Really Awful Movies: Ep 105 – Pumpkinhead

Stan Winston’s 1988 feature, Pumpkinhead.

It’s polarizing, undeniably original, yet somehow unfulfilling.

Either way, it’s worth a look.

There’s a prologue featuring a family out in a cabin in the woods (always good) and something scary lurking therein.

Fast forward and the boy who saw something untoward is all grown up (Lance Henriksen portrays Ed Harley), with a son of his own and running a general store.

Who should happen by? A bunch of college kids on a dirt bike vacation.

When out acting crazily and impulsively, a tragedy occurs. And it’s the fault of those no-good kids. As a result, dad has to exact revenge, which he does by proxy – by way of the eponymous creature.

Join us as we discuss Pumpkinhead!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 103 – Hellhole

Jacuzzi romps, lesbian nurses,evil experiments, a blackmail plot, an undercover investigation and an all-star cast of B-movie nonentities, Hellhole features the glorious gams of Mary Woronov, the champion chin of Robert Z’Dar, the not particularly great Marjoe Gortner and much much more (actually, not that much, truth be told).

Unwitting patients at an all-female mental institute are subjects of a secret experiment, taking place in the “hell hole” in question, an abandoned wing of the psychiatric hospital.

What lurks in the bowels? Who is the masked surgeon? (right) Is this a horror film? Can you ask too many rhetorical questions?

Join as we talk HELLHOLE.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 102 – Society

This Brian Yuzna film is a weird beast indeed. Put out on Blu-ray by Arrow, Society is a very compelling and hugely original film that is incredibly difficult not to spoil.

We did our very very best in Episode 102.

We urge listeners to check out this film before listening. (Hey, it’s from the producer of Re-Animator. That’s enough indication that the quality is absolutely top-shelf.)

Wealthy teen Billy seems to have it all, as the Wikipedia entry puts it. But beneath this exterior, lurks something sinister in his upper middle class California home and suburban town. Blanchard, a school mate, has recorded something really really incriminating on tape: audio he plays to an incredulous Billy.

The contents of that tape, snippets of truly horrific chatter between his folks and his older sister, launch a mystery and reveal some really odd goings on in his town.

Tough to market on these shores, the movie did find a cult home in Europe. And that’s a good thing. Check out the expectations-confounding teen horror Society.