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 […]

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, […]

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 […]