Geeks, and the Kitchen Sink

Season 2 · Episode 33

Monday, May 18, 2026 • Duration 01:24:48

Dead Formats is joined by DK and Chris from Nerds, Geeks, and the Kitchen Sink to discuss Guyver: Dark Hero (1994), the often overlooked direct-to-video sequel to the Mark Hamill cult classic, The Guyver (1991). This film has an amazing practical effects pedigree, ridiculous fight choreography, and stars Solid Snake himself, David Hayter, in his first film role. American tokusatsu at its finest!

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Instagram: Nerds, Geeks, and the Kitchen Sink
Bandcamp: Letters to Dracula

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Maximum Surge (2003) with Jim and Staring Jon

Season 2 · Episode 32

Monday, May 4, 2026 • Duration 01:50:23

Chris is joined by Jim from Waxing the Porpoise and Staring Jon to discuss Maximum Surge (2003), a "film" Frankensteined together using footage from full-motion video (FMV) games. The trio discuss the history of FMV games, debate the meaning of "virtual habitation system", and reminisce about grade school computer lab shenanigans. The episode concludes with a trivia game featuring questions about defunct soda brands. If you have a GMC Sierra, you won't want to miss this one!

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Twitch: KineticOnslot

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The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971) with Brantley and George

Season 2 · Episode 31

Monday, April 20, 2026 • Duration 02:30:23

Chris is joined by Brantley from Horror Drafts and George from The Best Little Horror House in Philly to discuss the 1971 Oscar-winning, apocalyptic horror, pseudo-nature documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971). They discuss the ethics of documentary filmmaking, how the Academy often gets things wrong when it comes to documentary features, and the current state of docs as an art form. Is The Hellstrom Chronicle really even a documentary? Is it an outright comedy or a subversive commentary on the power of rhetoric and the dangers of following charismatic personalities? Which bug is the grossest? One thing's for sure, this episode is "throbbing with obese sexuality" and you won't want to miss it!

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Fata Morgana (1979) and The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969 (2005) with TYTD Reviews and Trivial Theater

Season 2 · Episode 30

Monday, April 13, 2026 • Duration 01:55:01

Chris is joined by Dan from TYTD Reviews and Triv from Trivial Theater to look at a couple of Swedish curiosities, The Werewolf Cult Chronicles: Vietnam 1969 (2005) and Fata Morgana (1979). This episode is a special thanks to all of our Swedish listeners out there and includes discussions about the state of Swedish genre cinema, minor Swedish pop-cultural icons of 70s such as 11-year-old rock 'n' roll sensation Per-Erik Jonsson, the music of Björn Skifs, Swedish drag artist Christer Lindarw, and much, much more!

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Supplemental Material:

Ghoulies Unvocered Episode 1

Season 2 · Episode 29

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 • Duration 27:41

Introduction to the Ghoulies Uncovered

Deep dive into the opening credit animal sounds at the beginning of the movie.

GhouliesUC.com

For complete show notes, links and discussion:

Telegram @ GhouliesUC

https://t.me/ghouliesus

Discord @ GhouliesUC#1984

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Mother Goose Rock ’n’ Rhyme (1990) with Box Office Gross

Season 2 · Episode 28

Monday, March 23, 2026 • Duration 02:17:24

Chris is joined by Brian and Rob from Box Office Gross to talk about the Disney Channel oddity, Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990), including how they each encountered it (or didn’t), why it works better as nostalgia than as a feature-length watch, and how its music video look reflects director Jeff Stein’s background. They run through standout bits and cameos from the stacked cast (Shelley Duvall, Little Richard, ZZ Top, Bobby Brown, Simon & Garfunkel, Cyndi Lauper, Woody Harrelson, and more!) plus the existence of multiple cuts with major pacing and scoring differences. The episode also includes a short side segment on Simply Mad About the Mouse (1991), a VHS/LaserDisc compilation of celebrity Disney song covers.

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Saru no Gundan (1974) with The Weekly Podcast Massacre

Season 2 · Episode 27

Monday, March 9, 2026 • Duration 01:59:48

Chris is joined by Greg and Murph from The Weekly Podcast Massacre to talk Saru no Gundan (ドラマ猿の軍団) from 1974, a Japanese TV series loosely inspired by Planet of the Apes, covering the first three episodes and how the show was later reshaped into Time of the Apes and featured on MST3K. They discuss the series' Tsuburaya Productions origins, lack of an official English translation, Planet of the Apes' Japanese popularity, and how its story can fit within broader Apes timeline logic. The episode breakdown follows Dr. Izumi and two kids who are accidentally frozen during a disaster, awaken in an ape-run future, and immediately face repeated capture-and-escape chaos, meeting the human survivor Gōdo, glimpsing escalating ape government power plays, and ending on an insane cliffhanger. A new Short Ends segment spotlights Horror Hall of Fame I (1990), the syndicated Robert Englund-hosted horror awards show featuring Chucky, Jason, and a Vincent Price lifetime award presented by Roddy McDowall, plus debate over Arachnophobia winning Best Horror Film.

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