Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: Zeiram
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1991 Japanese sci-fi monster film Zeiram, in which a futuristic bounty hunter from space must hunt down a deadly alien renegade with the help of two hapless electricians. (originally published 4/4/2022)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.6 | This is Rob Lamb, and oh, let's see. |
| 0:14.3 | Today we have an older episode of the show that we've never rerun, so we are unearthing it. |
| 0:20.6 | It is the 1991 Japanese sci-fi monster film Zeram. I may or may not be |
| 0:26.9 | pronouncing the alien's name correctly here. I don't recall. The sights and sounds, |
| 0:33.4 | except for the pronunciation of this alien's name. I certainly remember mostly the sights. |
| 0:37.9 | This one has an amazing futuristic bounty hunter character and some various other effects that are |
| 0:43.9 | just tons of fun. Maybe we'll get around to watching the sequel at some point. This one originally |
| 0:48.2 | published 4-4-2020. Let's enter the picture. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:05.9 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 1:09.1 | My name is Rob Lamb. |
| 1:10.5 | And my name is Joe McCormick. |
| 1:12.3 | And today's movie is a 1991 Japanese film called Zayram, or maybe better to say Zerum, |
| 1:21.7 | because the Zayram really sounds like the Tennessee take on the name of the alien in this film. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. But hey, what do you know? |
| 1:29.6 | This is our very first space bounty hunter movie. |
| 1:33.7 | And I think I'll have to be honest and say that Zeyram is not the most scintillating |
| 1:38.6 | movie I have ever seen. |
| 1:40.2 | But it has a really great central monster. |
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