Month: January 2016

Really Awful Movies: Ep 84b – JeruZalem

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JeruZalem is an Israeli first-person POV film, in which two American girls, Rachel and Sarah, find themselves on a sinister vacation in the Holy City.

En route to Tel Aviv, they meet a student, who convinces them to change their travel itinerary from the laissez faire coastal city to the intense Jerusalem.

Bad move.

On Yom Kippur, they realize that the apocalypse is upon them.

Jeff from the Really Awful Movies Podcast had the pleasure of chatting with the film’s co-director Doron Paz about what inspired his dark vision.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 84 – Escape from New York

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On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, John Carpenter’s exceptional Escape from New York.

We break down the 1981 dystopian action flick set in a crime-ridden future, where inexplicably, the US’ most pricey real estate has been turned into an island prison.

Why Manhattan and not say, ANYWHERE ELSE? As the Beach Boys sang, “god only knows…”

Featuring the incomparable action hero ex-con and ex-soldier Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), who has 22 hours to find the POTUS (played by Donald Pleasance) who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One. Why is the president played by an Englishman? (see, the Beach Boys song).

We love Escape from New York and you will too.

Hop on board our chopper (all the borough bridges have been closed) as we chomp down on this Big Apple classic.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 83 – Hospital Massacre

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We know some hospitals suffer from funding cutbacks, but the lack of staff here is ridiculous. And that’s BEFORE some masked doc is on the loose killing nurses.

Hospital Massacre, AKA, X-Ray, features Playboy’s Barbi Benton in a protracted topless scene and some neat kills too.

Because it’s an 80s horror, there’s also a ridiculous backstory from the killer’s childhood offered as explanation for the subsequent psychopathy. It’s quite unnecessary, but we have to admit, the kill scene is quite innovative and hilarious.

An indictment of Obama care? An examination of the medicalization of women’s bodies? Um, there’s more subtext in a re-run of Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

This one is bloody hilarious.

While typically slashers feature some of the worst police-work imaginable, Hospital Massacre showcases some truly unusual healthcare protocols.

Change into your gown and join us for a discussion of…HOSPITAL MASSACRE.