Really Awful Movies: Ep 62 – The Demolisher

The Demolisher is a cerebral vigilante film, as rare as an albino lobster.

Jeff from Really Awful Movies got a chance to chat with its principles:

In the first part, director Gabriel Carrer. He’s behind In the House of Flies, a really terrific and entirely different kind of horror in which a duo is kidnapped and trapped in a basement.

And he’s versatile enough to do lots of different types of films.

Carrer talked about what spawned the film. He loves genre/horror and vigilante films. Everything is “very external,” in a typical vigilante flick but you never go deep into their psychology. He went out to change that.

He talked about his influences, such as the Pusher trilogy and how important pacing and music is. There will be a vinyl soundtrack release too.

Also on the show, Jessica Vano, who plays Marie, who has a really neat character arc.

Finally, Ry Barrett (who plays Bruce) discussed how he portrayed the title role and did stunt coordination work. He’s directed, done sound, special effects, writing. He’s a jack of all trades.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 61 – Blood Feast

Blood Feast!

This 1963 low-budget gore-fest is a first of its kind. Widely acknowledged as the first splatter, Blood Feast is by no means a great work of art. However, there is no denying how ahead of its time this was. Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pittsburgh-born maker of “nudie cuties,” who moved into the horror culture when the latter died out, anyone who calls themselves a horror fan has to check this out.

Blood Feast features a psychopathic food caterer who kills women so that he can include their body parts in his titular feasts and perform sacrifices to his “Egyptian goddess” Ishtar. Some ineffectual cops, unfamiliar with cause and effect, have a problem figuring out the denouement.

The nastiness still holds up. Check out the DJ Kool Herc of horror, the first of its kind.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 60b – Christian Burgess: Programmer, Toronto After Dark Film Festival

toronto_after_dark_film_festivalToronto After Dark is one of the world’s leading showcases of new Horror, Sci-Fi, Action & Cult Movies.

Each October, in the run-up to Halloween, the critically acclaimed event, screens about 50 new feature films and shorts over nine nights in front of over 11,000 attendees, including over 200 members of Press and Industry in Toronto.

Programming manager Christian Burgess chatted to Jeff about how the festival came about and the film selection process. Last year, they set a record with 600 submissions (that’s including short films). They got about 350 features.

“It’s amazing to see all the amazing stuff being produced.” There are lots of creative people out there.

This year’s festival is discussed as well as fave films programmed in festivals’ past.

See you After Dark!