Category: Horror films

Devil Times Five

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Ah, title multiplication. Devil Times Five, aka Peopletoys aka The Horrible House on the Hill. There’s a positive correlation between number of titles and terribleness.

“Not since Village of the Damned has death become so savage…”

Um.

Devil Times Five is a killer kid movie, but not just any killer kid movie. It’s also a home invasion movie, with weird soft-core exploitative elements. This is one downright odd film, full of plot holes as a result of being the work of multiple directors (see, multiple titles for another indicator of crapiness).

As a bonus: teen idol Leif Garrett and Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg from Dukes of Hazzard).

Please watch this odd duck, and join us for our discussion!

 

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 154 – The Crazies

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craziesposterThe Crazies has all the great elements you’d expect from George Romero. It’s a bio-hazard film, wherein an experimental “vaccine” is accidentally released into a town’s water supply when a military plane crashes. And wouldn’t you know it? Why, it’s not a vaccine at all, but a secret bit of bio-weaponry.

Some of the townsfolk are resistant — to being quarantined that is, not to the bug.

When you have rural USA, there are bound to be guns. So when a government edict goes out to round up the populace and stuff them in the school gym, well…that goes over like a lead balloon. And people fight back.

Will government researchers be able to find a cure in time? Will our resistance fighter heroes survive the pathogen, and friendly fire? These and many other questions answered in our podcast of The Crazies.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 153 – Slugs

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slugs-film-posterSlimy slimy slugs.

Slugs is a gross-out 1988 Spanish/American co-production.

People are dying due to mysterious causes, and naturally, because this is an eco-horror, there is a lone voice of reason calling for action (who’s being summarily ignored).

It’s surprisingly gory for a nature-run-amok horror. Or maybe not so surprising. After all, this was directed by J. Piquer Simon, the Spaniard responsible for the inane and hilarious jigsaw slasher, Pieces. That movie had a chainsaw, kung fu, and Christopher George (City of the Living Dead), which automatically means it’s must-see material.

Slugs is as well, only because its kills are so glorious and over-the-top. Sure the stuff in between is a let-down, but the slimy set-pieces and gore make it eminently watchable.

We love Animal Attack / Nature Run Amok movies here on the Really Awful Movies Podcast. We’ve discussed The Nest, Shakma, Monkey Shines, Roar, you name it…