The Really Awful Movies Podcast

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Fly_poster.jpg)On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, what is arguably the greatest horror remake of all time, The Fly (not that we want to argue, but if anyone wants to step up to the lectern and make a case for The Thing or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, we'd be happy to entertain it). Flies and death are synonymous. This wasn't news...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Santa_With_Muscles.jpg)Santa with Muscles is a Christmas movie completely bereft of Yuletide, not to mention human spirit. It stars a fallen idol, one of our absolute favorites, Hulk Hogan. As a wrestler, we counted ourselves among his many millions of Hulkamaniacs. Oh, how the might have fallen (and shrunk). Hulkster was off the 'roids during the fi...

(http://www.wrestlecrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/stoneandgummy.jpg)Submerged, Half Past Dead...We've had fun at Steven Seagal's expense on the show. And richly deserved. We figured we'd do it again, because hey, Stone Cold Steve Austin is in it too! Austin AND Seagal??? Double the pain. So much pain in fact, we may have to pull the plug on the man with the plugs. It's too much. His direct-to...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Squirmposter.jpg/220px-Squirmposter.jpg)Two times the worms! Twice the ooze. Last time we spoke with Scott, we had double the Shatner, two times as much Captain Kirk as anyone could justifiably handle. One of our favorite podcast guests is Scott Drebit of the Daily Dead. He's the brains behind Drive-In Dust Offs,a column that look back at some...

(https://readbykevin.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/hellriaser-pinhead-barker.gif)Clive Barker's Hellraiser will send a chill up your spine. In Episode 71, we decided to tear our souls apart and break down what makes this such a classic. Pinhead has become a bona fide horror icon. Liverpudlian Doug Bradley, though not as well known as Robert Englund, has made quite a career of portraying ol' pin cush...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/La_maschera_del_demonio_%28film_cover%29.jpg)Longtime horror blogger Andre Dumas (The Horror Digest) joins our program from Boston. We begin our chat with how Andre got into the genre and which films inspired her to delve more deeply into it. Among the films we discuss are Jaws, Suspiria, Hellraiser 2 and Killer Klowns from Outer Space. We talk about...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/ConcordeAirport79.jpg)On this episode of the podcast, we break the sound and patience barrier with the infamously corny 70s disaster movie, The Concorde or Airport '79 or Airport '80 (whatever, it goes by various names). The Airport series originated the 70s disaster movie phenomenon. This piece of junk very nearly grounded it as soon as it began. Th...

(https://reallyawfulmovies.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/butcher_shop.jpg) We were lucky enough to visit Hamilton's The Butcher Shop, which specializes in and is dedicated to designing and creating unique and high-level makeup effects, creatures, prosthetics, human replicas, specialty props and gore effects. With almost 20 years experience designing special makeup effects and gore gags, Carlos Henri...

(http://twitchfilm.com/assets/gallery/2015/09/american_ninja.jpg)Forget the Big Lebowski. Our Dude is Dudikoff. The deadliest art of the Orient is now in the hands of an American! Lucky us. This is a piece of Cannon Camembert, in which as an alternative to sentencing, a judge decrees that juvenile delinquent Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) must join the Armed Forces. It's a plot that's almost Sei...

(http://static3.aintitcool.com/assets2012/aicncomics/heir1.jpg)At Really Awful Movies, we love to shine a spotlight on emerging talent in the horror genre. So when one of us caught the short film Heir currently making the festival rounds, we thought "We've got to talk to these guys!" Heir is the brainchild of Fatal Pictures and stars Robert Nolan and the hardest working man in indie-genre cinema,...

(http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2010/02/ynnvbuconsy.jpg)Sitting at a woeful "1.8" out of 10 on IMDb (with 12,000 + votes cast), it was inevitable we'd turn our eyes to the heavens and examine the notorious Birdemic. Not to be mistaken for The Birds, the Hitch masterpiece by which this poop was allegedly inspired, Birdemic (full title, Birdemic: Shock and Terror) is widely regarded by aficiona...

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9bMf_MoxVrA/URecHdvpEVI/AAAAAAAAC3c/JSecu9a-ZpE/s1600/Roberta+Collins+and+Pam+Grier+showering+in+Teh+Big+Doll+House.jpg)Entering women's prison territory in this week's episode. The Big Doll House is a 1971 American women in prison (WiP) film, produced by the one and only Roger Corman and starring the incomparable Pam Grier. Filmed in the Philippines (one of our favorite...

(http://horror.mdv.se/1980%20-%20Nightmare%20City%20(B)(DVD).jpg?w=788)Nightmare City, AKA, City of the Walking Dead is an Umberto Lenzi sleaze-fest with a great soundtrack and some very gory kills. In this 1980 outbreak movie, a TV reporter (played by Tarantino fave Hugo Stiglitz) investigates what's turning townsfolk into hideous creatures. Turns out it's radioactive materials from a nearby reac...

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SYrGxf4yPIk/VBpDnkQ32qI/AAAAAAAAB2I/M4lVhjATbdY/s1600/dead-alive-poster.jpg)Dead Alive is bloody. Very, very bloody, and the brainchild of the one and only, Peter Jackson. This Kiwi production is a bloody good time. A soothsayer foretells the pairing of a cute bodega worker Paquita and a middle-aged nebbish Lionel. The latter's overprotective mother Vera Cosgrove (Elizab...

(http://www.fangoria.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Horror-Rama-Poster-mag-ad-w-Delirium.jpg)We were honored to be asked to cover Horror-Rama 2015, the second edition of Toronto's only all-horror convention. The brainchild of Luis Ceriz and Chris Alexander, Horror-Rama is a fun-filled weekend of guests, vendors, panels, screenings and parties. Bigger and better than last year, this year's edit...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/Road-house-poster.jpg)Will cooler heads prevail? No. A "cooler" is a professional doorman whose job it is to manage other doormen. It's the top rung in the bouncer profession and here that man is Dalton, played by the incomparable Dirty Dancer himself Patrick Swayze. In Road House (1989), a bar owner goes on a talent search to find just the guy to cl...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Phantasm.jpg)An otherworldly mortician, The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), re-animates the dead as little people zombies in Phantasm, a weird and wonderful Don Coscarelli film. But have no fear, for on the case is a young boy named Mike. He has the task of trying to convince townsfolk that the absurd plot above is legit. His older brother and family friend...

(http://www.canada.com/cms/binary/5241991.jpg)Herschell Gordon Lewis is a maverick. He's the man behind the splatter genre, directing what is arguably the first of its kind, Blood Feast. The "Godfather of Gore," spoke to Jeff from Florida. His movies were groundbreaking. Without his low budget shlock, we wouldn't have Friday the 13th or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Lewis and partner David Friedman...

(http://twitchfilm.com/assets_c/2015/02/DemolisherPoster-thumb-300xauto-53787.jpg)The Demolisher is a cerebral vigilante film, as rare as an albino lobster. Jeff from Really Awful Movies got a chance to chat with its principles: In the first part, director Gabriel Carrer. He's behind In the House of Flies, a really terrific and entirely different kind of horror in which a duo is kidnapped and trap...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Blood-feast.jpg)Blood Feast! This 1963 low-budget gore-fest is a first of its kind. Widely acknowledged as the first splatter, Blood Feast is by no means a great work of art. However, there is no denying how ahead of its time this was. Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pittsburgh-born maker of "nudie cuties," who moved into the horror culture whe...

(http://torontoafterdark.com/2015/media/site_images/Toronto_After_Dark_poster_by_Gary_Pullin_500w.jpg)Toronto After Dark is one of the world's leading showcases of new Horror, Sci-Fi, Action & Cult Movies. Each October, in the run-up to Halloween, the critically acclaimed event, screens about 50 new feature films and shorts over nine nights in front of over 11,000 attendees, including over 200 mem...

Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead. (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Ein_Zombie_hing_am_Glockenseil_Poster.jpg) Italian horror has some awesome music. This one is by Fabio Frizzi. City of the Living Dead features otherworldly evil. We don't like supernatural movies, but love the Italian sub-genre. In The Beyond, there was a portal to the Gates of Hell in a basement in Louisiana....

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Kingdomofthespiders.png)A special episode of the podcast, featuring Scott Drebit. He's a writer with The Daily Dead and has a column, Drive In Dust-Offs. He's a fan of retro drive-in classics, specifically horror. He talked about his personal connection to drive-ins, which he started seeing from the age of 5. We also chat about the indelible impact o...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/Freeway_Killer.jpg/220px-Freeway_Killer.jpg)Freeway Killer is a take on the life and times of notorious serial killer William Bonin, who plied his trade in the late 70s in Southern California. Michael Rooker (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) plays a cop on the hunt for the mad man. We are fans of realism in horror but can it ever go too far?...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Film_Poster_for_Boggy_Creek_II_And_the_Legend_Continues.jpg)This one is a bad bigfoot movie by the same guy who incredibly, directed The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Charles B. Pierce. Dr. Lockhart is a University of Arkansas crypto zoologist, on the hunt for the legendary beast. Lockhart recruits the help of two of his students, Tim and Tanya, as well...