The Blind Rage podcast: Horror Movie Commentaries

I don’t think The Blind Rage Podcast has seen this much bloodshed since the BRAINDEAD episode… For this week’s commentary, Tony and I sit down to watch the Alex Chandon (CHAINSAW SCUMFUCK) 2011 splatterfest INBRED. In this little-known Brit flick, we’re introduced to a group of juvenile delinquents who travel to a remote town in the English countryside to complete their community service. Within h...

THE BLIND RAGE PODCAST HAS REACHED 200 EPISODES!!! To celebrate this landmark event, Tony and I sat down to watch a movie I repeatedly said I’d never do on the show. Not because I dislike it. Quite the contrary, actually. I love DEATH BECOMES HER just as much as Tony. However, I always considered it to be too much of a comedy. I mean, it has legendary comedienne Goldie Hawn as one of the three lea...

“It wasn’t a person. It was a guidance counselor.” This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, it’s PROM NIGHT III: THE LAST KISS, my favorite installment in the PROM NIGHT franchise, and one of my all-time favorite horror/comedies. With witty dialogue, creative kill sequences, and a fantastic performance by Courtney Taylor (who replaces Lisa Schrage as Mary Lou Maloney), this one is still a blast, even...

“It’s a miracle. He’s delivered himself. Like a fantastic surprise Christmas present, he’s been left at the door.” This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, it’s DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, arguably one of the best psychological thrillers of the 1990s, with powerhouse performances by stars Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, and Stuart Wilson. Blindfolded, stripped bare, and tied to a table, Paulina Escobar (Wea...

It’s 1957 and Mary Lou Maloney is making her way through the male half of the student body. On the night of the prom, where she is elected queen, a freak accident costs her her life and, for some reason, her soul is banished to a trunk in the school’s basement. Thirty years later, goody goody Vicki Carpenter is possessed by Mary Lou’s demonic spirit. And that demonic spirit still wants the crown....

With a title like L.A. AIDS JABBER, one would expect something slimy, seedy, sleazy, salacious. However, despite the subject matter, the Drew Goddress SOV time capsule of 1990s Los Angeles is surprisingly tame. The story is pretty straightforward. A young man diagnosed with a terminal disease decides to wreak havoc on the city, taking with him as many innocent bystanders as possible, while eluding...

For this week’s commentary, The Blind Rage Podcast takes a look at Adam Wingard’s 2011 home invasion thriller YOU’RE NEXT, starring the legendary Barbara Crampton as matriarch of a dysfunctional family who reunites for a sit-down dinner. Soon enough, bickering between the siblings commences—as does the slaughter of various guests by masked assailants sporting crossbows. Not a very original premise...

We’re once again going back to school this week on The Blind Rage Podcast! Well…sort of. There’s nary a classroom to be found in the 1984 proto slasher THE INITIATION. But we do spend lots of time running around a multi-story wholesaler building posing as a mall… In this genre classic, sorority pledge Kelly (Daphne Zuniga, THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, “Melrose Place”) suffers from cryptic nightmar...

Friends get more than they bargain for when they decide to track down a lost horror film, deemed the most terrifying ever made. A nice little throwback to grindhouse sleaze, with a screenplay penned by Splatterpunk alum David J. Schow. Starring Sophie Monk and William Sadler (the one and only Death from the BILL & TED movies).

Drifting from the bed where Matt lay sleeping, Ivory slips into a warm bath and cuts her wrists. Some months later, still mourning Ivory’s death and struggling to put the pieces of his life back together, Matt begins a new job teaching Psychology at a private university. It is on his first day, and during his first class, that Matt sees Ivory. Soon after, she appears behind him at his most vulnera...

“I kick arse for the Lord!” We’re going way, way down under for this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast! It’s Peter Jackson’s Kiwi cult classic BRAINDEAD (known in the good ol’ USA as DEAD ALIVE). Having met innumerable horror fans over the years, I can safely say I’ve never met a single one who doesn’t adore this flick. It’s just so off-the-wall bonkers, and in the best possible way. I ofte...

They sure don’t make ‘em like this anymore… A spiritual sequel to SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE II, HARD TO DIE involves a bevy of buxom career gals working late in a high-rise office building. As they proceed with the tedious task of taking inventory (this in between using the boss’ private shower and slipping into skimpy lingerie), an unseen predator stalks the shadows and begins picking them off in g...

For this week’s commentary, The Blind Rage Podcast delves into Ari Aster’s HEREDITARY, a modern horror classic that has undoubtedly inspired countless folk thrillers. While we dedicate a substantial amount of time discussing the actual film, there is a lot of gushing over Toni Collette’s amazing performance. But then again, it’s impossible to watch HERIDITARY, or any other titles in Collette’s ext...

“So, where’s your hose, Mr. Lombardo?” Tony and I are flying down to the slimy Floridian swamps for this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast. In WILD THINGS, we meet Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon), a guidance counselor whose world comes crashing down when a student (Denise Richards) accuses him of sexual impropriety. But, as we soon realize, nothing is as it seems in the fictitious town of Blue B...

It’s another obsessive love story this week on The Blind Rage Podcast. Y’know. One of those “If I can’t have you, no one can” type scenarios. In DEVIL IN THE FLESH, Debbie Strand (Rose McGowan) is a high school student whose mother dies in a mysterious fire. She is then taken to live with her abusive, mega religious grandmother, who sees everything Debbie does as sinful or outright blasphemous. It...

We return to The Land Down Under for this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast! In Brett Leonard’s FEED, we peel back the curtain to glimpse into the twisted world of feeders and gainers, a sexual fetish involving feeding a willing participant far past the point of morbid obesity. Both sickening and depraved, this one is only intended for those with a strong gag reflex.

On this week’s episode of The Blind Rage Podcast, we venture down some dark and unsettling terrain with John McNaughton’s infamous HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. Inspired by the real-life slayings of convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas, Michael Rooker plays the titular role—and boy, does he play it to the hilt. His portrayal of the sociopathic drifter is frightening, dead-on, and oftentimes ha...

After Julie (Elizabeth Caitan)is assaulted by some college classmates, she is persuaded to visit the neighborhood Necromancer, with the exotic name of Lisa, to exact bloody and extraordinarily odd vengeance on her wrongdoers. With cheesy dialogue, bad acting, and special effects done by a team who were probably learning as they went, NECROMANCER is basically an I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE-type story, if...

It isn’t long after the titular babysitter (Alicia Silverstone) arrives at the home of the Tucker family that things go awry. Dad (J.T. Walsh) ogles her the moment she passes the threshold. Mom (Lee Garlington) shows her dissatisfaction with both her marriage and family, as the kids tease one another across the dinner table. Elsewhere, Mark (Nicky Katt) devises how he’s going to make this Friday n...

I don’t think Tony is ever going to forgive me for this one… Well, I’ve been saying for months that I’d like to do a porno movie for The Blind Rage Podcast. For a while, I was toying with the idea of doing something rooted in the horror genre. Perhaps a parody. There is, after all, a slew of them, including FRIDAY THE 13TH, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, and even SCREAM. But those don’t have the cult...

“So much flesh, so little time…” It’s 2023 and here on The Blind Rage Podcast, we’re celebrating 25 years of Dee Snider’s STRANGELAND! What’s that? You’ve never heard of STRANGELAND? Oh dear… Once upon a time, there were these things called “chat rooms,” which you could find in a variety of places on the net. You’d keep your identity hidden (no pictures, no names, and sometimes, no genders). Your...

“She’s harmless… She’s as harmless as one of those stuffed birds.” This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, Tony and I sit down to watch Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal classic PSYCHO, a film which tanked at the box office and was ripped to shreds by critics. Of course, I’ve long ago pledged my allegiance to the original. I’m not mental. Or…a psycho… But I would call this one...

“Hi. This is Richard. I’m in your apartment…and I’m going to kill you.” This week on The Blind Rage Podcast, Staci Keanan and Cheryl Ladd star in LISA, a tense thriller involving a teenage girl’s infatuation with a handsome stranger who happens to be a serial killer. She entices him with flirtatious phone calls, claiming to be a woman from his past. Unfortunately, the longer she plays what she bel...

The 1987 adaptation of FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC may be a poor retelling of the classic VC Andrews novel, missing a number of major story elements and tweaking others, but I’ve always thought it stood on its own merits. Say what you will about the sheer ridiculousness of the ending or some of the lukewarm performances, but there is no denying Louise Fletcher’s embodiment of Olivia Foxworth, the evil gr...

Five strangers are chosen to participate in an experimental film, wherein they stay in a remote mountain house and live their lives on camera. During their first night, they discover the place is booby trapped and one by one, they are picked off in grisly fashion. Have they been chosen to star in the director’s own personal snuff film, or is something more sinister going on? KOLOBOS was a pretty i...