Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 138 – Don’t Answer the Phone!

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Don’t Go in the House. Don’t Go in the Woods. Don’t Go in the Basement.

But DO check out Don’t Answer the Phone!, a highly underrated 1980 horror directed by the excellently named Robert Hammer.

It’s got everything, and by that we mean a psychotic, weeping, daddy-issues Vietnam vet killer who poses as a photographer; his nubile victims; ineffectual LAPD investigators, a Dr Fraser Crane-type radio host…and much much more.

Nicholas Worth (Swamp Thing/Darkman) gives an extraordinarily interesting performance as killer Kirk Smith.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 136 – Final Exam

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A rather tepid offering from the slasher boom, FINAL EXAM doesn’t live up to the promise of its cool poster.

We get lots of backstory/investment in a bunch of rather tedious characters including the stock nerd, jock, final girl, hot blonde, taskmaster gym teacher, etc.

The killer is about as unremarkable as you can get. Still, worth checking out for horror completists.

Join us…and see if Final Exam…passes the test.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 134 – Exte aka Hair Extensions

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Our first podcast foray into J-horror with a bit of Japanese weirdness, EXTE by Sion Sono.

Sono  (Suicide Club) is an odd duck and his movies are infused with strange set-pieces. And it goes without saying, they’re not to everyone’s taste.

In this episode, we chat about the cultural phenomenon of hair, where it grows, how it’s styled, what to do when it’s lost. J-horror, K-horror, and the depiction of Japanese culture in this film, which is about demonic hair extensions.