Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 6 – Why we love horror movies

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An exploration of how the founders of Really Awful Movies both got into horror films and the early movies that fueled our passion for the genre.

We focus on the seminal Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and misconceptions about how violent it is, and Friday the 13th Part II.

We also examine Grimm fairy tales, “violent” music (metal, early blues and rap) and weirdly, Christopher Plummer and The Sound of Music!

(Plummer starred in a super cool Jack the Ripper period piece called Murder by Decree)

We absolutely love horror, all genres, made in any country. We’re less warm to supernatural and found footage films, so these have to be really really well done to pique our interest.

For more, check out our review of A History of Horror Films:

http://reallyawfulmovies.com/2014/10/19/a-history-of-horror-films-nightmares-in-red-white-and-blue/

Really Awful Movies: Ep 5 – Demons 1 and 2

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On this episode of the The Really Awful Movies Podcast, Chris and Jeff break down the differences between zombies and demons (it’s hardly very subtle), in this program that’s devoted to two Italian horror classics: Lamberto Bava’s Demons films, which are fun, and extraordinarily gory, if plot-thin.

The basic synopsis: media transform people into violent, bloodthirsty creatures. Is it a metaphor for how horror movies desensitize us to violence? Don’t give these films too much credit.

In Demons, it’s movie theatre-goers turned into fanged, rapacious zombies, nay, demons after watching a film.

And in Demons 2, denizens of a high-rise apartment in Germany, change after watching a spooky film.

We love demons. Our podcast artwork is inspired by it and they’re both lunkheaded, gory, awesome movies.

Hope you agree! For more genre film reviews, check out www.ReallyAwfulMovies.com.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 2 – From Beyond

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from-beyond-poster-1Jeff and Chris from www.ReallyAwfulMovies.com discuss the excellent 1986 HP Lovecraft adaptation, From Beyond.

From Beyond is Stuart Gordon’s follow up to the superb Re-Animator and features one Dr. Pretorius, a tribute to a character from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) running experiments in a house not unlike the one in Psycho, in which the pineal gland is stimulated by a bizarre machine called The Resonator.

Of course, because this is a mad scientist movie, things go hopelessly awry.