Really Awful Movies: Ep 95 – A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

It’s quite telling that the film’s tagline is, “the man of your dreams is back,” and that the protagonist is looking at the Springwood Slasher instead of his paramour. Homoerotic subtext abounds in this mediocre sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Five years have gone by since the original Nightmare murders, and Elm street […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 92 – Child’s Play

Mr Holland’s opus. Tom Holland, that is. He’s the mastermind behind this incredibly creative, understated 80s horror classic. Child’s Play is so darn fun. A killer on the lam, by some sort of Voodoo mumbo jumbo, inhabits the body of a popular talking child’s toy, subsequently purchased on the black market by a Chicago mom […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 91 – The Prowler

In this episode, a look at the Joseph Zito 1981 slasher flick, The Prowler. The Prowler (released internationally as Rosemary’s Killer) is set in a very Podunk Northeastern town and is about a group of college students holding their first dance in decades because festivities had been banned due to a double murder. Seems like […]