Really Awful Movies: Ep 10 – TerrorVision

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TerrorVision is an 1986 American science fiction horror comedy that’s achieved some notoriety in cult film circles.

The film is directed by Ted Nicolaou, produced and written by Albert and Charles Band and composed by Richard Band, all of whom would go on to later found and work with Full Moon Features in 1989.

This is a fun one on today’s episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast: A family’s new satellite television system starts receiving signals from another planet and picks up a giant, bloated alien with an appetite for garbage.

The movie was written and directed by the sound recording guy from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The subplot: the mother and father are swingers and place an ad in a newspaper to romance another couple and get more than they bargained for. The rebellious teen daughter has a boyfriend, OD, whose fashion sensibilities are Sunset Strip 80s metal through and through.

The young kid is an expert marksman and his grandpa is a gun-toting NRA type.

TerrorVision was released on DVD with The Video Dead double feature.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 9c – Virus

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The Really Awful Movies team breaks down the extremely bad Brian Bosworth vehicle, Virus.

It’s another one of these outbreak / sinister government plot flicks.

According to its IMDb write-up, “A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a National Park.”

The bodyguard is of course, Brian Bosworth aka, The Boz.

The Boz was a big star in the NCAA and then joined the Seattle Seahawks very briefly.

The Boz portrays a secret service agent who was once a highly-regarded college football player. Who would’ve thought? There’s even a reference to that.

We also break down the absurd geyser subplot and how the virus is the least effectual biohazard we’ve ever seen.

There’s a reason the thing sits at 2.8 out of 10.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 9b – Robin Bougie of Cinema Sewer

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Robin Bougie is a movie journalist, cartoonist, and publisher in Vancouver, BC. He publishes the underground film magazine, Cinema Sewer (below, NSFW, unless your workplace is really awesome)

http://www.cinemasewer.com/

The Bougie Man talks about how he started as a DIY comic book artist. Cinema Sewer is a zine, that has comics in it.

Also in the discussion, The Toronto Comic Arts Festical (TCAF), Vice Squad, Russ Meyer (Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Up!, Supervixens), Xanadu, and women in prison films.

Finally, Jeff and Robin talk about Death Wish 3, Turkish Death Wish rip-offs, The Walking Dead and the incomparable Canadian stinker, Things.