Really Awful Movies: Ep 428 – Slaxxx

This week on the podcast, a return to the Canadian province of Quebec. Slaxxx is a low-budget horror lensed in the region, about, of all things…a killer pair of jeans.

On this episode of the show, “fast fashion,” personifying inanimate objects in horror, Montreal-area horrors, the makings of an effective horror film, unique horror movie weaponry, the book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons, and much more!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 422 – Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger

On this episode of the podcast, Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger, two low-budget horror films.

What links these two together is they’re both micro-budget horrors with a cult following, more so for the Troma production. In Killdozer, as the name overtly suggests, a construction vehicle becomes sentient and well…kills!

Shocker, sometimes literally. And in The Toxic Avenger, a 90-lb weakling develops super hero powers when falling into toxic waste, again, as the name suggests. Vigilante justice is then brought to Tromaville.

This is a short one this week, back to longer format podcast episodes next week.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 406 – Necromantik

On the podcast this week, Necromantik.

This is a German film from the 80s, which is as transgressive as horror cinema gets. And it proves that neither budget nor characterization is required to produce something of long-lasting impact.

On the show:

  • Canadian cinema and Heimatsfilm, traditional German genre cinema
  • Jorg Buttgereit
  • Internalized horror, as in the Bill Lustig film, Maniac
  • Transgressive horror and desensitization