Category: Horror films

Really Awful Movies: Ep 100 – Dr Butcher MD

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doctor_butcher_mdWelcome to the (unofficial) EPISODE 100. Here, we delve into a lunatic Italian pseudo cannibal film, Dr Butcher MD, aka Zombie Holocaust.

This is a blast from the past, one of co-host Chris’s most influential films.

When “pieces of corpses,” go missing from a local university teaching hospital, we find out that the culprit is some island cannibals who’ve somehow made their way to New York.

In order to get to the bottom of a budding mystery, two hospital colleagues investigate, leading them to a faraway South Pacific island. The duo comprises lab assistant Lori and Dr Chandler, played by the always excellent Ian McCulloch. On the island, they meet up with the mysterious figure Dr. Obrero, who fills them in on island goings on before they enter the jungle…AT THEIR PERIL!

Celebrate #100 with us and Dr. Butcher MD. The MD stands for medical deviate!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 99 – House on Haunted Hill

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We’re big fans of Vincent Price here on the Really Awful Movies Podcast and if you haven’t checked out Jeff’s interview with Vincent’s daughter Victoria, you owe it to yourself to do so as she talks about the legacy of her famous pops.

Here we examine the Price classic, House on Haunted Hill.

Many horror fans (and movie fans in general) are reluctant to delve into the past as they see anything made before 1996 as “old.” But, as the cliche goes, if you don’t know where you’ve been, you won’t know where you’re going.

Viewers will be rewarded by checking out the fun, campy and effortlessly spirited House on Haunted Hill. It’s a straightforward haunted house tale: an eccentric millionaire dares a group of disparate characters to spend a night in a house with a ghostly past, with the promise of a reward if they’re able to. Can they survive the night?

Welcome to The House on Haunted Hill: Hope you enjoy your stay! And be sure and check out episodes of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, where we delve into horror and genre films from the past to the present. Subscribe now!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 96 – Monkey Shines and Shakma with Scott Drebit from Daily Dead

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Killer monkeys are on the loose. In George A. Romero’s Monkey Shines, it’s a telepathic Capuchin helper monkey, and in Shakma, it’s a rampaging baboon in a university hospital. It’s Old World Vs New World Monkeys in this battle of our closest genetic cousins in the animal world.

We love “animals attack” / “nature run amok” movies and we love having Scott Drebit on the show to talk about them. He’s a regular contributor to the excellent site Daily Dead.

Romero’s Monkey Shines was met with much indifference upon first release, earning a mere 5 million or so at the box office. Did this “experiment in fear” deserve its fate?

Shakma, on the other hand, isn’t as well known. And we’re here to change that.

Check out which one of these films deserves a tuxedo and a cigar and which only made a monkey out of us on this hairy episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.