Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 124 – Jaws 3-D

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Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is one of the defining classics of our age. Jaws 3-D. Um. Not so much.

When a 10-foot great white gets into a Seaworld lagoon, that’s a problem. But an even bigger problem, literally, is its mother, a 35-foot behemoth the size of a city bus and only slightly less unpleasant.

Dennis Quaid, son of Sheriff Brody and company are tasked with ridding the creature from the amusement park and nearby beaches.

Will he need a bigger boat? A bigger budget? Find out in our JAWS 3-D podcast! Yes, we actually viewed it in 3-D.

Lea Thompson, Louis Gossett and Bess Armstrong co-star in this fun, if water-logged, dud.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 123 – Martyrs

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This week, Pascal Laugier’s excellent and devastatingly effective horror MARTYRS.

Stellar performances by Mylène Jampanoï and Morjana Alaoui propel this captivating story of Lucie and Anna, two friends who grew up at the same orphanage, one of whom (Lucie) was rescued from an abattoir were sinister experimentations took place.

A home invasion / revenge / supernatural / torture horror, Martyrs defies expectations and categorization.

We urge listeners to check out this genre-defining 2008 film before tuning into this week’s podcast. There will be spoilers aplenty.

Over at Shock Till You Drop they said (rightly) the film is “the new yard stick against which all forms of extreme genre films should be measured against…”

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 121b – Death and Horror Movies

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Death. We’re all scared, well…to death of it.

In this episode, we look at the concept of death, about which Mark Twain said, “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Easy for him to say. Not so much for the rest of us.

We examine how different cultures deal with death, how we’d like to meet our makers, what scares us the most…and of course, horror movie deaths.

Join us, for what is a bit of a morbid episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.