Really Awful Movies: Ep 56b – Portal to Hell

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Director Vivieno Caldinelli and writer Matt Watts discuss the Rowdy Roddy Piper starring short, Portal to Hell, ahead of its TIFF premiere.
A crusty and reclusive building superintendent is foisted into the ultimate fight against evil when a couple of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mysical city of R’lyeh, awakening a slumbering god.
The movie was inspired by Overboard, through the lens of a John Carpenter-type film. They decided to do a short, with the idea to fund a feature. Talk also centres on the enduring legacy of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu monster. HPL is in the zeitgeist right now.
We really miss Rowdy Roddy Piper.
We were pleased to see UFC champ Rhonda Rousey’s heartfelt tribute to the man who gave her her fighting moniker. We were also really pleased to see him in Portal to Hell. He’s a bad-ass, but unlike other movie badasses, he has an everyman quality. He left us far too young.
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Really Awful Movies: Ep 56 – Phenomena

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The master. Dario Argento is the man and here is one of our absolute favorites. Phenomena is a beautiful oddity.

In this week’s episode, we get ourselves psyched up with the magnificent soundtrack. What is it about the Italians, your Bavas, your Fulcis and your Argentos?

Suspiria was a mind-blowing experience and from there, it was giallo films and Tenebre. We’re Argento addicts. Is the “Italian Hitchcock” moniker justified? Who knows but he’s a master of suspense in his own right. He is a Caravaggio with his mastery of cinematic bloodletting.

This one stars a young Jennifer Connolly (Requiem for a Dream) as a sleepwalking boarding student who befriends entomologist Donald Pleasance, set against the backdrop of a mysterious Alpine murder.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 55b – Killer Rack

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We love Slime City. So when we heard about Buffalo director Greg Lamberson’s next project, Killer Rack, we were thrilled.

On this week’s podcast, we had a chance to chat with Greg, co-star/writer Paul McGinnis, star Jessica Zwolak and co-star Michael Thurber about their work on the movie, dubbed by one wag, “the wrongest film in the history of wrongness.” If that’s wrong, well…we don’t wanna be right.

This horror comedy is about a woman with low self esteem who opts for breast enhancement surgery, unaware that her surgeon, Dr. Thulu, worships H.P. Lovecraft’s elder gods, and the surgery is part of a diabolical plot to rule the world.

We talk about how the film came about, the involvement of Troma boss Lloyd Kaufman, Buffalo locales, casting, the effects, the film’s incredible music, scream queen Debbie Rochon and much much more.