Category: Interviews

Really Awful Movies: Ep 56b – Portal to Hell

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Director Vivieno Caldinelli and writer Matt Watts discuss the Rowdy Roddy Piper starring short, Portal to Hell, ahead of its TIFF premiere.
A crusty and reclusive building superintendent is foisted into the ultimate fight against evil when a couple of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mysical city of R’lyeh, awakening a slumbering god.
The movie was inspired by Overboard, through the lens of a John Carpenter-type film. They decided to do a short, with the idea to fund a feature. Talk also centres on the enduring legacy of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu monster. HPL is in the zeitgeist right now.
We really miss Rowdy Roddy Piper.
We were pleased to see UFC champ Rhonda Rousey’s heartfelt tribute to the man who gave her her fighting moniker. We were also really pleased to see him in Portal to Hell. He’s a bad-ass, but unlike other movie badasses, he has an everyman quality. He left us far too young.
Interested listeners can check out our They Live Podcast too.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 55b – Killer Rack

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We love Slime City. So when we heard about Buffalo director Greg Lamberson’s next project, Killer Rack, we were thrilled.

On this week’s podcast, we had a chance to chat with Greg, co-star/writer Paul McGinnis, star Jessica Zwolak and co-star Michael Thurber about their work on the movie, dubbed by one wag, “the wrongest film in the history of wrongness.” If that’s wrong, well…we don’t wanna be right.

This horror comedy is about a woman with low self esteem who opts for breast enhancement surgery, unaware that her surgeon, Dr. Thulu, worships H.P. Lovecraft’s elder gods, and the surgery is part of a diabolical plot to rule the world.

We talk about how the film came about, the involvement of Troma boss Lloyd Kaufman, Buffalo locales, casting, the effects, the film’s incredible music, scream queen Debbie Rochon and much much more.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 53b – Turbo Kid stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf

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Horror-action hybrid Turbo Kid is a fun new Canadian-New Zealand co-production. Set in the post-apocalyptic future of 1997, Turbo Kid is a loving homage to some of the great genre films of the 80s, and a damn fine film in its own right. Its stars discuss the movie with us on this week’s episode of the podcast.

Laurence Leboeuf plays Apple and Munro Chambers plays The Kid.

The Kid is a comics-obsessed scavenger who becomes a heroic figure when he teams up with Apple to go against the big bad Zeus, played by the incredible Michael Ironside.

80s nostalgia is big now and Turbo Kid is a movie that does it right, paying homage to its influences without talking down to the audience. And there’s incredible gore to boot!