Caliber 9 From Outer Space

We love original horror poster art here at Caliber 9 From Outer Space, and this week we are honoured to host one of the true great artists of that idiom. Graham Humphreys is our guest this week, and we delve into a couple of 1960's horror gems. First up, under-seen Hammer horror-adventure-fantasy The Lost Continent (1968), directed by Michael Carreras and then we go full Lovecraft with Die, Monster, Die! (1965), directed by Daniel Haller.

We really don't think these films can be spoiled, so we won't be announcing a Spoiler Territory section for either of them, even though we go into detail on the plots of both.

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"Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River

Forgive us for posting a slightly ramshackle bonus episode, but we thought some of you might like to hear how this year's Joefest was going!

Joefest is a private film festival we run every year in the depths of the British wintertime, when there's nothing better to do than sit inside and watch weird movies from the wilder side of cinema. In this episode, Al and Ali join us to quickly run over the films we've watched and what we thought of them.

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Here's the full list of this year's feature films:

Twisted Pair (2018), dir. Neil Breen

The Outwaters (2022), dir. Robbie Banfitch

Alucarda (1977), dir. Juan Lopez Moctezuma

Champagne and Bullets (1993), dir. John De Hart

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), dir. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller

The Cassandra Crossing (1976), dir. George P. Cosmatos

Flesh Feast (1970), dir. Brad F. Grinter

Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself With Tea (1977), dir. Jindrich Polak

Death Run (1987), dir. Michael J. Murphy

Junk Head (2017) dir. Takahide Hori

The Kindred (1987), dir. Stephen Carpenter & Jeffrey Obrow

Angel Dust (1994), dir. Gakuryu Ishii

Night of Death (1980), dir. Raphael Delpard

Night Angel (1990), dir. Dominique Othenin-Girard

Angel in the Night (1988), dir. Hernando Name

Take a Hard Ride (1975). dir. Antonio Margheriti

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), dir. Wojcech Has

The Demon's Baby (1998), dir. Kant Leung

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"Nightcall" by Kavinsky

As we bemoan the state of the world today and endure the anxiety of this cryptofascist, post-truth reality, we risk losing sight of the real danger to us all: savage fish men! Today we go right back where it all started, Universal's seminal entry in this monster subgenre, Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), directed by Jack Arnold. We then skip lightly over its first sequel and focus on its under-rated third entry, The Creature Walks Among Us (1956).

Fair warning: we go into the plots of both films in some detail, including the endings, but these films are over 70 years old and the storylines don't have much in the way of twists in any case, so we won't be announcing a Spoiler Territory section for either of them.

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"Walk Into The Sea" by Johnny Marr

In the future... it pays to be more than human. And it also pays quite well to be more than machine. What can I tell you, the future is highly discriminatory. In this bonus episode, Ted joins Rob and Joe to make a bit of a mess of explaining the plot of Nemesis (1992), directed by Albert Pyun. Cyborgs, bullets, bottoms, and dusters with shades - it's the quintessence of dystopian trashy sci-fi action.

Given how challenged we were by the impenetrable plot, which is of secondary importance at best, anyway, we simply don't bother with Spoiler Territory this week. Meaning, we do talk about the whole plot, but honestly it doesn't really matter.

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"Killer" by CHVRCHES

We're going back to the 1960's, this time to Swinging London and the Carnaby Street scene. It's not so much groovy, man, as smashing, luv! Justin Kerswell joins us to discuss a couple of near forgotten emanations of this peculiarly British reaction to the spirit of the age. We start off with Smashing Time (1967), directed by Desmond Davis and follow that up with Haunted House of Horror (1969), directed by Michael Armstrong.

We don't think you can really spoil Smashing Time, whose plot is somewhat surplus to requirements, but we will call out Spoiler Territory for Haunted House of Horror. If you want to skip ahead from that point, you can rejoin the conversation at the 2:17:53 mark to avoid spoilers.

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"Smash It Up" by The Damned