The Really Awful Movies Podcast

On this episode of the podcast, Cannon time! Enter the Ninja is a silly 80s exploitation/martial arts filmed in, where else? The Philippines! Because of course it is. That was a very cheap place to film back in the day, and is the geographical backdrop for many a cult classic. And there’s a fun genre cast including Django’s Franco Nero, but also the Italian horror staple, Christopher G...

This week on the podcast, peace, love and mayhem. The Last House on the Left (1972) is the directorial debut of the man, the myth, the legend, Wes Craven. Two women on their way to a concert, are kidnapped by a menacing foursome of escaped cons and taken to the woods, somewhere in Connecticut. This one is unflinching and unrelenting. And this is definitely not Christmas fare. Thanks for checking o...

There are a lot of Santa Claus slashers. But with Don’t Open Till Christmas, Kris Kringle characters are the vics not the perps. Don’t Open Till Christmas is a 1984 British slasher film. It is directed by Edmund Purdom, who also stars. But based on the end project, viewers can tell it is the work of >1 director in the chair. The flick introduces a mysterious killer murdering Santa...

Something rotten in the state of Denmark? No! However, there are “rotten” beings in the state of Argentina. When Evil Lurks is on Shudder right now, and is a really unique and ballsy rural supernatural horror. Two brothers, Pedro and Jimmy, find a body in the woods. They venture further afield, and find a pulsating, gooey, corpulent mess of a man inside a rustic shack. Soon, they find...

Today on the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead. Tony Todd (Candyman) takes on the iconic Duane Jones role from the 1968 George A. Romero original. Much maligned when it first came out, this is not nearly as bad as critics say (but by the same token, isn’t as great as some people claim in hindsight either). Join in for a discussion of the walking undead,...

Primal Rage! Genre legend Bo Svenson (The Inglorious Bastards/Walking Tall/ Snow Beast ) plays Florida college research geek Dr. Ethridge, who is toiling away on a protein that will revolutionize how we treat Alzheimer’s disease. It’s so revolutionary in fact, that the dean threatens to pull his funding if he doesn’t make a scientific breakthrough in two months (publish or perish...

Jeepers Creepers. We turn our attention to the early 2000s and this Justin Long-starrer, a genre-bending supernatural and very atmospheric creature feature. This one incorporates aspects of Duel, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Children of the Corn, Tourist Trap and too many others to possibly mention. And it has a very dark backstory too. Tune in, and don’t forget to subscribe to the Really Aw...

This week on the podcast, no Robert Englund, no problem! Well, rife with problems actually. A Nightmare on Elm Street from 2010 takes Freddy in a different direction, and not for the better. A game cast, a weird, Fincher-esque tone, no input from Wes Craven, and a backstory… Tune in and subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies podcast, two very different films featuring two somewhat similar Lolcows, who eke out a living these days as internet “personalities.” Windy City Heat (2003) Windy City Heat is a Comedy Central production, which is a stunt built around the premise of fooling a wannabe actor (Perry Caravello) into thinking he’s starring in some gritty act...

Fulci lives! Today on the Really Awful Movies podcast, the underseen, Lucio Fulci directed and co-written feature, Demonia. A mob of villagers attacks five nuns in 15th century Sicily. Liza, an archeological grad student in Toronto, of all places, has vision of this disturbing event via a séance centuries later. Soon, Liza and a University of Toronto professor are off to Italy for an archeological...

This week, making a case that Popcorn is one of the best horror films of the 1990s. The 90s, at least compared to other decades, didn’t bring with it the sheer number of classics (compare, for instance, the 80s and Maniac, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Re-Animator, The Fly, The Shining, Videodrome, all of which are better than the best horror films of the 90s, like Candyman, Scream, Ebola Syndr...

This week on the podcast, an Aussie-US, Lionsgate-WWE Films co-production, See No Evil. This one rests on the formidable shoulders of wrestler, Kane, the antagonist here and chief antagonist to The Undertaker during the heyday/attitude era of WWE. Juvie/criminal types are taken to a prison work program, but rather than picking up garbage on some interstate, they’re tasked to clean up some de...

This week on the podcast…snakes and snake-related nature run amok flicks. We shine the spotlight on Megaboa, a 2021 affair, featuring a prof and some grad students fending off a giant snake on a tropical island. Unlike other animal attack genres, snake horror flicks have yet to produce a bona fide classic, a la Jaws (sharks), Backcountry (bears), Alligator (gators) or Cujo (dogs). Ever wonde...

This week on the podcast, a return to the Canadian province of Quebec. Slaxxx is a low-budget horror lensed in the region, about, of all things…a killer pair of jeans. On this episode of the show, “fast fashion,” personifying inanimate objects in horror, Montreal-area horrors, the makings of an effective horror film, unique horror movie weaponry, the book, Death by Umbrella! The...

This week on the podcast, back from Montreal so it seems fitting to tackle a film that David Cronenberg lensed over there. So, here it is! Rabid is a classic, Canadian body horror starring Marilyn Chambers. It involves a shady medical clinic in rural Quebec and its enigmatic operator, one Dr. Keloid. On this episode: Montreal horror films Body modification/plastic surgery Cronenberg character name...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. This week on the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a bit of a departure: The Top 10 Horror Movies from the 1980s. The 80s were the Golden Era of Horror. Of course, classic horror movies are produced every decade. And right now, we are in a bit of a Golden Era, with new classics being created before our very eyes, Hereditary, Terrifier, Goodnight Mommy, Bone Tomahawk, and many...

This week on the podcast, one of the more obscure films ever covered on the program: No Exit, AKA, Fatal Combat. This one is a 1995 Canadian action filmed lensed in the Greater Toronto Area and directed by Damian Lee. It stars the excellent Jeff Wincott, an actor/martial artist perhaps best known for his role in Night Heat. In No Exit/Fatal Combat, the masses are entertained by…what else? A...

This week on the podcast, a 2019 Aussie production titled, The Furies. This is a survivalist/dystopian horror, occupying Battle Royale / Rollerball territory, but a hell of a lot gorier. Billed as Halloween meets The Hunger Games (wholly inaccurately) this one focuses on women who wake up in strange black coffins, only to find themselves in a fight to the death in a mining town hellscape in NSW, A...

Broadly, when it comes to the genre’s modern era, “travel horror” dates back to The Hills Have Eyes and includes the likes of Tourist Trap, Hostel, Turistas, Wrong Turn, The Rental (feel free to check out that podcast) and of course, more recently, the hit film, Midsommar. Influencer is the latest entry in what could be described as tourist horror, directed by Calgarian Kurtis Da...

On this episode of the podcast, Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger, two low-budget horror films. What links these two together is they’re both micro-budget horrors with a cult following, more so for the Troma production. In Killdozer, as the name overtly suggests, a construction vehicle becomes sentient and well…kills! Shocker, sometimes literally. And in The Toxic Avenger, a 90-lb weakli...

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a brief detour and foray into post-apocalyptic wasteland movies. Some movies, like Jaws and Mad Max, are so popular, well made and influential that they spawn a host of imitators. In the case of the latter, it’s even got its own name: Maxploitation. There is quite a laundry list of Mad Max ripoffs, of which Exterminators of the Year 3000 is...

On this episode of the podcast, a return to Italian horror courtesy of the somewhat underrated, Demons 2, a sequel which matches in most respects, the iconic original. On the show: a little sojourn into urban planning, Jane Jacobs and city building cityscapes and the ubiquity of office buildings and condo type buildings. JG Ballard and his novels like Crash and High Rise David Cronenberg, and expl...

Tiger style. White Tiger! Gary Daniels stars as a steely DEA agent whose partner is murdered and must go seeking revenge. In Chinatown. As an outsider. White Tiger is a wildly good time, complete with basically everything you’d need from a dunderheaded 90s action film: a drug syndicate, femme fatale, a surfeit of mindless shootouts and more punches thrown than a South Boston St Paddy’s...

In this latest episode of the podcast, Stephen King adaptations and Deliverance knock-offs! On the show, the recently released film, The Boogeyman, the latest in a slew of King catalogue pilfering. It’s solidly in the middle of the pack when it comes to King adaptations. It has a strong cast and a strong start….but… Also, the German film, Prey. Guys in the woods attacked by a fig...

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a foray into documentary film via Arnold. This three-parter on Netflix chronicles the life and times of the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger. On this episode: His early life in Graz, Austria. The influence of bodybuilder/movie star Reg Park Arnold’s relationship with his brother and father. The early days of his career. Arnold’s dri...