Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 404 – The Shining and Groundhog Day

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In this episode of the podcast, my two favorite winter movies as befitting a cold snap in Ontario.

The two films on the docket are The Shining and Groundhog Day, which best exemplify the winter season spanning two different movies and genres.

In this episode:

  • Cold weather in Ontario
  • Fahrenheit vs Celsius
  • Winter as a setting for horror
  • The Thing and its omission from this list
  • Alien vs The Thing
  • The Shining and Top 10 Horror Movies of all Time
  • Groundhog Day and job/romantic dissatisfaction

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 403 – Watcher

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On this week’s episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, the excellent Romanian-lensed thriller, Watcher.

Maika Monroe (It Follows) stars as a woman, Jules, who moves to Bucharest to accompany her ad exec husband, Francis. Isolated from the culture and language, she spends her days at home in the couple’s high rise apartment.

Soon, she finds out someone in the neighboring building is peering into her window. And she begins to investigate, with help from her hubby, the police, a new friend and some Good Samaritans.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 402 – Mansion of the Doomed

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A doctor is doing terrifying experiments on the living! Mansion of the Doomed practically sells itself. And how could you go wrong with a Charles Band production?

This is a weird 70s movie, and features among other principals, the star of the movie Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Vic Tayback, and the sitcom it inspired…

On this episode of the podcast:

  • The eyes in film/windows of the soul
  • Oedipus Christopher Plummer film with a scary eye scene
  • Lab coat / evil researcher horror films
  • The importance of ocular scares in Dead & Buried, The Beyond, Zombie
  • Fulci focusing on the eyes
  • The work of Charles Band
  • The director of Mansion of the Doomed Michael Pataki

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