Really Awful Movies: Ep 85 – Crappy Movies of the Week

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Anthrophagus

Anthrophagus is in the Italian cannibal genre, an outputting one to many. Director Joe D’Amato is responsible for this one, as well as many of the Emanuelle exploitation movies.

And he was a busy man. He made 200 films, many of which are…in the adult genre.

Anthrophagus was on the Video Nasties list in the UK, deemed too extreme to release. Does it live up to the hype?

Rituals

Also on the show, a discussion about the James Dickey novel Deliverance, and Rituals, a Canadian variant on the infamous Ned Beatty movie.

Instead of four guys in a Georgia gorge (say that three times fast), Canadian doctors go on a fishing trip. And they face something equally as terrifying in Northern Ontario. Also known as The Creeper, this 1977 production actually features legit actors, notably, the legendary Hal Halbrook.

And it’s not crap! Quite the contrary!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 84b – JeruZalem

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JeruZalem is an Israeli first-person POV film, in which two American girls, Rachel and Sarah, find themselves on a sinister vacation in the Holy City.

En route to Tel Aviv, they meet a student, who convinces them to change their travel itinerary from the laissez faire coastal city to the intense Jerusalem.

Bad move.

On Yom Kippur, they realize that the apocalypse is upon them.

Jeff from the Really Awful Movies Podcast had the pleasure of chatting with the film’s co-director Doron Paz about what inspired his dark vision.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 84 – Escape from New York

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On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, John Carpenter’s exceptional Escape from New York.

We break down the 1981 dystopian action flick set in a crime-ridden future, where inexplicably, the US’ most pricey real estate has been turned into an island prison.

Why Manhattan and not say, ANYWHERE ELSE? As the Beach Boys sang, “god only knows…”

Featuring the incomparable action hero ex-con and ex-soldier Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), who has 22 hours to find the POTUS (played by Donald Pleasance) who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One. Why is the president played by an Englishman? (see, the Beach Boys song).

We love Escape from New York and you will too.

Hop on board our chopper (all the borough bridges have been closed) as we chomp down on this Big Apple classic.

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