Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 151 – Spider Baby

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spiderbabyposterJack 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 a family tome, causes them to regress mentally, socially and physically, starting in puberty.

Subtitled, The Maddest Story Ever Told, one of the children, Ralph, is played by none other than Sid Haig, best known for House of 1000 Corpses, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol 2, etc.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 150 – Night of the Demons

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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 by Kevin S. Tenney, there’s a certain charming effortless that’s pretty captivating.

The film stars William Gallo, Hal Havins, Amelia Kinkade, Cathy Podewell, and the ever–wonderful Linnea Quigley as high school seniors partying inside an isolated mortuary called Hull House.

Jeez, when will these kids ever learn? NEVER investigated a nearly abandoned mortuary under ANY circumstances.

When the kids decide to play a séance, things go haywire…one of them unknowingly unlocks a demon that was locked in the crematorium. The evil, demonic spirit begins to possess some of the partying teenagers and the remaining victims try to survive the night.

Filming took place in South Central Los Angeles for two months, and Night of the Demons was released on October 14, 1988. During its theatrical run, the film grossed $3 million against its $1 million budget.

It’s since achieved cult status. And like most movies of its type, it spawned sequels.

 

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

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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 You Drop’s Chris Alexander.