Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 11 – How we got into low budget cinema

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On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast: how we got into low budget cinema.

On the show, we discuss the following films:

-Eating Raoul.

This film is about a couple who finances their dream restaurant by luring swingers over to their apartment and whacking them over the head with a frying pan to steal their money. An absolutely can’t miss premise that also features a (near) toilet bowl drowning. Also, Satan’s Sadists, a bikers run amok movie that actually DOES feature a toilet bowl drowning.

–The Intruder, AKA, I Hate Your Guts,

This one casts Captain Kirk William Shatner as a cross-burning bigot, one of the few Roger Corman movies that lost money.

-Dolemite,

A cheap martial arts flick, and a supposed “comedy,” featuring the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Rap,” Rudy Ray Moore (RIP) who once proclaimed, “When it comes to rappin’ I was through with it before they knew what to do with it.”

[for a more in-depth discussion of Dolemite, check out our Dolemite podcast!]

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 9 – Curtains

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Curtains is a Canadian classic.

It’s like Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians, except with six actresses auditioning, each of whom is picked off by a mysterious killer.

The role they’re vying for is for an unhinged character “Audra” and one actress commits herself to an institution as part of some extreme method acting! (unfortunately for her, she’s left to rot in the sanitarium by a Svengali weirdo director).

The movie features Samantha Eggar (The Brood) and Lesleh Donaldson, the latter memorably killed by a skate-wearing sickle swinging psychopath.

In this podcast, we talk about visiting Toronto’s Horror-Rama and meeting and chatting with Lesleh Donaldson and Lynn Griffin (the woman asphyxiated with a bag in Black Christmas, another Canadian classic).

Really Awful Movies: Ep 7 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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We revisit the harrowing classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, how we came to see the film, its weird family dynamics and the excellent book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen.

We also look at the state of Texas, portraying people with disabilities in movies, why Wisconsin produces so many serial killers, the cliches of the hitchhiker and how Gunnar Hansen was cast in the role of Leatherface.

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