The Really Awful Movies Podcast

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Assault_on_precinct_thirteen_movie_poster.jpg)In this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, show regular Scott Drebit (columnist over at Daily Dead) joins us to discuss all things Carpenter. First, we examine the awesome urban scum thriller Assault on Precinct 13, where a cop finds himself trapped in an abandoned police station with lif...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1191340025/logo-square.jpg)In this special edition of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Jeff interviews a slew of luminaries who attended the Shock Stock horror convention in Southwestern Ontario this summer. In this episode, we get to hear from: * Dan Hicks. Hicks is best known for his roles in Evil Dead II, Darkman and also, Intruder, one of the coolest and m...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/Stryker-1983-poster.jpg)Roving bandits...sand...lots of sand...leather...more sand. We're in post-apocalyptic territory this week with the silly and fun STRYKER. There's a battle over scant resources...in this case, a spring inside a cave that's controlled by female Amazon warriors. Naturally, there's a group of villainous marauding hordes who want i...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Contamination-Film-Poster.jpg)A mysterious ship is adrift in the Hudson River...Authorities board her, and they encounter gooey green eggs. Instead of approaching with caution, one of them grabs the strange cargo. BOOM! That's the end of this government official. Contamination is a 1980 Italian / German co-production, a science fiction-horror film di...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/ChildrenoftheCornPoster.jpg)Folk horror reached its apotheosis with The Wicker Man. While Children of the Corn doesn't reach the same heights, it's still pretty darn cool. Vicky and Burt are criss-crossing the US en route to Seattle so he can pursue interests in the medical profession. Along the way, a kid dressed in Amish garb wanders out onto the h...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Bone_Tomahawk_Poster.jpg)Serene, leisurely, dialogue-driven western with bursts of extreme horror violence, Bone Tomahawk is a very unique film indeed. When three people are kidnapped from a frontier town, the law hauls in a native guide to see if he knows what's happened. He claims it wasn't the work of his tribe at all, but the handiwork of a group...

(https://reallyawfulmovies.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/hunter_.jpg)Ron Becks is...HUNTER. He's a "mystical cop" and this $200,000 (but looks much cheaper) California action flick is mystifying. Directed by Gregory Hatanaka (Samurai Cop 2) we're introduced to the very zen Tony Robbins platitude dispenser, Hunter. He happens to work for LAPD's International Sex Crimes Unit. Hunter is a bewildering f...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Friday_the_13th_part2.jpg)This addition to the Friday the 13th franchise finds Jason Voorhees still finding his form/ identity. Pre-hockey mask, this is the butcher of Camp Crystal Lake in pillow-case face regalia, a la the killer from The Town that Dreaded Sundown. And unlike in later incarnations, he has to really work to kill his victims. Also, Ja...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Texas_chainsaw_massacre_2_poster.jpg)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is the polarizing follow up to the 1974 classic. The poster artwork alone (an homage to The Breakfast Club) indicates that this one may not be true to the gritty tone of the original, but is in many ways, an over-the-top parody. And like many sequels, there are new characters. There's...

(http://i0.wp.com/www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/dangerous-men-posters-4.jpg?resize=366%2C542)A seemingly straight-ahead rape-revenge flick that veers into totally unforeseen directions, Dangerous Men is the brainchild of Iranian immigrant John S. Rad, and took 26 years to complete (!) And the final product shows - literally - as there are calendars from 1983 and rock Ts from 1991. There a...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Horrorexpress.jpg)Peter Cushing. Christopher Lee. What more do you need? As a bonus, there's Telly Savalas. And a mad monk. In Horror Express, a train is transporting mysterious cargo belonging to anthropologist Dr. Saxton (Lee). The contents include a frozen, hairy missing link-type creature found in Manchuria. Naturally, curiosity gets the better o...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/The-Stuff-poster.jpg)Larry Cohen territory on this episode. He's the man behind It's Alive and also The Stuff. The Stuff (Michael Moriarty/Paul Sorvino) is about a marshmallow / yogurt-like substance that's a hit with consumers...however, it turns out: it's alive! A consumer satire / creature feature, this is one interesting flick. Everything Cohen d...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Missing_in_action_2.jpg)An American hero's story continues... Or does it begin? Missing in Action 2 was supposed to be released as the first. Why? Because it's a Cannon film! No explanation needed. On this episode, a look at the Chuck Norris film, our first foray into all things Carlos Ray Norris, karate black belt / meme machine. Does it hold up? Do...

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LsXQUxxLL._SY300_.jpg)The Sinful Dwarf is a raunchy 1973 Danish exploitation film available in limited edition Blu-Ray (pick it up at Severin Films https://severin-films.com/shop/the-sinful-dwarf-blu-ray/) Dwarf Olaf lives with his boozy, aged mother, who runs both a bed & breakfast (well, more of a flophouse / rooming house) and also, in its attic, a heroi...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Pumpkinhead.jpg)Stan Winston's 1988 feature, Pumpkinhead. It's polarizing, undeniably original, yet somehow unfulfilling. Either way, it's worth a look. There's a prologue featuring a family out in a cabin in the woods (always good) and something scary lurking therein. Fast forward and the boy who saw something untoward is all grown up (Lance Henriks...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Masterdisguise.jpg)An unlikely, though very strong, candidate for one of the worst comedies of all time, The Master of Disguise is billed as "1000 faces...and not a single clue." The latter could be an indictment of whoever financed this, a film with a potential audience of basically nobody. It's too advanced for kids, yet too dumb for adults; its mi...

(http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/hellholebluray90_n.jpg)Jacuzzi romps, lesbian nurses,evil experiments, a blackmail plot, an undercover investigation and an all-star cast of B-movie nonentities, Hellhole features the glorious gams of Mary Woronov, the champion chin of Robert Z'Dar, the not particularly great Marjoe Gortner and much much more (actually, not that much, truth be told). Unwittin...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SocietyPoster.jpg)This Brian Yuzna film is a weird beast indeed. Put out on Blu-ray by Arrow, Society is a very compelling and hugely original film that is incredibly difficult not to spoil. We did our very very best in Episode 102. We urge listeners to check out this film before listening. (Hey, it's from the producer of Re-Animator. That's enough i...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Dolemite.jpg)You rat soup eatin' no good honky m*tha f*cka! We enter blaxploitation territory with the infamous Rudy Ray Moore vehicle, the boom mic heavy cult classic Dolemite. He plays the title character, imprisoned for drug running and trading in illegal furs (!). In exchange for his freedom, Dolemite cuts a deal with a corrupt warden to go back...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Zombie_h_dvd.jpg)Welcome to the (unofficial) EPISODE 100. Here, we delve into a lunatic Italian pseudo cannibal film, Dr Butcher MD, aka Zombie Holocaust. This is a blast from the past, one of co-host Chris's most influential films. When "pieces of corpses," go missing from a local university teaching hospital, we find out that the culprit is some is...

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1424/716054900_e85e15eaa8.jpg)We're big fans of Vincent Price and if you haven't checked out Jeff's interview with Vincent's daughter Victoria, you owe it to yourself to do so. Here we examine the VP classic, House on Haunted Hill. Many horror fans (and movie fans in general) are reluctant to delve into the past as they see anything made before 1996 as "old." But, as...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Cage_1989_poster.jpg)Lou Ferrigno AND Reb Brown. This is basically B-movie heaven for us. In CAGE, the two muscled legends are soldiers in 'Nam, and Billy (the go-to name for someone who is a bit slow-witted) is wounded by shrapnel. This causes him brain damage. The sergeant whose life he saved, Scotty (Brown) later helps him recuperate and basically...

(https://reallyawfulmovies.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/plankton_movie__fish.jpg)Two aquatic-themed Italian creature feature horrors. Which is odd, as we didn't plan it. In this episode, a regular feature of the Really Awful Movies Podcast we call CRAP OF THE WEEK, we discuss movies one of us has seen and the other hasn't and vice versa. Against all odds, two very similar something fishy movies, Is...

(http://images.moviepostershop.com/monkey-shines-movie-poster-1988-1010363041.jpg)Killer monkeys are on the loose. In George A. Romero's Monkey Shines, it's a telepathic Capuchin helper monkey, and in Shakma, it's a rampaging baboon in a university hospital. It's Old World Vs New World Monkeys in this battle of our closest genetic cousins in the animal world. We love "animals attack" / "nature run...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Nightmare2.jpg)It's quite telling that the film's tagline is, "the man of your dreams is back," and that the protagonist is looking at the Springwood Slasher instead of his paramour. Homoerotic subtext abounds in this mediocre sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Five years have gone by since the original Nightmare murders, and Elm street has new occ...