Really Awful Movies: Ep 99 – House on Haunted Hill

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We’re big fans of Vincent Price here on the Really Awful Movies Podcast and if you haven’t checked out Jeff’s interview with Vincent’s daughter Victoria, you owe it to yourself to do so as she talks about the legacy of her famous pops.

Here we examine the Price classic, House on Haunted Hill.

Many horror fans (and movie fans in general) are reluctant to delve into the past as they see anything made before 1996 as “old.” But, as the cliche goes, if you don’t know where you’ve been, you won’t know where you’re going.

Viewers will be rewarded by checking out the fun, campy and effortlessly spirited House on Haunted Hill. It’s a straightforward haunted house tale: an eccentric millionaire dares a group of disparate characters to spend a night in a house with a ghostly past, with the promise of a reward if they’re able to. Can they survive the night?

Welcome to The House on Haunted Hill: Hope you enjoy your stay! And be sure and check out episodes of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, where we delve into horror and genre films from the past to the present. Subscribe now!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 98 – Cage

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Lou Ferrigno AND Reb Brown. This is basically B-movie heaven for us on the Really Awful Movies Podcast.

In CAGE, the two muscled legends are soldiers in ‘Nam, and Billy (the go-to name for someone who is a bit slow-witted) is wounded by shrapnel. This causes him brain damage. The sergeant whose life he saved, Scotty (Brown) later helps him recuperate and basically becomes his caregiver.

Now that we’ve explained away deaf Lou’s speech as the result of a brain injury, we can get on with the lunkheaded UFC-style cage-fighting subplot.

Two low level mafiosi are in debt to some goons and they figure the giant Billy, whose muscles have muscles (and then have more muscles) would make for a great cage fighter. So they kidnap him. And put him in a tournament run by Chinese gangsters. And Scotty has to find him before it’s too late.

Racist, offensive, stupid, and yet fun-filled (just the way we like ’em) we delve into the little known (and for good reason) CAGE.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 97 – Crap of the Week: Island of the Fishmen and Creatures from the Abyss

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Two aquatic-themed Italian creature feature horrors. Which is odd, as we didn’t plan it.

In this episode, a regular feature of the Really Awful Movies Podcast we call CRAP OF THE WEEK, we discuss movies one of us has seen and the other hasn’t and vice versa.

Against all odds, two very similar something fishy movies, Island of the Fishmen, a 1979 Italian adventure action horror film directed by Sergio Martino (best known for the notorious The Mountain of the Cannibal God) and 1994’s Creatures from the Abyss, aka Plankton, by Al Passeri. We chat about the former’s similarity to Island of Dr. Moreau, its Voodoo chicken rituals, missing and marooned French soldiers, a subplot involving the Lost City of Atlantis and of course, some nefarious experiments carried out by a diabolical doctor.

Creatures from the Abyss features kids who go missing on a dinghy and hop aboard a research vessel in the open seas, which turns out to be abandoned – its occupants having left in great haste, save for one, a lab assistant frothing at the mouth. They quickly happen upon nefarious experiments (naturally) and boy do things go nuts thereafter.

Two complementary companion pieces, two nutso fish-human hybrid attack movies. Check ’em out.