This week on the show, some Canadian horror. And an IP that’s filmed in Ontario, this reviewer’s home province. Since making waves at Sundance, In a Violent Nature is continuing to provoke discussion as it moves to Shudder. Is it a plodding bore, or a sinister masterpiece? Are we witnessing the next Art the Clown, another addition to the Mount Rush…

It’s sequel time! On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a re-examination of Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2, the less popular of the two canonical series entries. Here, condo dwellers are trapped in their building once zombies are unleashed through a movie that’s playing on TV. Tune in, and don’t forget to sub. Support the show by picking up…

This week on the podcast, we head to Charles Band Land and the 1980s, for a curious post-apocalyptical sci fi horror and Demi Moore’s uh…breakout role? Dr Paul Dean was compelled to create a bio-weapon for an evil corporation on behalf of the mysterious group, The Merchants. Once he realizes the error of his ways, he tries to destroy it…BEFORE IT’S…

On today’s truncated version of the podcast, a few impromptu thoughts on the the disappointing remake of the 90s classic, Candyman. This is a shorter podcast than normal. But rest assured, back to regularly scheduled more in-depth shows in September!توسط Chris

This week on the podcast, WWE wrestler, Stone Cold Steve Austin stars in Damage. You’d be forgiven for thinking that oh, 50% of action films released these days feature clandestine pit-fighting tourneys. And you’d be half right. We are back in beautiful BC, portraying Washington State as it often does, in this cheap but undeniably fun meat-head act…

This week on the podcast, 2004’s Creep. A woman en route to a party finds herself stuck overnight at the Charing Cross tube station in London, near Piccadilly Circus. A dark, stinky, atmospheric horror which stars Franka Potente (Run Lola Run).توسط Chris

A bunch of desperate young people sign on for a big pharma drug trial, with terrifying results. If you’re into body horror, check out the Irish production, Double Blind. Tune in and don’t forget to subscribe to the Really Awful Movies Podcast.توسط Chris

Funeral Home, aka, Cries in the Night is a relatively obscure Canadian horror flick from the 80s. It never reached the masses to the extent fellow Canuck offerings – Prom Night, Happy Birthday to Me, My Bloody Valentine, Shivers, Curtains, etc – did. And probably with good reason. This isn’t fantastic. Here’s a short episode of the Really Awful Mov…

From Jack the Ripper to boy bands? Well, here we are… A slight diversion on the Really Awful Movies podcast, exploring the compelling new Netflix doc, Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam. This one tells the story of sleazy Svengali Lou Pearlman, who masterminded the creation of both Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Tune in, and expect the unexpected (well, not …

On this episode of the podcast, with the recent passing of Donald Sutherland, now seemed like the right time to revisit the Bob Clark thriller, Murder by Decree. This is a late 70s feature, imagining Sherlock Holmes and Watson on the hunt for the infamous Whitechapel butcher. And the cast is absolutely top-drawer, with Christopher Plummer, James Ma…

Who knew Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu had an unofficial sequel? Well, the production-plagued Klaus Kinski starrer, Vampire in Venice, aka Nosferatu in Venice, is a weird one – and while not as good as its predecessor, is nonetheless an oddly compelling, lovely film. I mean, it can’t help but be – lensed in the gorgeous city of Venice. Tune in, as we t…

Mission of Justice, aka, Martial Law. How does a movie so titled, NOT star Steven Seagal? Anyway, for all concerned it is a good thing it doesn’t: after all, Jeff Wincott is pretty awesome. The Canadian a**-kicking sensation, displays some great martial arts chops, and plays a disgruntled cop out to solve the murder of his buddy. Meanwhile, Brigitt…

Oh no, a fight-to-the-death TV show, which entertains the masses in a far off, dystopian future! The Running Man can certainly count its place among…these kinds of movies. It’s certainly not the worst of its type, and it’s far from the best. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an LA cop, who disobeyed a command which would’ve killed a bunch of innocents. F…

This week, a look back at the Wes Craven classic from 1977, The Hills Have Eyes. The Carter family takes a detour to check out a silver mine in the remote, Nevada desert. Soon, they find themselves at the mercy of…well…a nuclear family. Tune into the show, and don’t forget: new episodes are uploaded every Friday.…

This week on the show, some Euro horror in the form of Yummy. Medical tourists venture to some sketchy hospital in Eastern Europe for some cosmetic procedures only to find out…the surgeries are far from routine. What lurks inside the institution is…well…tune in and find out. If you’re into body horror, laced with zany comedy, this Belgian productio…

This week, we turn our attention to Bela Lugosi and the 1930s hit, White Zombie. Set in Haiti, this one was the first zombie film ever committed to celluloid, featuring the incredible Hungarian actor, Lugosi, in an iconic role.توسط Chris

This week on the podcast, an atypical 80s slasher: Fatal Games. In advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, we turn our attention to sports-related horror on the show. This shoestring effort dials back the gore, and dials up the eye candy. It’s a spirited effort that benefits from strong performances and notable character actors like Sally Kirkla…

This week on the podcast, we venture into the 2000s for a film which has no right to be as good as it is, The Ruins. With a tepid description on Netflix, this is a film that resembles a typical stalk-and-slash tourism-related horror with central casting interchangeable college kids. But DO NOT sleep on this one. Tune into the show for a wide rangin…

This week on the show, The Rejuvenator aka, Rejuvenatrix. But who are we kidding? This is basically Re-Animator! (which is basically Frankenstein). Anyway, this is a cult regional horror from New Jersey, which made few waves upon release in 1988. The plot? An ambitious scientist is mucking about with a brain serum anti aging agent. And one of his p…

A mom smothers her disabled daughter in a remote, Washington farmhouse. Run is unique in the thriller/horror realm in that a character confined to a wheelchair, is the protagonist. Tune in this week for a discussion of this popular and often very capable Hulu flick, later acquired for international distribution by Netflix.…

This week on the show, the stellar and oft-talked about period horror, Late Night with the Devil. If you’re a fan of Johnny Carson, David Letterman and company, this is one for you. But even if you’re not, there’s enough meat in this one to satiate any horror fan, even if the 70s references can be a bit ham-fisted. Tune in for a discussion of this …

This week on the podcast, add another critter to the list of creature features/nature run amok flicks. If you thought rabbits in Night of the Lepus was pushing the envelope, well…here…we’ve got beavers. Zombeavers is from the producers of American Pie, so there are of course lots of the expected jokes. This one debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival …

This week, we examine the quirky action film and Bob Odenkirk starrer, Nobody. Odenkirk, of course, is best known for two exemplary shows, Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, and is hardly the first actor to spring to mind when you think “action.” But he acquires himself wonderfully here as a supposed family man with a shady shady past who crosses w…

This week on the show, Alice, Sweet Alice – a classic horror from the 1970s. A young girl, Karen (played by Brooke Shields) meets an untimely end in this religious-themed regional slasher by director Alfred Sole. Karen is murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow raincoat and creepy translucent mask. And speaking of yellow, this one bears some o…

This week, a shortened version of the podcast, as befits a shortened week: Dolly Dearest. A few short years post-Child’s Play, another sentient doll movie nearly graced cinemas. Well, some cinemas as this got minimal distribution. It features a cast that includes Denise Crosby and Rip Torn, so there’s that. And the poster art is quite nice.…

On this episode, pain don’t hurt. Here’s a reboot of the Patrick Swayze 80s action film. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Dalton in this, a more comedic approach to the source material. It’s set in the unlikeliest of locales, the Florida Keys, and has a twist that’s based around the UFC. Tune in, check out the latest episode.…

This week on the podcast, some sword and sandal fun and games courtesy of Deathstalker. It combines the tournament conceit of something like Enter the Dragon, with the standard jerkin / fur / broadsword / wrist band aesthetic of Conan the Barbarian. Apparently, this one is getting a remake too! Anyway, this joint Argentinian American production is …

This week on the podcast, a trip back to arguably the greatest decade in cinema, the 70s, for the caper, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. A Tokyo transit delegation is visiting the Big Apple, getting a tour of the MTA headquarters, and learning how the city runs its transit. Against this backdrop, Hijackers commandeer a New York City subway trai…

On this episode of the podcast, the killer monkey movie, Shakma! We turn our gaze to the 90s, and to this animal / nature run amok flick, which, all things considered, remains a lesser known sub genre entry. Roddy McDowall plays a research scientist, and he’s working at a facility doing strange experiments. All the while, his colleagues are obsesse…

Stuck in a theatre and being attacked by…DEMONS! This week on the podcast, a look back at the inestimable Lamberto Bava classic, and all its weirdness. And there’s no time like the present to tackle this one, especially on the heels of Demons 3. Tune in, subscribe, and enjoy the show.توسط Chris

This week on the podcast, an unheralded “sequel” to the first two Demons, which Demons 3 has nothing to do with. Oops. At least Lamberto Bava is in the director’s chair. We’re in Southern Italy. An American family is coming down from Milan on vacation, and they have rented a sprawling castle. What could possibly go wrong? Turns out, a lot. Demons I…

This week on the podcast, Justin Long stars in the Kevin Smith-directed, Tusk. Wallace (Long), one half of a podcast duo, flies up to Winnipeg to interview a Lolcow to make fun of him. Unfortunately, the kid’s got other plans so Wallace does as well. Needing content for his show, Wallace comes across a strange message in the men’s room and decides …

On today’s episode, we turn to blood suckers and Hammer Horror for the criminally underappreciated and underrated, Kiss of the Vampire. Newlyweds find themselves in the company of a suave, debonair family in their ornate, stately home. You know the drill! That’s always what happens. What makes this one interesting is neither Peter Cushing nor Chris…

Meatcleaver Massacre, AKA, Hollywood Meatcleaver Massacre! This is a 70s affair, with an intro by none other than Christopher Lee. Unbeknownst to the legend, he was to shoot an intro for a different movie, and ended up in this – resulting in a lawsuit. All said and done, however, this one is an interesting curiosity and more fun than it had any rig…

This week on the podcast, Michele Soavi’s Stage Fright AKA Deleria. This is an 80s Italian horror that’s based around a theatrical production all about, you guessed it, a murderer on the loose. Does art imitate life? Is the Pope Catholic? This is a super fun flick from a protégé of Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, who is of course, the masked quasi s…

We turn our eyes to Sweden on the podcast, and check in on the spirited and gory horror-comedy, The Conference. More accurately a corporate retreat, the folks behind a contentious shopping mall development head out to some rustic cabins to brainstorm and team-build and all that fun stuff. They do some zip lining, eat and drink, question a few barri…

A New Year’s horror as we enter 2024. On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, the Canadian tax shelter horror, Ghostkeeper. This is a low budget affair about three snowmobilers caught in a blizzard in the Alberta Rockies, the most Canadiana plot ever for any horror film. The trio takes refuge in a seemingly abandoned ski lodge and encou…

Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to everyone. Today on the podcast, the 70s horror curiosity, Silent Night, Bloody Night. The mansion. The madness. The Maniac. No Escape. A lawyer and his paramour are tending to an estate, converting a sprawling mansion into equity. The scion of the Butler family, Jeffrey, meanwhile, leaves California for New En…

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 th…

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 de…

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 …

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 i…

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 f…

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…

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, an…

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 …

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 Toron…

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…

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 in…