Special Report: The Vile (2025)

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Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mike welcomes Emirati filmmaker Majid Al Ansari to discuss The Vile (2025), his long-awaited return to the director’s chair after nearly a decade. Known as Hoba in Arabic, the film is a psychological horror story about Amani, a wife and mother whose world collapses when her husband brings home a second wife with seemingly supernatural powers. Drawing on myths and superstitions surrounding polygamy, Al Ansari literalizes whispered fears into a chilling tale of possession, betrayal, and domestic dread. Mike and Majid talk about his journey from his acclaimed debut Zinzana to producing and directing for television, his cinephile passions, and how The Vile takes folklore and turns it into unnerving, cinematic horror.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Jason Cleberg from the Force 5 podcast, a show that forces a guest to come up with a movie themed top five list topic and then we reveal our picks on air.
0:10.0	Top 5 heist films, top five tear jerkers, top five movie dogs. Every show you'll be asking yourself, what would be on my list?
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0:33.2	Do you love movies?
0:34.9	So do I.
0:36.3	What's up y'all?
0:36.9	It's KB and I love movies. Inviting you to listen to The Conversation,
0:42.5	a film podcast where passion meets perspective and opinion.
0:47.8	From the old school to the new, I invite a guest on to discuss the movies that thrill us,
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1:03.8	We don't just watch movies. We love talking about them too. A conversation with KB Loves Movies,
1:10.2	a part of someone's favorite productions podcast network.
1:15.4	Hello and welcome to Tumbleweeds and TV Cowboys. My name is Hunter. In this podcast, I'll be
1:20.5	joined by a different guest each week to discuss a classic Western movie or TV show. I've been a
1:25.3	fan of classic Westerns for as long as I can remember, and in recent years, they've become very nostalgic for me. I love the aesthetic, the tropes, and I love seeing different filmmakers' takes on them. At their best, they're incredibly entertaining, rewatchable, and some of my all-time favorite movies are westerns. We'll mostly focus on Western movies made in Hollywood, but we'll also be covering
1:44.2	spaghetti westerns, and one thing I'm very excited to get into are Western TV shows. I've got some
1:49.0	amazing guests coming on the show, film professors, historians, and podcasters, and tumbleweeds
1:53.9	and TV Cowboys is part of the Someone's Favorite Productions Podcast Network, and many guests on the show
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