Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 331 – Night Killer

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Mystifying, beguiling. These are just a few terms which could accurately use to describe the bonkers 1990s Italian horror, Night Killer.

Directed by two giants of Italian crap cinema, Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2) and Bruno Mattei (Rats/Hell of the Living Dead/Shocking Dark) Night Killer features an antagonist who is a bit of a cross between the Toxic Avenger, Klaus Kinski’s Nosferatu and Freddy Kruger, with none of the charm or scariness of any of them. Quite a feat.

The killer in question, who it should be pointed out, doesn’t kill at night, hunts down a bunch of dance students in a pathetic third-rate theatre. He also murders a woman in an aquarium for the sole purpose of her being there, and this being filmed in Virginia Beach. She seems to have been a complete afterthought. Much like the script. Or the plot. Or the mise en scene.

Night Killer is really really bizarre stuff. But of course, it’s right up our alley as hosts of the Really Awful Movies Podcast. Be sure to subscribe, and pick up our books to support the show.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 329 – Intruder

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With the pandemic in the second wave, we figured we’d venture inside a location people are frequenting less and less of late: the grocery store. Intruder is a terrific 1989 slasher, and one of two movies we know about with such a setting (the other being, The Mist).

Much like The Burning and Burnt Offerings it’s very very criminally underrated.

We get the Raimi brothers, Ted and Sam, plus the iconic chin himself Bruce Campbell in a small role. But there are no small roles, only large chins.

Intruder takes liberties with the conventional slasher format, and is incredibly fun and silly with loads of great kills. So many, in fact, we could’ve easily included some in the sequel to our book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons (pick up a copy and support the show if you like what you are hearing).

So…clean up in aisle six. Let’s do this, shall we?

On this episode, the grocery store as a setting for horror, our experience writing about the grocery space in journalism, working in grocery, the Evil Dead films, red herrings, trick endings, and of course, lots and lots of gore.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 326 – Happy Death Day

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Happy Death Day!

It’s a mix between Groundhog Day, D.O.A. and Scream, leaning heavily on the former, the Harold Ramis-directed undeniable classic. Is HDD a classic too, that can be mentioned in the same breath? Um, no, but for a Blumhouse production, it’s fairly watchable.

On this episode of the podcast, “you load 16 tonnes, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.” What do birthdays mean to you?

Putting slasher flicks like this in the context of occasion-based horror flicks like April Fool’s Day, New Year’s Evil, Halloween, Silent Night, Deadly Night, etc, etc.

Also, where does this fit into the Blumhouse catalogue? What’s up with that production studio anyway?

How Christopher Landon sets up red herrings and his aesthetic approach to the story…Jessica Rothe’s performance, and much more!

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