Weirdhouse Cinema: The Boogens
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 96 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the 1981 mining monster film “The Boogens,” directed by James L. Conway and starring Rebecca Balding and Fred McCarren.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:20.6 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1981 American horror movie, The Bougains, directed by James L. Conway, starring Rebecca Balding and Fred McCarron. |
| 0:35.4 | Rob, I think it's a bit of serendipity that you got to watch this movie |
| 0:40.3 | on an airplane on the way back from actually being in some caverns, like seen in the movie |
| 0:46.1 | The Bougains? Well, as featured in the Bougains, yes, actual caves, which may come back to |
| 0:53.4 | in some upcoming episodes of stuff to blow your mind. |
| 0:56.5 | But yeah, fresh off of some adventures in some actual caves, I got to experience these adventures in probably not actual caves. |
| 1:05.4 | I read somewhere that the cave sets here or the mine whatever you know the underground cavern |
| 1:11.5 | sets were built in a grocery store i think okay but a little pretty good yeah but so you were on an |
| 1:17.4 | airplane maybe with a head cold watching the booggins that sounds like a that's a mind space |
| 1:23.0 | and clearly as the as the filmmakers intended with me occasionally having to like lean forward if there's like a little bit of nudity in the film to keep the people in the seats behind me from seeing it and wondering what I'm watching. |
| 1:36.6 | But not that there's a lot of nudity in this one. |
| 1:38.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:39.5 | So before you ask, yes, this is a movie I picked about 80% on the basis of the title. |
| 1:46.7 | I came across. |
| 1:47.8 | I'd never seen the booggins before. |
| 1:50.5 | And I got to the title and I watched the trailer. |
| 1:54.2 | And the trailer is great because there's no narration for most of it. |
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