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All hail Lloyd Kaufman. We love TROMA films and Poultrygeist is an absolute masterpiece.
On this week’s podcast, we breakdown Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
We feel like chowing down on some American Bunker Chicken products! This is a taboo-shattering, highly offensive (to some) flick. Take our word for it and take a listen. It’s really impossible to explain.
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We’re huge fans of bat-shit insane production company, Cannon Films. Surprisingly, they put out Barfly, in addition to the usual spate of lovable crap like Ninja 3. In the late 80s, bad business decisions brought the once mighty Cannon to their knees.
Cyborg, the last Cannon flick to garner a theatrical release, was re-purposed, originally having a bigger budget. What we’re left with is a strange, existential, low budget and quite amazing flick.
It is a 1989 American martial-arts cyberpunk film directed by Albert Pyun (Kickboxer 2 and many low budget action flicks). Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo (OK, we get it with all the cheap-o guitar references).
They were doing a Masters of the Universe sequel, but because Cannon was barely solvent, they couldn’t afford the rights of that property and also Spider-Man. They had sets built…and they had Jean-Claude Van Damme…so they had to do something…well, they had to do…this!
The budget a mere $500,000.
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Victoria Price discusses her legendary father, Vincent Price.
Our guest Victoria Price wrote Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography. The book shows the man as a husband, father, friend, artist, writer, connoisseur and an all-around lover of life.
On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, Vincent’s legacy, his appreciation and respect for the arts, what he brought to the horror genre and his family life are discussed.
On the podcast, we find out that Price loved doing horror because he was really able to sink his teeth into the roles. He never wanted to be a leading man, he wanted to find a way to become a character actor. And what a character he was. There will never be another.
