Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 376 – Titane

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Titane (Titanium en Englais) is a 2021 body horror film written and directed by Julia Ducournau and is a French and Belgian co-production. And it concerns a young girl who is involved in an automobile accident, and has a metal plate put in her head, above her ear.

Years later, she’s an auto show model and really, really into cars (and vice versa). She’s also a serial killer on the lam, using whatever disguises she can to stay one step ahead of law enforcement.

Euro-horror and body horror that’s often well done. Tune in and check out the discussion of this flick on the latest podcast episode. And don’t forget to subscribe!

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 375 – Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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This latest horror franchise reboot is the talk of social media, as everyone’s tuning into Netflix to perhaps hate-watch it or even, bizarrely, enjoy it.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an updated version of the 1974 classic, ignoring events of the countless interceding sequels, and tells the story of influencer/investors coming to buy up a sad, abandoned town, Harlow Texas.

What they find there, is thoroughly expected, but what is unexpected, is just how rotten this cheaply made, poorly written, laughably constructed flick actually is. Yikes.

This went through developmental hell, was filmed in Steven Seagal’s backyard (Bulgaria, har har) and is one of the more poor reboot/reimaginings in recent – or any – year for that matter.

A stain from start to finish, this one’s run time of 80 minutes feels like a cricket match.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 374 – Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood

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Step right up folks, right this way. Take in the incredible, the stupendous, the monumental, the astonishing…feats of courage, strength. Be amazed! It’s carnival time, Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, to be precise.

What’s this you asked? It’s an obscure early-mid 70s effort, directed by Christopher Speeth. And it was largely forgotten, until Arrow gave its fortunes a boost with a re-release. And boy are we glad they did.

This is a very odd duck indeed. Part Euro, Gothic, regional, vampire, Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood is at times Warholian, and just plan weird. Check it out, and subscribe to the podcast.