Really Awful Movies: Ep 422 – Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger

On this episode of the podcast, Killdozer and The Toxic Avenger, two low-budget horror films.

What links these two together is they’re both micro-budget horrors with a cult following, more so for the Troma production. In Killdozer, as the name overtly suggests, a construction vehicle becomes sentient and well…kills!

Shocker, sometimes literally. And in The Toxic Avenger, a 90-lb weakling develops super hero powers when falling into toxic waste, again, as the name suggests. Vigilante justice is then brought to Tromaville.

This is a short one this week, back to longer format podcast episodes next week.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 421 – Exterminators of the Year 3000

On this episode of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, a brief detour and foray into post-apocalyptic wasteland movies.

Some movies, like Jaws and Mad Max, are so popular, well made and influential that they spawn a host of imitators. In the case of the latter, it’s even got its own name: Maxploitation.

There is quite a laundry list of Mad Max ripoffs, of which Exterminators of the Year 3000 is one. Hell, the poster art even shamelessly admits it: “meet the new breed of road warriors.” Brazen!

These movies are always so much fun, and aren’t too taxing on the ol’ noggin.

Really Awful Movies: Ep 420 – Demons 2

On this episode of the podcast, a return to Italian horror courtesy of the somewhat underrated, Demons 2, a sequel which matches in most respects, the iconic original.

On the show:

  • a little sojourn into urban planning, Jane Jacobs and city building
  • cityscapes and the ubiquity of office buildings and condo type buildings.
  • JG Ballard and his novels like Crash and High Rise
  • David Cronenberg, and explorations of big city condo life in movies
  • 80s fashion and also aspirational living and condo marketing
  • Lamberto Bava’s original Demons and similarities to the sequel, and influence of Dario Argento
  • Edward Hopper and his depictions of city life
  • abandoned buildings like Toronto’s Hearn Generating Station
  • Bobby Rhodes and bringing back a star from the first film