Really Awful Movies: Ep 151 – Spider Baby

Jack Hill’s Spider Baby is a black horror film with comedic elements, shot in resplendent black and white in 1964, and released in 1968. It stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as Bruno, the aged chauffeur and caretaker of a trio of orphaned siblings who suffer from “Merrye Syndrome.” This affliction, explained in an introduction read from […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 150 – Night of the Demons

Angela is having a party… Night of the Demons is a 1988 American supernatural horror film. Now, ordinarily we’ve made no bones of the fact we’re not necessarily the biggest fans of the supernatural genre, at least how it’s manifested itself now. However, in Night of the Demons, written and produced by Joe Augustyn and directed […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 148 – Horror movie deaths. Death by Umbrella authors at Horror Rama!

We had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion on horror movie deaths and our book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons, at Toronto’s only horror convention, Horror Rama. The panel is moderated by Luis Ceriz, proprietor of Toronto’s Suspect Video and co-organizer of Horror Rama, along with Shock Till […]