Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 162 – Burial Ground

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Some voodoo mumbo jumbo re-animates the dead (actually, some Etruscan mumbo jumbo to be precise). The dead, then go after the living. And the living try and escape!

That’s the film Burial Ground (1981) in a nutshell.

It’s an Italian Zombi knock-off, courtesy of director Andrea Bianchi. As a director, Bianchi is known for (among other things), Cry of a Prostitute (we haven’t a prostitute cry, but imagine it’s heart-wrenching) and What the Peeper Saw (we haven’t seen that one…but…you get the gist of what Bianchi, aka, Andrew White, is all about). He sure does like his crime / exploitation films.

In Burial Ground, when the Gates of Hell open, and Lucio Fulci is nowhere to be found, you have to kinda settle for Bianchi.

Bloody Disgusting said this about Burial Ground: [the film] “contains all the necessary elements for a good zombie movie including maggot-infested corpses, entrails eating…

It’s definitely an oddball flick. It is most definitely weird and wildly perverse…all the good stuff.

Be sure to tune in to the Really Awful Movies Podcast every week for fun genre film chat!

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 160 – Green Room

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A punk band gets offered a seemingly lucrative gig, after tanking it at a crappy restaurant in front of indifferent dozens. But the band in GREEN ROOM ( the Ain’t Rights) doesn’t know what’s comin’ to them, as they answer the bell to open for Cowcatcher, a band that has a sizable neo-Nazi following. What could go wrong?

Find out, and tune in to the podcast.

But first, try and watch Green Room. It’s probably one of the better horror films released in the last few years, featuring an excellent performance by Patrick Stewart as an evil goon, as well as the late Anton Yelshin, whose talents will be greatly missed.

Director Jeremy Saulnier is one to watch. We know this because of his superlative efforts, Murder Party and Blue Ruin.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 158 – Un Chien Andalou

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On this week’s episode of the podcast, Un Chien Andalou. You’ve probably seen the poster, even if you don’t recognize its origins.

Un Chien Andalou is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and infamous surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.

The flick was Buñuel’s first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for many months later.

Un Chien Andalou is not conventionally plotted.

The chronology of the film is um, rather…episodic. It’s rather disjointed, jumping from the initial “once upon a time” to “eight years later” without the events or characters changing very much. It uses dream logic (somewhat of a contradiction in terms) in narrative flow that can be described in terms of then-popular Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related scenes. As Roger Ebert put it, “Dreams were the nourishment of his films, and from his earliest days as a surrealist in Paris to his triumphs in his late 70s, dream logic was always likely to interrupt the realism of his films.”

 

Needless to say, this film uses a bunch of free association, and out of sequence chronology. It’s a real mind f*ck, as the kids would say.

Join us for some surrealism.