The Really Awful Movies Podcast

Not a horror per se (however defined), A Perfect Getaway is a 2009 release that’s perhaps more of a thriller (but why quibble?) On this episode of the Podcast, a discussion of the David Twohy-directed flick. Twohy also responsible for GI Jane and The Chronicles of Riddick with Vin Diesel, and he acquits himself quite nicely as a horror/thriller director despite an action pedigree. In the fil...

This week on the Really Awful Movies Podcast: Urban Legend . The inspiration for discussing the late 90s film is three-fold: One, the famous series of books by Professor Jan Harold Brunvand (The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, The Choking Doberman, Encyclopedia of Urban Legends – these books were instrumental in getting one of the hosts of this podcast, into...

This week, co-host Chris of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, ventures into the backwoods for some hicksploitation in the form of Wrong Turn . This effort from 2003, has spawned countless sequels for reasons that are a bit tough to justify. There’s even a 2021 version of the flick, internationally known as Wrong Turn: The Foundation. It’s really tough to keep track of all of these. The...

Two brothers and their significant others rent a sprawling seaside mansion, Air B’n’B-style. In this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Dave Franco’s The Rental . In his directorial debut, Franco, who also co-wrote the script, casts wife Alison Brie (Community/Mad Men) in one of the leads. She plays Michelle, and her beau Charlie (Dan Stevens) is a startup superstar entr...

On this, the latest episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast: The Invitation and Doctor Sleep. There’s not some sort of hidden link between the two, but these are recent horrors (released within the last five years) that caused quite a stir in some circles, with outlets like the Village Voice saying this of the social convention horror The Invitation, “you won’t see a more shoc...

In advance of St Patrick’s Day, a foray into Irish horror movies with Citadel , a psychological effort set in Glasgow Scotland. For this, there’s a terrific IMDb description: “an agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed.” If you don’t find that enticing as a premise, you...

Oh, we are back with Seagal! It’s been a year or more since we covered a Steven Seagal movie on the show, thanks to a moratorium due to the crappiness of his output. Now, it’s lifted. And we are back, with General Commander . This one is a real doozy. CIA agents must avenge the death of one of their colleagues. So, lead by Jake (Seagal) they go rogue. And this takes the team through So...

The title says it all: Bats . In this animal attack flick from the late 1990s, La Bamba Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a small town Arizona sheriff called in to investigate a strange homicide. The coroner is befuddled during the post-mortem. A chiropterologist is on the case too, as the deaths are linked to the flying furry mammals. Soon, we find out there’s some sinister scientist up to no g...

On this week’s podcast episode, perhaps the 7th most notable axe murderer horror film of all time, Edge of the Axe. Sure, this Michael Myers-visaged villain swings an axe, yet he remains far less well known than those maniacs in Silent Night, Deadly Night, Madman, Silent Night, Bloody Night and the granddaddy of all axe murderin’ movies, The Shining. Still, this Spanish / American co-p...

Ah, the City of Angels…La-La Land…Whatever you wanna call it, Los Angeles conjures up a lot of images in people’s minds, whether it’s Charles Bukowski, Hollywood movie stars, hair metal, smog, plastic surgery, the nascent gangsta rap scene of the 90s, urban sprawl/decay…and of course…Latino stereotypes! Angel Town is all about the latter two, and stars Olivier G...

Mystifying, beguiling. These are just a few terms which could accurately use to describe the bonkers 1990s Italian horror, Night Killer. Directed by two giants of Italian crap cinema, Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2) and Bruno Mattei (Rats/Hell of the Living Dead/Shocking Dark) Night Killer features an antagonist who is a bit of a cross between the Toxic Avenger, Klaus Kinski’s Nosferatu and Fredd...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, BMX Bandits! This one has a VERY young Nicole Kidman (in her second role, but first major one) and is directed by friend of the site, director Brian Trenchard-Smith. In BMX Bandits, three kids happen upon some hidden walkie talkies/police scanners, stashed by some seedy bank robbers. Soon, the Bandits find themselves being chased on two fronts: by the t...

With the pandemic in the second wave, we figured we’d venture inside a location people are frequenting less and less of late: the grocery store. Intruder is a terrific 1989 slasher, and one of two movies we know about with such a setting (the other being, The Mist ). Much like The Burning and Burnt Offerings it’s very very criminally underrated. We get the Raimi brothers, Ted and Sam,...

Stone Cold Steve Austin stars in Recoil, a Canadian-lensed revenge action film. And to up the glowering ante, there’s also Danny Trejo as the chief antagonists. Somebody quick, flash a smile! Austin is Ryan, a Texas cop (what else?) whose family has been murdered in ostentatious fashion (basically, a shootout with five gang members bedecked in clown masks firing hundreds of rounds into a sub...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, CRAP OF THE WEEK! This is a recurring segment, a review of things one-half of the Really Awful Movies team has seen recently. On today’s show, Ghostkeeper, Rituals, Imposters and Bride of Re-Animator. Ghostkeeper is an 80s Canadian / Canuxploitation tax shelter movie based on the Wendigo legend. It’s about a group of snowmobilers who find th...

On today’s episode of the podcast, Happy Death Day ! It’s a mix between Groundhog Day, D.O.A. and Scream, leaning heavily on the former, the Harold Ramis-directed undeniable classic. Is HDD a classic too, that can be mentioned in the same breath? Um, no, but for a Blumhouse production, it’s fairly watchable. On this episode of the podcast, “you load 16 tonnes, what do you g...

Christmas is around the corner. That means, for horror heads, Santa slashers! On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, all things holiday-related when it comes to horror. Christopher, one-half of the Really Awful Movies team, chronicles some of the more popular entries in the canon, from Christmas Evil to Santa’s Slay, All through the House, Night Train Murders, Rabid, Silent Nigh...

Their lives are literally hanging in the balance…from a chair lift. Frozen is a ski-themed horror that’s capably put together. A bunch of friends try and get in one more run (maybe courtesy of one of those ominous Black Diamond-designated hills that puts the fear of god into the authors of this site) and a staffing screw up results in the lift being shut down and them stranded amidst t...

JCVD! Jean Claude Van Damme is another focus once again on the podcast, one of our favorites. Here he is, portraying French Foreign Legion AWOL-er, Lyon. The flick has one of our favorite action movie themes: the furtive underground world of unsanctioned fisticuffs! Hardscrabble men gather under bridges, in dismal urban locales (and occasionally in squash courts!) to battle it out, pre-UFC. And al...

There’s only one Chuck Norris. And before Delta Force and Invasion USA (or for that matter, Good Guys Wear Black) there was A Force of One . Chuck plays Matt Logan here, a sensei who runs a dojo, and is of course, a champion kickboxer. Logan is hired on as a consultant when members of the San Diego Police Department end up dead, their windpipes cracked by practitioners of a certain deadly ar...

Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight , sounds much like the golden-era (though not necessarily golden in quality) Don’t Go in the Woods! There are a bunch of camp counsellors a la Friday the 13th, and a bunch of nubiles being hunted down by some mysterious entity, though in this one, a bit of a supernatural deus ex machina. And it should be noted that Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight that is...

On this week’s episode of the podcast, a new book for action movie enthusiasts: Mine’s Bigger Than Yours! The 100 Wackiest Action Movies . If you’re a fan of any of the following…Steven Seagal, Cannon Films, Chuck Norris, JCVD, Reb Brown, Brian Bosworth or the films Miami Connection, Dangerous Men, Road House or Gymkata, we have a Christmas gift for you. On this episode of...

Lucio Fulci’s Zombie, aka Zombi 2 (and a whole whack of other things) is a 1979 Italian zombie film adapted from an original screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti to serve as some kind of sequel to George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978), though it strays pretty far from that source material. Zombie stars Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson, and features a score by frequent Fu...

Haunt is a 2019 American slasher film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writing duo behind A Quiet Place. It’s set in one of those haunted house Halloween attractions. And surprisingly, this is one of the better films set on Halloween, along with John Carpenter’s Halloween, House of 1,000 Corpses, Sinister, and Murder Party , which we podcasted not long ago. The p...

Sleep Tight  aka  Mientras duermes i s a 2011 Spanish psychological thriller directed by REC director, Jaume Balagueró. REC is a handheld/found footage film that’s one of the best of its type, and Sleep Tight, while a different style of filmmaking, brings the chills as well. Cesar is a building concierge/superintendent tasked to do repairs, maintenance in a Barcelona building. And he’s...