Really Awful Movies: Ep 434 – A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

This week on the podcast, no Robert Englund, no problem! Well, rife with problems actually. A Nightmare on Elm Street from 2010 takes Freddy in a different direction, and not for the better.

A game cast, a weird, Fincher-esque tone, no input from Wes Craven, and a backstory…

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 432 – Demonia

Fulci lives! Today on the Really Awful Movies podcast, the underseen, Lucio Fulci directed and co-written feature, Demonia.

A mob of villagers attacks five nuns in 15th century Sicily. Liza, an archeological grad student in Toronto, of all places, has vision of this disturbing event via a séance centuries later.

Soon, Liza and a University of Toronto professor are off to Italy for an archeological dig. What could possibly go wrong?

On the show:

  • Toronto as a scene setting for horror
  • Séances in Fulci films
  • 90s-era Fulci
  • The “eyes” have it. Ocular trauma in the Italian director’s oeuvre
  • Nunsploitation and genre bending
  • “Irish” characters in Demonia

 

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 431 – Popcorn

This week, making a case that Popcorn is one of the best horror films of the 1990s.

The 90s, at least compared to other decades, didn’t bring with it the sheer number of classics (compare, for instance, the 80s and Maniac, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Re-Animator, The Fly, The Shining, Videodrome, all of which are better than the best horror films of the 90s, like Candyman, Scream, Ebola Syndrome, etc, etc).

Anyway, that’s not to say you can’t unearth some gems. Like Popcorn.

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