Really Awful Movies: Ep 136 – Final Exam

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A rather tepid offering from the slasher boom, FINAL EXAM doesn’t live up to the promise of its cool poster.

We get lots of backstory/investment in a bunch of rather tedious characters including the stock nerd, jock, final girl, hot blonde, taskmaster gym teacher, etc.

The killer is about as unremarkable as you can get. Still, worth checking out for horror completists.

Join us…and see if Final Exam…passes the test.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 135 – Ultra Warrior

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Ultra Warrior is a pastiche…Ah, forget the fancy verbiage…who are we kidding? It’s cobbled together stock footage crap!

The film takes leftover Corman footage, combining outer space, horror films and dystopian into one bizarro experience.

Starring Dack Rambo (that is his real surname), the film focuses on the land of Oblivion, the entire area of the eastern seaboard, east of Kansas City (?). Oblivion has mining materials that need to be exploited so the humans who managed to survive a nuclear apocalypse can use the fruits of their labors as ingredients for anti-alien weaponry. It doesn’t make a lick of sense, but that’s what you get when footage from at least 10 other films is used. Oh, and one group of people exploit another, genetic mutations known as “muties.”

Good fun.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 134 – Exte aka Hair Extensions

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Our first podcast foray into J-horror with a bit of Japanese weirdness, EXTE by Sion Sono.

Sono  (Suicide Club) is an odd duck and his movies are infused with strange set-pieces. And it goes without saying, they’re not to everyone’s taste.

In this episode, we chat about the cultural phenomenon of hair, where it grows, how it’s styled, what to do when it’s lost. J-horror, K-horror, and the depiction of Japanese culture in this film, which is about demonic hair extensions.