Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 383 – Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker

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This week on the podcast, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker.

Young baller Billy, is looking for a hoops scholarship to the University of Denver. In his way, an overly doting aunt who is a bit of a nutjob, it turns out.

When Billy’s relationship with his coach gets closer, teammates start asking questions. When the coach’s male lover is murdered, that gets the police involved, and pointing a finger at Billy, especially a homophobic cop played by Bo Svenson.

Tune in, check out this intriguing little 1982 release, and of course, subscribe to the show.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 382 – Censor

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On this episode of the podcast, a British Film Board Classification censor gets caught up in the work of an exploitation director.

Here we are with Censor, a period piece set in 1980s London, during the peak of moral panic and the world of Video Nasties, so dubbed because they were deemed excessively violent.

This 2021 British psychological horror film was directed by Prano Bailey-Bond, and created a small buzz at Sundance.

On this episode, contextualizing the film with the likes of Videodrome and The Editor, plus discussions of Driller Killer, The Stuntman, and Don’t Answer the Phone! along with other films that infamously landed on the Nasties list.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 381 – Virus 32

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On this week’s podcast, Virus: 32.

It’s a zombie/outbreak movie that’s lensed in Montevideo, Uruguay. So that’s a first, though this reviewer has seen Argentinian horror movies, and this is a co-production.

It tells the story of a mom, Iris, who is irresponsible, young and a boozer who has a young daughter and shares custody with the dad, Javier. When the outbreak happens, and the streets of Montevideo are overrun with the walking dead, she has to man up, as it were, and take care of her offspring and fend for herself.

Does this film reinvent the wheel? Hardly, but there is some meat here and the positive reviews are largely justified.

On this podcast, outbreak movies like Contagion and Train to Busan. The similarities between this film and 28 Days Later, the appeal of zombie films, the template on which they’re based, Italian gut munchers, scene settings, the importance of character development in a zombie flick, and much more!