Really Awful Movies: Ep 133 – Videodrome

This week, the Cronenberg classic, arguably his best film, Videodrome. It’s certainly up there with The Fly or Crash.

We delve into the Toronto TV station that partly inspired the film, the media musings of Marshall McLuhan, the changing media landscape, where this film fits into David’s oeuvre, and of course…gore, gore and more gore!

It’s a thrill to see Toronto as Toronto and not New York. And what better way to showcase our hometown than this masterful film, which stars James Woods, Sonja Smits and Blondie singer Debbie Harry.

Long live the new flesh!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 129 – Planet of the Vampires

Planet of the Vampires is 100% vampire-free. But who cares, right? It’s freakin’ Bava, people. And a little Super Mario goes a long way, even if this isn’t the genre he’s best known for.

Because…

We got space ships. We got explorers. We got mysterious space signals. We got doodads, knobs, levers…we got weird planets, weirder spacesuits…what more do we need?

Join us, strap yourselves in as we venture into deep space for this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 120 – Zardoz

On this week’s episode, the insane Sean Connery sci-fi oddity, Zardoz.

In a dystopian future, 2293, humans are subdivided into Eternals and Brutals, and live in The Vortex. The latter is all Id: acting like rampaging Vikings or Mongols. The former, peaceniks who lead an agrarian sexless, dull existence, but with the added benefit (or curse) of being immortal.

Sean Connery is Zed, a Brutal Exterminator, who hides aboard Zardoz, a giant floating head, temporarily “killing” its Eternal operator-creator Arthur Frayn. And then things get weird!

Slap on your codpiece, show off that chest hair and join us for a journey to planet weird for the oddly fun Zardoz.