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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Really Awful Movies: Ep 12b – 50 Shades of Grey

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Stepping outside our comfort zone, we look at a movie with a really really high budget by our standards (we’re accustomed to things made for under 1 million on our site, ReallyAwfulMovies.com).

A telecom billionaire (we know he’s evil as he’s a successful business man) woos an English lit grad (we know she’s virtuous as screenwriters always write what they know and they consider themselves virtuous).

They’re both better-looking than oh, the majority of the human population but she’s meant to be dowdy (by Hollywood standards; we’re surprised she’s not wearing glasses to tip people off).

He’s harboring a bedroom secret though. Can this unlikely pair survive and will the latter accept the former’s sexual peccadillos?

This movie is based on a hugely successful series of novels, none of which we’ve read (nor will ever read) but we thought we’d wade into the shallow end of the pool where this movie is doggy paddling and see what all the fuss is about.