Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 256 – Cellar Dweller

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Jeffrey Combs portrays Colin Childress, a cartoonist we’re introduced to in the film’s prologue. He meets an untimely end drawing a beastly creature, and we flash forward 30 years to a present-day (1988) artist retreat/colony.

This week on the Really Awful Movies Podcast: a monster movie! This one is a charming shoestring budget creature feature, Cellar Dweller.

Whitney is an arts graduate and cartoonist, and attends the school, trying to keep Childress’ spirit alive and well through her drawings.

There are also fellow students, each pursuing a different facet of the arts: sculpture, method acting, new media, abstract painting, etc.

The school’s headmistress puts out a stern warning to the pupils: do not go in the basement! And of course, the different principals don’t heed any of this. I mean, this is the horror genre, why would we expect anything different?

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 255 – Humanoids from the Deep

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Humanoids from the Deep is one of our favorite creature features. Exploitative, Roger Corman-produced uber-trash, this one follows the typical Jaws template of a besieged fishing village whose inhabitants are trying to come to terms with something that’s pure evil.

Featuring some genre favorites like Doug McClure and Vic Morrow, you won’t help but fall for this movie. After all, “they hunt human women…not for killing…for mating.”

Corman’s company, New World Pictures was the distributor. And Humanoids from the Deep was directed by Barbara Peeters (who subsequently tried to distance herself from the exploitative finished product). There’s a peppy musical score composed by James Horner in his debut.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 254 – Most Likely to Die

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Most Likely to Die…a modern slasher film starring, Perez Hilton. If that doesn’t get your motor running, well.

Luckily, Heather Morris (Glee) provides a bit of acting talent to a film where it’s in very much short supply.

There’s a 10-year high school reunion. An assemblage of tedious 20-somethings who look 30 + and beyond, get together to reminisce about the good times Al Bundy-style. Unfortunately, the guy who owns the place they’ve gathered, is nowhere to be found. Ryan is a former NHL player. He’s been recently cut from the New York Rangers, and is moping about in self-pity. His head is buried in his hands, as it’s looking like life as a pro is about to end.

The friends are playing poker when suddenly, their ranks are thinned like a gazelle on the Serengeti, but a slasher dressed up in a mortar board and gown.

Is this one a GED-horror? Or does Most Likely to Die belong in the Ivy League? It’s probably pretty obvious.

Still, we delve into this choice issue with a special guest on the Really Awful Movies Podcast: one of our high school friends, Jonas.