Really Awful Movies: Ep 15 – Crap Movies of the Week

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In this week’s podcast, the theme is good actors slumming it.

We look at Gor, which stars an “all-American professor” played by a poorly dubbed Italian actor, Urbano Barberini (best known for Demons). He’s transported via a magical ring to planet Gor, where he must help overthrow an evil king and his barbarian warriors, all clad in thongs. This is definite bad movie sword and sandal territory. Co-star Rebecca Ferratti a stunner and Oliver Reed (poor guy) is slumming it big-time, along with Jack Palance.

Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story) and Yaphet Kotto (Aliens) star in Eye of the Tiger. Crazy Busey used to be a capable thespian before he became a joke on The Apprentice. Here he plays a construction worker who just gets out of jail and with the help of a Cubano drug lord he met in the joint, he helps battle nasty well-armed bikers in a dusty Texas town.

Lastly, we look at flat-top Afro hairstyles and Exterminator 2 (Mario Van Peebles). The flick features a Warriors-type gang who fights some Vietnam vigilante vets in the Bronx. Combat Shock and The Warriors discussed.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 14 – Low Budget Movies

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In this episode, movies that spurred our love of low budget cinema.

Previously we looked at William Shatner’s The Intruder, the Blaxploitation classic Dolemite and the Paul Bartel / Mary Woronov comedy Eating Raoul.

In Episode 14 we discuss everyone’s favorite breast fetishist Russ Meyer and the movie Up!, a bizarre murder mystery comedy that has a Greek chorus, a la Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. “Soft-core shenanigans” and Raven De La Croix cross our radar as well.

Also, the Roger Corman production Rock ‘n’ Roll Highschool. It features PJ Soles, who was in Halloween and the quite awful Alienator (We love Corman, especially his animals run amok flicks like The Nest and Piranha).

Finally, we turn to one of our absolute favorites, the Brian De Palma helmed The Phantom of the Paradise, starring the very much alive Paul Williams (oops) which in our mind is far far superior to Rocky Horror.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 13 – The Nest

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nest-posterDon’t let the name fool you: this is not a Hitchcockian Birds retread.

It’s a reference to bugs.

This is basically Jaws with bugs: cockroaches to be specific.

It’s set on a New England island, with the added bonus of geographical goofs such as a car driving down the road and windows on either side showing ocean (guess it’s more of an isthmus for the geographically-inclined amongst you). Also of note: the palm trees, not exactly indigenous to this part of Massachusetts.

The mayor, desperate to build his tax base, lets a company set up shop on the island, a  biotech firm looking to create a super cockroach that’ll eat other cockroaches and then die, thus ridding us of this scourge.

But…THINGS GO HORRIBLY AWRY! And the local sheriff and the mayor’s daughter (along with a pest control agent) are enlisted to save the day.

Good buggy fun.

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