Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 115 – Children of the Corn

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Folk horror reached its apotheosis with The Wicker Man. While Children of the Corn doesn’t reach the same heights, it’s still pretty darn cool.

Vicky and Burt are criss-crossing the US en route to Seattle so he can pursue interests in the medical profession. Along the way, a kid dressed in Amish garb wanders out onto the highway and is struck and killed.

Burt finds out that while his car dealt the fatal blow, the kid’s throat had been cut. They put him in the trunk of their car and seek out the nearest town, which is the elusive Gatlin, Nebraska.

There, they meet with…an evil presence.

Another Stephen King adaptation he doesn’t like, we take a peek at “he who walks behind the rows…”

Really Awful Movies: Ep 114 – Bone Tomahawk

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Serene, leisurely, dialogue-driven western with bursts of extreme horror violence, Bone Tomahawk is a very unique film indeed.

When three people are kidnapped from a frontier town, the law hauls in a native guide to see if he knows what’s happened. He claims it wasn’t the work of his tribe at all, but the handiwork of a group of “troglodytes” who live in the foothills.

Immediately, a search party, or uh…because this is a western…a POSSE is formed, led by the sheriff (Kurt Russell), along with his aged deputy (Richard Jenkins), a young hothead (Matthew Fox) and the husband of one of the missing (Patrick Wilson).

They have no idea what’s in store for them.

Bone Tomahawk is one of the top horror films from 2015, even if it’s not really a true horror. Listen for yourself.

Caveat: there may be some spoilers. We urge listeners to watch this one.

Bone Tomahawk

Really Awful Movies: Ep 112 – Friday the 13th Part 2

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This addition to the Friday the 13th franchise finds Jason Voorhees still finding his form/ identity.

Pre-hockey mask, this is the butcher of Camp Crystal Lake in pillow-case face regalia, a la the killer from The Town that Dreaded Sundown. And unlike in later incarnations, he has to really work to kill his victims. Also, Jason’s not yet the physically imposing indestructible automaton he’d later become.

Grab a hat, some insect repellent and short shorts and join us in that cabin in the woods for camp counselor orientation weekend as we discuss Friday the 13th Part II.