Really Awful Movies: Ep 9 – Curtains

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Curtains is a Canadian classic.

It’s like Agatha Christie’s 10 Little Indians, except with six actresses auditioning, each of whom is picked off by a mysterious killer.

The role they’re vying for is for an unhinged character “Audra” and one actress commits herself to an institution as part of some extreme method acting! (unfortunately for her, she’s left to rot in the sanitarium by a Svengali weirdo director).

The movie features Samantha Eggar (The Brood) and Lesleh Donaldson, the latter memorably killed by a skate-wearing sickle swinging psychopath.

In this podcast, we talk about visiting Toronto’s Horror-Rama and meeting and chatting with Lesleh Donaldson and Lynn Griffin (the woman asphyxiated with a bag in Black Christmas, another Canadian classic).

Really Awful Movies: Ep 8 – Miami Connection

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Miami Connection might very well be the worst film of all time. It definitely rivals The Room.

The movie features a band of University of Central Florida orphans, led inexplicably by a Korean dojo master twenty years their senior, whose mandate for this unorthodox musical act is to “spread taekwondo awareness.”

The band features not only some questionable musicality, but live martial arts demonstrations as part of their stage act.

Things get crazy when a rival band hires a local goon and his gang to drive them out of a popular Orlando nightclub (yes, don’t let the name fool you. The film’s set in Orlando, NOT Miami). This forces the band to battle some toughs, who look like meth addicts.

Now, not to worry. The band’s musical prowess is matched by their taekwondo abilities. And there are lots of beat downs.

Lastly, for some reason there are ninjas as well as a shoe-horned in subplot involving a long last dad and a tearful reunion.

Check out our discussion of the absolutely glorious, campy, endearing and fantastic Miami Connection.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 7 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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We revisit the harrowing classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, how we came to see the film, its weird family dynamics and the excellent book Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World’s Most Notorious Horror Movie by Gunnar Hansen.

We also look at the state of Texas, portraying people with disabilities in movies, why Wisconsin produces so many serial killers, the cliches of the hitchhiker and how Gunnar Hansen was cast in the role of Leatherface.

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