Really Awful Movies: Ep 65b – Dead Alive

Dead Alive is bloody. Very, very bloody, and the brainchild of the one and only, Peter Jackson. This Kiwi production is a bloody good time. A soothsayer foretells the pairing of a cute bodega worker Paquita and a middle-aged nebbish Lionel. The latter’s overprotective mother Vera Cosgrove (Elizabeth Moody), spies on their date as they […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 63 – Phantasm

An otherworldly mortician, The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), re-animates the dead as little people zombies in Phantasm, a weird and wonderful Don Coscarelli film. But have no fear, for on the case is a young boy named Mike. He has the task of trying to convince townsfolk that the absurd plot above is legit. His […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 61 – Blood Feast

Blood Feast! This 1963 low-budget gore-fest is a first of its kind. Widely acknowledged as the first splatter, Blood Feast is by no means a great work of art. However, there is no denying how ahead of its time this was. Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pittsburgh-born maker of “nudie cuties,” who moved into […]