Category: Interviews

Really Awful Movies: Ep 81b – Evil Dead: The Musical, an interview with co-creator Chris Bond

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Since it took to the stage in 2003, Evil Dead: The Musical has been a smash hit. On this episode of the podcast, we have a special Evil Dead: The Musical giveaway, two tickets to a Toronto performance of the hit show, February 17, 2016 at the Randolph Theatre. Listen to this episode for details about how to enter. And heads up: there are really cool secondary prizes too, so you can enter even if you aren’t in the Greater Toronto Area. These prizes are courtesy of Starvox Entertainment. A big thanks to them.

Chris Bond, the show’s director and co-creator, breaks down what makes the splatterfest so much bloody fun. We’ve had the good fortune of checking out previous runs of the show in Toronto and if you’re a fan of Evil Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead (and really, who in their right mind isn’t?) it’s absolutely MUST SEE stuff.

From its modest beginnings in a back-alley Toronto bar to off-Broadway and to Cleveland, Vegas, New Orleans, Seoul, and basically the world – the show has wowed fans wherever it’s been.

And don’t forget to check out the Really Awful Movies Podcast, with new episodes every weekend.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 75b – Ryan M. Andrews, Director of Save Yourself

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We said this about Save Yourself: “If Save Yourself comes to your town, do yourself a favor and drop everything right away to go see it.”

The film, which stars Jessica Cameron, Tristan Risk, Ryan Barrett and Tianna Nori, is about budding filmmakers who become unlikely subjects in a nefarious experiment. Save Yourself recently screened in New York City and as part of the Blood in the Snow Festival here in Toronto.

Director Ryan M. Andrews is a guy who’s worth watching. Andrews attended Niagara College and Trebas Institute in Toronto for film production and came upon our radar with his movie Sick.

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, he talked about independent film-making, the Canadian horror scene renaissance photography, movies that influenced him and casting. He’s a big fan of ensemble casting and eschews tried-and-true horror tropes.

With Save Yourself, he wanted to set out having viewers not know who’ll live or die. He’s always looking to defy expectations with his projects.

Save Yourself was a worthy entry in our list of the Top Horror Films of 2015.

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 70b – Black Sunday with Andre from Horror Digest

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Longtime horror blogger Andre Dumas (The Horror Digest) joins our program from Boston.

We begin our chat with how Andre got into the genre and which films inspired her to delve more deeply into it. Among the films we discuss are Jaws, Suspiria, Hellraiser 2 and Killer Klowns from Outer Space. We talk about how horror films, despite their penchant for blood and guts, can actually be quite beautiful too. We also chat about where horror is going and discuss future classics such as Goodnight Mommy and The Babadook.

Since she’s a fan of Italian horror, we decided to chat about one of our faves, Mario Bava’s immortal classic, Black Sunday.

A witch/vampire hybrid, Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio; also known as The Mask of Satan and Revenge of the Vampire) is a 1960 B&W Italian Gothic horror. Based very, very loosely on Gogol’s short Viy (only a witch and the characters’ penchant for vodka survive) Black Sunday follows two doctors on route to a medical conference in Europe who get sidetracked by a…dark and dusty cobwebbed crypt! It happens to be the final (not quite) resting place of lovely witch Asa (the  gorgeous Barbara Steele) and her paramour, both burned at the stake and tortured by Inquisitors.

The film, very gory for its time, helped launch the careers of director Bava as well as beauty Barbara Steele, who went on to star in the Poe adaptation, The Pit and the Pendulum as well as Nightmare Castle and Cronenberg’s Shivers.