Really Awful Movies: Ep 42b – Vincent Price: Victoria Price discusses her father’s legacy

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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.

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 42 – Battlefield Earth

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Roger Ebert said of Battlefield Earth: “it is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It’s not merely bad; it’s unpleasant in a hostile way.”

Battlefield Earth, we feel, has been uncharitably dumped into the dung heap that is: “worst films of all time.”

However, it is never dull and actually holds up quite well! We thought we’d rhapsodize about the notorious flop’s finer points, in this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast. Given the choice of revisiting this over say, Manos: The Hands of Fate, we’ll take the embarrassed Mssers Whitaker and Travolta any day.

Grilled rat on the house!

Really Awful Movies: Ep 41 – Prom Night and its 2008 remake

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“The killers are coming!”

In this special episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, we compare and contrast Prom Night (Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980) and Prom Night (Brittany Snow, 2008).

Did you go to your high school prom? Is it OK to go stag to your prom? Why are proms so popular?

Prom Night is filmed in our hometown of Toronto. Its remake, was moved to California and didn’t have the “accidental” death of a young girl as a backstory.

We talked about whether the 1980 flick holds up. And whether the 2008 version holds true to the original Prom Night (it doesn’t).