Category: Cult and indie horror

Really Awful Movies: Ep 353 – Superhost

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On today’s edition of the Really Awful Movies podcast, the Shudder-produced low budget, Superhost.

Superhost refers to a duo, Claire and Teddy, who are travel vloggers who occupy an Air BnB style sprawling home, a quid pro quo arrangement in exchange for a very positive review of the rental property.

Soon, they find out their host is not so super…

In today’s episode:

  • the travel vlogging phenomenon and the explosion of YouTube travel content
  • a rundown of some of the more popular travel vlogger channels, including Kara and Nate, NFKRZ, Bald and Bankrupt, Wolters World and Downie Live.
  • the use of first person POV/found footage and its effectiveness as a conceit in horror films
  • female antagonists in horror and how/where Rebecca from this film (pictured, right) compares with some of the all-time greats
  • protracted lockdowns and the need to cocoon
  • surveillance and accommodation horrors like, Psycho, 13 Cameras and The Rental

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 348 – Alone

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Alone is a thriller / survivalist horror set in Oregon.

A widow is on the move. She’s packing a U-Haul and heading to Washington State.

Before too long, she’s being tailed by a creep out on a deserted mountain underpass. The jeep is on her, lead footing around dangerous twists and turns. She manages to extricate herself from the road menace, only to meet up with him again at the local rest stop.

Before too long, the creepy stranger has inserted himself into her life, and things morph into a tale of rugged wilderness survival.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 346 – Lake Mungo

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On this week’s episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a listener-generated discussion about Lake Mungo.

Lake Mungo is a 2008 Aussie supernatural horror, that’s unique in that it’s structured POV/documentary-style. It flew kind of under the radar, as has its director, even though it really shouldn’t have: this is a really well-done film and worth a watch.