Really Awful Movies: Ep 275 – Making Contact

On this week’s podcast, a young boy mourns the death of his father in…Making Contact, aka, Joey. Then, under the covers and with a flashlight, he’s caught (no, not that!) communicating with the spirit world. His mother walks in, and notices that young Joey is babbling on as if pops was still on this terrestrial […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 267 – Attack of the Giant Leeches

What a title! For that reason alone, it’s worth checking out Attack of the Giant Leeches. This is a Corman production, but not Roger. No, it’s the other Corman brother (from the same mother). And that’s Gene Corman. Rising from the depths of hell, to kill and conquer. And all because of NASA space launches […]

Really Awful Movies: Ep 253 – Mexican Santa Claus

Mexican Santa Claus as it’s known colloquially (sometimes known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a  wild and woolly 1959 Mexican fantasy Christmas sci-fi film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. The Cuban-born Cardona was a hugely influential figure in the so-called Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (but of course, fellows like us know him for […]