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The Outer Reels

The Outer Reels

A semi-deep dive into the world of vintage, obscure sci-fi movies and TV with Sam and Jason. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Forgotten Christmas Movies: Trapped Alive

December 18, 2025 • 76 mins

"Some ex-cons and two helpless girls get trapped inside a mine shaft with a Temu Hills Have Eyes monster that never really becomes a threat." Sam nails that one.

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Forgotten Christmas Movies: Blast of Silence

December 11, 2025 • 76 mins

Sam is annoyed that we even did this movie and spends more time talking about He-Man and Johnny Mnemonic, but Jason loved it.

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Sometime Directors: The Dark Side of the Moon

December 4, 2025 • 67 mins

This one's Event Horizon BEFORE Event Horizon?!? It's not a good movie (unlike Event Horizon), but we still have lots to talk about here.

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Sometime Directors: Hickey & Boggs

November 27, 2025 • 66 mins

Fun fact from Sam: Director Robert Culp shares a birthday with Cash of Tango and Cash fame. I'm sure you're better for knowing that. This one's an interesting time capsule that Jason enjoyed a fair bit more than Sam.

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Sometime Directors: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

November 20, 2025 • 62 mins

Sam makes rules onto to break them. Neither director on this movie is a "sometime", but it's fun to see the Shaw Brothers team up with Hammer Films.

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Sometime Directors: The Resurrected

November 13, 2025 • 76 mins

We watched this Dan O'Bannon-directed Lovecraft story because Sam wouldn't let Jason pick Return of the Living Dead.

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Sometime Directors: Phase IV

November 6, 2025 • 90 mins

This week we take a look at Sal Bass' only feature as a director: Phase IV. Bass is an artistic genius, and this is not the movie you might think it is from the poster. Also, Sam's still mad about Time After Time.

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Sometime Directors: Time After Time

October 30, 2025 • 64 mins

Jason was happy to revisit this classic from 1979, but Sam wasn't having it. As tends to happen, we digress a lot, but Sam encouraged it this time, even though he loves his San Francisco movies. Also, you won't believe who Sam's accountant is!

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Sometime Directors: The Ninth Configuration

October 23, 2025 • 78 mins

This is a meditation on regaining your faith..? Sam liked it more than Jason who saw the "twist" from the start.

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Sometime Directors: Pursuit

October 16, 2025 • 67 mins

We had fun with this fast-paced directorial debut from Michael Crichton: 1972's made-for-TV "Pursuit". Look for a blink-and-you'll miss him cameo from pre-famous Martin Sheen!

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Action Smacked: Roller Blade

October 9, 2025 • 67 mins

For the last movie in our season of selections from Action Smacked, we watched Roller Blade from 1986. It's a trip, and we still don't really know what happened.

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Action Smacked: Parole Violators

October 2, 2025 • 72 mins

If you can make it to the end of this Action Smacked pick, you might actually enjoy this family affair. Bonus old phone story time from Sam, and the usual gushing about Tango and Cash

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Action Smacked: Champagne and Bullets

September 25, 2025 • 85 mins

There's multiple versions (and titles!) of this movie and all seem to be a mess, but this guy has made a movie and we haven't, so it's got that going for it! Buckle up, this is a long one.

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Action Smacked: Penitentiary II

September 18, 2025 • 62 mins

This movie is WILD. It's not a good movie, but we still had some fun with this boxing Blaxploitation film from '82.

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Action Smacked: Hard Ticket to Hawaii

September 11, 2025 • 74 mins

Another fun pic from Action Smacked, though Jason enjoyed this more than Sam did (but Jason is also a pervert).

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Action Smacked: Robo Vampire

September 4, 2025 • 73 mins

Another pick from Action Smacked, but with a twist: Jason already owned this on DVD. This movie is terrible in the most wonderful ways but we also talk a lot about Robocop because how can you NOT?

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Action Smacked: Mr. No Legs

August 28, 2025 • 76 mins

We continue with our season of movies selected by Action Smacked. We had a lot of fun with this exploitation classic, even if it technically gave Jason serious anxiety.

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Action Smacked: Lady Terminator

August 21, 2025 • 70 mins

We start a new season where Jeff Kirschner from Action Smacked picks the movies for us. This week we start with a doozy: 1988's Lady Terminator, out of Indonesia. Is it more than just a Terminator rip-off?

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Street Fighter 2-Japan: The Last Dinosaur

August 14, 2025 • 94 mins

Sam (shockingly) enjoyed this more than Jason, but this live-action Japanese co-pro from Rankin Bass does have some charm. Warning: we digress A LOT on this one. #anythingbutcobra

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Street Fighter 2-Japan: The Green Slime

August 7, 2025 • 49 mins

Sam liked this a lot more than Jason, but it's still a fun watch and has a hell of a title song!

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