Really Awful Movies: Ep 55 – Double Impact

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Double Impact is double the damage – double the Van Damme-age to be exact. Before you may have thought “double impact” to be a really ugly type of font, but it’s also a really cheesy movie.

This martial arts action flick features mono-zygotic twin Van Dammes, running around Hong Kong. They’re also quite monosyllabic.

The film is almost like a bad scientific study about what happens when washed up Belgian has-beens who share 100% of their DNA are raised apart.

One teaches aerobics in purple leotards, the other grew up in the mean streets of Hong Kong. They eventually meet and team up to battle gangsters.

FEEL THE IMPACT. DOUBLE IMPACT!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 54 – Killer Klowns from Outer Space

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The Chiodo brothers are responsible for this very underrated, fun-fueled clown romp, Killer Klowns. The hosts of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, are big fans of this film and have been for a while.

A sequel Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space in 3D is currently in pre-production for a tentative release in 2016. We’re there.

The theme song is just so bad-ass, one of the many commendable things about this feature.

For some reason, Killer Klowns from Outer Space is lumped in with other “bad” movies like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, or Manos: The Hands of Fate. This is unfair as it’s visually inventive and its bursting with creativity.

After a light flash in the sky, amorous co-eds Mike and Deb, who’d been downing champagne in an inflatable dinghy in the backseat, decide to go off and investigate and ask the inevitable question, “what’s a circus tent doing way out here?” Inside the tent, the titular clowns.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 53b – Turbo Kid stars Munro Chambers, Laurence Leboeuf

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Horror-action hybrid Turbo Kid is a fun new Canadian-New Zealand co-production. Set in the post-apocalyptic future of 1997, Turbo Kid is a loving homage to some of the great genre films of the 80s, and a damn fine film in its own right. Its stars discuss the movie with us on this week’s episode of the podcast.

Laurence Leboeuf plays Apple and Munro Chambers plays The Kid.

The Kid is a comics-obsessed scavenger who becomes a heroic figure when he teams up with Apple to go against the big bad Zeus, played by the incredible Michael Ironside.

80s nostalgia is big now and Turbo Kid is a movie that does it right, paying homage to its influences without talking down to the audience. And there’s incredible gore to boot!