Really Awful Movies: Ep 29 – Crap of the Week

George Lewis, not George Lucas! But that’s an easy mistake to make as this is The Humanoid, a shameless Star Wars rip-off featuring Lord Graal. He’s a bit like Dark Helmet from Spaceballs.

Watch as gargantuan Richard Kiel from James Bond, becomes the titular hero.

Also on the program, Open Grave, a military experiment gone wrong film in which a man awakens in an open grave and doesn’t know how he got there. He meets up with survivalists and they don’t know how they got there either.

And lastly, Babysitter Massacre, an homage to 80s slasher flicks.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 20b – Bad Movies We Watched this Week

Bad Movies We Watched this Week. This is a recurring segment on our show, the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

On this week’s episode: Hide and Go Shriek discussed. It was a spur-of-the-moment blind rental from one of the few remaining video stores left in Toronto (sad, so sad).

It starts with a panoramic view of a beaten down neighborhood — so far so good —and then it veers into drag queen / prostitute territory!

However, Hide and Go Shriek pretty soon becomes your typical teen slasher film. Eight teens begin to get picked off by a mysterious killer, which is pretty par for the course.

The other film on the docket is Alien Abduction. It’s got two can’t miss words in its title, “alien” and “abduction.”

It’s a sci fi flick that features a military hospital that deprograms people who think they’ve been abducted by aliens. That’s a pretty darn fantastic premise for a film. However, it’s super super cheap and there’s a weird central vacuum type cranial surgery patients are subjected to.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 17 – Never too Young to Die, Robobwar and Zombies

poster_of_movie_robowar_1988In this week’s Crap Movies of the Week, we look at Never Too Young To Die, a 1986 feature starring John Stamos as Lance Stargrove (!). He’s a young man who, with the help of a secret-agent Danja Deering (Vanity a.k.a. the ex of the Purple One, Prince) must avenge the death of his secret-agent dad (George Lazenby) at the hands of the evil hermaphrodite Velvet Von Ragner (Gene Simmons).

The Bond similarities include a Q and an M but for the most part, it’s a whole lot of BS. Simmons is part of a Vegas-style variety act, done in fishnets and channeling Rocky Horror Picture Show. Robert Englund shows up too, to disgrace himself (the film’s not mentioned in Bob’s book, not surprisingly).

Also, is Bruno Mattei the worst director of all time? He’s got stiff competition from Uwe Boll but stands head and shoulders above.

He directed Robowar – Robot da Guerra – which is basically a Predator knock-off with elements of Robocop. It stars Really Awful Movies’ buff favorite: Reb Brown.

Also, expendable guns and bandoliers and Bruno Mattei’s last film: Zombies: the Beginning.