Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 442 – Silent Night, Bloody Night

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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 England to help settle the family matter as well.

He soon finds that his grandfather’s home, is cursed. And that the townsfolk are less than welcoming, claiming bad mojo about the dwelling that’s persisted for decades.

Genre heads will enjoy this, as we’ve got legendary John Carradine as a newspaper magnate and Mary Woronov as the mayor’s daughter.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 440 – The Last House on the Left

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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 definitely not Christmas fare.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 439 – Don’t Open Till Christmas

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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 mysterious killer murdering Santa Claus impersonators in London during Christmas season, first off, through a Black Christmas-like POV shot.

Thereafter, a Santa at a nightclub is murdered in front of dozens of witnesses. Turns out, it’s the father of one, Kate, whose boyfriend soon becomes embroiled in a giallo-like murder investigation by New Scotland Yard.